25-Year Old Black Man Killed While Jogging Because He “Looked Like a Suspect” — No Charges Filed!
Nationwide — Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old unarmed Black man from Brunswick Georgia, was reportedly shot and killed by two white men as he jogged through their neighborhood. The incident happened back in February, but no charges have yet been filed.
It was February 23rd to be exact when 64-year old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year old son Travis reportedly grabbed their shot gun and followed Ahmaud in their truck after they saw him run past them. Both claimed that Ahmaud “looked like a suspect” in a string of robberies in the area.
Gregory, who is a retired investigator in the District Attorney’s office, said he asked Ahmaud to “stop” so they could talk. The situation escalated, and later there was an alleged struggle after with the McMichael’s shotgun. Ahmaud was shot at least twice.
Some witnesses said Ahmaud, who was wearing a white t-shirt on that day, was only exercising. However, a 911 call from a nearby neighbor earlier that day reported a Black man in a white t-shirt who is “running right now” from a house that was under construction.
Brunswick NAACP president Rev. John Davis Perry II said the shooting is “troubling,” causing other people in the area to express concerns about the community and racial profiling.
Meanwhile, a prosecutor argued that the father and son who killed Ahmaud were justified due to the citizen’s arrest statute in Georgia. Travis, who was actually holding the shotgun, is said to have acted out of self-defense.
The prosecutor, who has since been recused from the case due to a possible conflict of interest, noted that Ahmaud had a criminal record. In 2018, he was convicted of shoplifting and violating probation, and he was indicted for reportedly taking a handgun to a high school basketball game.
Neither Gregory or Travis McMichael have yet been charged or arrested in connection to the killing. Another prosecutor from a different county will determine whether the case should be presented to a grand jury. “We can’t do anything because of this corona stuff,” Arbery’s mother Wanda Cooper told the New York Times. “We thought about walking out where the shooting occurred, just doing a little march, but we can’t be out right now.”
Black-owned Newspapers and Media Companies are Small Businesses too!
By Stacy M. Brown
NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent
WASHINGTON, DC — Publishers of Black-owned community newspapers, including Janis Ware of the Atlanta Voice, Cheryl Smith of Texas Metro News, Chris Bennett of the Seattle Medium, Denise Rolark Barnes of the Washington Informer, and Brenda Andrews of the New Journal & Guide in Virginia, are desperately trying to avoid shuttering operations.
On Wednesday, April 29, Rolark Barnes, Andrews, Bennett, and Ware participated in a special livestream broadcast discussing how their publications are enduring as the pandemic rages on.
In a heartfelt and straight-to-the-point op-ed published recently, Ware explained to her tens of thousands of readers that The Atlanta Voice has boldly covered the issues that affect the African American community.
“Our founders, Mr. J. Lowell Ware and Mr. Ed Clayton, were committed to the mission of being a voice to the voiceless with the motto of, ‘honesty, integrity and truth,’” Ware wrote in an article that underscores the urgency and importance of African American-owned newspapers during the coronavirus pandemic. Ware has established a COVID-19 news fund and aggregated the Atlanta Voice’s novel coronavirus coverage into a special landing page within its website.
To remain afloat, Ware and her fellow publishers know that financial backing and support will be necessary. Following the spread of the pandemic, many advertisers have either paused their ad spending or halted it altogether. And other streams of revenue have also dried up, forcing Black-owned publications to find ways to reduce spending and restructure what were already historically tight budgets.
With major companies like Ruth Chris Steakhouse and Pot Belly Sandwiches swooping in and hijacking stimulus money aimed at small businesses, the Black Press — and community-based publishing in general — has been largely left out of the $350 billion stimulus and Paycheck Protection Program packages.
To make matters worse, there are no guarantees that a second package, specifically focused on small business, will benefit Black publishers or other businesses owned by people of color.
Publications like the New Journal and Guide, Washington Informer (which recently celebrated its 55th anniversary) and the Atlanta Voice have been essential to the communities they serve — and the world at large for 193 years.
Unfortunately for some publishers, the impact of COVID-19 has brought business operations to a near halt. While none are thriving, some publishers have developed ingenious and innovative ways to continue operations.
