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Towards a New Reconstruction NOTES: THE TWELFTH ANNUAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ST IN THE 21 CENTURY SPEAKER SERIES TOWARDS A NEW RECONSTRUCTION: OWNING OUR PAST TO BUILD OUR FUTURE AUNJANUE ELLIS CO-FOUNDER, TAKE IT DOWN AMERICA; ACTRESS & ACTIVIST; PRESIDENT & CEO, MISS MYRTIS FILMS JEFFERY ROBINSON WITH THANKS TO: DEPUTY LEGAL DIRECTOR, ACLU; DIRECTOR, TRONE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY ROLAND MARTIN HOST, TV ONE; AUTHOR; CEO, NU VISION MEDIA CONNECT WITH THE NYU SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM! GENESIS BE CHIEF CURATOR, PEOPLE NOT THINGS LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/nyusocent LUMUMBA AKINWOLE-BANDELE SENIOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, NAACP LDF JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON TWITTER: @NYUSocEnt #OwningOurPast FEBRUARY 20, 2018 / 6:30 - 8:00 PM www.nyu.edu/social-entrepreneurship EISNER & LUBIN AUDITORIUM, KIMMEL / 60 WASHINGTON SQUARE 295 Lafayette Street 2nd Floor New York New York 10012 AUNJANUE ELLIS ACTION ITEM FROM TAKE IT DOWN AMERICA: Ask your Members of Congress and Mayor Bowser to remove the MS CO-FOUNDER, TAKE IT DOWN AMERICA; ACTRESS & ACTIVIST; PRESIDENT & CEO, MISS MYRTIS FILMS State Flag from Capitol sites. Aunjanue Ellis currently stars in “Quantico” the ABC series. Playing the role of Mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser Miranda Shaw, she is a tough leader with a soft heart who trains and guides [email protected] her hot young recruits. 2015 was a huge year in the incredible career of Ms. 2027272643 Ellis. She was nominated for Critics’ Choice Television Award, NAACP Image Award, Satellite Award and Black Reel Nominations for Best Actress in a Movie Look up your Members of Congress: or Limited Series for her work in the epic BET adaptation of Lawrence Hill’s https://www.contactingcongress.org/ acclaimed bestselling novel, “The Book of Negroes.” She portrays Aminata Diallo, a woman who experiences and eventually overcomes the full spectrum of slavery and racism in North America, beginning with her capture in the mid- SCRIPT: 18th century as a young girl from Mali. Hello— Ellis will soon be seen alongside Nate Parker, Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Jackie Earle Haley and Gabrielle Union in the Sundance sensation, “The Birth I am reaching out to ask that you use your power to call for the removal of a Nation,” which won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 of the Mississippi State Flag from all Capitol sites. Sundance Film Festival. Ellis’ extensive filmography includes Tate Taylor’s “The Help,” in which she played Yule Mae Davis, a maid arrested for allegedly This flag has been used to terrorize Americans for generations. Mass stealing a ring. Ellis and her cast mates went on to win a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. murderers like Dylann Roof and killers of police officers like Scott Michael Green have used the flag as a directive for their crimes. The In Taylor’s James Brown biopic “Get On Up,” Ellis portrayed Vicki Anderson, language of the founding fathers of the State of Mississippi made it acknowledged by Brown in his autobiography as probably the best singer he ever witnessed. For her performance as Mary Ann Fisher, one of the first explicitly clear that the flag is an unabashed defense of slavery. singers who became professionally and personally involved with Ray Charles in “Ray,” Ellis shared a SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance All of our citizens deserve better. Our shared heritage as Americans, no by a Cast in a Motion Picture. In 2009, Tony Scott directed Ellis opposite Denzel Washington’s train dispatcher in “The Taking of Pelham 123.” She also matter where we are from should manifest in flags which represents all played the daughter of a paranoid schizophrenic (Samuel Jackson) in the of us. All of us. mystery-drama “The Caveman’s Valentine” directed by Kasi Lemmons and co- starred in the action comedy “Undercover Brother.” Early in her career, Ellis received a NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance as a medical Thank you for your time! student in George Tillman, Jr.’s “Men of Honor,” with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Robert De Niro. ACTION ITEM FROM TAKE IT DOWN AMERICA: JEFFERY ROBINSON Contact MS state leadership to express your concern over the state DEPUTY LEGAL DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR OF THE TRONE CENTER FOR flag. JUSTICE AND EQUALITY, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) Gov. Phil Bryant Lt. Governor Tate Reeves [email protected] [email protected] Jeff Robinson is a Deputy Legal Director and the Director of the Trone 6013593150 6013593200 Center for Justice and Equality, which houses the ACLU’s work on criminal and racial justice and reform issues. Since graduating from House Speaker Philip Gunn Harvard Law School in 1981, Jeff has three decades of experience [email protected] working on these issues. For seven years, he represented indigent 6013593300 