Avoice Webcasts

  • Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Bill

  • Martin Luther King Holiday Bill

  • January 14, 2008 - Washington, D.C.
    The Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday: How Did It Happen?
    Venue: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

    On January 14, 2008, Avoice and the Division of U.S. Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center joined together to commemorate the 40th anniversary year of Rev. King's assassination and the 25th anniversary year of the passage of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Bill with a seminar addressing the social and legislative history of the bill as well as the continuing significance of Dr. King's life today. Speakers included Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Dr. Elsie L. Scott, President and CEO of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Denise Rolark Barnes, Publisher of The Washington Informer, and Moses Boyd, Senior Counselor with the Washington Group and former Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center.

  • Understand Our Past to Unleash Our Power – Avoice at the CBCF’s 37th Annual Legislative Conference

  • ALC Avoice session sign, 2007

  • September 27, 2007 - Washington, D.C.
    ALC 2007 – Understand Our Past to Unleash Our Power
    Venue: Walter E. Washington Convention Center

    As part of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2007 Annual Legislative Conference theme of Unleashing our Power, Avoice hosted a panel on the importance of historic preservation in recognizing African American achievements and leadership. Entitled “Understand Our Past to Unleash Our Power,” the panel focused on the topic of capacity building, highlighting the importance of archiving and digitizing, in remembering the past achievements of African Americans and documenting their current progress. The panel was moderated by Adrena Ifill, the Avoice Project Manager, and included panelists Congressman James Clyburn, Faith Davis Ruffins of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, John W. Franklin of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Felicia Bell of the U.S. Capitol Society, and James Page with Dell Inc.

 

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