“Dear World, the entire planet is feeling the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic,” Cheryl Smith of Texas Metro News wrote to her readers. “We must be concerned about ourselves, as well as others. You may be aware that the media is considered ‘essential.’ So, guess what? We have a responsibility, a moral obligation to use this status to be a source of information, support, and inspiration, just as we are at all other times,” Smith wrote.
Smith’s statements echo the more than 200 African American-owned newspapers in the NNPA family. The majority of the publications are owned and operated by women, and virtually all are family dynasties so rarely seen in the black community.
The contributions of the Black Press remain indelibly associated with the fearlessness, determination, and success of Black America.
Those contributions include the works of Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, and former NNPA Chairman Dr. Carlton Goodlett.
Douglas, who helped slaves escape to the North while working with the Underground Railroad, established the abolitionist paper, “The North Star,” in Rochester, New York.
He developed it into the most influential black anti-slavery newspaper published during the Antebellum era.
The North Star denounced slavery and fought for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups with a motto of “Right is of no Sex – Truth is of no Color; God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.”
DuBois, known as the father of modern Pan Africanism, demanded civil rights for Blacks but freedom for Africa and an end to capitalism, which he called the cause of racism and all human misery.
Many large news organizations have begun targeting African Americans and other audiences of color by either acquiring Black-owned news startups or adding the moniker “Black” to the end of their brand. However, it was Black-owned and operated news organizations that were on the front lines for voting rights, civil rights, ending apartheid, fair pay for all, unionization, education equity, healthcare disparities and many other issues that disproportionately negatively impact African Americans.
Today, the Black Press continues to reach across the ocean where possible to forge coalitions with the growing number of websites and special publications that cover Africa daily from on the continent, Tennessee Tribune Publisher Rosetta Perry noted.
The evolution of the Black Press, the oldest Black business in America, had proprietors take on issues of chattel slavery in the 19th century, Jim Crow segregation and lynching, the great northern migration, the Civil Rights Movement, the transformation from the printing press to the digital age and computerized communication.
With the Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling that said no black man has any rights that a white man must honor, there came a flood of Black publications to advocate for Black rights and to protest the wrongs done to Blacks.
An expose in Ebony Magazine in 1965 alerted the world to a Black female engineer, Bonnie Bianchi, who was the first woman to graduate from Howard University in Electrical Engineering.
It was through the pages of the Black Press that the world learned the horrors of what happened to Emmett Till.
The Black Press continues to tackle domestic and global issues, including the novel coronavirus pandemic and its effects on all citizens – particularly African Americans.
It was through the pages of the Black Press that the world learned that COVID-19 was indeed airborne and that earlier estimates by health experts were wrong when they said the virus could last only up to 20 to 30 minutes on a surface.
Now, it’s universally recognized that the virus can last for hours on a surface and in the air. “A few short weeks ago, life as we know it, was pretty different,” Ware told her readers. “These are unprecedented times, and we are working around the clock to provide the best possible coverage, sometimes taking risks to keep Metro Atlanta informed.”
The mysterious disappearance of the first SARS virus, and why we need a vaccine for the current one but didn’t for the other
By Marilyn J. Roossinck – Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University
Some people question why the current coronavirus has brought the world to standstill while a previous deadly coronavirus, SARS, did not.
Others have questioned why a vaccine is so urgently needed now to stop the spread of the current coronavirus when a vaccine was never developed for SARS. I study viruses and am so fascinated by their complexity that I have written a book about them. The tale of SARS and its new cousin that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, shows just how unpredictable viruses can be, particularly when they jump from animals to humans. Understanding emerging, infectious diseases needs to be a priority. SARS, which killed about one in 10 infected people, turned out to be highly lethal but ultimately, and somewhat mysteriously, disappeared.
A virus takes hold
SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, was first noted in Guangdong province, China in November of 2002, when doctors there saw an unusual pneumonia. But the disease was not reported to the World Health Organization at that time.
In February of 2003, another outbreak occurred in Hanoi, Vietnam, and a WHO officer, who later died, examined a patient there and reported a large outbreak to the WHO main office on March 10, 2003.
Meanwhile, a doctor from Guangdong province traveled to Hong Kong and stayed at the Metropol Hotel, along with a number of other international travelers. The doctor was infected with what we now know as SARS-CoV-1. The virus was transmitted to at least a dozen other hotel guests. Two returned to Canada and took the virus there. One returned to Ireland, one to the United States. Three went to Singapore, and one to Vietnam. In addition, a few people were hospitalized in Hong Kong, leading to an outbreak in the hospital there.
