O’Hare Hyatt Regency Hotel
9300 West Bryn Mawr
Rosemont, Illinois 60018
RPC/CEF 2007 36th Annual Conference
“A More Perfect Union: Greenlining Redlined America”
Registration: 7:00am – 5:00pm
All sessions, meal banquets and socials will be held at the conference hotel
Labor Breakfast
“Free Choice Act & National Healthcare”
8:00am – 10:00am
Location: Grand Ballroom
- Program Description: : Local professional tradesmen make their appearance at the Annual Rainbow PUSH Labor breakfast, to discuss decent wages and better heath care.
- Program Track: Labor/Healthcare/Political
- MC: Warner Saunders (Anchor, NBC-5)
- Keynote Speakers: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM),
- Speakers: Tom Balanoff (President, SEIU Local 1), Dennis Rivera (President, 1199 SEIU)
- MC: Warner Saunders (Anchor, NBC-5)
Networking Break
10:00am – 10:30am
Press Conference
Time: TBD
Location:
Health Screening
10:30 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Outside the Grand Ballroom (closed during lunch)
- Program Description: Testing and healthcare screening to include rapid testing for HIV/AIDS, high blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and draw blood for PSA. The Wellness van will be on-site with resources for our community. They will distribute literature on healthcare as well as home healthcare.
Morning Session I
“Compliance and Title IX”
10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: TBD
- Program Description: It's been 35 years since the passage of the historic Title IX law, authored by the first woman of color ever to serve in Congress, Honorable Patsy Mink. Before Title IX there were few women in law school or medical school and even fewer in college on athletic scholarships, but all that changed with passage of this federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in both academic and athletics programs at educational institutions that receive federal funding. Because of Title IX, more women were able to enter the professions, and more young women were able to participate in sports, become professional athletes and even Olympic medal winners. But much more remains to be accomplished. Join the discussion on how to assure that schools comply with Title IX and how to get the federal government to better monitor Title IX compliance.
- Panelists: Kim Gandy (President, NOW), C. Vivian Stringer (Head Coach, Rutgers University Basketball), Dorothy Gators (Women’s Basketball Coach, Marshall High School, Chicago), Charlotte Westerhaus (VP/Diversity & Inclusion, NCAA), Dr. Charles Ogeltree (Harvard University), Jody Conradt (Women’s Basketball Coach, The University of Texas)
Morning Session II
“Global Legacy of the Slave Trade”
10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Delta AB
- Program Description:This panel will explore the historical, cultural and economic connections between Blacks in the United Kingdom and Blacks in America, building bridges to form “A More Perfect Union” across the globe. The year 2007 marks 400 years since the first permanent settlement of Europeans in North America located in Jamestown, Virginia and 200 years since the British Parliament voted to outlaw the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. As the Commonwealth of Virginia codified the enslavement of Africans in perpetuity, the Slave Trade connected the two continents in culture and commerce, which remains today.
- Program Track: Global Slave Trade
- Moderator: Dr. Ronald Walters (Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland)
- Panelists: Lee Jasper (Policy Director for Equities & Policing, Mayor of London’s Office), Brima Conteh (Founder & Executive Director, Diaspora Afrique-France), Karen Chouhan (Executive Director & Founder, PUSH UK), Joe Leonard (Executive Director, Congressional Black Caucus), Joe Beasley (CEO & Founder, African Ascension), Gary Flowers (Executive Director, Black Leadership Forum)
Morning Session III
“Closing the Achievement Gap”
10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Delta AB
Program Description: In this town hall meeting, educators, students and Hip-Hop recording artists will engage in a provocative dialogue regarding the current state of Hip-Hop, its evolution and the issue as to whether or not this social phenomenon is one that is cultural or the cause of social epidemic, resulting in the perpetuation of negative stereotypes of African American people, especially women. Panelists: Dr. Bonita Carr (National Education Director, PUSH Excel), Reverend Lennox Yearwood (Hip Hop Caucus), Dr. Julienne Malveaux (President, Bennett College, NC), Dr. Greg Carr (Afro American Studies Professor, Howard University), Tonja Styles (CEO, I Am Image, Inc.), T.J. Crawford (National Hip Hop Political Convention), Debra Lee (Chairman & CEO, BET), Jamie Sevier (Journalist)
Morning Session IV
“Young Entrepreneurs Camp”
10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Pan America
- Program Description: This exciting workshop will equip youth with the tools they need to start, manage and market their very own business and to become entrepreneurs. The students will learn how to develop a feasible business concept, assess their marketable skills, create a business plan, and apply for venture capital and marketing. Each student will be challenged with creating a sustainable business; one that invests a portion of their profits into their community.
