Urban Issues Forum

Urban Issues Forum

The Urban Issues Breakfast Forum is a monthly non-partisan public affairs/public education discussion forum designed to publicly educate the urban community on critical issues and improve minority media communications access to international, national and local newsmakers. The goal is to provide the community at large and community news sources with firsthand insights to their constituencies on issues of national and local concern.

The attentive public is also invited to attend these forums and many are held at no expense to the public. Past speakers over the past ten years have included the Senator (now President) Barack Obama, Civil Rights Icons Vernon Jordan and Dr. Dorothy Height, Scholars Dr. Cornel West, Charles Ogletree and Michael Eric Dyson, South African Parliament member, Winnie Mandela, Minister Louis Farrakhan, TV Host/Commentator, Tavis Smiley, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr., Rev. Al Sharpton and a host of state and local newsmakers. The Urban Issues Breakfast Forum is free to the public.

Annual Sponsors of the Urban Issues Forum are Sempra Energy, AEG, Wells Fargo Bank, Union Bank, Southern California Edison, State Farm Insurance, Community Financial Resource Center, California African American Museum. The host of the urban Issues Breakfast Forum is Syndicated Columnist (and former LA/NAACP President/100 Black Men/LA President), Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad.

2011 Forums

01/11

Dr. Charles Ogletree

I AM OSCAR GRANT-Mehserle Murder Trial
Saving Africa's Children
Beauty, Strength and Independence
Black History IS American History

2010 Forums

6/10
6/10
5/10
2/10

Minister Keith Muhammad
Bishop Charles Blake
Actress/Author, Pam Grier
TV Host Tavis Smiley/Professor Cornel West

I AM OSCAR GRANT-Mehserle Murder Trial
Saving Africa's Children
Beauty, Strength and Independence
Black History IS American History

2009 Forums

11/09
09/09
08/09
07/09
06/09
03/09

Dr. Ivory Toldson, CBC Foundation
Dr. Bill Releford, Barbershop Health Initiative
Congresswoman Laura Richardson/Speaker Karen Bass
Inglewood Police Chief, Jacqueline Seabrooks, Civil Rights Legend/Author, Vernon Jordan
Actorvist, Isaiah Washington

Educating Blacks Males in Public Schools
Health Care Reform in the Black Community
Health Care Reform Town Hall
The Status of Police Reform Efforts
Make It Plain: Standing Up/Speaking Out
We Are What We Were

2008 Forums

02/08
03/08
04/08
05/08
07/08
08/08
09/08
10/08
12/08

Civil Rights Activist, Rev. Al Sharpton
Exposition Authority Chair, Jan Perry
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
1968 Olympic Gold Medalist, Tommie Smith
Princeton Professor Cornel West
Former Essence Editor, Susan Taylor
Judge Mablean Ephriam
LAUSD Superintendent David Brewer

The Relevancy of Social Activism in Politics
Building Friendly Public Transportation
April 4th, 1968: The Assassination of MLK
Resolving California’s Health Care Crisis
My Olympic Reflections of Mexico City
Does Race Still Matter In America
The National Mentoring Movement
Responsible Fatherhood
The Children Still Come First

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