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Upcoming Events

April 12–15, 2007: Region III CRATI - Milwaukee, WI

April 20–22, 2007: Region II CRATI - Hartford, CT

Ma 3–6, 2007:Region I CRATI - Las Vegas, NV

May 17–19, 2007: Daisy Bates Educational Summit

July 7–12, 2007: 98th Annual Convention - Detroit, MI

Why We Can't Wait: Signers

Please join other African American leaders and organization to tell President George Bush that the people of Darfur Can Not Wait.

These are just a few of the African American leaders who have signed the Open Letter to President George Bush:

• Bruce Gordon, NAACP
• Julian Bond, NAACP
• Roslyn Brock, NAACP
• Martin Luther King, III
• Reverend Al Sharpton
• Harry C. Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce
• Reverend Kimberly Barnes, Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
• Lem Barney, NFL Hall of Fame
• Amy Billingsley, Amistad
• Reverend Ronald E. Braxton, Metropolitan A.M.E. Church
• Tony Brown
• Jamal Bryant, Empowerment Temple
• Reverend Louis Coleman, Justice Resource Center
• Julius Coles, Africare
• Cheryl Cooper, National Council of Negro Women
• Larry Davis, Bluestone Records
• Vivian Lowery Derryck
• Reverend Walter Fauntroy
• Mayor Adrian Fenty, Washington, D.C.
• Melvin Foote, Constituency For Africa
• Danny Glover, Actor/Activist
• Dick Gregory, Comedian/Activist
• Dr. Dorothy Irene Height, National Council of Negro Women
• Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, TX-18
• Jeff Johnson, Truth is Power LLC
• Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick, MI-13
• Crispian Kirk, NAACP
• Nicole Lee, Transafrica Forum
• John Lindsay, Jr.
• Joe Madison, Sudan Campaign
• Bishop Vashti Mckenzie, African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Melba Moore, Artist/Actress
• Shishak Yadet Moshia
• Congressman Donald Payne, NJ-10
• Shehnaz Rangwala, Education Africa
• Ron Richardson, Hushtown Entertainment
• Shirley Rivens-Smith, Sister Cities
• Evelyn Rivera-Mosquera, Ohio Department of Mental Health
• Jeanine B. Scott, Africare
• Michael Sterling, National Black Law Students Association
• Morrie Turner, Cartoonist
• Gloria White-Hammond, My Sister's Keeper
• Roger Wilkins, George Madison University
• Faye Williams, National Congress of Black Women
• Percy Wilson, International Association of Black Professionals of International Affairs
• Emira Woods, Foreign Policy in Focus/Institute for Policy Studies
• Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Trinity United Church of Chicago

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