Reverend Al Sharpton’s annual Nationwide Motion Community (NAN) Conference 2024 kicks off this week from April 10-13. This yr’s gathering options nationally acknowledged leaders in media, leisure, authorities, civil rights, and enterprise who use their platforms to advance justice.
The conference goals to spotlight Black voter participation within the upcoming presidential election later this yr, the battle to guard voting rights, equal entry to schooling, healthcare fairness, and different rights for Black and brown People.
There might be a sequence of workshops, fireplace chats, luncheons, and discussions with leaders from a number of fields and New York elected officers. Classes may also focus on very important points equivalent to grief in communities of colour, gun violence, housing, economics, the assaults on range and inclusion, Black maternal well being, empowering communities with digital rights, youth and faculty alternative.
Friends for the week’s occasions embody famed lawyer Benjamin Crump, EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg, singer and well being activist Al B. Certain!, and Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries, amongst so many others!
Sharpton led a ribbon slicing and opening remarks at Wednesday’s gala on the Sheraton New York Occasions Sq. Lodge.
For extra data and registration particulars, take a look at www.nanconvention2024.com.
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