NC 10Y Feb 23: Guest Speaker "OG Rev" Harry Lewis

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Hello Neighbors:

Please join us for our Feb NC 10Y Meeting on Zoom.  I am honored to have community activist, hood minister, youth advocate "OG Rev" Harry Lewis author of "Straight Outta East Oakland" as our guest speaker.  Check out his amazing work in Oakland at https://www.theogrev.com/.  Please help me get a nice turnout by passing this on to other neighborhood groups in the North Oakland Flatlands.

NC 10Y Feb Meeting

Guest Speaker: "OG Rev" Harry Lewis

Weds Feb 23rd

6-7pm

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Please join us for our monthly NC 10Y Community Meeting. Our guest speaker will be "OG Rev" Reverend Harry Lewis author "Straight Out of East Oakland". Rev Lewis confronts violence head on and offers support, care and compassion in Oakland through his urban ministry work as a "hood minister" and through his work with Homies Empowerment. He uses social media and the power of hip hop to mentor youth, confront sex trafficking, and support to support our unhoused neighbors. See his bio and body of work below.

In addition we will hear updates from our beat officer, our council members office and from our neighbors. Please share this meeting within your neighborhood groups. Questions or suggestions for future meetings or speakers? Please email max....@gmail.com
If you are unable to make it and have a question to ask please email max....@gmail.com. Please also email with speaker suggestions and topics.

OG Rev Harry Lewis Bio at the bottom of the page.
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NC 10Y is NOT a Neighborhood Watch Group. We aim to help trouble shoot and solve community problems without involving the police and the city as much as possible.
Topic: NC 10Y with Guest Speaker OG Rev Harry Louis Williams
Time: Feb 23, 2022 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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About "OG Rev" Harry Lewis:

A hail of bullets raining outside of his East Oakland window changed Reverend Harry Williams' life in the fall of 2002. The next morning he traveled down the street to the neighborhood store where he noticed that a shrine consisting of teddy bears, balloons and empty Remy Martin bottles had been erected overnight. Someone had lost their life in that storm of gunfire.

In the aftermath of the shooting, Reverend Harry Williams took to the streets for answers. He spoke to both drug users and drug traffickers about the madness that had engulfed the community. What he found shifted his focus as a minister. The emphasis of his work came to involve the incarcerated and those returning to the society. He mentored gang involved youth and foster children. Williams founded a ministry to human trafficking victims. He became a board member for Homies Empowerment, an organization that began as a community based outreach to gang impacted youth and later evolved into a major social service/social justice force in Oakland during the pandemic. In between his street ministry, Harry Williams has written 9 books including the hood classic, "Straight Outta East Oakland." In 2019, "Taking It To The Streets: Lessons From A Life Of Urban Ministry" was released by the highly regarded InterVarsity Press.

Harry Williams was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Asbury Park, NJ. He holds a B.A. degree from Kean University, Union, NJ and a Master of Divinity Degree from Palmer Theological Seminary, St. Davids, PA. From 2005 to 2020, he served as a case manager and later the Interim Minister of Compassionate Care at the historic Glide Memorial Church in the San Francisco, Tenderloin. Today, he is a care manager at Homies Empowerment, East Oakland. He recently began his own community based outreach entitle: Ground Game Ministries.

Reverend Williams was a member of the early hip-hop movement in New York City. He recorded under the name Incredible Mr. Freeze. In recent years, he has picked up his mic again, recording under the title, OG Rev. In 2021, he recorded "Hip Hop Rebel" with Mistah Fab. He also recorded "When You Squeeze That Trigger" with New York City icon Sadat X of the legendary group, Brand Nubian. More music is on the way. OG Rev is also preparing to release a hip-hop novel entitled: "Straight Outta East Oakland 3: Funk Season."

About his body of work:
"Harry Williams is a wise, courageous and compassionate guide through our chocolate cities with a focus on the precious humanity of our neglected and abandoned fellow citizens!"

Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University

This is an extraordinary book that unravels the cruel and bitter realities that confront too many people of color in marginalized and impoverished communities across America. This book is powerful, insightful, painful, and uplifting. The informed, authentic voice of the author is well schooled in all the disturbing dynamics that define urban street corners where terrorism and cruel indifference condemn, disrupt, and destroy the lives of thousands of American children of color and their families.

Dr. Bryan Stevenson

Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Author of Just Mercies

Writing about Harry Williams’ novel, Straight Outta East Oakland

“…A gigantic part of the old school hip-hop revolution, Brother Williams went from rapper to minister, this is a brother that really have to say about the streets. May God bless you,

Mr. Freeze…I mean Minister Williams.”

Mr. Biggs

Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force

Reverend Harry Williams is a champion for those who have no voice. He is a precious pillar of the Oakland, California faith community and an invaluable ally to Oakland’s disenfranchised youth. Reverend Williams has chosen to do the hard but necessary work of confronting urban violence and human sex trafficking where it is happening – in the streets of our cities.

Annie Campbell Washington, Oakland, California, former City Council Member – District Four