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  1. A panel discussion about the memory of 9/11
    A panel discussion about the memory of 9/11

    with Nora Ephron, Calvin Butts, Calvin Trillin and more on Sep 11, 2006

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Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, is the Pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York, and President of The State University of New York College at Old Westbury.

Dr. Butts is a native New Yorker. He spent a few years in the American South where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Morehouse College in Georgia. He returned to New York and earned a Master of Divinity Degree in Church History from Union Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Ministry in Church and Public Policy from Drew University.

He was one of the founders of Abyssinian Development Corporation, a comprehensive community-based organization, responsible for over $100 million in housing and commercial development in Harlem. He has also been instrumental in the establishment of the Thurgood Marshall Academy for learning and Social Change - a public intermediate and high school, under the direction of Abyssinian Development Corporation.

He has taught Urban Affairs and served as an Adjunct Professor in the African Studies Department at City College, New York. He has also taught Black Church History at Fordham University. Dr. Butts has given numerous lectures and speeches at colleges and universities across the nation.

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