Price to Speak at Jay Heritage Center

Hugh Price '66 Law will be one of three speakers featured at the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, Jan. 15, at an event organized by the American Women of African Heritage.

Hugh Price '66 Law, Yale Law Graduate, New Rochelle resident and a former President and CEO of the National Urban League, will be one of three featured authors who will speak at Jay Estate in Rye, Jan. 15 (2-5 pm), as part of the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday. Price will be joined by authors Brenda Ross and Tiffany D. Jackson. 

This year he published his memoir This African-American Life, which recounts his years growing up in Washington, D.C., his days at Yale Law School and working in the New Haven community, and programs he pursued while at the Urban League. 

The Annual Literary Tea, held at the Jay Heritage Center for the fourth straight year, is sponsored by the American Women of African Heritage.

Price has been affiliated with the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. In Westchester, he served on the board and was a Chairman at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville.  He headed the National Urban League from 1994-2003. During his time there, he established the Institute for Opportunity and Equality. He is also the author of Mobilizing the Community, Getting Your Child the Best Education, and Achievement Matters.

While at Yale Law School, he was executive director of the Black Coalition of New Haven, which was instrumental in providing legal services to low-income families.  Before becoming CEO at the Urban League, Price held posts at the New York Times (editorial board) and the Rockefeller Foundation.

At the National Urban League, he focused on education, youth development, and economic empowerment in African-American communities. He also launched the Campaign for African American Achievement program.

A graduate also of Amherst College, Price has taught at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy at Princeton.

Speaker Brenda Ross is the author of Bibsy, a love story that captures small-town, African-American life.  Tiffany D. Jackson wrote the novel Allegedly, selected by many reviewers as one of the best young-adult novels of 2017.  Her novel Monday's Not Coming will be published in June.

Suzanne Clary '83 is president of the board of trustees at the Jay Heritage Center. The Center hosted Yale history professor Joanne Freeman as part of the YWAA speaker series in Dec., 2015.

For more about tickets ($65/person) for the Martin Luther King Day event, contact franteek@aol.com or jayheritagecenter@gmail.com.  Or call the Center at 914-698-9275.