3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival-NYC-

Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Saturday, January 17, 2015

10 am-7 pm

515 Malcolm X Boulevard

New York, NY, 10037

(917) 275-6975

Get Directions

The Schomburg Center’s 3rd Annual Black Comic Book Festival celebrates the rich tradition of black comix in a full day event featuring panel discussions, film screenings, hands-on workshops and exhibit tables with premiere black comic artists from across the country.

The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival is presented by the Junior Scholars Program in collaboration with Jerry Craft (Mama’s Boyz) and John Jennings (SUNY Buffalo/Black Kirby).

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER or visit www.schomburgcenter.eventbrite.com

Exhibitors by invitation only.  Please contact schomburged@nypl.org for more information.  

See more at

http://www.afronerd.com/2015/01/finally-black-comic-con-is-coming.html

African American Children's Book Fair- Philadelphia -2/7/15-1-3pm

The 23rd Annual African American Children's Book Fair takes place in Philadelphia on February 7, 2015
Author and illustrators will make presentations from their books; also games, prizes, promotional give-aways and reading resources will be available. A wide selection of African American books to purchase will be featured at the event.

Authors and illustrators in attendance include Tonya Bolden, Eric Velasquez, E.B. Lewis and Zetta Elliott, Floyd Cooper and Sharon Dennis Wyeth

Location:  Community College of Philadelphia, Gymnasium, 17th and Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia
Time: 1-3pm
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2015
Admission: Free
Website: http://theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org

More info- Call 215-878-BOOK

Why should you attend?
Because  We Need Diverse Books!
See also http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2014/05/all-white-world-of-childrens-books.html

All white world of children's books question continues with Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers

Jersey City. NJ  resident and award winning children's author, Walter Dean Myers and his son,also an award winning artist and author tackled the question of representations of children of color in youth literature in the Sunday New York Times  dated March 16. 2014.

Walter Dean Myers article, " Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?"  stressed the need and importance of having protagonists of color in books for youth and recounted his discovery and love of literature as a child and his dissatisfaction as an adolescent when he could not find literature that reflected his life experiences.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/where-are-the-people-of-color-in-childrens-books.html?_r=0

Christopher Myers article, "The Apartheid of Children’s Literature", examined the background reasons for the dearth of youth  literature by and about people of color.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/the-apartheid-of-childrens-literature.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

Many will remember that these issues have been visited before in the classic article, "The All-White world of children's books" by Nancy Larrick published in the Saturday Review (1965, September 11) that raised many of these issues.

Other books such as the The all-white world of children's books and African American children's literature,  edited by Osayimwense Osa (1995)  [PS153 .N5 A399 1995] and Free within ourselves : the development of African American children's literature by Rudine Sims Bishop (2007) ,[ PS153 .N5 B526 2007b] also examined these issues.

See also
http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2013/06/all-white-world-of-childrens-books.html

All white world of children's books continues

From NPR:
"When it comes to diversity, children's books are sorely lacking; instead of presenting a representative range of  faces, they're overwhelmingly white. How bad is the disconnect? A report by the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that only 3 percent of children's books are by or about Latinos — even though nearly a quarter of all public school children today are Latino."

(image from http://www.amazon.com/Am-Latino-The-Beauty-Me/dp/0316160091

The article also mentions that a young Latina reader likes multicultural books because they feature characters "  ... with their long, dark hair and olive skin, they look a lot like her."  The article glosses over the point that this is not a true  description of all Latinas, a population which has a great deal of diversity. Works by author/illustrators  such as  Eric Velasquez,  Amelia Lau Carling, Yuyi and  Magaly Morales show that this standard description is plainly not the case.

To read the rest of the article, which has similar findings for books about other ethnic groups, see
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2013/jun/25/as-demographics-shift-kids-books-stay-stubbornly-white/

However, , the situation described in this article  has been with us for decades.