clients in state court at The Defender Association and then in federal court at the Federal Public Defender’s Office, both in Seattle. In 1988, SCRIPT: Jeff began a 27 year private practice at the Seattle firm of Schroeter, Hello— Goldmark & Bender where he represented a broad range of clients in local, state, and federal courts on charges ranging from shoplifting to securities fraud and first degree murder. He has tried over 200 criminal I am calling to express my concern and disappointment over the state’s cases to verdict and has tried more than a dozen civil cases refusal to remove the confederate emblem from the state’s flag. representing plaintiffs suing corporate and government entities. Jeff was one of the original members of the John Adams Project, which This flag has been used to terrorize Americans for generations. Mass enabled him to work on the behalf of one of five men held at Guantanamo Bay charged with carrying out the 9-11 attacks. murderers like Dylann Roof and killers of police officers like Scott Michael Green have used the flag as a directive for their crimes. The In addition to being a nationally recognized trial attorney, Jeff is also a language of the founding fathers of the state of Mississippi made it respected teacher of trial advocacy. He is a faculty member of the explicitly clear that the flag is an unabashed defense of slavery. National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia, and has lectured on trial skills all over the United States. He has also spoken nationally to diverse audiences on the role of race in the criminal justice system. All of our citizens deserve better. Our shared heritage as Americans, no He is past President of the Washington Association of Criminal Defense matter where we are from should manifest in flags which represents all Lawyers and a life member and past member of the board of directors of us. All of us. of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Jeff is also an elected fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Thank you for your time! ROLAND MARTIN FOCUS FOR HEALTH HOST, TV ONE; AUTHOR; CEO, NU VISION MEDIA The mission of the Focus for Health Foundation (FFH) is to promote Over the course of a journalistic career that has seen him interview multiple U.S. advocacy, education, and research to combat the rise of chronic illness presidents to the top athletes and entertainers in Hollywood, Roland S. Martin is occurring around the world. We support efforts that increase public a journalist who has always maintained a clear sense of his calling in this world. awareness of the connection between hazardous environmental Martin is the host and managing editor of TV One’s NewsOne Now, the first daily exposures and the immune system, and address how social determinants morning news program in history to focus on news and analysis of politics, of health and inequality within populations create vulnerability to disease. entertainment, sports, and culture from an explicitly African American perspective. He is the author of three books: Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith; Speak, Brother! A Black Man’s View of America; and The First: President SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE 21ST Barack Obama’s Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. CENTURY SPEAKER SERIES Martin. In his career, Martin has been showered with more than 30 awards for The NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program is pleased to present the 12th st journalistic excellence, including being named the Journalist of the Year in 2013 anniversary 2017 – 2018 season of our Social Entrepreneurship in the 21 by the National Association of Black Journalists for his extensive focus on voter Century Speaker Series. This year’s series features a remarkable suppression and other issues of concern to African Americans during the 2012 selection of social entrepreneurs who have launched extraordinary election. Martin was also awarded the 2008 President’s Award by the National programs addressing the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. Association of Black Journalists for his work in multiple media platforms. In Reflecting the NYU Social Entrepreneurship Program belief that social 2008, he was also inducted into the Texas A&M University Journalism Hall of entrepreneurship is a meta-profession drawing on cross-disciplinary Honor. knowledge and practice, the series presents prominent social entrepreneurs and leaders from across the spectrum of public and He is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner; and has been named by Ebony professional sectors who share their insights as cutting-edge, far- Magazine on three occasions as one of the 150 Most Influential African reaching changemakers. The complete catalog of NYU Social Americans in the United States. Martin spent six years as a contributor for CNN, appearing on numerous shows and earning accolades near and far for his no- Entrepreneurship Program speaker series events is available to watch holds honesty, conviction and perspective on various issues.
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