Attention business owners and corporate leaders! Consider the practical application of the Vedic message as relates to your company. While businesses typically provide "race relations" courses for their employees, why not make available to them "Transcending Race Consciousness in the Workplace" which Mr. Byrd will deliver at your establishment.
(For more on Mr. Byrd's spiritual philosophy, please read "Look inside to find path to harmony," an Albany Times Union essay.) Mr. Byrd is also available as moderator of panel discussions, community forums and debates.
Contact Mr. Byrd by writing to: Interracial Voice, P.O. Box 560185, College Point, NY 11356-0185.
Telephone contact is 718-909-1878.
Email is chasbyrd@gmail.com
Charles Michael Byrd (Charukrishna), author of "The Bhagavad-gita in Black and White: From Mulatto Pride to Krishna Consciousness" (Backintyme Publishing), is available as a speaker/lecturer on Vaishnava-Hinduism and specifically on how the ancient Vedic philosophy has practical application as regards transcending the race notion in general, and its particular application apropos of the mixed-race community.
October 4, 2007 @ 7:30 p.m.
Charles Michael Byrd will be speaking at Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield Street, Watchung Plaza in Montclair, New Jersey on Thursday, October 4th from 7 to 8 p.m. Mr. Byrd will reading from his book and hold a Q&A session on racialism from the Vedic perspective.
December 5, 2001 @ 7:30 p.m.
Mr. Byrd will discuss "The politics and social ramifications of the multiracial movement" at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. This lecture is sponsored by Bridges, Macalester's multiracial support group. Bridges aims to be a warm and welcome environment for those interested in multiracial or cross-cultural issues and works to provide a place for discussion of these issues.
December 3, 2001 @ 2:00 p.m.
Mr. Byrd will moderate a panel discussion on "Individual Freedom Vs. State Safety" sponsored by the Queens Borough Public Library as part of the "Queens Speaks" community forum series. The location is the Flushing branch of the Queens Borough Public Library at 41-17 Main Street, Flushing NY, 11355 (718) 661-1200
November 30, 2001 @ 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Byrd will participate in a panel discussion at The Theater of the Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Ave. @ 120th Street in New York City. The dialogue is entitled, "Race: Weird Science?" and will be moderated by Dr. James A. Forbes Jr. Other scheduled panelists are columnist Stanley Crouch and author Clara Rodriguez.
October 4, 2001 @ 7 p.m.
Mr. Byrd will discuss The Politics of the Multiracial Movement during "Multicultural Awareness Week 2001" at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey (The Future of Multiculturalism: Drew and Beyond). See Drew University's Multicultural Awareness Week events calendar.
April 29, 1999
The Students of Mixed Heritage And Culture organization of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts has invited IV Editor/Publisher Charles Michael Byrd to lead a provocative and frank dialogue entitled, "From Mixedness to Humanity and Beyond." The event is open to the public and will take place on Thursday, April 29 @ 7:30 p.m. in Converse Hall. For more info, call Tariye Isoun at 413-542-5744.
February 6-7, 1999
On February 6-7, 1999, the 3rd Pan Collegiate Conference on the Mixed Race Experience will take place at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. Mr. Byrd will speak on the the mixed-race community being at the forefront of freeing Americans from outdated ways of "racial" thinking.
May 18, 1997
Speaking at New Jersey Interracial Outreach Day at the Montclair YWCA, 159 Glenridge Avenue in Montclair, NJ. The event is
co-sponsored by Getting Interracial/Intercultural Families Together (GIFT)
in Montclair, The Group for Biracial Families in Englewood, Interracial Life
in East Brunswick, and The Multiracial Family Support Group in Plainfield.
For more information call GIFT at (201) 783-0083.
April 19, 1997
Leading a workshop at the Intercollegiate Conference For Interracial/Multiracial Students at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. This is a conference on racial identity and is open to all interracial students.
March 24, 1997
Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey on Monday, March 24 from 7:00-9:30 p.m. The lecture is sponsored by a Princeton undergraduate task force that was presented with the challenge of redefining/reconfiguring the racial classification system within the U.S. Census. The task force is attempting to "rewrite" a new Directive 15. Mr. Byrd will deliver the mixed-race perspective on the issue.
March 8, 1997
Moderator of a panel discussion on "Physician Assisted Suicide," sponsored by the Queens Borough Public Library as part of the "Queens Speaks" community forum series. (89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 718-990-0781)
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