Friday, September 26, 2008

Member

Time

Event

Room

CBCF

6:30 AM - 7:30 AM

CBCF Fitness First                                                                                          Led by Bridget Smith- certified Tae Bo instructor                                  Music by- DJ Sixth Sense

Room 148

CBCF/ELES

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders at the Authors Pavilion

Room Hall A - Authors Pavilion

CBCF/ELES

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

75 Years After the Mis-Education of the Negro: New Imperatives for the Education of Black Males

Room 158 AB

CBCF/FFS

12:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Movie Screening: "Trouble the Water" Room 147B                  Winner of the Grand Jury  Prize

Danny Glover

Room 147 B

Rep. Kendrick Meek

1:00PM-3:00PM

Judge Greg Mathis, Judge and TV Personality; Walter Fields, Esq.; Ed Gordon,  Ed Gordan Media

CBCF/Spouses 

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Movie Screening: "Say It Loud" 

TBD 

CBCF/ELES

2:00 PM - 3:50 AM

Reversing the "Brain Drain": Emerging Leaders' Charge for Creating Healthy Communities

Room 158 AB

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

9:00 AM -Noon

Science and Technology Braintrust: Youth involvement: Today's Technology for Tomorrow's Environment                                            Panelist: Sheryl Lee Ralph- Actress and education advocate           Norris McDonald- President, African American Environmentalist Association                                                                                              Miquela Craytor- Executive Director, Sustainable South Bronx        Miranda Anderson- Director of corporate Affairs for Sustainability, Wal-Mart                                                                                                   Bob Langert- Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility McDonalds                                                                                               Curtis Etherly- Vice President of Public Affairs, Coca-Cola Enterprises Bottling Companies                                                           Moderator: Cynne Simpson- Anchor, ABC7/WJLA-TV

Room 149 A

Rep. Chaka Fattah

9:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Read, Lead, Succeed                                                                                         Panelist: Sandra L. Baxter, Ed. D- National Institute for literacy       Payne Brown- The Comcast Foundation                                                 John Corcoran                                                                                                     Patrick Gaston- Verizon Foundation

Room 140 A

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks

9:00 AM - 11:50 AM

African-American Prostate Cancer Disparity Summit                        Panelist: National Medical Association                                   National Prostate Cancer Coalition                                                           Dr. Durado Brooks                                                                                             Dr. Harold Freeman                                                                                            Us too                                                                                                                      MODERATOR: Thoms Farrington, Prostate Health Education Network                                                                                                                                                                   

Room 156

Rep. Maxine Waters

9:00 AM - 11:50 AM

African-American Developers: Changing Our Communities for the Better

Room 140B

Rep. Corrine Brown

9:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Veteran's Braintrust: Veteran's Braintrust 20th Anniversary: A Look at the Iraq and Afghanistan War

Room

Rep. Charles B. Rangel

151 A

Rep. Sanford Bishop

Rep. Keith Ellison

9:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Subprime, Credit Cards and Flat Pay: Solutions to Economic Inequality                                                                                                                 Panelist- Keith Colbert- Executive Vice President for responsible lending                                                                                                                      Bill Lucy- Secretary- Treasurer of AFSCME, AFL-CIO                        William Springs- Professor and Chair of Howard University             Andy Stern- President, Service employees international union         Cassandra Jones Howard- Associate professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of law                                                        Lawrence Mishel- President, Economic policy institute                     Sarah Wartell- Executive Vice President for management, Center for Americans Progress

Room 144 A

Del. Donna M. Christensen

9:00 AM - 4:50 PM

Health Braintrust: Turning the Page on Disrespect, Discrimination and Disparities: An Agenda of Change and Hope

Room 207 A

Rep. John Conyers

9:00 AM - 4:50 PM

Judiciary Braintrust: TBD

Room 145 B

Rep. Donald M. Payne

9:00 AM - 4:50 PM

Foreign Affairs on Africa Braintrust: U.S.-Africa Policy: Challenges for the Next American President

Room 207 B

Rep. Danny K. Davis

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Child Welfare Braintrust: Family Reunification in the Child Welfare System                                                                                                    Panelists: Dr. Julia Hare, The Black Think Tank                                    Erwin McEwen, Illinois Department of children & family services        Barry Hudson, Member relations NEA member benefits corporation                                                                                                            Ruth G. McRoy- PhD, University of Texas- School of social work                                                                                                                          Joe Kroll, North American council on adoptable children                    Adam Pertman, Executive director, Evean B. Donaldson adaption institute                                                                                                 Dr. Terry Solomon, African- American family commision                  Ernestine Jones, Black administrators in child welfare                       Honorable Patricia Martin Bishop, Circuit Court of County, Illinois                                                                                                                       Dorothy Brown, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois                                                                                                                       Margaret A. Davis, Healthcare Consortium of Illinois                         Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee, US Congressional Representative 18th district                                                                             Annetta Wilson, Sankofa safe child initiative                                                                                                      Addie Hudson, Sankofa safe child initiative                                                                                                    Rosie Hicks Patton, Sankofa safe child initiative                                                                                           Ed Bickham, Sankofa safe child initiative                                                                                                              

