Bernard Ansley Holliday (born 1932) is one of two Democrats currently running for the open U.S. Representative Congressional seat representing the newly re-districted. The new District 13 includes portions of nine counties, including Edgecombe, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Nash, Vance, Wake, Wayne, and Wilson, counties. He will face Charles Malone in the Democratic Party primary.
Redistricting and the Decision to Run
After the 2010 United States Census, Republicans who controlled the state's General Assembly redrew the districts. In the process, they placed Rep. Brad Miller into a district stretching from northern Raleigh all the way to Surry County on the other side of the state. While Barack Obama carried the old 13th fairly handily with 59 percent of the vote, John McCain would have won the reconfigured 13th with 56 percent of the vote.
However, after 1st District Congressman G. K. Butterfield raised objections that the new map violated the rights of African-American voters in the eastern part of the state, the state legislature was forced to redraw the map again. The new plan made the 13th more compact, taking in territory from Raleigh to Rocky Mount. However, it is still significantly more Republican than its predecessor; McCain would have won it with 54 percent. The new map also placed Miller's apartment complex 50 yards inside the , represented by fellow Democrat David Price, but left the rest of Miller's precinct in the 13th.
On January 26, 2012, Miller announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress. Bernard Holliday has cited what he called Republican-led gerrymandering of the district as a key motivating factor in his decision to run.
Political Platform
Holliday has pledged to aggressively pursue his "People's Agenda", which includes seven key priorities aimed at dealing with complex issues facing the United States and the 13th District in particular. Some key portions of his "agenda" include pursuing a green economy with a focus on new energy sources, obtaining additional funding to upgrade schools and healthcare facilities in the district's nine counties, retraining the workforce through community colleges, and reducing the Federal debt.
Education and Personal Life
Holliday earned a BA degree from Shaw University in 1955, and a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in 1959. He has authored three books.
Holliday is married with three adult children. He is an Associate Pastor at Freewill Baptist Church in Creedmoor, North Carolina. Holliday is also the director of a non-profit organization known as the Center for Living, which focuses on nurturing families and assisting senior citizens.
Redistricting and the Decision to Run
After the 2010 United States Census, Republicans who controlled the state's General Assembly redrew the districts. In the process, they placed Rep. Brad Miller into a district stretching from northern Raleigh all the way to Surry County on the other side of the state. While Barack Obama carried the old 13th fairly handily with 59 percent of the vote, John McCain would have won the reconfigured 13th with 56 percent of the vote.
However, after 1st District Congressman G. K. Butterfield raised objections that the new map violated the rights of African-American voters in the eastern part of the state, the state legislature was forced to redraw the map again. The new plan made the 13th more compact, taking in territory from Raleigh to Rocky Mount. However, it is still significantly more Republican than its predecessor; McCain would have won it with 54 percent. The new map also placed Miller's apartment complex 50 yards inside the , represented by fellow Democrat David Price, but left the rest of Miller's precinct in the 13th.
On January 26, 2012, Miller announced that he would not seek re-election to Congress. Bernard Holliday has cited what he called Republican-led gerrymandering of the district as a key motivating factor in his decision to run.
Political Platform
Holliday has pledged to aggressively pursue his "People's Agenda", which includes seven key priorities aimed at dealing with complex issues facing the United States and the 13th District in particular. Some key portions of his "agenda" include pursuing a green economy with a focus on new energy sources, obtaining additional funding to upgrade schools and healthcare facilities in the district's nine counties, retraining the workforce through community colleges, and reducing the Federal debt.
Education and Personal Life
Holliday earned a BA degree from Shaw University in 1955, and a Master of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological School in 1959. He has authored three books.
Holliday is married with three adult children. He is an Associate Pastor at Freewill Baptist Church in Creedmoor, North Carolina. Holliday is also the director of a non-profit organization known as the Center for Living, which focuses on nurturing families and assisting senior citizens.
