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PRNewswire - November 16, 2006
Carl Lewis (Gold Medalist), Pat Boone (singer), Brenda Russell (The Color Purple), Loretta Devine (Grey's Anatomy), Rocky Carroll (Chicago Hopes/Roc), Debi Morgan (Colors of the Cross), Jimmy Jean Louis (Heroes/Phat Girlz), Vanessa Williams (Soul Food), Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends), Mathew St. Patrick (Six Feet Under), Coby Bell (3rd Watch), Steve Harris (The Practice), Yvette Cason (Dreamgirls: The Movie), T.C. Carson (Living Single), Ollie Brown (legendary record producer), and a very special live performance by Cheryl Lynn ("Got To Be Real," "Shake It Up Tonight," "If This World Were Mine," w/Luther Vandross and "Encore").
WHAT
The Black AIDS Institute 6th Annual Fundraiser
"Heroes In The Struggle 2006"
Honoring Dionne Warwick and Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder), Rashidah Abdul-Kabir, Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith, Duane Cramer, Patrik-Ian Polk, and Tony R. Wafford.
WHERE
The Directors Guild of America
7920 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California
WHEN
Thursday, November 16, 2006 -- 6:00 PM
WHY
As should have been expected, the AIDS pathogen has worked its way through the social and economic reality of America. So that today, 25 years later, AIDS in America is a Black disease! Black people, more than any other racial-ethnic group bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in America. More than half of all people living with HIV/AIDS and newly infected with HIV each year in the United States are Black. Among women, Blacks account for two-thirds of all new infections. And recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies estimate nearly half of all Black gay and bisexual men in some of America's urban centers are already infected.
On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2001, the Black AIDS Institute launched Heroes In The Struggle -- a photographic tribute to African Americans who have made outstanding contributions to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Since it's debut, the Heroes In The Struggle exhibit has traveled around the country, raising awareness, challenging individuals and institutions to get involved in their communities, and generating critical conversation about HIV testing and treatment.
The Black AIDS Institute, founded in 1999, is the only HIV/AIDS think tank in the United States focused exclusively on Black people. Under the guidance of Executive Director and Founder, Phill Wilson, the Institute's mission is to stop the AIDS pandemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions, leaders and individuals in efforts to confront HIV. The Institute offers trainings, technical assistance and capacity building, disseminates information, and provides advocacy and mobilization from a uniquely and unapologetically Black point of view.
For further information, please contact Kenneth R. Reynolds, Public Relations. 323 766 5551.
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