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BY - Professor Frederick Williams

Professor Frederick Williams is the author of four published novels, The Nomination, Beyond Redemption, Just Loving You, Fires of Greenwood: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, and also co-authored Bayard & Martin. He has ghostwritten five autobiographies and is the editor of the anthology, Black is the Color of Strength. He recently completed a screen script, Wipe Out: Defending Black Wall Street, for a film bringing to the screen the great accomplishments of Black Americans on Black Wall Street in Tulsa Oklahoma and the hate that destroyed it. He helped establish the African American Studies Minor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He taught a variety of classes to include; African American Political Thought, African American Politics, a course on the Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance and African American Literature from Phyllis Wheatley to the Black Arts Movement. He is presently Executive Editor of Pairee Publications, LLC.

fredwilliams.satx@gmail.com



BY - Mr. Lane Denton
Mr. Lane Denton served in the Texas State Legislature from 1971 to 1977 and was Chair of the House Committee on Social Services and Chair of the Sub-committee on Public Welfare and in that role he exposed the abusive treatment of out of state Black children in detention homes and as a result the Texas Attorney General closed them down. As a Freshman Legislator in 1971, he was the leader of the reform movement in the legislature that changed that manner in which it functioned. He wrote the landmark Texas Open Records Law. In 1975 he was selected as one of the top 100 Leaders in the State of Texas. He served on the staff of Ted Kennedy for President in 1980. He was also the Director of the Southwest Region for the President Jimmy Carter Administration. He is presently writing his memoirs to be released in 2020. denton.lane@gmail.com



BY - Mr. G. Sterling Zinsmeyer
Mr. G. Sterling Zinsmeyer’s early career was in theatrical and television productions which was interrupted by the AIDS epidemic. He is one of the two living members of the original Buddy Team formed in 1983 at Gay Men’s Health Crisis. He established the first full-service HIV/AIDS residence in the Bronx and Harlem. He also spearheaded the development of the six AIDS Day Treatment programs throughout New York City. He has a long history of LGBT political activism serving two terms as President of the New York City Stonewall Democrats. He is the Executive Producer of the award-winning film, Latter Day and the acclaimed chamber opera, Fellow Travelers. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sterling@theonwardgroup.net