William Kurk (born July 30, 1981) is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, songwriter, producer, and arranger from Chicago, IL. He is an independent recording artist with four commercial studio albums. In 2011, he released a concert video on DVD featuring his band, the William Kurk Enterprise.
Family and Early Life
Kurk was born on the south side of Chicago at Mercy Hospital. He is the son of William Kirk Leathers, Sr., a professional drummer and music teacher, and Beverly McLin, a vocalist, bassist, and staff songwriter for Curtom Records. Kurk’s grandmother is Dr. Lena Mclin, an accomplished music educator, composer, arranger, and pianist, who has taught music for over 40 years, and whose students have included R. Kelly, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Mark Rucker, Mandy Patinkin, and Aaliyah.
Education
Kurk started formal vocal training under his grandmother, Lena Mclin, at the age of 13.
Career
By age 19, Kurk was working as a session keyboardist. His first major studio work was with Tom Washington, an arranger for Earth, Wind, & Fire and Genesis. Around that time, Kurk also started working at Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago as a full-time pianist/instrumentalist.
Kurk has been music director for several Chicago area theater productions, including the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater’s 2007 production of Sarafina! The Music of Liberation!, for which Kurk was nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Award for "Best Musical Director.” Also in 2007, Kurk was music director of MPAACT’s “Trouble the Water,” which was awarded a Black Theater Alliance Award for “Best Production.”
Recordings
Kurk’s first recording, Superego, a limited-pressing EP released in June 1999, contained seven tracks of original music produced and written by Kurk, with co-production by his mother, Beverly McLin.
Kurk has released four full-length CD’s: The Sound: Vol.1 (2004), The Sound: Vol.2 (2007),
Discography
*Superego (1999)
*The Sound: Vol.1 (2004)
*The Sound: Vol.2 (2007)
*The Sound: Vol.3 (2009)
*Pop Fusion (2011)
Video
*William Kurk Enterprise: Live In Chicago - DVD (2011)
Family and Early Life
Kurk was born on the south side of Chicago at Mercy Hospital. He is the son of William Kirk Leathers, Sr., a professional drummer and music teacher, and Beverly McLin, a vocalist, bassist, and staff songwriter for Curtom Records. Kurk’s grandmother is Dr. Lena Mclin, an accomplished music educator, composer, arranger, and pianist, who has taught music for over 40 years, and whose students have included R. Kelly, Chaka Khan, Jennifer Hudson, Mark Rucker, Mandy Patinkin, and Aaliyah.
Education
Kurk started formal vocal training under his grandmother, Lena Mclin, at the age of 13.
Career
By age 19, Kurk was working as a session keyboardist. His first major studio work was with Tom Washington, an arranger for Earth, Wind, & Fire and Genesis. Around that time, Kurk also started working at Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago as a full-time pianist/instrumentalist.
Kurk has been music director for several Chicago area theater productions, including the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater’s 2007 production of Sarafina! The Music of Liberation!, for which Kurk was nominated for a Black Theater Alliance Award for "Best Musical Director.” Also in 2007, Kurk was music director of MPAACT’s “Trouble the Water,” which was awarded a Black Theater Alliance Award for “Best Production.”
Recordings
Kurk’s first recording, Superego, a limited-pressing EP released in June 1999, contained seven tracks of original music produced and written by Kurk, with co-production by his mother, Beverly McLin.
Kurk has released four full-length CD’s: The Sound: Vol.1 (2004), The Sound: Vol.2 (2007),
Discography
*Superego (1999)
*The Sound: Vol.1 (2004)
*The Sound: Vol.2 (2007)
*The Sound: Vol.3 (2009)
*Pop Fusion (2011)
Video
*William Kurk Enterprise: Live In Chicago - DVD (2011)
KSW XIX is an upcoming mixed martial arts event scheduled to take place on May 12, 2012 by the Polish promotion Konfrontacja Sztuk Walki. It is the 19th numerical event from KSW and their 24rd MMA event in total.
KSW XIX will be the first gala which will be eaten in a duel with the participation of women.
