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CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME New York Cares and the urban adult contemporary station 98.7 KISS FM present the “Kiss Kids Coat Drive,” a live “radiothon” broadcast from the Ailey School as New Yorkers donate new or gently used outerwear to benefit the underprivileged. Several surprise recording artists and community leaders are among featured guests. Friday, 6 a.m.–midnight, Ailey School, Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 W. 55th St. at Ninth Avenue, 212-405-9000, free.
LATE NIGHT AGAINST AIDS Journalists Against AIDS presents a tribute to the late creator of Afrobeat music, Fela Kuti, with a late-night party celebrating World AIDS Day. Friday, midnight, Northsix, 66 N. 6th St., between Kent and Wythe avenues, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-599-5103, $10 donation suggested.