NC NAACP to Host Clergy, Faith and Justice Prayer Breakfast in Charlotte on Labor Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 28, 2012

Clergy, Faith and Justice Prayer Breakfast

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 7:00 AM

Greater Galilee Baptist Church

Pastor Robert E. Lee McGowens, Sr.

501 W. Park Avenue - Charlotte, NC 28203

For More Information: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II President, 919-394-8137

Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Exec. Director, 919-682-4700

Rev. Kojo Nantambu, Religious and Education Advocacy Director, 704-599-8904

For Media Assistance:            Ms. Sharon Coleman, Office Communication Manager,  

919-682-4700

CHARLOTTE - The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is hosting a "Clergy, Faith and Justice Prayer Breakfast" on Labor Day, September 3, 2012 in Charlotte, NC at 7:00 AM. The breakfast coincides but does not affiliate with the Democratic National Convention, where thousands will arrive in North Carolina's largest city in the midst of the most important election of this generation. There will be media availability for principle speakers at the breakfast.  

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the NC NAACP, Mr. Hilary O. Shelton, NAACP Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy, Rev. Kojo Nantambu, Religious and Education Advocacy Director for the NC NAACP and other faith leaders and activists will hold a discussion on the moral issues that shape and frame this year's election: voting rights, education equality, economic justice, labor rights, access to quality health care and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. The breakfast will take place at Greater Galilee Baptist Church, under the leadership of Rev. Robert E. Lee McGowens, Sr.

"Forty-nine years ago today, at the March on Washington, a diverse, progressive and committed group of Americans put before the nation a moral agenda to address voting rights, civil rights, educational equality, jobs and labor rights," said Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP. "Forty-nine years later, as we see a constant barrage of attacks against voting rights, widening economic injustice and poverty, challenges to health care, and attacks on public education along with continuing disparities in the criminal justice system, we must again keep a strong moral agenda rooted in love and justice before the nation and both political parties."

A news conference announcing the prayer breakfast will take place on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 11:00 AM at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth Street (corner of Fourth and Davidson Streets) in downtown Charlotte. Rev. Kojo Nantambu, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP Branch President and Religious and Education Advocacy Director for the NC NAACP, will lead the news conference. 

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