Hear Imhotep Gary Byrd on 107.5 WBLS-FM daily with “Imhotep’s On-Air Guide to Black Events” and “Express Yourself,” Sunday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m., and on WLIB-AM with “The GBE Mind Flight,” Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to midnight (simulcast on WLIB-AM/WBLSFM from 7-8 p.m.). The full show can be heard on HD radio at WBLS-HD2. IGB is also heard on WBAIFM 99.5 with the GBE 2.0 “Global Black Experience” and “Global Beat Experience,” Saturdays from 5-7 p.m. We are archived online with both shows at www.wbai.org. To reach us about your event, email gbemail2@yahoo.com, find Imhotep Gary Byrd on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @GBELIFE or call 212-592-3279.
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Imhotep's Guide to Black entertainment Nov23rd-Jan12th
Greetings! As we head into the holiday season, we wish you and your families safe travels and urge you to take time to take a bite out of the Big Apple. Make plans now. You know where we are, so plan ahead.
Imhotep's guide to Black events Nov. 7 - 13
Our November 2013 GBE Black Business Monthis also complemented by Diabetes Awareness Month
Imhotep's guide to black events Oct. 31 - Nov. 7
November, GBE’s Black Business Month
Imhotep's guide to black events Oct. 27 - 23
This GBE Black Arts Month weekend, Circle of Sisters, the largest expo for women of color in New York City, is back on Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 at the Jacob Javits Center
Imhotep's guide to Black events Oct. 10 - 16
October is GBE’s Black Arts Month 2013, and we open with saluting the producers of “Mama, I Want to Sing” as they open Vy Higginsen’s Black American Musical Series in Harlem
Imhotep's Guide to Black events October 2 - 9, 2013
Greetings! We open up October in the spirit of GBE Black Arts Month 2013. The Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, featuring headliners Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys, attracted some 60,000 people. Wonder used the event to address the issue of gun control, saying, “We must do something about the gun laws in this country,” noting the murder of John Lennon, who was gunned down close by in 1980, and performing the Beatles legend’s anthem for world peace “Imagine.”
Imhotep's Guide to Black events Sept. 26 - October 2, 2013
My longtime friend, brother and creative collaborator Stevie Wonder spoke at the U.N. in New York City regarding disabilities and development on Monday, urging that lobbyists in the U.S. ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Imhotep's guide to Black events Sept. 19-25, 2013
GBE’s African Re-Eduction Month highlights Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown, who dropped “edutainment” from the stage of Chicago’s Hard Rock Cafe. Kicking off the national touring company production of “Motown,” Gordy, still spry at 83 years old, surprised many when he told the crowd, “I started here, before there was Motown
Gary Byrd's guide to Black events, Sept. 12-18, 2013
Our GBE African Re-education Month/National Preparedness Month 2013 is sounding the call for the second annual Global Citizen Festival, an event intended to raise awareness of global poverty and education, returning to Central Park on Sept. 28, with Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer and Kings of Leon performing. People will be eligible to obtain free tickets by getting involved in various social causes through www.globalcitizen.org.
Community Calendar Sept 5-11, 2013
Greetings! It’s September, “GBE African Re-Education Month.” Look for noted Harvard scholar Dr. Henry Louis Gates on the six-part, six-hour PBS-TV series “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” coming in October.
