About this episode
Today, Thursday, March 19 on Urban Forum Northwest:
*Deena Pierott, Executive Director, iUrban Teen and Carlos Banks, Regional Director invites you to their Seattle Gala "Illuminating Futures" that will feature Grammy Award Winner Howard Hewett and Portland's Queen of Joy Poison Waters. Join our Party for a Purpose. The event will be held at Block 4, 115 Bell Street Saturday, April 4 at 5:00 pm.
*Irene Reyes "The Glove Lady" is the Founder, Association of Women and Minority Businesses (AWB) she comments on the organization's upcoming event that will have representatives from number of public organizations and private sector businesses seeking qualified women and minority owned businesses to partner with.
* Hayward Evans, Co Convener, Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee (MLKCC) talks about the organizations plans for A Day of Remembrance acknowledging the 58th Anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event will be held at Colgate Street Church of Christ on Saturday, April 4 at 5:00 pm (PDT).
*Rick Harwood worked on both of Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr.'s presidential campaigns in 1984 &1988. Rick drove reverend Jackson to some of his appointments in Seattle and had an opportunity to hear many of the conversations regarding strategy and fund raising.
*Claude Burfect a longtime Labor Leader in Martin Luther King Jr. County talks about his decades of participation in the civil rights struggle that includes being in the March on Washington DC for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 1963 where MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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