From that point, SARS spread to much of the world, although most cases remained in Asia. The virus was aggressive and lethal. Patients typically showed symptoms within two to three days. There were few reports of any infections without symptoms, as there are with COVID-19. The masks came out, temperature scanners were placed in all major public gathering places in China and other parts of Asia, quarantines were implemented, the virus infection peaked in late May of 2003 and then it disappeared. The strict quarantine measures paid off, and by July 2003, the WHO declared the threat over.
In all there were just over 8,000 cases of SARS-CoV-1, and about 700 deaths. In the U.S. there were a total of just 29 confirmed cases, and no deaths. The Hong Kong economy, with a large tourism component, was severely impacted by SARS in 2003, much as the U.S. tourism industry is currently one of the most heavily impacted parts of the economy due to SARS-CoV-2.
Killing cousins?
SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are closely related viruses. Scientists believe that both viruses originated in bats. The RNA genomes of the viruses are about 80% identical. What does that mean?
Our own genomes are over 98% identical to those of chimpanzees, so 80% seems a lot less similar. For a virus though, especially one with an RNA genome, this is actually very closely related.
That’s because viruses can mutate very rapidly. They make a lot of mistakes when they copy their genomes, and they make thousands of copies in a few hours.
The two viruses have very similar proteins on their exterior and use the same proteins, or receptors, on our cell surfaces to enter the cell. These receptors are found in a lot of different cell types.
Most studies of SARS-CoV-1 focused on the lungs, because that is where the most severe disease occurred, but both viruses can infect a lot of different organs. We won’t know how often other organs are infected with SARS-CoV-2 until there is time to do proper autopsies and fully understand the way the virus causes disease.
How are they different, and how is that impacting the course of the pandemic? SARS-CoV-1 was more aggressive and lethal than SARS-CoV-2. However, SARS-CoV-2 spreads faster, sometimes with hidden symptoms, allowing each infected person to infect several others. The current estimate is about three, but we scientists won’t know the real number until we can test a lot more people, and can understand the role of people without symptoms.
The most important difference is that contact tracing – or finding out who was exposed to someone infected with the virus – was relatively easy: Everyone had severe symptoms in two to three days.
With SARS-CoV-2, it takes about two weeks for symptoms to appear, and many people don’t have any symptoms at all. Imagine asking someone whom they had contact with for the last two weeks! You can accurately remember most people you had contact with for the past two days, but two weeks? This critical tool for pandemic control is very challenging to implement. This means that the only safe thing to do is to maintain quarantine of everyone until the pandemic is under control.
What about a SARS vaccine? Vaccine studies for SARS-CoV-1 were started and tested in animal models. An inactivated whole virus was used in ferrets, nonhuman primates and mice. All of the vaccines resulted in protective immunity, but there were complications; the vaccines resulted in an immune disease in animals. No human studies were done, nor were the vaccine studies taken further because the virus disappeared.
Many factors were involved in the end of SARS-CoV-1, perhaps including summer weather, and certainly strict quarantine of all those who had contact with infected individuals, but we don’t really know why the epidemic ended. Viruses are like that, unpredictable!
Many of the vaccines being developed for SARS-CoV-2 are quite different, and many use only small portions of the virus, or the virus RNA. This may circumvent the problems with SARS-CoV-1 vaccines that used more of the virus. Vaccine development has a large experimental component; we just have to make educated guesses and try different things and see what works. Hence, many different avenues for vaccines are being tested by different labs around the world.
John Morton-Finney
John Morton-Finney was a true Renaissance man, earning an impressive 11 degrees during his lifetime. The former Buffalo Soldier Army man and educator is also considered by some historians the longest-serving lawyer of all time.
Morton-Finney was born to a former slave father and a free mother in Kentucky. The parents taught their seven children the value of education which served the young man well early on. He joined the U.S. Army and became a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo Soldiers. Morton-Finney fought twice, first in the Philippines and once more in World War I.