Fight Card
*Middleweight bout: Mamed Khalidov vs. TBA
*Heavyweight bout: Mariusz Pudzianowski vs. Bob Sapp
*KSW Middleweight Championship bout: vs. TBA
*Middleweight bout: Antoni Chmielewski vs. TBA
*Welterweight bout: Aslambek Saidov vs. TBA
*Catchweight (121 lbs) bout: Marta Chojnoska vs. Paulina Suska
*TBA vs. TBA
KSW XIX will be the first gala which will be eaten in a duel with the participation of women.
Fight Card
*Middleweight bout: Mamed Khalidov vs. TBA
*Heavyweight bout: Mariusz Pudzianowski vs. Bob Sapp
*KSW Middleweight Championship bout: vs. TBA
*Middleweight bout: Antoni Chmielewski vs. TBA
*Welterweight bout: Aslambek Saidov vs. TBA
*Catchweight (121 lbs) bout: Marta Chojnoska vs. Paulina Suska
*TBA vs. TBA
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition is a national alliance of more than 200 organizations and individuals honoring the victims and legacy of the infamous 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which took the lives of 146 workers, mostly young immigrant women, and galvanized a movement for social justice.
Members of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition include arts organizations, schools, workers’ rights groups, labor unions, human rights and women’s rights groups, ethnic organizations, historical preservation societies, activists, and scholars, as well as families of the victims and survivors.
In March 2011, the Coalition spearheaded more than 200 commemorative events in the New York City area as well as in cities across the nation to mark the centennial of the fire. Based in New York City, the Coalition continues its work today toward the establishment of a permanent public art memorial.
History of the Coalition
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition was established in 2008 to encourage and coordinate nationwide activities commemorating the March 25, 2011, centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and to create a permanent public art memorial to honor the victims of the fire. Over 200 organizations and individuals partnered in the coalition including Workers United, NYC Fire Museum, New York University, Workmen's Circle, Museum at Eldridge Street, and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
The Coalition established its mission to support a) the creation of innovative participatory activities, to build the muscles of active social engagement; b) new collaborations between communities; c) establishing a permanent memorial.
Chalk
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition grew out of a public art project called Chalk the brainchild of New York City filmmaker Ruth Sergel. Beginning in 2004, and happening each year on the March 25 anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Sergel and volunteer artists fan out across New York City to inscribe in chalk the names, ages, and causes of death of the victims in front of their former homes. They chalk in white, green, pink and purple, and often include drawings of flowers, tombstones or a triangle. Artists have chalked, for example, “Pauline Horowitz, Age 19, Lived at 58 St. Marks Pl., Died March 25, 1911, Triangle Factory Fire.” And “Albina Caruso, Age 20, Lived at 21 Bowery, Died March 25, 1911, Triangle Factory Fire."
Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
From July 2009 through the weeks leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition served as a clearinghouse using Internet communications and social media like Facebook and Twitter to network some 200 activities as varied as academic conferences, films, theater performances, art shows, concerts, readings, awareness campaigns, walking tours, and parades that were held in and around New York City, and in cities across the nation, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston and Washington, D.C.
The Workers United commemoration ceremony was held on the 100th anniversary of the fire, March 25, 2011, at the site of the fire, now New York University’s Brown Building, located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, which in 1911 housed the Triangle Waist Company on the 8th, 9th & 10th floors. The ceremony included a procession of almost 1,000 people holding bamboo poles draped with the blouses that were part of the shirtwaist style, each decorated with the name and age of one victim inscribed on a funeral sash. Speakers included the United States secretary of labor, Hilda L. Solis; U.S. Senator Charles Schumer; New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; the actor Danny Glover; and Suzanne Pred Bass, the grandniece of Rosie Weiner, a young woman killed in the blaze. Most of the speakers that day called for the strengthening of workers’ rights and organized labor. Sen. Schumer drew loud cheers when he pledged to fight "right wing ideologues" trying to curb worker protections.
