Community Relations Service

Daryl Borgquist
202/305-2966

     WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service (CRS) Director Sharee M. Freeman will give remarks at the 30th Annual Convention titled "Entering a Fourth Decade: A Call to Leadership" of the National Conference of Black Mayors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Freeman will address the Standing Committee on Criminal and Social Justice from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, 2004.

     The National Conference of Black Mayors meeting is being held at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel from April 28 - May 1, 2004. The hotel is located at 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. The telephone number is 215/627-1200. The conference press contact is Bonnie Ransom Jackson, who may be contacted through her office at 404/505-8188, for the location of the press room at the conference.

     CRS is a unique federal agency dedicated to preventing and defusing racial and ethnic conflicts. For more information about the Community Relations Service, a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, see its web site at: www.usdoj.gov/crs.

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