DETROIT-
Curtis Lipscomb, the new executive director of KICK, the agency for LGBT African-Americans, will speak as a panelist at a national NAACP forum in Detroit on Saturday, April 30.
Speakers and participants at the event will discuss racism, political rhetoric and discrimination. Attendees include U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, David Victor, chairman of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee; U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, speaking for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department and Imam Dawud Walid, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In a press release, the NAACP said it hopes the event provides "a moment for transformation and rededication to the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 'Do not judge each other by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character.'"
The event, titled "From Symbols of Hate to Portraits of Understanding," takes place at 200 Walker Street from 2-4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
