A Sept. 15 keynote speech by noted author and minister Rev. Jamal Bryant headlines the University of Maryland Eastern Shore’s 139th Founders Week, which runs from Sept. 11-18.
Bryant, who founded Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple AME Church and currently serves as senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church near Atlanta, will address the UMES campus community at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 15 at 12 p.m.
Bryant has brought nationwide attention to corporate diversity programs and unequal treatment in disadvantaged communities with his calls to boycott Target and other retailers.
Other events scheduled for Founders Week, featuring the theme “Standing on Greatness,” include the Friday, Sept. 12 wreath laying ceremony honoring the school’s two founders Benjamin O. Bird and his wife Portia Lovett Bird; a campus-wide community day of service on Saturday, Sept. 13; historical campus tour following Bryant’s speech; and the Sept. 16 unveiling of a historical marker on the spot of where UMES was founded in 1886.
All events are free and open to the public.
For information on all Founders Week events, click here.
