{"id":135633,"date":"2024-08-20T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135633"},"modified":"2024-08-20T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:40:23","slug":"naacp-announces-speaker-for-freedom-fund-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=135633","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Announces Speaker For Freedom Fund Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DANIEL BLACK, Ph.D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Author, Professor, Consultant, Mentor, Clark Atlanta University<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Hillsborough County Branch NAACP is preparing for its annual Freedom Fund Dinner. The event will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the Tampa Marriott Water Street. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cAll In Thriving Together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillsborough Branch President Yvette Lewis<\/strong> announced that the guest speaker will be Daniel Black,<\/strong> Ph.D., a 30-year professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Black<\/strong> is also an award-winning novelist, activist, mentor and public speaker. His published works include They Tell Me of Home, The Sacred Place, Perfect Peace, Twelve Gates to the City, The Coming, Listen to the Lambs, Don\u2019t Cry for Me, and Black on Black.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Black\u2019s<\/strong> newest novel, Don\u2019t Cry For Me<\/em>, was released by HarperCollins on February 1st<\/sup>, 2022.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. <\/strong>Black\u2019s<\/strong> newest work is his first essay collection titled BLACK ON BLACK<\/em>, which was released on January 30th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He also works as a diversity consultant, having spoken at top-tier companies in America. He assists corporations with creating work environments in which all employees, of every level and difference, feel supported and valued.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Black<\/strong> spent his formative years in rural Blackwell, Arkansas. He graduated from Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) where he earned the prestigious Oxford Modern British Studies fellowship and studied abroad at Oxford University. He was then awarded a full fellowship to Temple University where he studied with Black Arts Movement poet laureate Sonia Sanchez<\/strong> and, in 1992, earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies. Dr. Black<\/strong> has spent the majority of his 30 academic years as a professor of African American Studies at his beloved alma mater, Clark Atlanta University.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. Black<\/strong> lives in Atlanta and is the founder of the Ndugu-Nzinga Rites of Passage Nation, a mentoring society for people of African descent who seek to love themselves and build a world of character for their people.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Currently, Dr. Black<\/strong> has completed the literary sequel to Don\u2019t Cry for Me<\/em>, tentatively titled Isaac\u2019s Song<\/em>. He is also working on part II of The Coming,<\/em> titled The Second Coming <\/em>and a black scripture titled The Good Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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DANIEL BLACK, Ph.D. Author, Professor, Consultant, Mentor, Clark Atlanta University \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Hillsborough County Branch NAACP is preparing for its annual Freedom Fund Dinner. The event will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the Tampa Marriott Water Street. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cAll In Thriving Together.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillsborough Branch President Yvette Lewis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135635,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135633\/revisions\/135635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}