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W e l c o m e 2007 Conference in Philadelphia
Speakers included music mogul Kenny Gamble; Theodore M. Shaw, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; historian Charles L. Blockson; Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree; Yale Professor Elijah Anderson; Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa.; lawyer Michael Coard of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition; author Yvonne Latty; Kevin Merida, Donna Britt and Joe Davidson of the Washington Post and Bilal Qayyum of Men United for a Better Philadelphia. Click here to read the columns.
“Black Voices in Commentary: The diversity of their voices is exhibited in a collection of their columns from the end of 2005 through the first half of 2006. Order from August Press, 800-268-4338, www.augustpress.net or www.amazon.com or Barnes & Noble www.bn.com. For more information click here.
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About the Trotter Group: But given the many daily pressures that come with our jobs, it was painfully easy to let such a grand plan fall by the wayside. It always seemed to lack the immediacy that compels journalists to action. Two things happened to change that.
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s 23 black columnists on subjects ranging from politics to Barney Fife.
The idea that a group of black columnists would come together to share our common experience and probe the soft underbelly of our craft is something 