Tavis Smiley Presents
STATE OF THE BLACK UNION
The Black Church:
Relevant, Repressive, or Reborn?
COBO Center, Wayne Hall
Detroit, MI
February 8, 2003
8am-4:30pm
LIVE ON C-SPAN!
8:00 AM
Wendell Anthony (Opening Prayer)
Michael Eric Dyson
Gardner Taylor
Floyd Flake
Eugene Rivers
Noel Jones
Paul Morton
Jeremiah Wright
Barbara King
Vashti McKenzie
James Cone
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
Jacquelyn Grant
Marvin Winans
Edgar Vann (Closing Prayer)
Moderator Tavis Smiley
1:30 PM*
Andrew Merritt (Opening Prayer)
Cornel West
William Shaw
James Forbes
Cain Hope Felder
Dwight Hopkins
Carlton Pearson
Frederick Haynes
Johnnie Coleman
Marcia Dyson
Al Sharpton
Iva Carruthers
Carolyn Knight
Charles Adams
Charles Ellis (Closing Prayer)
Moderator Raymond Brown