( image from http://www.amazon.com/White-Childrens-African-American-Literature/dp/0865434778)

In 1995, Frances Smith Foster in her article " Since the Sixties" in th The all-white world of children's books and African American children's literature , bemoaned the fact that  "...since the eighties, the stream of books for children by African -Americans has slowed to a trickle.   Many books are out of print and new titles are few and far between. Only about 1% of children's books published in the first half of the 1980s focus upon African-Americans and many of these are not by African Americans ( p.42) ."

The book in which this essay appears, The all-white world of children's books and African American children's literature edited by Osayimwense Osa. (Africa World Press, c1995) also reprints the original Larrick  article from the Saturday Review of Books. The other  essays examine several aspects of the  representations of diversity in children's literature.( Guarini Library PS153 .N5 A399 1995)

( image from http://www.amazon.com/Free-Within-Ourselves-Development-Literature/dp/0325071357/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372174815&sr=1-3&keywords=free+within+ourselves)

 In 2007, in her book, Free within ourselves : the development of African American children's literature,(Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2007), Rudine Sims Bishop voiced a similar opinion.

 "In spite of major increases in the number of children's books about Black people since 1965,  African American children's literature continues to exist as a very small subset of the estimated 5000 new children's books published each year in the United States (p.xii)...The highest proportion of books about people of African descent produced by Black writers and artists was 65 percent, achieved only once in 2000 with 96 of 147 books. in recent years it has ranged between 40 percent and 60 percent  (p.xiii)."

(Guarini Library- PS153 .N5 B526 2007b 2007 )

[ Please note there has been controversy about how these and other books are marketed in bookstores   See http://nkjemisin.com/2010/05/dont-put-my-book-in-the-african-american-section/; http://gawker.com/5628781/ohio-wal+marts-have-carefully-segregated-book-departments]

Librarians have tried to promote multicultural literature with the

Coretta Scott King Awards

Pura Belpre Awards

But the situation and articles like these show that there is very little change.
When will the publishers get on the bandwagon and realize that they are missing an increasing population of Americans, and that most Americans (of any ethnicity) will view multicultural literature as reflecting their reality?
.

Teachers' Alert-A conversation on Multicultural education and curriculum

Like It Is with Gil Noble and Adelaide Sanford- May 15, 2011

This episode of Like It is of interest to all educators especially those in urban and multicultural education. It provides a history of parallel cultures in the United States, a viewpoint on the difficulties of curriculum reform and strategies to be used to overcome disparities in education.

If you missed it, please use this link http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=resources/lifestyle_community/community&id=6650885

Harlem Book Fair 2010

The 2010 Harlem Book Fair took place this past weekend at the NYPL Schomburg Branch

If you missed it, some of the events are archived on C-SPAN's Book TV.

The most important message from the panel discussions for librarians, teachers and parents was that if we want to see an increase in quality youth materials, representative of peoples of African descent and their history and culture, then we must SEEK OUT these materials at book fairs, libraries, and book stores; PURCHASE these materials and DEMAND that our SCHOOL LIBRARIES and CLASSROOMS contain these materials. These materials are not just for African American youth but contain universal themes for all readers. To prepare our youth for a diverse world, we have to provide them with materials that reflect that diversity.

The Program included some very stimulating and revealing panel discussions of interest to librarians and teachers. I have included both the descriptions and links to the archived videos.:

2010 HARLEM BOOK FAIR PROGRAM & SCHEDULE

SCHOMBURG C-SPAN PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Complete Saturday program
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/07/17/HP/A/35566/Harlem+Book+Fair.aspx


Of particular interest

White and Whatever: Diversity in Children’s & Young Adult Book Publishing
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294543-5


The United States is an extremely diverse nation. But books for children and young adults hardly reflect that diversity. Only a small percentage of the books published every year are written and or illustrated by people of color. Many of these don’t make it to the market place. Why, in 2010, when the nation has elected its first African American president, is the book publishing industry still not meeting the need and demand for books that explore the width and breathe of our country’s multicultural experiences? This panel will explore the complex issues and suggest solutions to a problem that is garnering a lot of attention.

