Healthy & Safe Communities

NBEJN sponsored or participated in the following events as part of its Healthy & Safe Communities initiative.

7/9/2005 Speak Truth to Power - Hundreds of environmental justice, human rights and peace activists, artists, and scholars gathered in Washington DC to pay tribute to "community hero" Damu Smith.

11/9/2004 APHA Annual Conference'-Promoting community/public health partnerships

9/18/2004 Green Festival in Washington, DC

6/11/2004 Margie Richard honored in New Orleans, LA for winning the 2004 Goldman Prize. She was the first African American woman to win the award

4/26/2004 Partners for Children's Health Conference in Baltimore, Md