ADVISORY/Citibank Kicks Off Black History Month with Whitney Museum Event on January 28 Celebrating the Richness of African American Heritage.

Business Editors

ADVISORY...for Mon. (Jan. 28)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Citibank Awards Grant of $25,000 to Operation HOPE in Support of

Financial Education Initiative to Benefit Children in Harlem 

Who:    C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President; Maura
        Markus, President of Citibanking North America; John Bryant,
        Chairman & CEO, Operation HOPE, along with many other
        prominent African American community leaders and elected
        officials and representatives from Citigroup and Citibank;
        with performances by the Alvin Ailey Dancers and the William
        Saxton Trio Band.

Where:  Whitney Museum
        945 Madison Avenue (at 75th Street)
        New York, NY

When:   Monday, January 28, 2002
        6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
        Cocktails, Buffet, Music and Tours of Jacob Lawrence Exhibit

        6:45 PM - 7:00 PM
        Remarks by Maura Markus, Grant Presentation to Operation HOPE

        7:30 PM & 8:15 PM
        Performances by Alvin Ailey Dancers

What:   Citibank, a member of Citigroup, will kick off its Black
        History Month activities with an event at the Whitney Museum
        celebrating the richness of African American heritage. The
        event includes a private viewing of The Life and Art of Jacob
        Lawrence, an exhibit featuring over 200 works by one of
        America's leading modern figurative painters who is among the
        most impassioned visual chroniclers of the African American
        experience. Citibank Financial Centers across the U.S. will be
        hosting a variety of Black History Month activities that will
        include educational storytelling presentations and a free CD
        giveaway of jazz music performed by leading African American
        artists and a screen saver highlighting historic black
        leaders. During the event at the Whitney, Citibank also will
        present a grant of $25,000 to Operation HOPE in support of its
        "Banking on Our Future" financial education program to benefit
        children in Harlem.

RSVP:   Media who wish to attend must RSVP to Helen Steblecki,
        212-559-1414