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Events & Speaking Engagements - 2010
About A'Lelia Bundles
Click here to read A'Lelia's Bio
Click the links below to see A'Lelia's speeches at
The Israeli Presidential Conference (October 2009)
DC Commission for Women Business Panel (January 2010)
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A'Lelia Bundles--author, Emmy Award winning producer and former ABC News executive -- is Madam Walker's great-great-granddaughter and biographer. Her bestselling book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker , was a 2001 New York Times Notable Book. An engaging speaker, Ms. Bundles has appeared at dozens of conferences and institutions including Harvard University, the Library of Congress, London's City Hall, the Israeli Presidential Conference, the National Archives, the National Association of Women Business Owners and the Center on Philanthropy. She has appeared on NBC's Today, CBS's Sunday Morning, ABC's Good Morning America and NPR's All Things Considered. She currently is at work on a biography of her great-grandmother and namesake, A'Lelia Walker, a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
If you would like to invite A'Lelia Bundles to speak to your group or organization, please contact her at ABundles@gmail.com
If your book club is reading On Her Own Ground, click here for a reading group guide.
Click here for articles by and about A'Lelia Bundles.
Bennett College ACES Lecture
Thursday, March 18, 2010
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p-m. |
Madam C. J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Activist, Philanthropist
Location: Bennett College
Greensboro, NC
www.bennett.edu
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National League of American Pen Women
Saturday, March 20, 2010
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. |
Location: Pen Arts Building
1300 17th Street NW
Washington, DC
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Black Women and Beauty
Monday, March 22, 2010
7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m. |
Location: University of Maryland
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Montgomery County Public Library (NEW DATE)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. |
NEW DATE!! (Rescheduled due to February snow)
Montgomery County Public Library Women's History Month Keynote
"Writing Women Back into History"
Location: Rockville Library
21 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, MD
Directions
New date: rescheduled because of February snow storm
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National Women's History Month 30th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
5:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. |
In celebration of the 1980 Presidential Proclamation establishing Women's History Week, A'Lelia Bundles
will join Molly Murphy MacGregor, founder of the National Women's History Project, and others to discuss
"Why Women's History."
Location: Washington, DC
www.nwhp.org
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UNT Women of Color Conference
Bay Area National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Friday, April 09, 2010
10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. |
12th Annual NCBW Madam C. J. Walker Awards and Scholarship Luncheon
Location: San Francisco Marriott
55 Fourth Street
San Francisco, CA
http://www.onehundredblackwomen.com/
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N Street Village Gala
"Daughters of Destiny"/Flint, Michigan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. |
Flint Community Schools: Teaching American History Grant Workshop
"Daughters of Destiny: Living with History" with Nettie Washington Douglass and Michelle Duster
Location: Flint, Michigan
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Metropolitan DC Links 28th Annual Talent Search for Young Black Writers
Thursday, April 29, 2010
7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. |
Awards Ceremony for Washington, DC area high school writers
MC: A'Lelia Bundles
Keynote Address: Dolen Valdez-Perkins, author of Wench
Location: Sumner School and Archives
17th & M Streets, NW
Washington, DC
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Black Saga Black History Awards Banquet
Sunday, May 02, 2010
4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. |
Location: University of Maryland Marriott Inn
College Park, MD
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2009 and 2010 Speeches
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