Court TV Honors Seven African Americans as Part of Black History Month.

Entertainment Writers

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002

Court TV will honor seven African Americans, as part of the network's salute to Black History Month this February.

Six young African Americans age 40 and under were selected based on their engineering significant and enduring changes in politics and/or the law. The seventh honoree, Dennis Walcott, was chosen to be part of this group for the youthful spirit he brings to rebuilding the health and education systems of New York City post September 11th.

Profiles on these individuals will be featured in a series of interstitial programming entitled New Chapters in African American History: Visions for the Future throughout the month of February on Court TV. The profiles also will be shown on Court TV's website at www.courttv.com.

These inspired people are the ones to watch, whose activities and efforts on behalf of their community and country are propelling them to the national forefront. They bring a unique vision and a fresh perspective to the legal and social issues that impact our nation and challenge our cities.

This year's honorees include:

-- Cory Booker (of Newark, New Jersey) -- Recently announcing his

entrance into the Newark mayoral race, Cory Booker is an

attorney for the Low Income Tenants Association of the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also serves as

a community lawyer in the Central Ward of Newark and in the

mentoring and tutoring programs at Quitman Street School. He

is the former Director of the Newark Youth Project and a

volunteer for Newark's "Just One Neighborhood" Program, for

Newark's Do Something Fund, and for the Safe Neighborhood

Action Plan. Booker also serves on the Board of Trustees of

his alma mater, Stanford University, was a Rhodes Scholar at

Oxford University and is a graduate of Yale Law School.

-- Majora Carter (of Bronx, New York) -- A life-long resident of

Hunts Point, NY in the Bronx, Majora Carter is well known in

the Bronx for working many years as a community activist. She

is the head of the Sustainable South Bronx project which

researches and devises strategies that result in the

implementation of real projects which will hopefully lead to

long term and sustained development in the Bronx. Last year,

Carter was awarded the 2000 Environmental Advocate Award for

Achievements in Community Development.

-- Harold Ford Jr. (of Memphis, Tennessee) -- Congressman Harold

Ford Jr. led efforts to secure funding for the nation's urgent

school construction needs. To help working families meet the

rising costs of higher education, Ford introduced "The Make

College Affordable Act of 1999." Ford was elected to the House

of Representatives in 1996 at age 26, making him one of the

youngest Congressmen in history. He was re-elected in 1998

with over 80 percent of the vote.

-- Van Jones (of Oakland, California) -- Founder and National Executive
Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Van Jones grew outraged by
numerous cases of police misconduct and intimidation in inner city communities.
In 1994, with $50,000 in seed money he raised himself, he founded Bay Area
Police Watch. This was one of the first organizations in the country dedicated
to providing legal services to victims of illegal police harassment and
brutality.

-- Kwame Kilpatrick (of Detroit, Michigan) -- Recently becoming the youngest
elected mayor in Detroit's history, Kwame Kilpatrick is Democratic Leader of
the State House. He was the first African American in the History of Michigan
to lead any party in the legislature and has forged a bi-partisan coalition to
preserve $45 million for hospitals that serve low-income patients. In addition,
Kilpatrick secured $7 million to address the problem of lead poisoning, which
affects more children in Detroit than in all the rest of Michigan combined.

-- Malika Asha Sanders (of Selma, Alabama) -- Malika Asha Sanders is the
Executive Director of the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement. At the age of
sixteen she co-founded an organization called the "Student Movement Against
Racial Tracking." She also was one of the youth leaders who led the student
outcry against police brutality after the beating of Rodney King in Los
Angeles. While she was in Georgia she participated in the Environmental Justice
Movement, which called for the elimination of the confederate symbol on the
Georgia State flag. She was recently named the 2002 recipient of the Reebok
International Human Rights Awards.

-- Dennis Walcott (of New York, NY) -- Dennis Walcott is the Deputy Mayor for
Policy under Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York City. In this capacity, he
oversees the policies of the New York City Board of Education and Health and
Hospitals Corporation, as well as several city agencies. Walcott is no stranger
to city politics. Prior to his appointment as Deputy Mayor, he was President
and CEO of the New York Urban League. During his 11-year tenure, he guided the
NYUL to the forefront in advocating for the rights of New York City residents,
particularly in the areas of education, police/community relations and
welfare-to-work initiatives.

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