A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race) Pick a Side?
Date and Time
Jun 4, 2017 5:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jun 4, 2017 5:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This month's topic:
Featuring:
Earl D. Fowlkes, Jr. serves as the President/CEO of the Center For Black Equity, Inc. (formerly the International Federation of Black Pride -IFBP). He founded the IFBP in 1999 ago as a coalition of organizers the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Africa formed to promote a multinational network of Black LGBT Pride and community-based organizations. There are over forty plus Black Pride events around the globe with over 250,000 attendees each year.
Prior to working at the Center For Black Equity, Earl previously served fifteen years as the Executive Director of the DC Comprehensive AIDS Resources and Education Consortium (DC CARE Consortium) and Damien Ministries, organizations that provided services to Person Living With HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC. Earl has worked on health, political and LGBTQ issues in many communities for nearly thirty years. Earl currently serves as Chair of the DC Commission on Human Rights, and was a former chair of the DC Mayor’s GLBT Advisory Committee. In January 2017, he was voted on the Damien Ministries Board of Directors thus completing a cycle from Executive Director to board member which started twenty-one years ago.
Earl has always been politically active focusing on voter registration and getting out the vote activities particularly among communities of color and LGBT Democrats. In 2009, he was appointed by then Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as an At-Large member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). In August 2013, Earl was reappointed and elected Chair of the DNC LGBT Caucus. In December 2014, he was elected President of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club which is the second oldest LGBT Democratic Club in the United States.
Lee Levingston Perine is the Founder of Makers Lab in Washington, DC. Makers Lab builds and supports queer communities by creating spaces that celebrate life, art and queer culture. Since launching in August 2014, the Lab has produced and been a collaborator in the production of 57 unique cultural events including curating District of Queer - a series of events that celebrate DC Black Pride and Capital Trans Pride; planning an Audre Lorde Birthday Celebration to honor the life and work of the writer and activist; and co-producing Honey Groove - an art and music festival that spotlights queer creatives of color. Another highlight for the Lab included participating in the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s CrossLines: A Culture Lab on Intersectionality. In November 2015, Lee was recognized as a White House Champion of Change - LGBT Artist.
Free and open to all.
A.C.T.O.R. is held on the first Sunday of every month at Busboys and Poets 14th & V from 5:00 PM-7:00 pm.