- Program Track: Business
Networking Break
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Women’s Luncheon
“Women: Standards of Dignity, Decency & Equality”
12:30pm – 2:30pm
Location: Grand Ballroom
Program Description: In the wake of disheartening headlines in the continuing fight for equality, the question becomes “What are our standards?” The images we see on stage, screen, film and hear on radio are at odds with our self-worth, self-esteem and self-image. Rather than merely be offended, we intend to fight for dignity, decency and equality. The gender wage gap persists – equality is not our birthright. In this luncheon we will chart a course of action that holds corporations and communities accountable. - Program Track: Business/Political/Labor/Women
- Speakers: Debra Lee (Chairman & CEO, BET), Sylvia Rhone (President, Motown Records & Executive Vice President, Universal Records), Linda Johnson-Rice (President & CEO, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.), Kim Gandy (President, National Organization for Women), Reverend Joan Brown-Campbell (Director for the Department of Religion, Chautauqua Institute, New York), Dr. Julienne Malveaux (President, Bennett College, NC), Hedy Ratner (Women Business Development Center)
- MC: Cheryl Burton (WLS-TV), Marion Brooks (NBC 5)
- Remarks: : Melanie Campbell (Executive Director & CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation)
- Dais: Mellody Hobson (President, Ariel Capital Management), Jeanette Bayardelle (Actress/Singer, “The Color Purple”), Jacqueline Jackson (President, Jackson Foundation), Reverend Willie T. Barrow (Chairman Emeritus, Rainbow PUSH Coalition), Patricia Andrews-Keenan (VP Communications/Community Affairs, The Nielsen Company), Bonita M. Parker (Director-Financial Education, State Treasurer’s Office), Ingrid Saunders-Jones (Sr. Vice President, The Coca Cola Company), Cindy King (CEO, Martin & Cindy King Charitable Trust), Hermene Hartman (Editor/Publisher/President, Hartman Publishing), Carrie Hightman (Chairman, IL Board of Higher Education), Lisa Madigan (IL Attorney General), Emily Barr (President & General Manager, WLS-TV 7), Chere Nabor (McDonald’s), Henrietta Leak (Vice President, Leak & Sons Funeral Home), Maria D’Amezcua (Chair Latino Chapter, Rainbow PUSH Coalition), Jody Conradt (Women’s Basketball Coach, The University of Texas), Debra Fraser-Howze (President & CEO, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS)
Networking Break
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Afternoon Session I
“Smart Women, Smart Money”
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: Eastern AB
Program Description: The discussion will encompass money smart tips for women that are both easy to understand and to put into action. The focus will be on three very real money issues: Money management on a shoestring budget; protection against identify theft; a good credit score: “How to get it and keep it.”
- Program Track: Women & Wealth
- Panelists: Susan Malanic (AG Edwards), Gail Perry Mason (Financial Author, Financial Services Manager, Oppenheimer), Bonita Parker (Director, Financial Education, IL State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias), Barbara Chalko (Illinois State Treasury), Linda Brooks (Freddie Mac), Gail Perry Mason (Author, Financial Services Manager, Oppenheimer)
- Sponsor(s): DaimlerChrysler Credit
Afternoon Session II
“The New Immigrant Uprising & The Historic Civil Rights Movement”
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: Delta AB
- Program Description:To discuss the immigrant uprising for dignity, self-respect and to oppose regressive legislation seeking to criminalize undocumented workers opens a new chapter in our civil rights struggle. This workshop will explore organizing strategies, legislation and the road ahead for the fight for immigrant rights. It will also directly address the need for a strategic alliance, based on mutual interests between Latinos, African Americans and our coalition of conscience.
- Program Track: Political/Legal/Civil Rights
Moderator: Javier Salas (La Tremenda Radio)
Panelists: Maria D’Amezcua, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Isrrael Rodriguez (President, CONFEMEX), Jose Artemio Arreola (SEIU), Josh Hoyts (ICIRR), Ricardo Meza (MELDEF)
Afternoon Session III
3:00pm – 5:30pm
Location: TBD
- Program Description: This panel will define health disparities and its impact on the African American and Hispanic communities. IT will focus on two (2) health disparity issues:
- Physician manpower shortage by the year 2012
- Universal Health Coverage
- Pre 9/11 approximately 30,000 Medical Doctors entered the profession
- At last count less than 22,000 Medical Doctors, per year, entered the profession since 9/11
- What is the solution
- The Physician shortage crisis
- The United States national Health Insurance Act, “H.R.676 (“Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Bill”) Introduced by Congressman John Conyers
- Program Track: Healthcare
- Moderator: Dr. Leon Dingle, Jr. (Commissioner Illinois Medical District, Professor Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College, President and CEO AHSEA, Healthcare Consulting)
- Panelists: Dr. Quentin Young (National Coordinator, Physicians for a National Health Program – Internal Medicine, Hyde Park Associates in Medicine), Dr. Carol Lopez (President, Chicago Institute of Medicine & Chief Pediatric Stroger Hospital), Dr. Eric E. Whitaker (Director , Illinois Department of Public Health), Adrienne White (Vice President of Health Initiative American Cancer Society), Dr. Jay Carrington Chunn (National Center for Health Behavioral Change Urban Medical Institute/Morgan State University), Kay Tillo (Coordinator for Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare), Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Dr. Lyn Powell (Chairperson, Rush Preventive Medicine), Congressman Danny Davis (D-IL), Dr. Arnold L. Widen (Medical Director, Former Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield), Assistant Attorney General (State of Illinois), Dr. John E. Maupin (President, Morehouse Medical College)
- Honoree: Dr. Quentin Young (efforts in promoting Universal Health Coverage longer than anyone in the US). Mrs. Kay Tillo (plaque for spearheading universal healthcare movement in Kentucky).
Gospel Concert
7:30pm – 7:00pm VIP Reception
Location: Grand Ballroom
GOSPEL CONCERT
7:30PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom
Entertainment: Darius Brooks, Tramaine Hawkins, Diane Williams, Allegro, The Mixins Singers, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Choir
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