MAIN SPEAKER : DR. DANIEL BLACK

Black and Gay In America, Dr. Daniel Omotosho Black is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, yet spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell, Arkansas. He was granted a full scholarship to Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in English. He was awarded the Oxford Modern British Studies Scholarship and studied abroad at Oxford University, Oxford, England. Upon graduation from Clark College (magna cum laude in 1988), he was granted a full graduate fellowship to Temple University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in African-American Studies. Omotosho, as he prefers to be called, is the founder of the Nzinga-Ndugu rites of passage (or initiation) society—a group whose focus is instilling principle and character in the lives of African-American youth. The author of "Perfect Peace" an Oprah's Book Club selection, he is currently working on his next novel.

The workshop is discussion of the current state of black, and gay issues in American and in the Northwest as seen through the eyes a Dr. Danial Black.