Honorably discharged after his first tour, Morton-Finney earned the first of his degrees from Lincoln College in Missouri. When the great war began, he donned the uniform once more and fought for the American Expeditionary Force in France. Morton-Finney was teaching at a one-room schoolhouse at that time, and he returned to to the States and earned several degrees in math, French, and history.
Morton-Finney met and fell in love with Lincoln College teacher Pauline Ray after taking her class. The pair wed in 1922 and relocated to Indianapolis, where Morton-Finney taught at the all-Black Crispus Attucks High School. Morton-Finney was head of the school’s foreign language departments and was responsible for encouraging several children to pursue higher education.
While teaching at Crispus Attucks in 1935, Morton-Finney earned the first of four law degrees. He was also a voracious reader, often reading three or four titles at a time, according to accounts. In an interview on his 100th birthday, he said that he believed that there was no end to learning.
At 75, Morton-Finney earned the last of his several degrees from Butler University. He practiced law until he was 107 years old, besting Rush Limbaugh Sr., the Missouri attorney and father of the conservative pundit of the same name. Morton-Finney passed in 1998. In 2000, the Indianapolis Public Schools Board honored Morton-Finney’s 47 years as a teacher by renaming the Center for Educational Services to the Dr. John Morton-Finney Center for Educational Services. Other honors include a residential house named for him on Indiana University’s Purdue campus in 2014.
Doctor Says He Has Developed Clinical Treatment For COVID-19 Patients That Increases Oxygen Levels
Nationwide — Cuthbert Simpkins, MD, is a physician scientist and the founder of Vivacelle Bio, Inc., a U.S. clinical stage biotechnology firm that develops products for critically ill patients. He says that his firm has developed a clinical treatment called VBI-S that helps to increase oxygen levels in COVID-19 patients.
According to Dr. Simpkins, 70% of deaths of COVID-19 patients are due to septic shock. Therefore, his clinical treatment, VBI-S, could rescue lives of COVID patients even when standard treatment has failed by shifting the balance of complex nitric oxide effects toward survival – a new medical therapeutic paradigm.
Dr. Simpkins, whose bio-tech firm is based in Chicago, comments, “It is fulfilling to serve both as a critical care physician providing direct care to COVID patients and as a scientist whose invention could rescue people who are dying of this disease.”
However, while intravenous infusion of the treatment has demonstrated encouraging preliminary results in a phase IIa clinical study, Dr. Simpkin’s invention is still currently an experimental drug. Details about the clinical trial can be found online at ClinicalTrials.gov
Here’s what other health experts are saying:
“VBI-S holds the promise of being a compelling and novel technology to address COVID-19 induced sepsis and septic shock, and thus the potential to save numerous lives both in the US and globally.” — Dr. Harven DeShield, CEO of Vivacelle Bio, Inc.
“I am greatly encouraged that Vivacelle Bio through its innovative discoveries has proposed therapeutic solutions for the most critically ill patients. Severe sepsis claims the lives of over 250,000 Americans and 10 million globally each year and now there is a reason to believe that we are closer to significantly decreasing this number.” — Mallory Williams MD, MPH Chief of Trauma and Critical Care and Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Howard University Hospital“We look to partner with physicians and hospitals to make VBI-S rapidly available to treat COVID-19 patients in dire life-threatening condition.” — Mukesh Kumar, PhD, Vivacelle’s Senior VP of Regulatory Affairs
Workers keep the UTC campus safe during COVID-19 pandemic, as plans are made for return-to-normal
If you take a look around the nearly deserted University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, you may notice a few dedicated employees who have continued to report for duty.
A work-from-home protocol was authorized at UTC in March, due to the ever evolving coronavirus pandemic.
But these workers–including the dispatchers and police officers who are among the combined more than 30 members of the UTC Police Department keeping the campus safe and secure–have jobs that can’t be done remotely.
Another 30 or so employees are on the team keeping campus grounds beautiful and buildings clean and comfortable. Two dozen more are attending to the needs of campus housing, still home to a handful of students whose personal circumstances made it necessary that they remain on campus.
And those students get to eat without leaving campus because of the daily efforts by 10 food service workers.
Additionally, another dozen or so employees on rotation for the Mocs Print and Mail Center and the UTC Bookstore continue to be available to offer on campus services.
While these workers are busy making sure the needs of the on-campus community are met, Chancellor Steven R. Angle is working with a task force he established to plan for eventual return to normal operations.
