Day One of the 17th Annual Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit

(New York, NY) February 11, 2014 – The Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund kicked off the 17th Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, February 11 - February 13, 2014 at The Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, 811 Seventh Avenue at 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10019. This year’s summit, "50 Years After the Civil Rights Act: The Unfinished Agenda for Economic Justice...” focuses on the decline in black businesses, lack of blacks on corporate and non-profit boards, exclusion of minority firms in IPS, unemployment and more.

Day one kicked off with the Youth Summit and Career Symposium. The evening’s opening session moderated by George E. Curry, Editor-in-Chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), focused on the 30^th anniversary of Rev. Jackson’s historic 1984 Presidential run and the subsequent 88’ campaign.

Day one of the summit closed with an opening reception featuring a “Tribute to the Black Media.”  The media honored included: Johnson Publishing Company represented by Todd E. Brown, EVP and Chief Revenue Officer; National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), represented by Cloves C. Campbell; The Positive Community, represented by Editor-in-Chief, Jean Nash Wells and Publisher Adrian A. Council, Sr.; Black Enterprise, represented by Earl G. “Butch” Graves, Jr.; the  Daily Challenge, publisher Thomas Watkins, Jr., represented by Joan Allen and The New York Amsterdam News, represented by Publisher, Elinor R. Tatum.

TODAY, Wednesday, February 12^th at 10:30 a.m. EST, Rev. Jackson will hold a press conference to release a study and scoreboard on 160 major corporations, based on actual transactions, titled, “Minority Inclusion in Debt Capital Markets: A Ranking of Corporate Issuers.” [More...]