Board Members

Officers

NBCDI Board Chair
Michael G. Johnson
UPS
Atlanta, GA

First Vice Chair
Trisch L. Smith
Edelman
Washington, DC

Second Vice Chair
Michael J. Brown
American Red Cross
Washington, DC

Secretary
Ina D. Patton, Ph.D.
Patton Consulting, LLC
Centreville, VA

Treasurer
Dimitrius M. Hutcherson
Deloitte Services, LP
Reston, VA

Directors

Linda Hassan-Anderson
NAEYC
Washington, D.C.

Charmaine Johnson, Ed.D.
BCDI-Detroit
Detroit, MI

Corinna E. Lathan, Ph.D.
AnthroTronix, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD

Felicia McDade
Johnson Controls
Roswell, GA

Wanda Montgomery
Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Gordon S. Woodward, Esq.
Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, LLP
Washington, DC

This Week in Black History

August 22nd

In 1867, Fisk University was established.

In 1950, Althea Gibson was the first black to play in the U.S. Champioships.

August 23rd

In 1900, National Negro Business League was founded.

August 24th

In 1950, Edith Sampson, first Black delegate to United Nations appointed by Harry S. Truman.

August 25th

In 1908, the National Association of Colored Nurses was founded.

August 26th

In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified giving women the right to vote.

August 27th

In 1963, W.E.B. Dubois, editor, author and Civil Rights leader died in Accra, Ghana.

August 28th

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech at Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.