conference this weekend on friday march 14th, through sunday, march 16th, at the embassy suites 150 ansel boulevard. and on saturday morning, from 8:00 a.m. to 10 a.m., we will have a vital issues forum, and where the topic is positive factors, resulting in the decrease of african american male students graduating from high school and model programs in the bay area to help break this cycle. dr. joe marshal will facilitate and he will be discussing the live and free program. brian gasden from the urban education saturday program, which is for elementary students will be here. we will have a representative from 100 black men from oakland, and dr. anthony anderson is going to talk about the omega... and a representative from oakland unified program campaign for black male achievement and he will give a historical perspective and our superintendent will be present to give greetings and to provide informative facts on topics on this topic from the unified school district's perspective. saturday night, and we will honor, miss emily wade thompson for her 35 years of service and education as a teacher, pri