Contact: Mondella Jones
213-353-9610 ext. 107
mondellaj@blackaids.org
Press Conference
BLACK AIDS INSTITUTE AND NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS FORM YEAR-LONG PARTNERSHIP TO RAISE AWARENESS OF HIV/AIDS IN BLACK COMMUNITY
Free HIV testing to take place at Healthy NABJ Pavilion during NABJ National Conference
WHAT: Press conference to announce a year-long partnership between the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Black AIDS Institute to promote HIV awareness in Black communities starting with free HIV testing at the NABJ Convention. Acclaimed actress Regina King will be on hand to encourage people to get tested.
Because of the devastating impact HIV/AIDS has had on the Black Community, the NABJ has joined the Black AIDS Institute’s Test 1 Million campaign. The partnership will encourage NABJ members to cover local testing events in their communities and to be role models by publicly getting tested.
The Test 1 Million (T1M) movement is a call-to action for one million Black Americans to get tested for HIV. NABJ has joined the movement, in hopes of reducing HIV incidence in Black America by increasing the number of Black Americans who know their HIV status.
WHO:Principals available for interviews:
Phill Wilson is founder and Executive Director of the Black AIDS Institute and is the foremost expert and speaker on the AIDS crisis in Black America. Wilson was named one of Essence Magazine’s top 25 most influential African Americans in 2008 and made Ebony Magazine’s Power 150 in 2009.
Kathy Times is the 18th President of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) elected by the membership to serve the 2009-2011 term. The Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and co-anchor of Fox 40 News at 9 in Jackson, Mississippi previously served NABJ as Vice President-Broadcast from 2007-2009.
Regina King is a popular television and film actress currently starring as 'Detective Lydia Adams' in TNT's drama Southland. King made her television debut in the hit sitcom 227, and has starred in movies including Boyz in the Hood, Friday, Jerry Maguire, Enemy of the State, Legally Blonde 2, Miss Congeniality 2, Ray, and most recently Our Family Wedding.
WHEN: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8:00 a.m.
WHERE: Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego, 1 Market Place, San Diego, CA 92101
About the National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides quality programs and services to and advocates on behalf of black journalists worldwide. Founded by 44 men and women on December 12, 1975, in Washington, DC, NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation. For more information visit www.nabj.org.
About the Black AIDS Institute
Founded in 1999, the Black AIDS Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank in the United States focused exclusively on black people. The mission of the Institute is to stop AIDS in black communities by engaging and mobilizing traditional black institutions, leaders, celebrities, media organizations and clergy in efforts to confront AIDS. The Institute offers training and mobilization from a uniquely and unapologetically Black point of view.
For more information on Black AIDS Institute, becoming a Test 1 Million Affiliate and host testing events in your community, or for testing sites in your area, please visit: www.blackaids.org