ADVISORY/NAACP Chairman Julian Bond is Keynote Speaker for Upcoming Council for World-Class Communities Luncheon; The Public is Invited to Attend; Guests Asked to RSVP.

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ADVISORY...for July 30

BENTON HARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2003

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond will speak at a Council for World-Class Communities Community Leadership Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. July 30 at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center. The public is invited to attend the free luncheon, but guests are asked to reserve their seats.

"I hope to see many of our residents out at this luncheon," said Mark Mitchell, the CWCC's president and executive director. "We have had some remarkable people come to our community and share their life experiences through our Community Leadership Luncheons. I am excited that Julian Bond is adding his name to that list."

Residents should call the CWCC at 269-934-9286 to reserve their seats.

From his students days as a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to his current position as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Bond has been a leader in the movements for civil rights, economic justice and peace.

Bond is a writer, lecturer and university professor - a professor of history at the University of Virginia and a distinguished professor at American University in Washington, D.C. He also served for more than 20 years in the Georgia General Assembly.

"Mr. Bond has a message that will help us in our journey to remove barriers to diversity and inclusion as well as barriers to economic prosperity in our region," Mitchell said. "I know that he will challenge us and inspire us."

The CWCC vision is to create a set of interdependent, world-class communities where diversity and inclusion are the foundation and no one is left behind. For more information, call the CWCC at 269-934-9286, visit www.cwcconline.com, or stop by the office at 300 Riverview Drive, Suite 2, in Benton Harbor.