Reception 5:30 p.m.
Dinner 6:30 p.m.
Meeting after Dinner
| Mr. Ted Reinstein | Television Reporter for Chronicle & Author |
| Rev. Dr. Deborah Jackson | Peoples Baptist Church, Boston, MA |
| Rev. Dr. Soliny Vedrine | Missionary Baptist Church Boston, MA |
| Mr. Arthur Almeda | Director Boston Baptist Social Union |
| Welcome | President James Steeves |
| Song | “Wonderful Words of Life” Led by Richard Freeman |
| Invocation | Rev. Dr. Deborah Jackson |
| Dinner | |
| Business | James Steeves |
| Christian Work Moment | Fred Drauschke |
| Program | “Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier” |
| Benediction | Rev. Dr. Soliny Vedrine |
Author and TV personality, Ted Reinstein, shares anecdotes from his most recent book, Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier.
Since 1995, Ted Reinstein has been a reporter for Boston's WCVB TV's “Chronicle”, the nation's longest running locally-produced nightly newsmagazine. He has also been a regular contributor to the station's political roundtable show, “On the Record”. Ted has been a member of the WCVB editorial board since 2010.
Elsewhere on television, Ted hosted the premiere season of the Discovery Channel s “Popular Mechanics” show, and hosted a special on America's lighthouses for HGTV. For the Travel channel's photo adventure series, “Freeze Frame” he explored Hawaii's volcanoes, the caves of Puerto Rico, and the South Pacific islands of Tahiti. In 2002, he was part of the Chronicle team that received a prestigious National DuPont-Columbia Broadcast Journalism Award for Chronicle's coverage of Boston's Big Dig project. In 2018, he received an Emmy Award for his story on the “Good Night Lights” phenomenon in Providence, Rhode Island.
His first book, New England Notebook: One Reporter, Six States, Uncommon Stories, was released in May 2013 by Globe-Pequot Press. National Geographic Traveler named it one of its “Best Picks”. He is the author of Wicked Pissed: New England's Most Famous Fueds Globe-Pequot press 2015, and co-author with his wife Anne Marie, of New England's General Stores: Exploring an American Classic GPP/Rowman-Littlefield, Fall 2017. His most recent book is Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier Lyons Press/Fall 2021.
Ted is a native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, and lives just west of Boston with his wife and two daughters.