Keynote, NAACP: Civil Rights

New York City

NAACP Co-op City Branch 2210

June 2019

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As the Education Chair and member of the Co-op City Branch, the responsibility to inspire civil rights change for 40,000 community members did not fall lightly on me. I used this key note opportunity to inspire those who have “talked and walked” the strenuous mile towards civil rights liberties.

Event Highlights

Event awardees included community leaders, from young to young at heart. Featured here are Congressman Eliot Engel and Council Member Andy King.

As Robert Kennedy once stated, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events...It is from numberless, diverse acts of courage, and belief that human human history is shaped…”

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and those build a current that can can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”