Norton to Speak about Racial Profiling in Keynote Address at GSA Black History Program, Today

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today will give the keynote address at a Black History Program hosted by the General Services Administration (GSA) Benjamin Banneker Chapter (BBC) of Blacks in Government (BIG) at the GSA Conference Center(1800 F Street NW, rooms 1459-1461) from 12:30 p.m. – 12:50 p.m. Norton serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the GSA.

"I am pleased to speak to employees at the GSA, the agency I have most worked with in Congress and the agency I have done perhaps my most lasting work: the economic development projects in the city," Norton said. "At this year's GSA Black History event, however, I will focus on a current issue of concern to Black America that has become a national issue: racial profiling, and what to do about it. I feel, however, that I must also say something about yet another ordeal for federal employees with the possible shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security still a live issue."

Other speakers at the event will include Acting GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth, National Capital Region Administrator Julia Hudson, Office of Small Business Utilization Jerome Fletcher, and Office of Human Resources Management Antonia Harris.

BIG was organized in 1975. BIG has been a national response to the need for African Americans in public service to organize around issues of mutual concern and use their collective strength to confront workplace and community issues.