President Obama Set to Speak a Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference Phoenix Dinner
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Caryn Freeman
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will hold its forty-first annual legislative conference next week September 21st-24th at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. This year’s conference's theme, iLead|iServe will highlight the mission of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, to develop leaders, inform policy, educate the public and address the acute challenges facing African-American’s. The conference will kick off Tuesday night at 7:00pm with a screening of Robert Townsends film "In the Hive" at the United States Navy Memorial, Naval Heritage Center. The annual legislative conference will present over one-hundred-ninety sessions scheduled on different “tracks” tailored to specific matters of interest like Health and Wellness, Business, Emerging Leaders, Civil Rights, Energy and the Environment, and Foreign Affairs.
Nadia Richardson, a junior broadcast journalism major at Howard University, plans to attend Wednesday’s session on Cultural Competence to Build Early Reading Proficiency among Black Students on the education track. “Everyone should be able to read regardless of race, age, gender, generation. Whatever it may be, there is no excuse why so many people are uneducated. The earlier you’re educated, the easier it will be to get through life,” she said.
President Barack Obama will speak at Saturday night’s closing ceremony and Phoenix dinner. With the black community suffering the current economic crisis with 14.1% unemployment and another staggering 27% of African-Americans now living at or below the poverty rate, the largest disparity in poverty for African American’s since the great depression, the president will have to push his jobs plan and foster support with an audience that has been hit hardest by the past two administrations economic policies.
Students have seen the economic crises first hand and had strong words for the president and other elected officials. "We are living in tough economic times, every politicians priority should be to do what they can to help alleviate the situation for Americans, said Matthew Reaves also a Howard student. “Loyalty to a political party should come after loyalty to the American people. I know a lot of people who have been negatively impacted financially in both education and unemployment. We need more of these people involved in the political process.”
Tickets
are required to attend conference sessions and events. The Emerging
Leaders—Student Package is
fifty dollars and gives you accesses to all conference sessions. Tickets can be purchased on
site at the convention center. A separate ticket purchase is required for
special events.
Sessions worth highlighting by major or area of interest:
Public Policy-12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Roundtable with Young Elected Officials and Policy Professionals
Caryn Freeman
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will hold its forty-first annual legislative conference next week September 21st-24th at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. This year’s conference's theme, iLead|iServe will highlight the mission of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, to develop leaders, inform policy, educate the public and address the acute challenges facing African-American’s. The conference will kick off Tuesday night at 7:00pm with a screening of Robert Townsends film "In the Hive" at the United States Navy Memorial, Naval Heritage Center. The annual legislative conference will present over one-hundred-ninety sessions scheduled on different “tracks” tailored to specific matters of interest like Health and Wellness, Business, Emerging Leaders, Civil Rights, Energy and the Environment, and Foreign Affairs.
Nadia Richardson, a junior broadcast journalism major at Howard University, plans to attend Wednesday’s session on Cultural Competence to Build Early Reading Proficiency among Black Students on the education track. “Everyone should be able to read regardless of race, age, gender, generation. Whatever it may be, there is no excuse why so many people are uneducated. The earlier you’re educated, the easier it will be to get through life,” she said.
President Barack Obama will speak at Saturday night’s closing ceremony and Phoenix dinner. With the black community suffering the current economic crisis with 14.1% unemployment and another staggering 27% of African-Americans now living at or below the poverty rate, the largest disparity in poverty for African American’s since the great depression, the president will have to push his jobs plan and foster support with an audience that has been hit hardest by the past two administrations economic policies.
Students have seen the economic crises first hand and had strong words for the president and other elected officials. "We are living in tough economic times, every politicians priority should be to do what they can to help alleviate the situation for Americans, said Matthew Reaves also a Howard student. “Loyalty to a political party should come after loyalty to the American people. I know a lot of people who have been negatively impacted financially in both education and unemployment. We need more of these people involved in the political process.”
Tickets
are required to attend conference sessions and events. The Emerging
Leaders—Student Package is
fifty dollars and gives you accesses to all conference sessions. Tickets can be purchased on
site at the convention center. A separate ticket purchase is required for
special events.
Sessions worth highlighting by major or area of interest:
Wednesday
Journalism-9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Avoice Student Workshop
Political
Science-2:00
PM - 4:00 PM
Black Power and the 2010 Census: Changing
Faces and Changing Places in
Sociology-Urban Communities
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM CBCF ALUMNI SERIES
Haiti: She's My Sister
Thursday
Political
Science-10:00
AM - 12:00 PM Voting Trends in the South in the Age of Obama: Where Do We Go
from Here?
Business
& Economics-2:00
PM - 4:00 PM The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Black Middle Class
Education-1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
EDUCATION BRAINTRUST
Ensuring African-American Students Get
the Education They Deserve: A
Frank Discussion of Major Issues
Friday
Business-10:30 AM - 12:00
PM
The ABC's of African-American Hotel
Ownerships and Cashing In on the Fifty
Billion Dollar Multicultural Tourism
Market
Criminal
Justice & Political Science
10:30 AM - 3:30 PM EX-OFFENDERS FORUM
Collateral Consequences: Economic Cost of
Incarceration on African-
American Families and Communities
Public Policy-12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Roundtable with Young Elected Officials and Policy Professionals
You can find the full session schedule online @ http://www.cbcfinc.org/images/stories/R_-_Session_Listing_By_Day_9.13.11_update.pdf