The 2006 African American Leadership Summit
The 2006 African American Leadership Summit, "Our Values, Our Voices, Our Vote," sponsored by the Democratic National Committee and the DNC's Black Caucus, will be held on September 22-24 in Detroit, Michigan at the Detroit Marriott at Renaissance Center. Prominent Leaders and activists in the African American community will come together to discuss the Democratic message, the Black Agenda, and other important topics, and train for communications, getting out the vote and faith voter outreach heading into the November elections.
You can register for the conference here. Students may be eligible for scholarships.
Download the 2006 African American Leadership Summit flyer here.
You can view a tentative agenda here.
For more information please contact Simone Ward, Deputy Director of the American Majority Partnership at 202-863-8150 or wards@dnc.org.
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I think that it is great that there is a African American Forum on this blog that black people can actually respond to. Usually we can't. The DNC blog people need to do something about that. Anyway, I think that it is great that African American leaders are thinking about trying to bring more Afrian Americans into the fold.
The Platform Committee and the strategists for the Democratic Party should turn their attention to the state of America's cities. Not only is there no active National Urban Policy to set standards and provide guidance for reinforcing the diversity - economic as well as ethnic - of cities, but the expeditionary forces of gentrification conspire to make cities accessible only to those who are rich.
This strategy of exclusion explains the unconscionable abandonment and dereliction of duty by governments responsible for responding to the Katrina and Rita-devastated Gulf Region. It also results in the alarming decrease of affordable housing and accessible public services in all major American cities, beginning with New York, and certainly including New Orleans, other flood-drenched cities, as well as American cities from coast to coast.
The Federal government's social contract with the urban incubators of equitable upward mobility has been breeched and must be reinstated. The Federal responsibility to resurrect the Congressionally approved National Urban Policy (1979) or, alternatively, to advance an up-dated National Urban Policy for ALL people, not only for the rich, appears to have been ignored and/or abandoned. Congress has permitted the elimination of the one oversight Congressional Committee which guided and monitored policies effecting cities for decades -the House Committee on Housing, Banking and Urban Affairs. It's mandate has been scattered so widely that there now is no "there" there. And no one is guarding the urban chicken-house but the foxes.
I urge you and all Democrats to read: CONSENSUS AND COMPROMISE: CREATING THE FIRST NATIONAL URBAN POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT CARTER
by Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, to be reminded that it is, in fact, possible for the Federal government to help cities in becoming decent and affordable places which are accessable, not only to the wealthy, but also to working people, to Blacks, Latinos and other ethnic minorities, to families and to middle class Americans as well.
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