The Black Equity Collective (BEC) hosted its second Fireside Chat, “Collective Conversations,” featuring Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, at the Blackbird House in Culver City on April 8.
On Dec. 7, the Black Equity Collective (BEC) held a Fireside Chat featuring hip hop artist, actor and philanthropist Common at the Blackbird House in Culver City. The program was moderated by Kaci Patterson, founder and chief architect of the BEC, which launched in 2021.
An annual highlight of the conference was the 2020 NNPA Publisher Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to The Dallas Examiner’s distinguished publisher, Mollie Finch Belt.
“There are so many great men and women that are being developed and minds that are being cared for, cultivated inside of the schools and they don’t necessarily have the recruitment bandwidth and their career centers don’t have the relationships established to actually open up access to larger Fortune 500 companies,” Lester Booker, Jr., the project manager for communications operations at General Motors.
The Southern California Chapter of The National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC-SC) is hosting its 19th Annual Leadership Awards Dinner on Thursday, November 8, 2018 at the Marina Del Rey Marriott Hotel.