MODERATOR: Wade Hudson, Publisher, Just Us Books

PANELISTS: Jerry Craft, Mamma's Boyz; Zetta Elliott, Bird; Cheryl Willis Hudson, My Friend Maya Loves to Dance; Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati, Publicist; Director, African American Children's Book Project


From Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: Bridging the Market-driven Literacy Gap
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294543-7

The advent of digital technology has redefined the very scope of literacy. While African American literacy rates are statistically on par with national averages, the advent of the market-driven digital age threatens timely access to information to the most economically disparaged...less a 'digital divide' than a 'information access' divide. Inequality of bandwidth; autonomy of use; skills level; quality of support; and purpose (whether the Internet is used for increase of economic productivity and improvement of social capital or for consumption and entertainment) are the current pressing concerns. These authors believe that visual representation is the one critical element that will balance the impact of these emerging issues and drive a new generation of readers successfully into this brave, new world.

MODERATOR: John Jennings, Black Comix: African American Independent Comics, Art and Culture (Mark Batty Publisher/Random)

PANELISTS: Damian Duffy, Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics (Krannert Art Museum), Dawud Anyabwile, Brotherman; Alex Simmons, DarkJACK; Gregory Walker, ZM1

JUNETEENTH-June 19th- Celebrations

Juneteenth

The celebration of the belated news of the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865 has been transformed into celebrations throughout the United states and the world. It is now a state holiday in 36 states.

Celebrations in New Jersey

WOODBURY
June 19, 2010 - Greater Woodbury Arts Council -
Wing Dickerson Park, Allens Lane and Carpenter Street,
from 11 am to 4 pm.
Activities will include Park Dedication, live music, food, vendors, children's activities and more.


ELIZABETH
June 19, 2010 - Juneteenth Planning Committee of Elizabeth, New Jersey - Mt. Teman AME Church160 Madison AvenueElizabeth, NJ
June 19, 2010 12 Noon - 4 P.M.
Program, Speakers, Storytelling, Black History Trivia,Praise Dancers, Games and More

Also on June 26, Games such as softball, kick ball, horseshoes, double dutch, basketball gameLocation:
Bayway Community Center, 513-515 Richmond Street, Elizabeth, NJ

June 26, 2010 - City of Elizabeth Juneteenth Committee -
Fred Erxleben Recreation Center 513-515 Richmond St. Elizabeth,
NJ Softball Tournament, Bingo, Checkers, Juneteenth All Stars Basketball Game, Free Food and MORE!


BEVERLY
June 19, 2010 -
Silver Set with Rubies Chapter, Red Hat Society -
BEVERLY CITY JUNETEENTH 2010:
A Celebration of History through Music, Poetry and Prose.
June 19th from 12-4 PM.
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church,
158 Warren Street, Beverly, NJ.
Call 609-387-1259 for info about tickets.

Keynote address by Burlington County Historian, Joseph Laufer -

Burlington County: Cradle of Emancipation - The Vision, the Determination, the Legacy. Historical reenactment of Harriet Tubman by actress, writer, griot Alma Day.

Presentations of poetry, music and prose;

Black History photographic exhibit;

Riverfront Historical Society display.

Vendors, door prizes, soul food luncheon.

Presented by the Silver Set with Rubies Chapter,

Red Hat Society as a benefit for the Beverly Free Library.

To find events in other locations:

http://www.juneteenth.com/worldwide.htm

Curriculum and Lesson plans

Links: http://www.lessonplanet.com/curriculum_connections/social_studies_lesson_plans/17_June_2009/59/juneteenth_lesson_plans?utm_source=article&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=0900618

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLACIEndOfYearJuneteenthEndOfSlaveryResearchCelebrationPresentationIdeaMO.htm

http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/juneteenth-proclamation-jubilation-lesson-plan/

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/celebrate-juneteenth-20547.html

Juneteenth Books

Branch, Muriel Miller.

Title: Juneteenth : freedom day

Juv. 394.263 .B816J

Jordan, Denise.

