On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. presents highlights of the Summit on Race in America: Liberty and Justice for All, held last spring at the LBJ Presidential Library at UT Austin.
Featured on the program is a speech given by Vernon E. Jordan, civil rights icon, former president and CEO of the National Urban League and former executive director of the United Negro College Fund.
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Seventeen members of Chattanooga’s minority workforce were among the first in the region to complete the Tennessee Valley Authority’s pilot Building Futures Minority Training Program. The program, offered in partnership with Tennessee Urban League Affiliates, was developed to train interested minority candidates on home weatherization skills and certify existing minority contractors for the Quality Contractor Network, an exclusive group of contractors authorized to weatherize homes across the utility’s seven-state service area that includes parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia.
The free program trained members of Chattanooga’s minority workforce on air sealing, attic insulation and duct sealing best practices.
The three-day technical training session was led locally by the Urban League of Greater Chattanooga (Chattanooga, TN).
The New York Urban League (New York, NY) is hosting its Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Fair on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The fair is presented in partnership with the Malcolm Bernard HBCU College Fair Tour, Riverbank State Park and the New York Urban League Young Professionals.
High school and community college students are getting the chance to meet face to face with representatives of many historically Black institutions of higher education from across the country. High school seniors also had the opportunity to receive on-site admission and scholarships, with application fees possibly waved.
Workshops and guest speakers will focus on helping students gain the knowledge and tools necessary for them to move to and through higher education.
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New Orleans will host the state’s first Empowerment and Policy Conference, a two-day event centered on influencing policy decisions to positively impact black Louisiana residents, on Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28 at Hyatt Regency New Orleans.
The conference, organized by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus (LLBC) and the Urban League of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA), will feature speeches from Gov. John Bel Edwards, National Urban League president and former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial and CNN political commentators Angela Rye and Bakari Sellers.
On Saturday at 11 a.m., there will be a panel called “Lacing the Boot: Supporting a Whole-State Agenda” that will include five of the city’s black mayors — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, Alexandria Mayor Jeff Hall, Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo and Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins.
