Event Tomorrow in DC on Reparations

Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule:
Addressing Yesterday’s Atrocities
Through Today’s Legislation
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr.
Friday, September 28, 2007, 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Room 209c of the Convention Center

Panelists
Moderator: Mr. Joe Madison, Radio Personality, The Black Eagle
Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Director, Natnl. Museum of African American History &
Culture
Dr. Ron Daniels, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Dr. Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Mr. Tom Joyner, Radio Personality, The Tom Joyner Show
Dr. Ron Walters, Director, African American Leadership Institute
Legislative Discussion Points and Invited Members
H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African-Americans Act

Representative John Conyers, Jr. (MI-14)
H.R. 1995, Tulsa-Greenwood Race Riot Claims Accountability Act
Representative John Conyers, Jr. (MI-14)
H.R. 2030, 1901 Missouri African American Expulsion Commission Act
Representative William Lacy Clay (MO-1)
H.R. 3432, 200th Anniversary Commemoration Commission of the Abolition of
the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Representative Donald Payne (NJ-10)
H. Res. 194, Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of
African Americans
Representative Steve Cohen (TN-9)
H.R. 1455, African Burial Ground International Memorial and Educational
Center Act
Representative Jerrold Nadler (NY-8)
H. Con. Res. 24, Expressing the Sense of the Congress that the President
Should Pardon Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Representative Charles Rangel (NY-15)
To RSVP or if you have questions, please contact Kanya Bennett at
_kanya.bennett@mail.house.gov _ (mailto:kanya.bennett@mail.house.gov ) or (202)
226-1978.