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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
OPENING PLENARY
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Rev. Al Sharpton
 Reverend
Al Sharpton is the President and founder of the National Action Network
(NAN), and one of America’s most-renowned civil rights leaders.
A USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted in July 2008 calls him the second leader
in the country that Blacks turn to speak for them on the issue of race,
just behind Senator Barack Obama, and In February 2007, Rev. Sharpton
was called “the most prominent civil rights activist in the nation” by
the New York Daily News. click
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LIFE MEMBERS LUNCHEON
Thursday, November 20th
Cynthia M.A. Butler McIntyre
 Cynthia
M.A. Butler McIntyre is a 1976 graduate of Dillard University with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education. At the age
of 20, she received a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration
from the University of New Orleans. She has done post-graduate
work at various universities throughout the southwest portion of
these United States and holds an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree
from Christian Bible College of Louisiana. click
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EDUCATION IS A CIVIL RIGHT MARCH
Thursday, November 20th
Dr. Joseph Lowery
 Born
in Huntsville, Alabama on October 6, 1921, the Reverend Doctor Joseph
E. Lowery has been one of the nation’s strongest and most consistent
advocates for racial justice, human rights, and world peace. When
Ebony Magazine named him one of the nation’s 15 greatest black
preachers, they described him as the consummate voice of biblical social
relevancy, a focused prophetic voice, speaking truth to power. click here for more…
EDUCATION IS A CIVIL RIGHT MARCH
Thursday, November 20th
Rev. Timothy McDonald, III
Reverend
Timothy McDonald, III is a native of Brunswick Georgia where he was
nurtured in the fear and admonition of Almighty God. He received
his Bachelor of Arts Degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Berry College in
Rome, Georgia and his Master of Divinity degree from Emory University. He
has taught and lectured at colleges and universities in Atlanta and
around the country. click
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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BREAKFAST
Friday, November 20th
Dr. Tyrone Howard
 Dr.
Tyrone Howard is an experienced educator, presenter, and researcher
of multicultural and social studies education. Currently, he is an
Associate Professor, and Director of Center X at the University of
California, Los Angeles. Dr. Howard is the Associate Editor of both
Theory and Research in Social Education and Journal for the Professoriate.
His main research interests include social studies education, urban
education, and multicultural education. click
here for more…
FOUNDING MEMBERS LUNCHEON
Friday, November 21st
Rev. Dr. Floyd Flake
 Former U.S. Congressman, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake is the senior pastor of the more than 20,000 member Greater Allen A. M. E. Cathedral of New York in Jamaica, Queens, and President of Wilberforce University in Ohio. During his 31-year pastorate, Allen has become one of the nation’s foremost Christian churches and development corporations. The church and its subsidiary corporations operate with an annual budget of over $34 million. click
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ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET
Friday, November 22nd
Ambassador Andrew Young
 Ambassador
Andrew Young’s humanitarian efforts and influence have spanned the
globe. From his beginnings as an ordained minister and top aide to
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement to his
current position as founding principal and chair of GoodWorks International,
an organization that embraces his long-held mission of facilitating
economic development in the Caribbean and Africa, Ambassador Young
has dedicated himself to improving the lives of all people, particularly
those in Africa and the Diaspora. click
here for more…..
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