Hulbert James

Hulbert James

Template:TOCnestleft Hulbert James a long time New York political operative.

H. RES. 426/Hulbert James

Recognizing the impact of Mr. Hulbert James on politics, urban development, and New York City, and paying tribute to Mr. James for his lifetime of public service.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OCTOBER 6, 2011.

Ms. Yvette Clarke of New York (for herself, Mr. Charles B. Rangel, Mr. Edolphus Towns, and Mrs. Donna Christensen) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

RESOLUTION Recognizing the impact of Mr. Hulbert James on politics, urban development, and New York City, and paying tribute to Mr. James for his lifetime of public service.

Whereas Mr. Hulbert James has spent a lifetime working in politics and community development, recently becoming field director for the Unity Diaspora Coalition;

Whereas Mr. James, born in the United States Virgin Islands, received his undergraduate degree from Hampton University, and Masters degrees from Queens College and Union Theological Seminary;

Whereas Mr. James worked to end third world poverty as director of the Economic Justice Office for the [[National Council of Churches]], as President of the Pan African Skills Project, co-founder of the Center for Third World Organizing, founder of the Jamaica Project, and cofounder of the Diaspora Project;

Whereas Mr. James has spent years advancing his causes through the political realm as chief of staff to Representative Major Owens, a senior member of the Mayor David Dinkins Administration, New York director of the Presidential Campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson, and advisor to the Clinton for President Campaign;

Whereas Mr. James has worked tirelessly to develop housing and business opportunities for distressed communities both as the Representative of the Secretary of Labor in region 11 and as a community builder for the [[Department of Housing and Urban Development]];

Whereas in his role at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. James provided strategic planning services to government and community leaders to develop projects to assist distressed communities and developed a program to help low-income persons save money for home ownership;

Whereas since retiring from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Mr. James has worked with a number of organizations to promote Caribbean heritage and political inclusion; and

Whereas the life of Mr. Hulbert James demonstrates the best attributes of public service and dedication to helping fellow Americans:

National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation

Hulbert James, President of the Board of Pan-African Skills Program, New York was named as a sponsor of the Communist Party USA dominated National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation held at Dunbar Vocational High School, Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago, October 19 to 21 1973.

IPS connection

In 1979 Hulbert James of The Youth Project served on the steering committee of the Institute for Policy Studies initiated Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies.

DSA Conference delegate

In 1983 Hulbert James was a New York delegate to the Democratic Socialists of America conference in New York City, October 14-16, 1983

Working Together conference

In February 1986, the Youth section of Democratic Socialists of America sponsored a conference at Columbia University, "Working Together:Beyond Single Issue Politics".

Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Harrington, Hulbert James, Richard Barnet and Maggie Kuhn spoke at this conference for student activists.

Working for Dinkins

David Dinkins established 1990 Census Project - Director, Sasha Hohri, Deputy Director, Hulbert James.

When David Dinkins was elected he brought Hulbert James in to run the Voter Assistance Commission.

CBC interview

In September 2011 Tara Young and Marc Lamont Hill interviewed Hulbert James at the Congressional Black Caucus retreat.

25 years of the PDPA

April 2017 Mayor Bill de Blasio bestowed special honor on his former City Council colleague, Dr. Una S.T. Clarke, and her Brooklyn-based Progressive Democrats Political Association (PDPA) at a gala ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the group that was founded by Clarke.

“You did something powerful that will help everyone,” said the mayor, after reading part of a New York City Proclamation declaring Sunday, April 22 “PDPA Day,” at the group’s Silver Jubilee celebrations at Tropical Paradise Ballroom on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn.

State Assemblywoman Diana Richardson, representative for the 43rd Assembly District in Brooklyn, also dispatched a State citation to PDPA, read by PDPA Vincentian-born president Veronica Phillips.

PDPA, in turn, honored 14 community figures during the four-plus-hour-long gala celebration. They comprised: Special Honoree Veronica Airey-Wilson, former Deputy Mayor of Hartford, CT; Norma Amsterdam RN; Carmen Charles; Monica Foster; Leonie Francis-Bryan; Barbara Griffith; Hulbert James; Ernie Jones; Janet Larghi; Sylvia Lavalas; Ray Trotman and Geneva Trotman; Dolly Williams; and Winston Wellington.

“We have come to celebrate our Silver Jubilee, our 25th year, as a strong political movement within Central Brooklyn,” Dr. Clarke said. “We honor those early pioneering members who had faith in the future of our central Brooklyn community. They were the bold ones who endorsed me for my first New York City Council campaign, thus laying a solid foundation upon which we have built a movement.

“Their names have been here from the beginning,” added the Jamaican-born Clarke, the first Caribbean-born woman to be ever elected to New York City Council. “They were few but committed.”

DSA endorsement

In 1992, New York Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Nydia Velasquez during her run for Congress. They also endorsed Attorney General Robert Abrams for U.S. Senate, Richard Irizarry (28th New York State Senate District), Peggy Shepard (70th Assembly District), James Brennan (44th Assembly District), Hulbert James (31st Assembly District), Nelson Antonio Denis (68th Assembly District), and Trudy Mason (73rd Assembly District).

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