Call
to Conscience : 2007 Celebration of Black History
 Afeni Shakur
An important member of the Black Panther Party and mother of the late Tupac Shakur, led a series of chapters during the "break down" of the Black Panther party. Her intellect and ability enabled her to edit and write columns for the Panther Post with such strategic craftiness that it misled the FBI to believe that the Black Panther Party was no longer in existence, while in fact they were multiplying rapidly. A year after Tupac's death, Afeni founded the Georgia-based Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, which provides art programs for young people. She has also since launched a fashion clothing line, Makaveli Branded; all proceeds go to his charity, the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation. In February of 2005 Shakur, and actress Jasmine Guy released book entitled "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary"
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Dr. Quintard Taylor
Taylor is a specialist in African American history in the American West with over three decades of research and teaching experience in this field at a number of institutions of higher education, including currently the University of Washington.
Courtesy of http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/index.htm
Jone M. Bosworth
Bosworth
was appointed Director of the Department of Early Learning by Governor Chris Gregoire on September 11, 2006. Ms. Bosworth is the first director of the department, which was created by the Legislature in 2006 at Governor Gregoire's request.
Ms. Bosworth most recently served as Senior Director of the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative in St. Louis, where she supported partnerships with public and private non-profits to create enhanced opportunities for young people aging out of foster care systems. She also worked with state child-welfare departments to develop plans to prepare foster youths for adulthood. Prior to this position, she was the administrator for the Division of Child and Family Services in the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services and child and family services consultant at The ORBit Group, Inc. She worked in Mexico and Kenya as a foreign services officer with the U.S. Department of State.
In 1986 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree form the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and in 1997 received her Juris Doctor from the Nebraska College of Law.
 Gregory Anderson
2007 has been prosperous for Gregory, as he just wrapped producing, for Warner Brothers, the film American Dream starring the rapper Mike Jones and his screenplay is the basis for the Sony Screen Gem’s project Stomp the Yard starring Hip Hop / R&B sensations Chris Brown and Ne-Yo. This summer, it was announced on HBO by Bryant Gumbel (Real Sports) that Gregory and his company Tri Destined Films optioned the rights to the Life Story of Bev Kearney, the world-renowned track coach from the University of Texas who took her team on a miraculous quest for success, coaching them to the Collegiate and U.S. National (Pre-Olympic) championships, all from her hospital bed, after a horrendous accident almost caused her demise. As well, Gregory is currently the writer and Associate Producer of Compton Christmas Treez being produced by Gotham Entertainment, the producers of the MTV / Paramount film: “Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat” and is in development on the project Saturday which is set as the debut film for comedian Dexter Tucker (brother of Chris Tucker) and will also star hip hop chart-topper Paul Wall.
While studying at Harvard University during the summers, Gregory, independently produced and theatrically distributed a film with his Florida A&M University classmates (Rainforest Films): called Trois, which landed them at the #34 spot of the Top 500 Film Distributors of 2000 listed by the Hollywood Reporter (August 2001), and resulted in the picture being in the Top 50 highest grossing Independent Films of that Year according to Daily Variety (July 30, 2001). Soon after that release, he wrote, Co-Produced, and distributed Pandora’s Box, also highlighted in Variety and Hollywood Reporter’s Top Lists, which was eventually picked up by Columbia Tristar. The independent “theatrical” distribution of the Master P film Lockdown followed. After being one of the producers of the Sony Pictures Entertainment release Motives starring Vivica A. Fox, Gregory’s work as a writer and producer was then showcased in the Columbia Tristar release: Trois: The Escort.
As the President and Co-Owner of Tri Destined Films with ND Brown and Trey Haley, Gregory spearheads several projects including Comedy Kids / Comedy Teens a stand-up comedy project (which Gregory was also a writer) featuring child stars from Nickelodeon, Disney, ABC Family, Fox Kids, and several hit films including “Daddy Day Care” and the upcoming “Benchwarmers”. His company and President of Television Ron Deshay, in conjunction with Andrea Wiley (Writer / Executive Producer, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Parkers, The Steve Harvey Show, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, etc) and Jacque Edmonds (Cuts, All about the Andersons, Moesha) recently wrapped a pilot for the TV show Walking in the Light hosted by Cookie Johnson and Pauletta Washington (Magic Johnson and Denzel Washington’s wives). There are several projects in development including Foolishy In Love. Considered a hip-hop “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, the story is a biopic about the dangerous love affair between football legend Andre Rison and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez of the hit female group TLC. In the summer of 2006, Gregory wrapped two films made for the Home Entertainment market; Soul To Go and The Caretaker. Members of Tri Destined Studios include Ron Deshay (Senior Producer – “American Idol”, Director – BET’s hit show “College Hill”) and Ben Stephens (Creator of the MTV/Magic Johnson show “Who’s Got Game”).
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