Room 145 A

Rep. G.K. Butterfield

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Eyes Wide Shut on Poverty

Room 209 A

Rep. James Clyburn

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Environmental Justice Braintrust: Securing Our Future - The Nuclear Alternative                                                                                               Panelist: Bishop James L. Buck, Executive Director/ Founder, Center for environmental and economic justice                                    Mr. Robert L. Harris, Former Vice President, Environmantal affairs Pacific Gas& electric; Mr. David B. Matthews, Dirctor Of New Reactor Licensing, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Dr. Deborah Klein Walker, Past President of American Public Health Association, Abt Associates,Inc.

Room 143 C

Rep. William Jefferson

10:30 PM - 12:00 PM

Katrina: 3 Years Later, New Challenges

Room 149 B

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Energy Braintrust: Combating the CHallenges of the Electrical Utility Industry and Climate Change

TBD

Avoice

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Avoice Environmental Justice Forum

Room 146 C

Rep. James Clyburn

Rep. Kendrick B. Meek

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Daddy's Promise: A Lifetime of Love

Room

144 BC

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks

1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

International Opportunities for Minority Businesses: Expansion through Trade in the Western Hemisphere

Room 149 A

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings

1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

School Safety Solutions: Empowering Communities to Create Safe Learning Environments for our Children

Room 144 A

Rep. Charles B. Rangel

1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Veteran's Braintrust

Room 151 B

Rep. Maxine Waters

1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Young Gifted and Black Braintrust 

Room 201

Rep. Al Green

 1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

The Impact of Race and Religion on Politics in America

Room 147 A

Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr.

 1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

In It to Win It: Winning Issue Campaign Strategies

Room 156

Rep. Laura Richardson 

 1:30 PM - 4:50 PM

Images of Black America: Is It Our Image or Their's 

Room

209 BC

Rep. John Lewis 

 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Living in the Black: Barriers to Wealth Creation in the African-American Community                                                                       Panelists: Beverly I. Moran, Professor of Law and Sociology, Vanderbilt University Law School.

Room

143 C

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay Jr.

2:00 PM - 3:50 PM 

Minority Contracting: Competitive Viability Project 

Room

159 AB 

Rep. Keith Ellison 

2:00 PM - 3:50 PM 

African-American/Muslim-American Dialogue: Building an Interfaith Movement                                                                               Panelists: Mahdi Brey, Director, MAS- Freedom Foundation; Michael Eric Dyson, Author, Professor, Speaker, The American Program  Bureau, Inc.; Sherman (Abdul Hakim) Jackson, Professor of Arabic and Islam and Christian- Muslim Relations; Aminah Beverly McCloud, Professor of religious studies;Imam Zayd Shakir, Professor at Zaytuna Institute, Speaker;Shakir Hamza Yusuf, Islamic Scholar

Room

143 A

Rep. Melvin L. Watt 

2:00 PM - 3:50 PM 

Voting Right Braintrust: The Honorable Leon A. Higginbotham Jr. Memorial Voting Rights Braintrust: Getting Ready for the 2010 Cenus and the Next Round of Redistricting and Making Votes Count                                                                                                  Panelist: Professor Kareen U. Crayton, USC Gould School of Law; Jenigh J. Garrett, Esq., Assistant Council,NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Meredith Bell-Platts, Esq., Staff Counsel, ACLU Voting Rights Project

Room

140 B 

Rep. Corrine Brown 

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM 

Youth Summit 

Room 146 A

Rep. Andre Carson 

2:00 PM - 3:50 PM 

Tackling Mental Health issues in Minority & Low-Income Communities 

Room

149 B

Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott 

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM 

The Youth Promise Act: Fulfilling the Dream 

Room

154 AB 

Rep. Bobby Rush 

3:00 PM - 4:50 PM

The Impact of Gun Violence in the Black Community 

Room

140 A

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver II.

3:00 PM - 4:50 PM 

Financial Literacy and the Housing Crises: How Did It and How Will It Continue to Affect African Americans and the Economy 

Room

143 B 

Rep. Danny K. Davis 

3:00 PM - 4:50 PM 

Eliminating Barriers: Building Healthy Families and Communities for the Future 

Room

145 A 

Rep. Donald M. Payne 

3:00 PM - 4:50 PM 

How Far Have We Come Being Black in America: 200 Years After the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?                                              Panelists: Eric Foner, Professor of History, Columbia University; John Franklin, National Museum of Afirca- American History and Culture; Sheila Walker, Ph.D, Afrodiaspora, Inc.; The Honorbale William D. Payne, Commissioner, New Jersey Amistad Commission

Room

209A