PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Urban League of Philadelphia will salute community leaders who have provided their time, talent and resources to advancing the organizations mission of empowering African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights at the 6th Annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Community Empowerment Awards Luncheon. The luncheon will take place on Friday, December 5, 2008 from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at the LOEWS Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Millennium Hall, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
The panel discussion, The Urban Agenda: Digital - Green - Sustainable, will be moderated by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown. The panelists are Dr. Arlene Ackerman, Superintendent, Philadelphia School District; Calvin B. Johnson, M.D., M.P.H., Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Temple University Health System; Earle Jones, Vice President/Federal Affairs, Comcast Eastern Division; Victoria Wilson, Chief Operating Officer, Universal Companies; and Patricia Smith, Esq., Director of Special Initiatives, The Reinvestment Fund.
Pat Coulter, president and CEO, Urban League of Philadelphia states, "We believe the future of work, of business development and the overall growth of African American Communities is tied to our ability to get in front of new technologies that will provide sustaining wages and job creation. This discussion is to begin the conversation around how we can lead in this new urban agenda rather than play catch up."
The Whitney M. Young Jr. Empowerment Awards Luncheon was named after the fourth President of The National Urban League who in 1961 brought the League into the Civil Rights era by playing a critical role in meshing the tenets of Civil Rights activism with the practices of social and economic development. The 2008 Community Empowerment Award recipients are:
Business Leader Award - David Cohen, Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation
Volunteer Award - Dr. Bernard Anderson, Economist/Former Whitney Young Professor Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Community Service Award - Keystone Mercy Health Plan
Community Leader Award - WURD 900 AM Radio
Young Urban Leader Award - Kim Reed, Managing Partner, Reed Consulting Group and Kim Speaks! and Lloyd Freeman Esq., Archer & Greiner, P.C.
Tickets are $80 per person/$800 per table and on sale now. For more information, please call 215.985.3220 ext: 220 or visit our website, www.urbanleaguephila.org.
ABOUT THE URBAN LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA
The Urban League of Philadelphia (ULP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan, civil rights and community-based movement that provides direct services, research and policy advocacy to help individuals and communities reach their fullest potential. Primarily working with African-Americans and other emerging ethnic communities, the ULP is an affiliate of the National Urban League. Visit us at www.urbanleaguephila.org.
SOURCE Urban League of Philadelphia
