{"113671":{"#nid":"113671","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Black Leadership Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe 2012 Black Leadership Conference will host keynote speaker Tour\u00e9, an NBC correspondent and contributing editor to Rolling Stone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApproaching its ninth anniversary, the Georgia Tech Black Leadership Conference (BLC) is hosted annually by the African American Student Union (AASU) to promote leadership and diversity in professional and community life. Since it began in 2004, the BLC has helped to host such prominent and prolific speakers, such as Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin, Dr. Maya Angelou, (then) Senator Barack Obama and, most recently, Dr. Cornel West.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe BLC \u0026nbsp;focuses on the professional and personal development of students.\u0026nbsp;Through participation in town hall forums, themed workshops and networking events, BLC student attendees are exposed to topics ranging from financial empowerment to the history of their African origins. Every day of the conference features one or more speakers, culminating with a keynote speaker on Sunday who is a notable Black leader and inspires conference attendees to take what they\u2019ve learned back to their communities and put it into action.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtblc.org\/schedule-2\/\u0022\u003EView the full conference schedule\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtblc.org\/registration\/\u0022\u003Eregister online\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for the 2012 Black Leadership Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKeynote speaker Tour\u00e9, a correspondent for NBC, is among the most important writers on culture working today.\t\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Keynote speaker Tour\u00e9, a correspondent for NBC, is among the most important writers on culture working today."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2012-03-02 10:45:53","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:15","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-04T16:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-04T19:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-04T19:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-04 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-05 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-05 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtblc.org\/registration\/","title":"Register for BLC 2012"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4539","name":"aasu"},{"id":"6469","name":"African American Student Union"},{"id":"4805","name":"black leadership conference"},{"id":"12174","name":"blc"},{"id":"25551","name":"toure"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca style=\u0022font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px;\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:gtaasu.blc@gmail.com\u0022\u003EBlack Leadership Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}