ADVISORY/Pre-conference Interviews National Urban League & National Urban League Young Professionals.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Friday-Sunday (July 26-July 28) --(BUSINESS WIRE) National Urban League Young Professionals (an auxiliary auxiliary In grammar, a verb that is subordinate to the main lexical verb in a clause. Auxiliaries can convey distinctions of tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. group of the National Urban League comprised of young professionals, ages 21-40)
WHO: Hugh B. Price, president of the National Urban League (NUL)
Ryan Myers, president of the National Urban League Young
Professionals(NULYP);
Kevin Hooks, NULYP founding member and NUL board trustee
Tim Reid & Daphne Maxwell Reid, actor/producers & co-owners of
the New Millennium Studios;
Keith Clinkscales, Chairman and CEO of Vanguarde Media;
Amy DuBois Barnett, editor-in-chief of Honey magazine.
WHAT: are available for media interviews about the National Urban
League's upcoming annual conference taking place from Saturday,
July 27 - Wednesday, July 31 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
The National Urban League Young Professionals events begin a day
earlier, Friday, July 26 - Sunday, July 28 at the Westin
Bonaventure Hotel & Suites located on Figueroa Blvd. in Los
Angeles.
Hugh B. Price will discuss this year's Annual conference agenda: Opportunity + Equality = One America, and the League's annual State of Black America report which will be released on Wednesday, July 24, 2002. Ryan Myers and Kevin Hooks will discuss 2002's National Urban League Young Professionals conference agenda: Black Images in Hollywood & the News Media. How young African-Americans can impact media images in Hollywood and in the news; Does it make a difference if there's a black editor in the newsroom or a black director behind the camera? Hollywood insiders Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell Reid Daphne Maxwell Reid (born July 13 1948 in New York City, New York) is an actress. She is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She received a degree in interior design and architecture from Northwestern University which she attended on a scholarship and was the , formerly of Frank's Place Frank's Place was a CBS comedy-drama series which aired for 22 episodes in 1987 and 1988. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive-produced by Wilson and star Tim Reid. , among numerous other films, will discuss changing black images on film: What do Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry (IPA: /ˈhæliː ˈbɛriː/) (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an American actress. and Denzel Washington's wins really mean? Is the new Blaxploitation blax·ploi·ta·tion n. A genre of American film of the 1970s featuring African-American actors in lead roles and often having antiestablishment plots, frequently criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence. the only hope? Lee Daniels, producer of 2002's hit `Monster's Ball'--the film that gave Halle Berry her winning role--will examine the film industry's dismal dis·mal adj. 1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary: dismal weather; took a dismal view of the economy. 2. record in producing positive and accurate black images. Do blacks have to create their own studios and distribution deals to get a fair shake fair shake n. Informal A fair chance, as at achieving success. in Hollywood? Amy DuBois-Barnett and Keith Clinkscales will address black images in the news; Is Journalism regressing? From the diminishing number of blacks in the newsrooms to the increasing practice of putting black faces in manacles man·a·cle n. 1. A device for confining the hands, usually consisting of a set of two metal rings that are fastened about the wrists and joined by a metal chain. 2. Something that confines or restrains. tr.v. on newspaper covers, has a whiteout begun? How can African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. control the images that America sees of them in the media? CONTACT: Max Smith/National Urban League, available at 212-558-5371 until Weds., July 24, 2002; July 24-31st available at: 213-765-4633 or cell: 516-458-4653 Chatarra Jenkins/National Urban League Media Assistant, 212-558-5319 if interested in setting up an interview with any of the speakers listed above prior to, during or after conference. |
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