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[[David Dinkins]] established 1990 Census Project - Director, [[Sasha Hohri]], Deputy Director, [[Hulbert James]].<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/archives/collections_dinkins.shtml]</ref> | [[David Dinkins]] established 1990 Census Project - Director, [[Sasha Hohri]], Deputy Director, [[Hulbert James]].<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/archives/collections_dinkins.shtml]</ref> | ||
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==25 years of the PDPA== | ==25 years of the PDPA== | ||
Revision as of 12:28, 19 May 2018
Hulbert James
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.[1]
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.[2]
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[3]
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.[4]
Working for Dinkins
David Dinkins established 1990 Census Project - Director, Sasha Hohri, Deputy Director, Hulbert James.[5]
When David Dinkins was elected he brought Hulbert James in to run the Voter Assistance Commission.[6]
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.”[7]
References
- ↑ National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity With African Liberation - Partial list of sponsors
- ↑ Information Digest August 24, 1979
- ↑ DSA Conference delegate list Oct. 12 1983 update
- ↑ Democratic Left, Jan/Feb 1986, page 5
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [New York Magazine Jan 17, 1994 p 29]
- ↑ Caribbean Life, April 7, 2017 / People / Brooklyn New York mayor honors Una Clarke, democratic group