‘Ladies Night Out’ aims at health and finances
March is Women’s History Month, but the free “Ladies Night Out With Dr. Sophia Lubin, OB/GYN” event on Thursday is aimed at the current and future health concerns of women and more.
Presented by the Flatbush Caton Market on Clarendon at 2184 Clarendon Road in Brooklyn, the informational networking event will address the topics of “health, wellness and financial independence” for women. The session will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
A first-generation Haitian-American, Lubin is a “dynamic” board-certified OB/GYN who is “passionate about helping women lead happy, healthy and empowered lives,” according to the event’s organizers.
She is also founder of Young Forever Aesthetics, which aids women — helping them “stay and feel youthful through facial aesthetics, sexual wellness, and body and hair rejuvenation.”
The event includes networking and the opportunity to explore the many shopping opportunities at the Flatbush Caton Market.
To register for the event, visit eventbrite.com and search for “Ladies Night Out With Dr. Sophia.”
Touting census changes
The Miami Herald newspaper last week helped U.S.-based, Guyana-born entrepreneur Felicia Persaud spread the word about the upcoming 2020 census and its major implications for Caribbean people in America — the opportunity to document their country of origin/ancestry on a U.S. census for the first time.
The “Caribbean immigrants and others finally get to say where they’re from in census. They aren’t alone” article by Miami Herald writer Jacqueline Charles tells of the census change that allows all respondents to write in their country of origin/ancestry on 2020 forms.
Knowing that census data are used to determine economic and political power in America, Persaud has been seeking the origin/ancestry option since the last census in 2010. CaribbeanAmerican households and consumers, property owners and business operators — and the firms that serve them — all benefit from census data.
Grenada Revolution’s anniversary
The public is invited to “join the conversation at the “41st Anniversary of the Grenada Revolution: Reflections” coming to Medgar Evers College, 1638 Bedford Ave. in Brooklyn, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday.
The “evening of reflection, music and celebration” will examine the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada, which took control of the Caribbean nation in 1979.
“This revolution is for work, for food, for decent housing and health services and for a bright future for our children,” said Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in 1979, according to event organizers.
Bishop — leader of the New Jewel Movement main opposition party — was the Caribbean nation’s prime minister from 1979 to 1983.
For information, send email to bigdrumnation@gmail.com.
Diverse photo ‘Visions’
Highlighting collection of “diverse imagery from the last decade,” the “Visions 1020” photography exhibition opens Sunday in Manhattan’s Wilmer Jennings Kenkeleba Gallery, 219 E. Second St. (between Avenues B and C) in the East Village.
The opening reception is Sunday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. A panel discussion will be held March 28 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Visions 1020 celebrates works created during the second decade of the 21st century and features a diverse array of imagery from this period, according to show organizers, including many original and current members of the Kamoinge photo group.
The Kamoinge Workshop of black photographers was founded in the early 1960s.
Kamoinge member Beuford Smith is the curator for the show. Call the Kenkeleba Gallery at (212) 674-3939 for information.
‘Everybody’s Influential’ women
Everybody’s Magazine is celebrating Women’s History Month by recognizing Caribbean women who were among the “the first females in the world to lead a government.”
The New York-based magazine’s March cover story — “Top 5 Influential Caribbean Women” — features Trinidad and Tobago President Paula-Mae Weekes; St. Vincent and the Grenadines Governor-General Susan Dougan; Grenada Governor-General Cecile La Grenade; Barbados Governor-General Sandra Mason, and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley.
The March cover also includes a reference to the 2020 British movie “Misbehaviour.”
An Everybody’s article examines the comedy-drama that focuses on the 1970 Miss World pageant and winner Jennifer Hosten of Grenada, the first black winner of the competition.
To download a $2 digital copy of the March issue or a print copy, visit everybodysmag.com/magazines