On Wednesday, January 30, Bill Campbell, executive producer and host of the ABC-7 Television Chicago show "Chicagoing," and president of CampbellQuest, Ltd., an executive and professional coaching practice, gave the keynote address NEIU's 12th Annual African, African American, Native American, Caribbean, and the Americas Heritage Conference.

Campbell presented his talk "Positive on Purpose – The Bright Truth of a Dark Past: One African American Journalist's Journey to the Truth of Positive Personal Choice in the Midst of the Continuing Reality of Racism in the 21st Century."