Staff
Earl Fowlkes serves as the President/CEO of the Center for Black Equity (formerly the International Federation of Black Pride - IFBP). He founded the IFBP in 1999 as a coalition of organizers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Africa formed to promote a multinational network of Black LGBTQ Pride and community-based organizations. Earl has nearly thirty years of senior management experience including stints as the Executive Director of the DC Comprehensive AIDS Resources and Education Consortium (DC CARE Consortium) and Damien Ministries, organizations that provided services to Person Living With HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC.
Earl has served as member of the National African American Tobacco Education Network; as Lead Manager for the former CDC HIV Prevention Project, as the Principal Investigator for the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health POWER research project; was a member of the 100 Black Men of American National Health and Wellness Committee; and chaired Ryan White HIV Community Planning Councils in Jersey City and Washington, DC. He currently serves on seven non-profit Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards.
Earl is the former Chair of the DC Human Rights Commission and a national partner of the LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce, The NAACP, United Church of Christ, AARP International, and the U.S. Travel Association.
Board of Directors
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Transgender Task Force (CBE-TTF)
In March 2020, the Center for Black Equity established the Transgender Task Force. This task force will serve in an advisory role to CBE on the following issues:
- Creating events that fully embrace transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
- Lack of support for transgender issues from the Black LGBTQ+ communities
- Lack of dialogue from the Black community that addresses transphobia and the violence it creates towards Black Transgender individuals
Co-Chairs
Quentin Bell
Selma, Alabama | Co-chair
Charmaine Eccles
Washington, DC | Co-chair