The 2011 NAUDL Annual Dinner

The NAUDL Annual Dinner
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

Pre-Dinner Reception: 6:00 PM
Annual Dinner: 7:00 PM

Urban Debate Leagues have produced life-changing academic outcomes for minority students, helping prepare them for college and beyond. Recent peer-reviewed research found that debaters in Chicago Public Schools graduated at a near 80 percent rate, compared to 55 percent for non-debaters. The study also showed that African American male debaters were three times less likely to drop out than their non-debating peers

http://www.urbandebate.org/nationaldinner.shtml

Bro/Sis Comes to Hollywood

A Message from Khary Lazarre-White:

Dear friends and supporters -

On Saturday March 26th, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol* will hold an event in Los Angeles.... Bro/Sis Comes to Hollywood

Our host will be Tracee Ellis Ross, we will have a keynote speech from the actor and activist Hill Harper, and there will be performances by Vanessa Williams and our award winning poets, Lyrical Circle....

The event will be from 4-7pm at Bar 210 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. All information is in the attached PDF or can be viewed at the event site: http://hollywood2011.eventbrite.com/

If you are going to be on the West Coast, or are one of our supporters who resides there, please come out for a festive afternoon and join our host committee in celebrating our work:

Host Committee

• Phillip Bobo, Actor & Writer Ernest Boyd, Editor
• Paul E. Butler, Esq., SVP & General Counsel, gmc (Event Co-Chair) 
• Yvette Cason, Actor & Singer
• Inny Clemons, Producer & Actor 
• Allan Fanucchi, Esq.
• Kelly Fountaine, The Dolphin Group 
• Ross Haime, Agent, Innovative Artists
• Evan Hainey, Manager, Untitled Entertainment 
• Eric Hayes, Producer
• Beth Hubbard, Producer & Manager 
• Michael Hubbard, Producer
• Russell Hornsby, Actor 
• Matt Jarvis, General Manager, 72 and Sunny
• Nancy Jones 
• Richard T. Jones, Actor
• Boris Kodjoe, Actor 
• Adam Lazarre-White, Actor, Writer & Producer (Event Co-Chair)
• Khary Lazarre-White, Esq., Executive Director & Co-Founder, BHSS (Event Co-Chair) 
• Kelley Lee, Event Producer, Kelley Lee Events
• Robinne Lee, Actor 
• Rahsan-Rahsan Lindsay, VP, Ad Sales MTV2, mtvU & Palladia (Event Co-Chair)     
• Jakgeem Mays, Esq. 
• Cleveland O’Neal, President, Connection 3 Ent.
• Nicole Ari Parker, Actor 
• Latarsha Rose, Actor
• Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Director, Writer & Editor 
• Michael B. Silver, Actor, Director & Writer
• Haaz Sleiman, Actor 
• Gabrielle Union, Actor
• Vanessa Williams, Actor & Activist

We hope you can join us,


Khary


Khary Lazarre-White
Executive Director & Co-Founder
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Inc.
www.brotherhood-sistersol.org

* Founded in 1995, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-one. Bro/Sis offer wrap around evidence-based programming, focusing on issues such as leadership development and educational achievement, sexual responsibility, sexism and misogyny, political education and social justice, Pan-African and Latino history, and global awareness. Bro/Sis provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training, college preparation, employment opportunities, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America. The organization is community based with a national reach as it publishes assorted curricula and collections of their members’ writings and trains educators from throughout the nation on its approach.

Bro/Sis’ leadership is invited to speak all across the nation at institutions that have included the Ford Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Institute, Harvard University, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Heinz Endowments, American Educational Research Association, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The City College of New York, University of Florida’s Law School, Atlantic Philanthropies, and the National Principal Leadership Institute, among others. The Brotherhood/Sister Sol has earned national recognition for its model, receiving awards that include, Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network Use Your Life Award, and also awards from such institutions as the Ford Foundation, Abyssinian Development Corporation, New York State Department of Education, RUSH Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York Women’s Foundation and Brown University. The organization counts among its supporters Oprah Winfrey, Harry Belafonte, Ruth Messinger, Danny Glover, Elton John, Susan L. Taylor and former New York State Governor David A. Paterson.