The chancellor has appointed Richard Brown and Robert Dooley to co-chair the fall 2020 task force and has given them a charge to develop creative solutions that can lead to safe and effective scenarios this fall.
Brown is executive vice chancellor of finance and administration and has been a member of the university staff for more than three decades.
Dooley is the dean of the Gary W. Rollins College of Business and has served the university in the past as interim provost.
Angle said the core principles the task force will operate under are to protect the health and safety of faculty, staff and students to provide a high-quality educational experience and to do so with transparency and flexibility.
“Our university has risen to the challenge of the coronavirus crisis over the past six weeks, and I am certain we will develop a plan that ensures the quality of the educational experience for our students while at the same time keeps the health and safety of our entire campus community at the forefront,” he said.
Doctors facing grim choice over ventilators told to put patients with disabilities at the back of the line
By Deborah Hellman
Professor of Law, University of Virginia
As cases related to the novel coronavirus continue to strain hospitals, doctors face difficult choices about rationing scarce medical resources like ventilators – choices that will likely determine who lives and who dies.
Several states’ policies tell providers to allocate scarce resources to those most likely to benefit. For example, Washington state recently adopted a policy that favors “the survival of young otherwise healthy patients more heavily than that of older, chronically debilitated patients.” Similar new guidelines have been issued in Massachusetts as well.
In several other states, existing policies that were developed in anticipation of an emergency – including pandemics – recommend rationing that prioritizes giving ventilators to otherwise healthy people who are most likely to benefit. The policies may be mandatory in some contexts, depending on state law, but are likely to be influential even when not required.
While seemingly sensible, policies that focus exclusively on saving as many lives as possible may miss something just as important about whose life is spared and whose is not.
As a scholar who studies the law and ethics of discrimination, I know that what matters morally and legally is not only the benefits and harms of a policy, but also who gets affected the most.
In this case, people with existing chronic illnesses or disabilities are most likely to be denied lifesaving treatment by state protocols on medical rationing.
Who gets the ventilator
The Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA, is the main law that protects the disabled from discrimination. It applies to two types of discrimination: policies that explicitly exclude disabled people and policies that have the effect of excluding disabled people, even if unintentionally.
For example, the state of Alabama had a policy adopted in 2010 which explicitly excluded people with intellectual disabilities, stating that “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury” will not be given ventilators in the event of scarcity.
Disability rights groups filed a complaint about this with the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services, which on April 8, 2020 determined that the policy should not be used and the guideline has been withdrawn as a result.
But just because policies don’t explicitly single out people with disabilities does not mean that they won’t have the effect of excluding people with disabilities from lifesaving care.
Many state policies direct that when medical supplies are scarce, they should go to the people who are most likely to survive. For example, New York’s ventilator allocation guidelines, which were set up in 2015 in anticipation of a potential influenza pandemic, state that ventilators should be given to patients who are “deemed most likely to survive with ventilator therapy.”
Indeed, doing so will save the most lives. But this policy will mean that people with chronic health conditions or disabilities will have a very hard time getting ventilators if their underlying conditions give them less of a chance of survival.
This leads to the question of whether it is fair for individuals with disabilities to have a lesser chance of getting lifesaving medical treatment, even though there are laws that ensure equality of access for them.
To be sure, not all people with disabilities will be affected by this kind of policy. Someone who is blind and has no other underlying condition may have the same likelihood of survival as someone who is not. But people with many types of disabilities, especially those that compromise their lungs or other organs, will suffer more than others.
What the law says
When Congress passed the ADA, it stated categorically that disabled people have been excluded from all aspects of society, including employment, housing, education, transportation, voting and others, in ways that were both “outright intentional exclusion” and also the result of neglect. In that regard, Congress specifically discussed the difficulty that people with disabilities experience in gaining access to health services.
The ADA requires states and hospitals to take affirmative steps to level the playing field so that disabled people are treated equally. For example, the ADA requires architectural changes such as ramps so that people can get into buildings; it also requires organizations to modify the way they provide their services. However, the ADA only requires these steps if doing so is “reasonable,” a term that is defined differently by courts in different situations.
In this new and difficult context in which lifesaving ventilators are scarce, the task, then, is to determine what is reasonable.
