KEYNOTE SPEAKERS MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATIVE BREAKFAST 1992 – 2012 Keynote Speakers Year 21st Annual 2012 Alvin Poussaint Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School 20th Annual 2011 Patricia Russell-McCloud, J.D. Motivational Speaker and Author 19th Annual 2010 Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Author and Professor of Sociology, Georgetown University 18th Annual 2009 Dr. Julianne Malveaux President of Bennett College for Women 17th Annual 2008 Dr. Benjamin Carson Director of Pediatric Nuerosurgery Johns Hopkins Medical Institution 16th Annual 2007 Julian Bond Chair, NAACP 15th Annual 2006 Kweisi Mfume Former President, NAACP 14th Annual 2005 The Honorable Andrew Young Former Mayor of Atlanta 13th Annual 2004 Myrle Evers-Williams Chair Emeritus, NAACP and Civil Rights Activist 12th Annual 2003 Samuel Betances, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus Northeastern University 11th Annual 2002 Hans J. Massaquoi, former Ebony Managing Editor, and Author of the book Destined to Witness 10th Annual 2001 Patricia Russell-McCloud, J.D. President, Russell-McCloud & Associates Author, A is for Attitude 9th Annual 2000 Reverend Bernice A. King Author of: Hard Questions, Heart Answers 8th Annual 1999 Bob Zellner History Professor, Tulane University SNCC member 7th Annual 1998 Patricia Russell-McCloud, J.D. President, Russell-McCloud & Associates 6th Annual 1997 Jesse McCrary, Senior Partner, McCrary & Mosley Law Firm 5th Annual 1996 Dr. Gregory Williams President, City College of New York Author, Life on the Color Line 4th Annual 1995 Susan L. Taylor Editorial Director, ESSENCE Magazine Author of the book: In the Spirit 3rd Annual 1994 Cornel West Ph.D., Professor of Religion Princeton University 2nd Annual 1993 Frederica S. Wilson Member Dade County Board of Education Inaugural MLK Breakfast Event 1992 Arthur E. Teele, Jr. City of Miami Commissioner (Chairperson) .