33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast

Jan 19, 2009 all day
Location: Plainfield H.S
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

The Plainfield Area Club of Frontiers International Presents Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 33rd Annual Memorial Breakfast Guest Speaker Mr. Kevin Powell Author, Activist and Hip-Hop Historian January 19, 2009 – 8:30 A.M. Plainfield High School 950 Park Avenue Plainfield, New Jersey (Kenyon Avenue Entrance – Breakfast) General Admission $16.00 Students/Seniors $12.00 For Tickets & Information Call: Realty World (Fredrica Williams Realty) 490 Somerset St. North Plainfield, NJ (908) 756-4663 Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air." And of Kevin Powell the writer Asha Bandele says “When you consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell’s writing and activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been counted out.” Kevin Powell is a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian, public speaker, entrepreneur and, most recently, a 2008 Democratic candidate for Congress in Brooklyn, New York. A product of extreme poverty, welfare, fatherlessness, and a single mother-led household, he is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey and was educated at New Jersey’s Rutgers University. Kevin Powell is a longtime resident of Brooklyn, New York, and it is from his base in New York City that Powell has published nine books, including his recent essay title, Someday We’ll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press). This book is a collection of provocative pieces on freedom, democracy, justice, and race in America, as inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential election, and September 11th. Besides running for Congress Powell also managed to publish two new books in 2008: No Sleep Till Brooklyn, his second volume of poetry; and The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life, a self-help book geared toward the healing, development, and empowerment of Black men and boys.

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33rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast

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