VIRTUAL 2020 NNPA ANNUAL CONFERENCE - DAY 1 EVENTS AND SESSIONS
CONVENTION WELCOME OPENING VIDEO
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BOARD MEMBERS — WELCOME OPENING VIDEO
CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES FROM NOTABLES & CELEBRITIES
#FIYAH! — LIVESTREAM: DENIECE WILLIAMS
WEBINAR: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT OF THE BLACK PRESS OF AMERICA
WEBINAR — LIVESTREAM REPLAY: THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON BLACK COMMUNITIES
WEBINAR: NNPA NATIONAL TOWN HALL: EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK AMERICA, FROM PRE-K TO HIGH SCHOOL AND ONTO COLLEGE
#FIYAH! — LIVESTREAM — ANTHONY HAMILTON
#FIYAH! — LIVESTREAM — CARLOS SANTANA
Conference Speakers
Dr. Rochanda Mitchell, DO
Maternal Fetal Medicine/Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Virginia Hospital
Dr. Taison Bell, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
University of Virginia Hospital
Dr. Cameron Webb, MD, JD
Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Health Policy and Equity
University of Virginia
Rev. Dr. Francis Murphy Draper (b.k.a. Pastor Toni)
Publisher, Founding Pastor
The Afro Newspaper, Freedom Temple AME Zion Church
Dr. Elizabeth Primas
National Newspaper Publishers Association Program Manager on a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Education Awareness Grant
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Darlene Goins
Senior Vice President, Head of Financial Health Philanthropy Wells Fargo Foundation, Wells Fargo & Company
Wells Fargo & Company
Colin Topper Carew
Sounder of the Techquity Research Group and faculty fellow at the Innovation Lab at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia
MIT Media Lab
Charles W. Muse
General Motors Program Engineering Management Team for Autonomous Vehicles
General Motors
Calvin Anderson, President of Best Media Properties, Inc., Publisher of the New Tri-State Defender
President of Best Media Properties, Inc, and serves as the publisher of the New Tri-State Defender.
New Tri-State Defender
Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney, Esq.
President of Sesh Communications, Publisher of The Cincinnati Herald, The Northern Kentucky Herald, The Dayton Defender, seshPRIME Magazine, and PIX (News in Pictures), and hosts the annual Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance, BRIGHT Awards, and the Nefertiti Awards.
Sesh Communications
BENJAMIN L. CRUMP, ESQ.
WINNER: NNPA 2020 FREEDOM-FIGHTING LEGAL ACHIEVEMENT
Founding Attorney, Ben Crump Trial Lawyers for Justice
ICE CUBE
WINNER: NNPA 2020 ARTIST OF THE CENTURY ICON AWARD
Founder and CEO of Big3 Basketball, Actor, Entrepreneur, Recording Artist, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Director
MC Lyte
WINNERS: NNPA 2020 LIFETIME LEADERSHIP AWARD
Recording Artist, Philanthropist, Actress, Entrepreneur
Representative Karen Bass (D-CA)
WINNER: NNPA 2020 OUTSTANDING CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, United States Congress
News From BlackPressUSA.com
The Impact of COVID-19 in Our Community: Let’s Not Put Our Health at Risk
Legendary Singer Deniece Williams Join Other Big Stars at NNPA Virtual Conference
NFL Will Play Black National Anthem at Games
NNPA Salutes Attorney Benjamin Crump and The Crump Law Firm in Memory and Honor of the Family of George Floyd
Ziggy Marley Will Receive the Black Press 2020 Global Icon Award at NNPA Virtual Convention
Star-Studded Lineup Planned for First Black Press Virtual Convention
Greetings From the Chairman, Karen Carter Richards
Congress Moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act Measure Forward
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