NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE YOUTH SUMMIT HOSTS TERRIE WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF "STAY STRONG: SIMPLE LIFE LESSONS FOR TEENS."

New York, NY, July 19, 2001–The National Urban League announced today that during its 2001 Annual NULITES Youth Summit, Terrie Williams, noted public relations guru and author of the recently released book, Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons For Teens, will host the "Achievement Matters" rally on Sunday July 29, 2001, from 12:00 PM -1:30 PM, at the Washington DC Convention Center.

Williams will address how celebrities’ public personas and negative media images of African Americans affect young peoples’ attitudes about success and achievement.

The rally, called, "Image Isn’t Everything, Create Your Own: Simple Life Lessons for Teens," is part of the League’s Annual NULITES Youth Summit, which runs in conjunction with the National Urban League’s Annual Conference.

The Summit hosts up to 500 young people, ages 14 to 19, and their chaperons in an environment designed to engage them with educational, social and other recreational activities geared toward the critical issues facing today’s youth. The youths are all members of local National Urban League NULITES chapters nationwide.

This year’s Summit theme, developed by NULITERS from Alexandria, VA, Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC, and Wilmington, DE, is Responsibility: Get Up! Get Out! And Do Something! Catholic University Of America is providing housing for the Summit, scheduled for July 26 to July 30.

Other events include a presentation called Success in the Classroom, Success in the World, by Howard University representatives on Saturday, July 28, from 9:15 AM to 9:45 AM at Howard, and a NULITES awards dinner on Friday, July 27 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. Press registration for all events is complimentary. Call 212-558-5470 for information.

Founded on the premise that young people are our most valuable resource, NULITES (National Urban League Incentives To Excel & Succeed) is designed to reflect the positive aspects of youth in today\'s society while providing opportunities for personal and leadership development. NULITES chapters are sponsored by local Urban League affiliates and have their own youth officers who develop, implement and execute activities with guidance from adult advisors. The main purpose of NULITES is to promote and maintain high standards of well-being, academic excellence, character and leadership qualities.

The Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. The Urban League movement carries out its mission through direct services, advocacy, research, policy analysis, community mobilization, collaboration and communications. The National Urban League, headquartered in New York City, spearheads the nonprofit, nonpartisan movement, while Urban League affiliates operate in more than 100 cities in 34 states and the District of Columbia.