Highlighting Our Awards and Sponsors

Our conference ad journals are designed to highlight those from our members and community who have been honored and to present to the public our valued sponsors.

• In 1961- Leontyne Price makes first appearance with Metropolitan Opera

• Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? Where are black children going to get a sense of who they are and what they can be? … I’m told that black children, and boys in particular, don’t read. Small wonder. There is work to be done.

  Walter Dean Myers