On the one hand, more lives will be saved by a policy that gives priority to patients who are most likely to survive. On the other, this same policy will mean that the disabled will be overrepresented among those who do not get ventilators.
Both facts about the policy are important, as Kate Nicholson, a disability rights attorney formerly with the U.S. Department of Justice, and I argue in a new paper. In this paper, we explain that state policies that prioritize saving the most lives don’t consider who bears the brunt of the loss of life. Some groups, as a result, suffer more than others.
How can we be fair?
As new projections for deaths and hospitalizations are shifting, it may be that for now we can avoid difficult choices, as there may be enough ventilators to go around.
But questions regarding who gets lifesaving treatment may well recur if this virus returns or a new one surfaces. So it is critically important to think seriously about what a “reasonable” balance is between saving the most lives and making sure that this loss of life isn’t mostly felt by people with disabilities and others who are already socially disadvantaged. That balance must not compound discrimination on disadvantage, as civil rights protections prohibit.
Kate Nicholson, a civil rights and disability rights attorney and advocate, contributed to this piece. (Source: The Conversation)
Innovative Leadership Program For Black Boys Formerly Held At Princeton University Is Now An Online Summer Program
Actors Danny Glover and Delroy Lindo are keynote speaker and program chair, respectively
New York, NY (BlackNews.com) — Now more than ever, the strength and well-being of the African- American community is dependent upon its leadership. Rev. Toby Sanders is spearheading an #AllInTogether movement among young minority men.
In an effort to forge more Black male leaders in business, the arts, social justice, and the sciences with the values and innovative insight to address vital global issues, Sanders is introducing The Fire Online Distance Learning Program (TFO). It is a program of At the Well Conferences, Inc. (ATW), a non-profit organization created by CEO Jacqueline Glass-Campbell. FTO The Fire Online will expand the reach and impact of From The Fire Leadership Academy that was housed at Princeton University the last two years. It was the country’s most innovating summer enrichment experience for young men of color.
In accordance with the COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home guidelines set forth by Phil Murphy, governor of New Jersey, along with organization’s concern for the well-being of students and families, Sanders and Glass-Campbell cancelled the original program formerly held at Princeton University. Now, students from across the country have the opportunity to receive the same prestigious and life-changing curriculum and mentoring experiences online. FTO will be the gateway experience for all of the programs offered by the leadership academy going forward. Its impact will be transformative.
TFO is a two-week online summer program held July 19-24, 2020 and July 27-31, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The program is currently offering a discounted rate of $599 for the first 50 applicants. Applications are currently available online at AtTheWellConferences.org. There is no application fee.
Rev. Sanders is the academy’s founder and director of curriculum. He is an adult education specialist, adjunct professor and social activist for educational and economic justice.
Minority students in the tenth and eleventh grades from diverse socio-economic backgrounds who seek academic enrichment, professional inspiration and are committed to uplift underserved communities are encouraged to apply to the program. It will be a transformative experience they will never forget.
Students will participate in a rigorous curriculum focused on social justice and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). The courses include college-level reading comprehension, critical writing, leadership development, team building, social problem researching and presentation skills. Teachers range from Princeton University scholars, as well as, exemplary professional thought leaders and emergent intellectuals in history, education and the social sciences.
This year, actor and director Delroy Lindo (Malcolm X, Lackawanna Blues, This Christmas, Da Five Bloods) is the Program Chair. He received a Tony nomination for August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and a NAACP Image Award for Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He can be seen on CBS’ The Good Fight.
Oscar-nominated Actor, Producer and Humanitarian Danny Glover will be the keynote speaker. He is an international civil rights, human rights and political activist. Glover also co-founded Louverture Films, which is committed to developing film projects with artistic integrity and historical relevance.
To apply for The Fire Online Distance Learning Program, please visit: www.atthewellconferences.org.
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the board of At the Well Conferences, Inc. has made the difficult decision to cancel From the Fire 8th and 9th Grade Weekend Intensive at Princeton University. The weekend program is now available as part of The Fire Online Distance Learning Program, and will be held July 31 – August 2, 2020. The first 50 applicants will receive a discounted rate of $199.
For more information about The Fire Online Distance Learning Program and the 8th & 9th Grade Online Distance Learning Program, please contact Rev. Toby Sanders at: 609-213-0545 or tobysand@gmail.com.