Encouraging Our Sons to Read
Monday, October 29, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
Exciting, compassionate and highly motivated to improve the quality of life for children in the United States and abroad are just a few adjectives used to describe David C. Miller. As a co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer for the Urban Leadership Institute, LLC., Miller is the author of Dare to be King: What If The Prince Lives? A Survival Workbook for African American Males (August 2003), Lessons I learned From My Father: A Collection of Quotes From Men of African Descent (June 2004) and DADDY’S GIRL: Remembering Advice From My Father (May 2006).
Patrick M. Oliver is founder of the Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series and was the program director for the Open Book Program a citywide after-school reading project. Mr. Oliver was also director of Sales and Marketing at Third World Press the country’s oldest Black independent publisher. He is co-founder of the Black Male Development Symposium. His literary projects have been featured on Black Entertainment Television, CBS, Comcast, CSPAN BookTV, National Public Radio, NBC and in publications such as Ebony and Essence Magazines. Mr. Oliver is publisher and editor of the Essence Magazine Best Selling anthology Turn the Page and You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth.
This event is sponsored by the William Penn School District 21st Century Program and Yeadon Public Library.
Celebrating 10 years of Reading, Writing and Telling Our Stories
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