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A monthly forum that invites the Community to listen, discuss, and be inspired to action! - Moderated by Van Caldwell

Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church

7400 Temple Hill Rd., Camp Springs, MD 20748

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DATE: Saturday, Apr 12, 2008 6:00 PM
TOPIC: Judging Anan A study of Kofi Annan's difficulty in managing the United Nations
AUTHOR: Richard Bagubu
Richard Bagudu is a New York licensed attorney, an investigative journalist and a poet. He served as editor-in-chief of The Lawyers‚ Digest, a law school journal for Bendel State University, Ekpoma, Nigeria. Bagudu holds a master's degree in Intellectual Property from Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire. He lives in Maryland with his family.

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DATE: Saturday, May 10, 2008 6:00 PM
BOOK: Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History - about his discovery that his ancestors were one of the biggest slave trading families in Rhode Island and the Caribbean.

AUTHOR: Thomas DeWolf (more on web site)
TOPIC: The author will discuss his journey with nine cousins retracing the steps of their ancestors through the notorious Triangle Trade from Rhode Island to Ghana and Cuba.

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DATE: Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:00 PM
BOOK: They Built The Capitol - about slaves who built the capitol, worked on the White House, and other public buildings across the nation.
AUTHOR: Jesse Holland

Admission Free. Child Care will be provided. Refreshments. Books for sale. Followed by Cafe Florian open mic coffee house at 8 PM.

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Davies church is located (see directions) in Maryland (MD) , Prince George's County (PG Co.), near Accokeek, Brandywine, Camp Springs, Cheverly, Clinton, District Heights, Forestville, Fort Washington, Friendly, Ft. Washington, Greenbelt, Marlton, Mitchellville, Oxon Hill, Suitland, Temple Hills, Upper Marlboro; Prince George's is not far from Charles County which includes Indian Head, Port Tobacco, Waldorf, LaPlata, White Plains, Chicamuxen; Calvert County also borders on Prince George's Co. and includes these towns: Chesapeake Beach, Dunkirk, Owings, Solomons, Sunderland; and we're located just seven miles from Washington, D.C.