 Howard has been the keynote speaker at many events, including the 34th annual meeting of the fair housing agency, Housing Opportunities Made Equal, in 1997.At the Buffalo Convention Center in 1998, Howard spoke at the eighth annual Dr. Martin Luther King breakfast, sponsored by the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church.Howard, in part, encouraged the 600 attendees of the breakfast to work toward achieving the ideals of King, as well as to strive to make a "racially harmonious world and a just society."