and civilian roles. i want to take a moment to thank you and our sponsors for making this possible. your conference backer sponsored by end of any indiana university. in addition, the support has been tremendous. the gold sponsor, the hutchinson center for african and african-american research at harvard university over sponsored by alpha fraternity. there is a lot of talk about fraternities. we do except support from all members of the divine number nine. the host committee member and his company, professional management enterprises is a table number seven and finally the honorable senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts who sponsored a table for local veterans to attend as a salute to their service.[ applause ] we are delighted to have duke energy who has been a great supporter of the conference today as well. thank you for your service. table number six. absolutely. [ applause ] this afternoon we are very fortunate to have as rmc author and journalist a lelia bundl
my name is sylvia cyrus. we are delighted to have you here today as we salute our veterans and our theme african-americans in times of war. that is the guidepost for this week s events. we are excited to share this day with those who have and are serving in our armed forces and in civilian roles. i want to take a moment to thank you for making this possible. our gold sponsor, the hutchins center for african and african-american research at harvard university. our silver sponsor, alpha phi alpha fraternity, there s been a lot of talk about different fraternity stuff up here in the past couple of days. so we do accept support from all members of the divine nine. our host committee member mr. danny portee and his indianapolis-based company professional management enterprises. they re at table number seven. and finally the honorable senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts who sponsored a table for local veterans to attendant as a salute to their service. [ applause ] we are a
our veterans and our theme, african-americans in times of war. that is the guide post for this week s events. we are excited to share this day with those who have and are serving in our armed forces and in civilian roles. i want to take a moment to thank you and our sponsors for making this possible. your conference bags are sponsored by indiana university and the kennedy king memorial initiative. in addition, the support has been tremendous. our goals sponsor, the hutchinson center for african and african-american research at harvard university, our silver sponsor, alpha phi alpha fraternity, there s been a lot of talk about different fraternity stuff up here in the past couple of days, so we do accept support from all members of the divine nine. our host committee member, mr. danny partee and his indianapolis based company professional management enterprises there at table number seven. and finally, the honorable senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts who sponsored a tab
director of the ase program, and brandon slaughter from alabama. welcome all of you to viewpoint. so i assume you all like sunshine and the beach, yet you ve chosen to spend your 13ri spring break helping to change lives. tell us why. so originally my very first year at howard, i went home for spring break. and be able to go home and see the difference in my mindset and a lot of my friends mindsets and see how much howard had an impact on that, i started thinking what are things that you can do to help make a positive difference. and so returning sophomore year, i heard about break, and several issues that go on are the areas that i m from, regarding health, poverty, education, lack of jobs, crime. so for me, it was a very personal attachment. and after my experience in memphis, i definitely felt like a changed individual and i said, okay, you have to do more, and so post that, i applied to become a coordinator and now i m currently set up as student director and i help ma
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