Todays program will be broadcast live on cspans booktv. If there is time at the end for a q a session with authors, we use the microphone, located at the center of the room so that the home viewing audience can hear your question. Before we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off cameras. I am here to introduce our guest, Maudlyne Ihejirika, a journalist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of journalists and president of chicago journalist association. Please welcome Maudlyne Ihejirika of the chicago suntimes. [applause] good morning, thank you for being here and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as president of the National Association of black journalists chicago chapter ill my career to Dorothy Butler gilliam, author of trailblazer a pioneering journalists fight to make the media look more like america. I owe m
Sponsor the tribune and cspan book tv todays program will be broadcast live on book tv if theres time at the end for q a we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the whole viewing audience can hear your question. Before we c begin please silence your cell phone and turn off camera flashes. Let me introduce you to our guest. A reporter and columnist president of the chicago Chapter National association of black journalists president of the Journalist Association please welcome from the suntimes. [applause] good morning. Thank you for being here today and joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a columnist at a major chicago newspaper and as a president of the chicago chapter i owe my career to Dorothy Gilman author of trailblazer a pioneering journalist yes i owe my career to Dorothy Gilliam and pioneer such as she those who endeared the struggles to be the first and the struggles associated with breaking down racial b
Selfcleaning board. I want to give a special like you to our sponsors who have been generous in their support this evening. Excuse me, especially when thrust is our [inaudible] todays program will be broadcast live on the spin to book tv and if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author we ask you to use the microphone located at the center of the room so the home viewing audience can hear your questions. For we begin todays program we ask you to silence your cell phones and turn off the camera flashes. Im here to introduce you to here to introduce our guest is [inaudible], reporter and columnist for the chicago suntimes, president of the chicago chapter of the National Association of black journalists and president of the chicago journalist association. Please welcome [inaudible] of the chicago suntimes. Thank you back. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for being here today. For joining us for what promises to be an inspiring and intriguing conversation. As a column
Next presenter is not new to the National Urban league. He is always with us at our conference. He is a friend of the National Urban league. He is a friend of mine. He is one of the most important voices on civil rights and social justice in this nation, in these times. Say, as we always say, the civil rights leadership of the 21st century finds common ground, works together, does not engage in petty bickering, turf battles, in the barrel mine says. The barrel mindsets. We are unified interactive find solutions. To welcome back to the National Urban league the reverend al sharpton. [applause] reverend sharpton thank you and certainly to all in the National Urban league, i am very happy to be at another conference of the National Urban league and certainly my friend and moreague, no one has done and no one has worked harder to correct the ills that we face in this country than Mark Morreale has in his over a decade as the president of this organization. Me be very clear to you as we gat
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