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.

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
2007 Forums
02/07 03/07 04/07 05/07 06/07 08/07 09/07 10/07 11/07 12/07	CA Majority Leader, Assm. Karen Bass Assm. Davis, Price and Richardson Panel on 15th Anniversary of L.A. Riots Panel on Emerging Community Movements Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa Los Angeles Fire Chief, Doug Barry Dr. Terrence Roberts Civil Rights Attorney Tom Mesereau Panel on Knowledge Transfer Summit PBS Talk Show Host, Tavis Smiley	The State of Black California The New Vision For Black Elected Politics Lessons Learnt and Where Do We Go… “A Change Is Gonna Come” Two Year Report Card: City on the Mend... Reforming The L.A. Fire Department… 50th Anniversary of the Little Rock Nine Race and the Law: Analyzing Jena Six Solving Intergenerational Problems Who Will Earn The Black Vote in 2008?

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