PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Urban League of Philadelphia
(ULP) will release The State of Black Philadelphia Report on Friday,
December 7, 2007. The publication's release will commence with a press
conference (at 8:00am) and symposium (from 9am - 11am) featuring a
distinguished list of Philadelphia-area leaders from academia, state and
local government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors at the Loews Hotel, 1200
Market Street, 33rd Floor in Philadelphia. The symposium will be followed
by the 5th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Community Awards Luncheon (12pm -
1:30pm) which salutes community leaders who have provided their time,
talent and resources to advancing the organization's mission of empowering
African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil
rights. The keynote speaker will be Marc H. Morial, President & CEO, of the
National Urban League.
The State of Black Philadelphia Report provides readers with compelling
research, data and a weighted analysis that examines persistent disparities
between black and white Philadelphians in five critical areas: economics,
health, education, civic engagement and social justice. In addition to the
reliable data and research compiled in concert with ULP by international
research firm Global Insight, the report provides the reader with a
compilation of proactive essays that include facts by some of
Philadelphia's finest minds, whom offer a myriad of recommendations to
close the equality gaps that exist some 43 years after the Civil Rights Act
of 1964. The timely release of The State of Black Philadelphia Report will
inform, engage and motivate all Philadelphians to play a more proactive
role in improving the greater Philadelphia community, irrespective of race,
ethnicity, religion and socioeconomic level. As eloquently articulated by
Dr. Martin Luther King in his provocative letter from a Birmingham Jail,
"We are caught in an inextricable network of mutuality, tied in a single
garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
CONFIRMED PRESS CONFERENCE SPEAKERS: The Honorable John F. Street,
Mayor, City of Philadelphia; Patricia A. Coulter, President & CEO, Urban
League of Philadelphia; Alba Martinez, President & CEO, United Way of
Southeastern Pennsylvania; and State Representative Dwight Evans.
CONFIRMED PANELISTS: Dr. Bernard E. Anderson, former Assistant of Labor
under the Clinton Administration and the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Professor of
Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Elijah
Anderson, Professor of Sociology, Yale University. Former Professor of
Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Robert Bogle, Publisher,
Philadelphia Tribune; Sandra Dungee Glenn, Chairwoman, School Reform
Commission; Dr. Estelle Richman, Secretary of Public Welfare, State of
Pennsylvania; Sara Lomax-Reese, Health Advocate & Host/Producer, Health
Quest Live, WURD AM; and Dr. Chad Womack, Founder, President and Executive
Director of the Philadelphia Biotechnology and Life Sciences Institutes, an
agency dedicated to bring more African American youth into the math,
science and bio-technology fields.
The State of Black Philadelphia Report will be available for purchase
from the Urban League of Philadelphia after December 7, 2007.
CONTACT:
Amber Jaynes
215.561.6070 ext: 211
ajaynes@urbanleaguephila.org
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