Howard University To Host Minority Media Social Justice Summit

Washington, DC  –   The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council [MMTC] has opened registration for its 2010 MMTC Broadband and Social Justice Summit to be held at Howard University’s School of Communications on January 21 and 22, 2010. A current agenda and link MMTC’s web site follows.

School of Communications, Howard University

Presiding: Henry Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP; Chair, MMTC

Roundtable Facilitator: Tyrone Brown, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP, Member, MMTC

Board of Advisors

January 21, 2010

5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Reception

January 22, 2010

7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Welcome: Henry Rivera, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP, Chair MMTC

David Honig, President and Executive Director, MMTC

8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks: Hon. Julius Genachowski, Chairman,

Federal Communications Commission (invited)

9:15 a.m. Roundtable Discussion One: Broadband Literacy, Education and Civic

Engagement. Rapporteur: Jacqueline Clary, Counsel, MMTC

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussion Two: Broadcasting and Journalism in the

Broadband World. Rapporteur: Joycelyn James, John W. Jones

Fellow, MMTC

12:00 p.m. Luncheon

12:30 p.m. Luncheon Keynote: Hon. Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, Federal

Communications Commission (invited)

2:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion Three: Closing the Digital Divide. Rapporteur:

Joseph Miller, Earle K. Moore Fellow, MMTC

3:15 p.m. Recap and Recommendations: Tyrone Brown

4:00 p.m. Adjournment

To register go to: http://mmtconline.org/?page_id=257

For sponsorship information, contact David Honig, President and Executive