Title: Juneteenth

Juv.394.26 .J82j

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Title: Juneteenth

Juv.394.26 .N424j

Weatherford, Carole Boston,

Title: Juneteenth jamboree

Juv. W3625j

See http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/juneeteenth-in-new-jersey.html for 2011 New Jersey events

Angela Burt Murray comes to NJCU-3/23/10

You are invited to the
A Conversation with Angela Burt-Murray,
Editor-in-Chief Essence/ CNN Collaborator Special
“Black in America”
Tuesday, March 23rd
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Gilligan Student Union Building, Multipurpose Room A

AND
Discussion & Analysis of the movie “Precious”
2:30 pm-4:00 pm

As steward of ESSENCE's editorial content, Burt-Murray aims to celebrate, inspire, entertain and empower the brand's audience - which encompasses 8.5 million readers of the monthly magazine. In addition, essence.com is the largest and fastest growing African-American magazine website; providing fresh daily content and breaking celebrity news, which has resulted in explosive growth to over 10 million page views each month.

Since taking the helm in 2005, Burt-Murray has updated the magazine's look to a vibrant and modern design, and created new sections to reach a younger, more affluent audience. At the same time, ESSENCE has been recognized for its compelling editorial content - including extensive coverage of the effects of Katrina in the Gulf Coast, a poignant photo essay on AIDS in the African-American community, as well as comprehensive coverage of politics including exclusive interviews with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Burt-Murray is the co-author of the critically acclaimed humor book, The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life (Dutton), and the novel, The Vow (HarperCollins/Amistad). Burt-Murray was featured as one of the "40 Under 40" by Crain's New York Business. She has also appeared on Access Hollywood, BET, CNBC, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and The Today Show, to name a few. A graduate of Hampton University, Burt-Murray holds a B.S. in finance.

Make a Movie Date in February

The African Diaspora Film festival will have showings at the BAM in Brooklyn, NY, February 19-24th, 2010.

Location and Tickets
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 636-4100

TICKETS:
General Admission:
$12
Seniors, Children, & Students: $9*
BAM Cinema Club Members: $8*
Discounts available at BAM Rose Cinemas Box Office only for Seniors 65 & over; Children 12 & under and
Students: 25 & under with valid ID.

Titles are listed below.
Some to take note of are:

Glorious Exit: a perceptive and moving study of intercultural communication and multicultural understanding as a Swiss-German-Nigerian man prepares for the funeral of his Nigerian father.

Pro-Black Sheep: a contemporary acerbic black comedy that examines, intellectualism, politics, black male mentorship and the role of black males in the Black community. It could be used very effectively in the secondary classroom as a discussion starter with mature students.

BEST OF ADFF 2010 @ BAM
February 19th to February 24th 2010

AMILCAR CABRAL Tue, Feb 23 @ 9PM
Shown with Frantz Fanon as part of the African Leaders Program


ANOMALYSun, Feb. 21 @ 2:00PMQ&A after screening
Shown with Visibly Invisible and Making History as part of the Identity Stories Program


ARUGBA Fri, Feb. 19 @ 4:30PM Sun, Feb. 21 @ 5:00PM


BLACK NATION Tue, Feb. 23 @ 7:15PMWed, Feb. 23 @ 4:30PM


BLUES MARCH: SOLDIER JON HENDRICKS Mon, Feb. 22 @ 4:30PM


FRANTZ FANON: HIS LIFE, HIS STRUGGLE, HIS WORK Tue, Feb 23 @ 9PM
Shown with Amilcar Cabral as part of the African Leaders Program


GLORIOUS EXIT Mon, Feb. 22 @ 6:20PMWed, Feb. 24 @ 6:15PM


THE JOURNEY OF THE LIONMon, Feb. 22 @ 9:00PM


MADE IN JAMAICAFri, Feb 19 @ 9:30PM


MAKING HISTORY Sun, Feb. 21 @ 2:00PM Q&A after screenings
Shown with Visibly Invisible and Anomaly as part of the Identity Program


NOTHING BUT THE TRUTHFri, Feb 19 @ 6:50PMSat, Feb 21 @ 5:20PM


PRO-BLACK SHEEPSat, Feb. 20 @ 6:00PMWed, Feb. 24 @ 8:30PM
Reception after saturday screeningQ&A with director after both screenings



