home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich
- From: decvax!r-node.gts.org!ndallen@decwrl.dec.com (Nigel Allen)
- Subject: Black State Legislators to Hold '92 Conference in New Orleans
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.203414.16330@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:34:14 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Lines: 38
-
- Here is a press release from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
-
- Black State Legislators to Hold '92 Conference in New Orleans
- To: National and Assignment desks
- Contact: Kofi Owusu of the National Black Caucus of State
- Legislators, 202-624-8833
-
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -- The National Black Caucus of State
- Legislators (NBCSL) will hold its 16th Legislative Conference
- at the ITT-Sheraton New Orleans Nov. 30 through Dec. 6.
- NBCSL president, Colorado State Sen. Regis F. Groff; conference
- chair, California Assembly Member Gwen Moore; and host committee
- chair, Louisiana State Sen. Diana Bajoie, announced the conference
- theme: Revive, Redesign, Rebuild BLACK AMERICA "...with liberty and
- justice for all."
- More than 1,000 participants are expected to attend and salute
- NBCSL's growing membership. This week's election results have added
- more than 100 African American state legislators to NBCSL's ranks,
- for a total of nearly 600 across the nation. Ten African American
- state legislators who were elected to the U.S. House of
- Representatives and former NBCSL member Illinois Senator-elect Carol
- Moseley Braun will also be honored.
- "This is the largest political movement since Reconstruction; the
- largest political power shift in this century," Groff said about
- the Nov. 3 state and Congressional elections. "Effective use of this
- growing political power gives African Americans dynamic influence in
- deciding the political priorities and fiscal solutions to America's
- many problems."
- Invited speakers include: U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton;
- Illinois Senator-elect Carol Braun; Democratic National Committee
- Chairman Ron Brown; University of Oklahoma Law Professor Anita Hill;
- Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies President Eddie
- Williams; General Benjamin O. Davis; and others.
- ------
- NOTE: NBCSL staff will be in New Orleans beginning Friday,
- Nov. 27.
- -30-
-
-