Criminal Justice, Voting Rights & Housing
MONDAY JUNE 20, 2022
9:30 am - 10:30 am CST (7:30am-8:30am PST / 10:30am-11:30am EST) COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROUNDTABLE
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Dining Room
Session Coordinator: Rev. Dr. Janette Wilson Moderator: Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President of PUSH Excel Panelists:
- David A. Sanders, Malcolm X President
- Gregory Thomas, Kennedy King President
- Avis Proctor, President of Harper College
10:45 am - 12:00 pm CST (8:45am-10:00 pm PST / 11:45am-1:00 pm EST) NEW MARKETS IN HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Solarium
Session Coordinators: Bishop Tavis Grant, Rev. Dr. Janette Wilson, and Rev. Cameron Barnes
Session Description: At the heart of the nation's affordability crisis is the fact that the cost to build and operate housing simply exceeds what low-income renters can afford. Nationally, the average monthly operating cost for a rental unit in 2018 was $439, excluding mortgage and other debt-related expenses. Thanks to the lack of funding, American public housing faces an $80 billion maintenance backlog. America is in the grips of a severe housing shortage. Tens of millions of people are newly in the market for a home or apartment thanks to the pandemic rescue packages and the strong labor market. Housing is the key to reducing intergenerational poverty and increasing economic mobility. Research shows that increasing access to affordable housing is the most cost-effective strategy for reducing childhood poverty and increasing economic mobility in the United States. We seek to address these and other issues, including the DEI vacuum that exists in the housing industry for jobs and contracts.
Emcee: Stefan Holt, Anchor at NBC 5
Conversation: Jenn Jones, Chief of Staff of the Secretary of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Sheryll Cashin, Esq., Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law of Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown Law
Moderator: Sheryll Cashin, Esq., Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law of Civil Rights and Social Justice at Georgetown Law
Panelists:
- AJ Patton, CEO of 548 Capital
- Michael Kaplan, Related Midwest
- Sterling Bay
- Dr. William Boss, Pastor of Greater Faith Christian Center
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm CST (10:30am-12pm PST / 1:30pm-3pm EST) NEW MARKET IN SPORTS BUSINESS LUNCHEON
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Paul Robeson Room
Session Coordinators: Dr. Joseph Bryant and John Mitchell
Oratorical Presentation: Gabriel Gatheright Emcee: Stefan Holt, Anchor at NBC 5 Opening Remarks: Rev. Dr. Joseph Bryant Presenters:
- Scott Rochelle - President, NBA Retired Players
- Erika Fay, LMFT - Founder, Maximum Achievement Coaching (Sports & Mental Health)
- Steffond Johnson - Former NBA Player, CEO of THE OSHEA GROUP
Keynote:
Thomas S. Ricketts, Owner of the Chicago Cubs
Remarks:
Valerie Daniels-Carter, Part Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks
Honorees:
- Thomas S. Ricketts, Owner, Chicago Cubs
- Valerie Daniels-Carter, Part Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks
- Joseph (James) Caldwell, Owner, TailoRite Cleaners
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm CST (11:30pm-1:00pm PST / 2:30pm-4:00pm EST) “COMBATTING THE VICIOUS ATTACK ON VOTING RIGHTS”
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Dining Room
Session Description: “When Black Votes are under attack, what do we do? Stand Up! Fight Back!”
The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Transformative Justice Coalition will assemble an All-Star panel of the nation’s most prominent voting rights advocates for a special discussion to be held on June 20th at 1:30
p.m. CST, the national holiday of Juneteenth entitled, “Combatting the Vicious Attack on Voting Rights.”
The goal of this panel is to educate, inspire and ignite our national audience to fight the assault on voting rights and to lift up the best practices for protecting all Voters, particularly, African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American, Youth Voters, and Voters with Disabilities. The panel will equip our “free d vote” fighters with the information and resources to battle for the soul of our democracy! This panel will present Top voting rights activists and lawyers sharing major insights and replicable strategies on how to both transcend the pressing threat to voting rights and protect access to voting in America.
Session Coordinators: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Barbara R. Arnwine Esq., and Daryl D. Jones Esq.
Moderator: Daryl D. Jones, Esq., Chair of the Board, Transformative Justice Coalition
Panelists:
- Desmond Meade, Esq., President and Executive Director of Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
- Virginia Kase Solomon, CEO of League of Women Voters
- Latosha Brown, Co-founder of Black Voters Matter
- Dr. Todd Yeary, Esq., CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition
- Helen Butler, Executive Director of Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda
- Joshua Price, Former Pulaski County Commissioner
- Darius Ballinger, Founder of Chasing23
- Tricia “CK” Hoffler, Esq., CEO of the CK Hoffler Firm, Chair of Rainbow PUSH, and Immediate Past President of the NBA
- Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq., President, Transformative Justice Coalition
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm CST (12:30pm-2pm PST / 3:30pm-5pm EST) BUSINESS IN HOUSING EXPO
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Solarium
Vendors:
- Sterling Bay
- Related Midwest
- 548 Capital
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm CST (1pm-3pm PST / 4pm-6pm EST) REPARATIONS ROUNDTABLE
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Dining Room
Session Description: The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality. Yet whenever calls for reparations are made – as they are again now – opponents counter that it would be unfair to saddle a debt on those not personally responsible. In the words of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on Juneteenth – the day Black Americans celebrate as marking emancipation – in 2019, “I don’t think reparations for something that happened 150 years ago for whom none of us currently living are responsible is a good idea.”
Session Coordinator: Rev. Dr. Janette Wilson Moderator: Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President of PUSH Excel Panelists:
- Robin Rue Simmons, founder of First Repair and former Evansville County Commissioner
- Kamm Howard, former co-chair of N'COBRA and part of the HR 40 Strategy group
- Ron Daniels, President of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century
- Rory Hoskins, Mayor of Forest Park
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm CST (4:00pm-6:00pm PST / 7:00pm-9:00pm EST)
RECEPTION FOR FAMILIES SEEKING CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND VOTING RIGHTS REFORM
Location: South Shore Cultural Center - 7059 S South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60649
Room: Dining Hall
Session Coordinators: Barbara R. Arnwine, Esq., President, Transformative Justice Coalition
Honorees:
- Pamela Moses, Black Lives Matter Activist and Vindicated over Alleged Voter Fraud
- Crystal Mason, Convincted of Illegal Voting for Casting a Provisional Ballot in Tarrant County, TX
- Family of Ahmaud Arbery
When
Where
7059 S South Shore Dr
Chicago, IL 60615
United States
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