The purpose of the African American Democratic Club is to strengthen the political voice of persons within the San Francisco African American Community
by encouraging and fostering active participation in the electoral process. Our priority activity and responsibility now is to promote an African American vote
that supports the promotion of public policy that is in the best interest of the African American Community.

Speaker: Charles J. Ogletree.

Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding
and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who
has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law.

The forum features Bill Cosby and a panel of national leaders and young people who examine strategies to enable young
black men to succeed in America today. The forum also addresses the results of a national survey conducted by
The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University. The survey includes information on
public stereotypes, career aspirations, religious experience, and education.

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Task Force on African American Out-migration. On Behalf of the College of Ethnic Studies &
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