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HOROSCOPES BY KNOWYOURNUMB3RS By GODDESS KYA

August 25, 2022 — August 31, 2022

A change of scenery, production, in your mental environment due to there being a light switch turned on in the dark room. When the switch comes on your reality changes you are growing mentally, spiritually, emotionally, and physically evolving to a higher version of oneself. The new moon in Virgo at 4 degrees is ushering in Vinateria clarity, providing facts and figures to know what’s going on. Your imagination is everything and your dreams do a great job providing the vision. Apply the footwork to give the vision shape and form. What is your strategy this week to get things done as America goes into Virgo season? “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” Colin Powell

Going with the flow following your inner guide while remaining true  to self is advised. Follow up on any phone calls, check voicemail, mailbox, and emails, and do something for “self.” Family matters and important paperwork need to be addressed before moving forward with your plans. Sudden separations, endings, advancement, business matters, investments, and recognition of your dedication to your work. A new assignment is assigned as a secondary reward. August 26th-27th a redirection, revised, is in effect under this new moon in Virgo that favors your earth sign. What’s the structure of your tone and foundation this week? Where are you in your plans of moving forward in your progress? It’s time to begin organizing and checking off your list to get it done. This weekly energy is going to make you step up to the plate. A feeling of illness, tiredness and unusual mood swings of behavior present themselves to you. August 29th30th listen to your body as patience and rest are needed. It’s showtime with all the lights. Be ready to smile as people will ask for  your advice, time, and monetary support as investors propose an offer to you. The reap of your harvest will have you smiling from ear to ear. Thinking about returning a favor or contributing to assist someone on their journey. Helping God’s people is helping yourself. You never know who you are assisting as the Divine Creator puts people in position as a test. August 31st level up with a grand entrance, opening, with an extraordinary exit the old fashion way. Changes within your circumstances that you have been contemplat ing for some time. It’s time to make your move and follow your heart and where it is leading you. Physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually something inside is brewing inside to make the decision. Once you decide the universe must stand by your side and you need to be committed until the end. The journey is not instant due to the fact that you need the experiences for your growth. August 24th-25th swift changes are already in motion. Handsome rewards are pouring in with appreciation, and admiration,  for being genuinely you. Any advice you can receive from an elder will be profound. Women of influence are also involved in your affairs, and that can be anyone from your mother and great aunts, women in the family, circle, or a mentor. A romance, finances, business, family week of fulfilling obligations. August 26th -28th your cup is full of support, growth, and financial matters are increasing. A relationship can begin be it business or personal and separation of something or someone. Decision-making, truth reveals, semi-legal matters, and documents  need to be finalized. Call in that favor if needed and people are willing to help when you ask. This is a way to solve your own problems and find your solution by thinking them through. Check your voicemail, emails, and messages and catch a replay as details are within. Listen carefully and jot it down. You are on the go this cycle. August 20th-29th say what you mean and get it off your chest. How you start is how you end.

August holds important research and self-evaluation when traveling down the “rabbit hole.” A week to start something new and choose Capricorn a different path. The universe will stop you in your tracks where it feels very awkward. That awkwardness is in attendance to push you to Dec 22 Jan 21 listen, do something, and tune into yourself. The information you seek is right in front of you. August 31st make it your business for solitude, change and let whatever is holding you back go, to evolve. The final week of August exit out in Leo style: cast your talents, and  skills, and attend social gatherings. Make your presence known. You are reaping a peek of your harvest as other weeks will follow suit. Continue to put in the work as slow and steady wins the race. Schedule time out for yourself to unwind, release and attract the things that match your frequency. August 24th-25th it’s time to get more serious about your plans and take inventory. You are a mastermind this cycle. You know how to get information  out of people without asking too many questions and then on to the next subject or mission. Information comes to you in passing during your daily routine. It’s for you to relay the message to folks that cross your path. The Divine is using you as a vessel, so speak through you and don’t hold 411 back. Spread the love and the Divine will reward you for following instructions. August 26th- 28th with the new moon in Virgo begin a new additional chapter in your life with an assignment and instruction. The time is right for you to reap the benefits of your dedicated labor.  Relationship matters in business, family, and personal situations are the center of attention. One by one you check off as this week is no time for slacking and no running around like a “chicken with no head.” You have got to put some skin in the game and get serious about the direction you are heading. Leaders lead by example and grow from their best teachers called experiences. August 29th -30th pick up the mic and don’t drop it until you are finished. The wheels are rolling, and you are in the driver seat driving that  bus, car, bike whatever it is; you are on a mission. You identified and consulted with your higher self to decide to go in a different direction. You are set, fixed, and in your zone maneuvering and grooving for advancement in your life. When one door closes another one opens for the opportunity to level up. A week to inspire and motivate others along the way. August 31st ends with a big bang as information about an assignment flows through in a unique way. The song “This little light of mine” is your weekly theme. Put yourself out there with a service, product, inspiration, or even words of encouragement. Residual income is flowing with an abundance tag on it after you apply yourself. The world is waiting on you and you have a message waiting to exhale. Short distance travel or stay is in your forecast. August 24th-25th a quick claim deed has your name on it. Read the details first.

