[WardFive] DC Emancipation Day Media Advisory

FYI!

ANC Commissioner 5A09

Shirley Rivens Smith, President

US Africa Sister Cities Foundation, Inc.

DC-Dakar

2000 Upshur St., NE

Washington, DC 20018

www.usasc.org

202-635-3138

MEDIA ADVISORY

April 13, 2012
For further information contact

Estell Lloyd at <mailto:elloyd@dccouncil.us> elloyd@dccouncil.us

202-724-8035

Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Rev. Joel Osteen & Dick Gregory
Confirmed for DC Emancipation Day 150th Anniversary Prayer Breakfast

Willard Hotel Monday, April 16th @ 8:00 AM followed by Parade @ 11:00 AM

(Washington, D.C.) - DC Councilmember Vincent Bernard Orange, Sr.
(D-At-Large) is pleased to announce Reverend Al Sharpton as the keynote
speaker for the DC Emancipation Day 150th Anniversary Prayer Breakfast this
Monday, April 16, 2012, 8:00 AM at the Willard Hotel. Reverend Joel Osteen,
Joel Osteen Ministries, Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Founder, Rainbow/PUSH and
Dick Gregory, Civil Rights Activist will bring greetings.

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Vincent C. Gray and DC Council
Chairman Kwame R. Brown will provide welcome remarks.

Reverend Sharpton, Reverend Jackson and Dick Gregory are scheduled to march
in the DC Emancipation Day Parade commencing at 11:00 AM representing the
3,100 enslaved persons released from bondage on April 16, 1862 when
President Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act.

Reverend Jesse Jackson will be the keynote speaker for the public program
commencing on Freedom Plaza at 2:30 PM.

Following the public program a free concert on Freedom Plaza will commence
at 4:00 PM featuring an extraordinary jazz saxophonist, Brian Lenair; at
5:00 PM Familiar Faces; at 6:00 PM Harold Melvin's Blue Notes; and at 7:00
PM Jean Carne.

The celebration will conclude with a Fireworks Display at 8:30 PM on
Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets NW.

Doug Payton for Councilmember Vincent B. Orange

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