FEATURED PRESENTER
for our event
"Fade-In to BlaqOUT"
Mandy Carter
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Mandy Carter |
Mandy Carter is a Durham, North Carolina African-American
lesbian social justice activist with a 45-year movement history of social,
racial and LGBT justice organizing since 1968. Ms. Carter helped co-found two groundbreaking
organizations. Southerners On New
Ground (SONG) and the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC).
Most
recently, Ms. Carter was National Coordinator of NBJC’s Bayard Rustin 2013 Commemoration Project of the National Black Justice Coalition. A national organizing effort to acknowledge,
honor, and celebrate black gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. 2013 marked the
50th anniversary year of the historic 1963 March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom where Dr. King gave his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech.
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for more information about BayardRustin.
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for more information about the NationalBlack Justice Coalition (NBJC).
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for more information about Southerners
On New Ground (SONG).