Pictured is the Rev. Al Sharpton, a renowned Civil Rights activist and founder and president of the Civil Rights organization the National Action Network (NAN), Sharpton slated to speak in Cleveland Sept 27, 2018 at the start of NAN's two-day Midwestern Conference at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side.
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By editor Kathy Wray Coleman
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-The New York-based National Action Network (NAN), led by its founder and president, the Rev. Al Sharpton , will host its two-day Midwestern Conference on Sept, 27 and 28, 2018 in Cleveland at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church on the city's largely Black east side, Sharpton scheduled to speak at 5 pm on Sept. 27 with a town hall at 9 am that morning.
For more information on the free and open-to-the-public event call 313-355-2150 or Greater Abyssinia, which is led by senior pastor the Rev. Dr. E. Theophilus Caviness, chair of the Cleveland Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference and president of the Cleveland board of NAN, at 216-795-1842.
"Registration is at 8 am withfree breakfast at 9 am during the town hall meeting," said Marcia McCoy, president of the greater Cleveland chapter of NAN.
"Everybody is invited during this crucial time in the Black community regarding public policy issues at the national level, the attack on Civil Rights, and repeated efforts to disenfranchise the Black vote statewide and nationally," said McCoy, also a community activist.
NAN'S Midwest region, she said, includes some 11 states and its regional executive director is the Rev. Charles Williams of Detroit, Michigan, who will also attend.
Williams is senior pastor at the historic Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit.
The keynote speaker for the noon luncheon on Sept. 27 is Mark Thompson.
Former state representative Alicia Reese will moderate the town hall and the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., pastor emeritus at the prominent Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, is also among the speakers.
The Midwest Conference forum in Cleveland is titled "Ballots, Bullets, and Bank Accounts" and will bring together NAN chapters from across the Midwest to discuss gun violence,voting, and economic and social justice issues plaguing the Black community.
"Ballots, Bullets and Bank Accounts will address voting rights and empowerment, urban violence, and economic growth," said Sharpton, likely the nation's most prominent Civil Rights activist and a MSNBC talk-show contributor who ran for president in 2004.
Attendees will include community activists, politicians, educators and clergy.
Also included, said organizers, will be panel discussions, family-style meals, and a church service at Greater Abyssinia.
According to organizers, the regional gathering in Cleveland, a majority Black major American city, is designed to increase political awareness and create a strong network of social activism among the Midwest region.