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Community Works exhibit celebrates culture of healing

(Courtesy photos)

By LEE DANIELS

Special to the AmNews

Like guardians, the eye-catching pop-up billboards stretch nearly halfway down the western side of the block on St. Nicholas Avenue from 120th Street.

Like messengers, too, the mere presence of the tall, sleek metal and glass structures silently indicates they have important information to convey.

They do; for they sketch the stories of nine men and women working in Harlem who represent some of the many facets of the community’s response to the fearsome impact these past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The installation is part of the “Harlem is … Healing” exhibition, the latest project of the longstanding collaboration between Community Works and the New Heritage Theatre Group exploring the multi-faceted history of Harlem and the communities of color which surround it.

The entire “Harlem is … Healing” exhibit is actually much larger—telling the stories of another forty-one individuals who are part of the community’s “culture of healing.” All of it can be seen now on the “Harlem is … Healing” website at www. harlem-is.org/harlem-heroesv

The individuals in it include doctors and other health practitioners, as one would expect—but also community activists, educators, writers and other artists, and leaders of Harlem civic organizations. Those on the street-corner placards at St. Nicholas and 120th Street are: Andrea Arroyo, an artist and activist; Tau Battice, a photographer; Robin Bell-Stevens, the director and executive producer of Jazzmobile; Dietrice Bolden, managing director of IMPACT Repertory Theatre; Akemi Kochiyama, a writer and activist; Winston Majette, executive director of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce; Arva Rice, president and CEO of the New York Urban League, Jackie Rowe-Adams, co-founder of Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E. (Stop Another Violent End), which provides services to victims of violence and work to eliminate the illegal inter-state transportation of guns; and the Rev. Michael A. Walrond, Jr., senior pastor of First Corinthian Baptist Church.

The exhibit is the latest of the thus far twodecades-long series of “harlem is. . ” exhibitions on Harlem’s past and present as a Black community. In 2018, Community Works and New Heritage Theatre Group were joined by Harlem Hospital, which has its own historic collection of art going back to the New Deal era, to permanently house those previous exhibits—on the past and present of music, theater and dance in Harlem—in the hospital.

That installation is expected to open to the public later this year—fulfilling, said Sylvia L. White, the hospital’s deputy executive director, their commitment to further spread “the healing power of art.”

Barbara Horowitz explained that the “Healing” mini-exhibit on St. Nicholas, which was made possible by the city’s Department of Transportation art program, was another way of boosting residents’ confidence in Harlem’s resilience.

“We want to alert them to the heroes in our own community at a time when we face not only the pandemic but continuing issues of crime and gun violence, hunger and health challenges and other problems,” she said. “We all need to know about the good works our neighbors from so many walks of life are doing for Harlem.”

In other words, in this moment when Harlem (and indeed the whole of humanity) is facing a multi-dimensional crisis—medical, environmental, financial, economic, political and spiritual—the “Harlem is … Healing” exhibit reminds us that, as it always has, Harlem contains a dense network of individuals and institutions who are challenging the dynamics of its being besieged. They are working to change the status of the present from a “crisis” to an “opportunity.

