The Virginia Black History Month Association
The Formal Dinner
Saturday, 22 February 2014
The Fredericksburg
Expo & Conference Center
Confirmed Keynote Speaker
Dr Steve Perry
Dr. Steve Perry’s heart pumps passion and produces positive change. Featured in CNN's Black in America series, Dr. Perry is the most talked about innovative educator on the scene today.
Perry is the founder and principal of what U.S. News and World Report has cited as one of the top schools in the country, Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut. Capital Prep has sent 100% of its predominantly low-income, minority, first generation high school graduates to four-year colleges every year since its first class graduated in 2006.
Perry’s career has taken him from directing a grassroots organization in Chester, PA to a full scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Work, back to his hometown of Middletown, CT where he ran a homeless shelter, became a candidate for state representative and published his first of six books…all before he turned 26 years old.
Perry is in a hurry to transform the community. Born into his
family’s third generation of poverty on his mother’s 16th birthday,
Perry believes that the success of a life is determined by where you
end, not where you start. It is this philosophy that inspired him to
transform the lives of poor and minority children by providing them with
access to a college education.
Dr. Perry, MSW is an Education Contributor for CNN and MSNBC, an Essence Magazine columnist, best-selling author, and host of the
#1 docudrama for TVONE “Save My Son.”
Times
5pm to 6pm (Private VIP Social with Guest Speaker) 5pm to 6pm (Social Hour)
6pm to 7pm (Welcome / Dinner)
7pm to 7:30 (Keynote Speaker)
7:30pm to 8pm (Intermission)
8pm to 9pm (Entertainment)
9pm to 12am (Dancing)
Entertainment
Howard University's Theater & Arts (Theater)
Ari’s House of Dance & Performing Arts Studio (Dance)
Youth Orchestra
Broom Jumping (Wedding) Ceremony
Children's Writing Contest
Location
The
Main Menu
Lemon Chicken - Boneless chicken breast rubbed with fresh herbs and lemon, baked to perfection and finished with Mushroom Cream Sauce, Roasted Rosemary Red Potatoes, Seasonal Vegetables Hot Rolls, Carrot Cake, Ice Tea, Coffee, Tea
VIP Menu also includes
Chancellors Beef – 6 ounces of Flank steak seared and rolled is then finished with a port demi glaze
