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Plenary I: Setting the Stage for Youth Leadership
Friday July 18 from 10:00am--12:00noon
Speakers: Dr. Conrad Worrill, NBUF National Headquarters;
Kofi Taharka, NBUF Houston; Cha-Rhonda Edgerson, Timbuktu Academy of Science and Technology
In this session, requisites
for preparing youth for leadership now and in the future will be identified and discused.
Plenary II: Passing of the Old into the New
Friday
July 18 from 1:00pm--3:00pm
Speakers: Elder E. Malkia Brantuo, Proprietress/Director, Ayensudo
Akoma International Academy (Cape Coast, Ghana); Nelson Peery, Author Black Fire: The Making of An American Revolutionary
and Black Radical: The Education of an American Revolutionary
In this session, lessons of elder
leadership are summed up and ceremoniously passed on to the youth.
Plenary
III: From Theory to Action: Electoral Politics
Saturday July 19 from 9:30am--12:00noon
Speakers:
Bernard Parker, Wayne County Commissioner; JoAnn Watson, Detroit City Council Member; Dr. Norma Lozano Jackson, Norma Lozano
Jackson Foundation; Marcos Garcia, 2nd Secretary, Venezuelan Embassy
Local politicians will discuss current political
issues, implications and campaigns.
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