Just like the drum; which has echoed from Mother Africa’s soil to US cotton fields. Communication has been expressed through the music & dance of our ancestors. It is the mission of IBBA to acknowledge and honor our responsibility to speak truth into the world.

 

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VIP Reception
Location

IBBA Convention & National Conference of Black Mayors
June 4 - 8, 2008  [Schedule of Events]

Networking is not an OPTION it is our SURVIVAL

(L) Rob Neal (R) Mayor Ray Nagin at the 2006 IBBAINC Annual Convention
June is Black Music Month and New Orleans has been selected for a Historical Event.
Mayor George Grace, President of National Conference of Black Mayors and Rob Neal,
Executive Director of The International Black Broadcasters Association are proud to
announce The 34th Annual National Conference of Black Mayors Conference and The Eighth Annual International Black Broadcasters Association Conference will be held on the same dates, June 4-8, 2008 at Harrah's Casino Hotel and The Hilton Riverside Hotel, Poydras Street Downtown New Orleans.

Over 600 Black Mayors and Black Broadcasters across America and abroad will be in attendance. That's June 4,5,6,7,8, 2008 at Harrah's Casino Hotel and The Hilton Riverside Hotel on Poydras Street, Downtown New Orleans.

The International Black Broadcasters Association is proud to announce renowned Princeton University Professor and Author Dr. Cornel West, one of America's most gifted intellectual speakers will be hosting a conversation entitled “ Never Forget The Journey”

Hilton Hotel – Compass Room
Riverside Bldg

 
" Urban Programming the Electronic Evolution"

We will focus on what adjustments of today's programmers that will keep their stations competitive as the Top 50 markets prepare to shift from diary measurement to PPM !

Moderator Tony Gray

 
 Bishop Dwight D. Pate
 
 House of Testimony Ministry
 Baton Rouge, La

 
 Chef Carol Shelton

Meet her at The  IBBA 2008  Broadcast Panel

Chef/Cookbook Author/Cooking Show Host
She will be conducting a workshop   "Noir Hands
in the Pot" (Black Hands in the Pot)
Contributions of African American Chefs/Then & Now
to the Culinary world

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look who has attended in the past!

Rob Neal, Tim Reid Malcolm Jamal Warner Rob Neal, Dr. Cornel West, Butch Hartfield
Robin Roberts, Rob Neal, Sally Ann Mayor Milton D. Tutwiler, Rob Neal, Mayor Kip Holden, Carol Willis Rob Neal, Mayor Marion Barry
Rob Neal, Mayor George L. Grace, Chante Moore, Kenny Latimore, Vanessa Williams Mrs. Pickering, Judge Charles Pickering and Rob Neal Rob Neal and Congressman William Jefferson
Charles Evers, Deborah Delgado, Rob Neal Lenny Williams Dick Gregory, Rob Neal, Judge Charles Pickering
Look who's already been to the IBBA Conference Look who's already been to the IBBA Conference Look who's already been to the IBBA Conference
Rob Neal, Robin Roberts-ABC, Tony Brown, Nicole Sellers-J Records   Rob Neal, Karen Beverly- FCC, Unice Rice-Jive Records Dick
Gregory, JB, Rob Neal