{"id":90160,"date":"2019-08-05T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/?p=90160"},"modified":"2020-11-20T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T20:57:56","slug":"register-now-for-the-2019-empowerment-and-policy-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/register-now-for-the-2019-empowerment-and-policy-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"REGISTER NOW for the 2019 Empowerment and Policy Conference!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">\n<div>\n<div>We are pleased to announce that<strong> registration is now open<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>for the inaugural Empowerment and Policy Conference<\/strong>, powered by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the Urban League of Louisiana. This two-day statewide convening is designed to examine systems and influence policy decisions that will positively impact African Americans in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong>WHAT: 2019 Empowerment and Policy Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN: Friday, September 27th &#8211; Saturday, September 28th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE: Hyatt Regency New Orleans Hotel &#8211; New Orleans, LA<\/strong><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The Conference will provide a platform for local, state, and national thought leaders, policy makers, community leaders, and residents to discuss, debate, and advance conversation and thinking about a multitude of issues that are of importance to African Americans in Louisiana.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>FEATURED SPEAKERS<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our featured speakers include:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Marc Morial, President &amp; CEO of the National Urban League<\/li>\n<li>Angela Rye, CNN Political Commentator<\/li>\n<li>Bakari Sellers, CNN Political Commentator<\/li>\n<li>Members of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus<\/li>\n<li>Judy Reese Morse, Urban League of Louisiana President &amp; CEO<\/li>\n<li>Thought and community leaders from across the state<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Visit the conference website for updates as we announce more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><b>TOPICS<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The conference will feature panels including:<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating an Environment for African Americans to Thrive in Louisiana<\/li>\n<li>Mental Health: The Stigma that Stops Us<\/li>\n<li>$3.5 Billion&#8230;That&#8217;s Billion with a &#8220;B&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Intersection of Race, Identity, and Mission<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0. . . AND MORE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/polcon2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\">Visit our Empowerment and Policy Conference website<\/a> to view the Conference Agenda, hotel details, ticket information, and stay up to date on all of our conference news.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that registration is now open\u00a0for the inaugural Empowerment and Policy Conference, powered by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the Urban League of Louisiana. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90161,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90160\/revisions\/90161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanleaguela.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}