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(Huntsville, Ala.) - Nashville author Gwendolyn Baines, along with George E. Curry and Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D. were keynote speakers featured at the Sixth Annual Conference On The African-American Family. The conference was held at The University of Alabama-Huntsville. This year's theme was "Building Strong Communities One Family at a Time" with a focus on bringing African-American families together - making them aware of the need to regain or retain love in the home and community. Baines, who performed her off-Broadway hit One Woman Show of "Sassy, Secure and Over Sixty" and who was the moderator for the Thursday
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Annie D. Anderson Family Awards Dinner/Banquet, said "African-American communities are at a great loss. As a people, we have become divided, not just as a family, but as a village. That village type of love and care was brought to the U. S. during slavery by our ancestors, but now desperately needs to be recaptured." George Curry, former Editor and Chief of Emerge Magazine, was the luncheon keynote speaker, and Michael Eric Dyson, Ph.D., author of "I May Not Get There With You - Martin Luther King, Jr." was also a featured keynote. Kenneth Anderson, Founder/ Director of the Conference on the African-American Family, |
said "There is something very special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can become aware of that gift, we gain through the strength of our visions the power to shape the future." Anderson started shaping the future of the African-American family six years ago by recognizing deserving youth and adults making a difference in the African-American tour detailing Huntsville's Black heritage. |
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