On March 25, 2011, at 4:45 PM EST, the moment the first fire alarm was sounded in 1911, hundreds of bells rang out in cities and towns across the nation in memory of the victims of not only the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, but also all workplace disasters. For this commemorative act, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition organized hundreds of churches, schools, fire houses, and private individuals in the New York City region and across the nation.
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition established in 2011 that the goal of the permanent memorial would be
* To honor the memory of those who died from the fire;
* To affirm the dignity of all workers;
* To value women’s work;
* To remember the movement for worker safety and social justice stirred by this tragedy;
* To inspire future generations of activists.
Members of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition include arts organizations, schools, workers’ rights groups, labor unions, human rights and women’s rights groups, ethnic organizations, historical preservation societies, activists, and scholars, as well as families of the victims and survivors.
In March 2011, the Coalition spearheaded more than 200 commemorative events in the New York City area as well as in cities across the nation to mark the centennial of the fire. Based in New York City, the Coalition continues its work today toward the establishment of a permanent public art memorial.
History of the Coalition
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition was established in 2008 to encourage and coordinate nationwide activities commemorating the March 25, 2011, centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and to create a permanent public art memorial to honor the victims of the fire. Over 200 organizations and individuals partnered in the coalition including Workers United, NYC Fire Museum, New York University, Workmen's Circle, Museum at Eldridge Street, and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.
The Coalition established its mission to support a) the creation of innovative participatory activities, to build the muscles of active social engagement; b) new collaborations between communities; c) establishing a permanent memorial.
Chalk
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition grew out of a public art project called Chalk the brainchild of New York City filmmaker Ruth Sergel. Beginning in 2004, and happening each year on the March 25 anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Sergel and volunteer artists fan out across New York City to inscribe in chalk the names, ages, and causes of death of the victims in front of their former homes. They chalk in white, green, pink and purple, and often include drawings of flowers, tombstones or a triangle. Artists have chalked, for example, “Pauline Horowitz, Age 19, Lived at 58 St. Marks Pl., Died March 25, 1911, Triangle Factory Fire.” And “Albina Caruso, Age 20, Lived at 21 Bowery, Died March 25, 1911, Triangle Factory Fire."
Centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
From July 2009 through the weeks leading up to the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition served as a clearinghouse using Internet communications and social media like Facebook and Twitter to network some 200 activities as varied as academic conferences, films, theater performances, art shows, concerts, readings, awareness campaigns, walking tours, and parades that were held in and around New York City, and in cities across the nation, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston and Washington, D.C.
The Workers United commemoration ceremony was held on the 100th anniversary of the fire, March 25, 2011, at the site of the fire, now New York University’s Brown Building, located at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, which in 1911 housed the Triangle Waist Company on the 8th, 9th & 10th floors. The ceremony included a procession of almost 1,000 people holding bamboo poles draped with the blouses that were part of the shirtwaist style, each decorated with the name and age of one victim inscribed on a funeral sash. Speakers included the United States secretary of labor, Hilda L. Solis; U.S. Senator Charles Schumer; New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; the actor Danny Glover; and Suzanne Pred Bass, the grandniece of Rosie Weiner, a young woman killed in the blaze. Most of the speakers that day called for the strengthening of workers’ rights and organized labor. Sen. Schumer drew loud cheers when he pledged to fight "right wing ideologues" trying to curb worker protections.
On March 25, 2011, at 4:45 PM EST, the moment the first fire alarm was sounded in 1911, hundreds of bells rang out in cities and towns across the nation in memory of the victims of not only the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, but also all workplace disasters. For this commemorative act, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition organized hundreds of churches, schools, fire houses, and private individuals in the New York City region and across the nation.
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition established in 2011 that the goal of the permanent memorial would be
* To honor the memory of those who died from the fire;
* To affirm the dignity of all workers;
* To value women’s work;
* To remember the movement for worker safety and social justice stirred by this tragedy;
* To inspire future generations of activists.