The exhibit also underscores two ageold realities that have always characterized Harlem (and Black communities throughout the country). One is that the work of its activists can be viewed through the prism of a “culture of healing” precisely because Black Americans have always been besieged by the hydra-headed virus of racism—which, in turn, has required an antidote that itself can be expressed in many different ways. Sometimes the healing response is expressed through the work of physicians, nurses, and other health practitioners. Sometimes by psychiatrists and psychologists.

But who can deny that African Americans as individuals and as a group have been healed through political and social activism, through the expression of religious faith, and through the work of artists—photographers, musicians, writers and poets, painters, dancers and sculptors—too?

Finally, “Harlem is … Healing” underscores that Harlem is full of “exceptional people”— individuals whose achievements suggest they possess enormous reservoirs of ambition, intelligence, shrewdness, compassion and civic-mindedness that illuminate how individual interests can produce a shared profound commitment to civic activism.

For more information about Community Works, visit www.harlem-is.org. More information about New Heritage Theatre Group can be found at https:// www.newheritagetheatre.org

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Penne Alla Vodka

Prep time: 10 minutes Total time: 30 minutes Servings: 5

1 tablespoon Country Crock Plant Butter with Olive Oil ½ cup chopped white or yellow onion ½ teaspoon finely chopped garlic ½ cup tomato paste 1 pinch red pepper flakes ¼ cup (2 fluid ounces) vodka 16 fluid ounces Country Crock Plant Cream ¼ cup (2 fluid ounces) water 3 cups dry penne pasta, cooked and drained ¼ cup grated vegan Parmesan cheese ½ teaspoon kosher salt ¼ cup loosely packed fresh basil leaves

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Strawberry Shortcake

Prep time: 20 minutes Cook time: 12 minutes Servings: 8

Strawberries:

2 pounds strawberries, hulled and sliced 6 tablespoons sugar

Whipped Plant Cream:

2 cups Country Crock Plant Cream, directly from refrigerator 2 tablespoons powdered sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Shortcakes:

3/4 cup chilled Country Crock Plant Cream, plus additional for brushing, divided 1 tablespoon lemon juice 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) Country Crock Plant Butter Sticks with Avocado Oil, melted 1 tablespoon turbinado sugar

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To make whipped plant cream: In a chilled bowl, using an electric hand mixer or stand mixer on high, whisk chilled plant cream, powdered sugar and vanilla extract until plant cream thickens and stiff peaks form.

To make shortcakes: Preheat oven to 475°F.

In a small bowl, mix 3/4 cup plant cream and lemon juice; set aside 2-3 minutes, or until it begins to curdle.

In a large bowl, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in plant butter and plant cream mixture.

Knead dough a few times then shape into a 1-inch-tall circle. Cut the circle into eight wedges. Transfer wedges onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush the tops of biscuits generously with additional plant cream and sprinkle turbinado sugar on top.

Bake for 10-12 minutes, rotating sheet halfway through baking. Biscuits should be golden brown. Cool before assembling.

Split each biscuit in half. Spoon strawberries over half of the biscuits. Add a dollop of whipped plant cream on top. Layer other biscuit halves on top followed by more strawberries and plant cream.

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Elombe Brath and others, as they created a Harlem base for artists and political activists to give full expression to their anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist dreams.

“As the Keeper of the Images,” he concluded, “my goal has always been to pass that legacy on and to make sure that for generations to come, everyone who sees my work knows the greatness of our people.”

And they will know and experience the greatness of the photographer and this exhibit is but a sample from his extensive archives, which only a series of books can properly cover.

“We are thrilled to bring this exhibition to New York City, Kwame Brathwaite’s hometown and the location of many of his most powerful images,” said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New York Historical Society. “His work is a testament to the power of a visual medium to impact the movement towards racial equity. We hope Kwame Brathwaite’s photographs inspire a deeper understanding of the Black empowerment movement and how its legacy resonates today.”

“Black Is Beautiful will be here until January, 2023 and then it’s on to Birmingham, Alabama,” said Kwame Jr. “The tour that began in California has gained resonance from city to city.”

Kwame Brathwaite, Man smoking in a ballroom, Harlem, ca. 1962. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles Kwame Brathwaite, Photo shoot at a public school for one of the AJASS associated modeling groups that emulated the Grandassa Models and embraced natural hairstyles. Harlem, ca. 1966. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles