Civil Rights Veteran and WhereToGo411.com Collaborate to Host Historic Summit

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - April 3, 2013 - PRLog -- (Birmingham, Alabama) Leaders from Alabama’s religious and business communities will join forces in an historic Birmingham summit designed to devise creative solutions to revive urban communities suffering from years of economic neglect. The event, will be held at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, at the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, 1101 Martin Luther King, Jr., Drive S.W. and will be driven by the theme, The Black Church: An Economic Harvest.

Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Civil Rights events in Birmingham, the entrepreneurs and church leaders vow to take the lead and formulate a strategy that will grow the black business class and spur an economic movement.

The keynote speaker will be Rev. Dr. Virgil A. Wood, a ten-year co-worker of Dr. King and Virginia organizer of the March on Washington in 1963.

The national web site, WhereToGo411.com, is partnering with Birmingham non-profits, and religious, city, and community leaders to facilitate the summit. WhereToGo411 (http://wheretogo411.com/videos/where2go411com.html) is a national web site and mobile app that connects African-American business owners to a market of local and national buyers, including consumers. Kathy Y. Times, a former Birmingham news anchor and investigative reporter and the immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, and her business partner and entrepreneur, James Covington, launched WhereToGo411 in Birmingham in May 2012.

Confirmed Summit participants include religious leaders and representatives from leading Civil Rights organizations. Seating is limited. To register, go to www.WhereToGo411.com.