SOLIDARITY IN SAYA: AN AFRO-BOLIVIAN MUSIC MOVEMENTSun, Feb. 21 @ 7:10PMQ&A after screenings
Shown with With a Stroke of the Chaveta as part of the Cultures of Resistance Program


STOLEN KISSESTue, Feb. 23 @ 4:30PM


UP FROM THE BOTTOMSSat, Feb. 20 @ 2:00PM


VISIBLY INVISIBLE Sun, Feb 21 @ 2:00PMQ&A after screenings
Shown with Making History and Anomaly as part of the Identity Stories Program


WHEN THE CITY BITES Sat, Feb 20 @ 3:40PM


WITH A STROKE OF THE CHAVETA Sun, Feb. 21 @ 7:10PMQ&A after screenings
Shown with Solidarity in Saya as part of the Cultures of Resistance Program


YOUSSOU N'DOUR: RETURN TO GOREESun, Feb 21 @ 9:50PM

For more information on the films see
http://www.nyadff.org/
and
http://bam.org/view.aspx?pid=1878

African American Lives 2 is on TONIGHT!

Building on the widespread acclaim of African American Lives (2006)[This video is in the library V2615] and Oprah's Roots (2007), AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES 2 again journeys deep into ancestry of an all-new group of remarkable individuals, offering an in-depth look at the African-American experience and race relations throughout U.S. history. Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns as series host, guiding genealogical investigations down through the 20th century, Reconstruction, slavery and early U.S. history, and presenting cutting-edge genetic analysis that locates participants' ancestors in Africa, Europe and America. Joining Professor Gates in the new broadcast are poet Maya Angelou, author Bliss Broyard, actor Don Cheadle, actor Morgan Freeman, theologian Peter Gomes, publisher Linda Johnson Rice, athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, radio personality Tom Joyner, comedian Chris Rock, music legend Tina Turner, and college administrator Kathleen Henderson, who was selected from more than 2,000 applicants to have her family history researched and DNA tested alongside the series' well-known guests.


Broadcast Times for the Henry Louis Gates Special:

Channel 50 (WNGN)
African American Lives: The Road Home; A Way Out of No Way
Thursday, February 14, 9:00pm
The second-season premiere features Tom Joyner.

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Saturday, February 16, 3:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Thursday, February 21, 9:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

WNGN Digital Channel
(Check Listings for Channel)

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Thursday, February 21, 9:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.



Channel 13 (WNET)

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Saturday, February 16, 3:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors

WNET Digital Channel
(Check Listings for Channel)
African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Friday, February 15, 11:00am
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Sunday, February 17, 9:00am
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Monday, February 18, 12:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.


Channel 21 (WLIW)

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Sunday, February 17, 9:00am
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

African American Lives: We Come from People; The Past is Another Country
Monday, February 18, 12:00pm
Morgan Freeman's great-grandmother; Peter Gomes's ancestors.

A Black History Gem from the Past!- The Brownies' Book

A Children's Magazine for the "Children of the Sun"
During the two years from 1920-1921, a children's magazine edited by W.E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset and Augustus Dill was published. The magazine, an offshoot of Crisis, was dedicated to a positive representation of children of color. It not only contained short stories, poetry and graduation notices of Black youth (Langston Hughes among others), but it also contained columns about global affairs and world folklore. The Jury (letters to the editor column) gives an amazing snapshot of the problems experienced by black youth and their parents at that time.

A digitized version of the magazine is avalable at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/ser.01351

Lesson plans for the journal are available at
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2370/

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLRESOURCES/units/Byrnes-famous/hughes.html

The Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library has several books with information and critical evaluations of The Brownies' Book:

PS153 .N5 B526 2007b 2007
Free within ourselves : the development of African American children's literature

PS153.N5 J64 1990 1990
Telling tales : the pedagogy and promise of African American literature for youth

PS153 .N5 S62 2004
Children's literature of the Harlem Renaissance

New Documentary about Black Girls' Self Esteem

There is a new documenetary about Black girls and their declining self-esteem in the face of media representations (or the lack thereof) of themselves. The documenetary was based on the master's thesis of the director, Daphne Valerius.

This would be an excellent documentary to screen for teacher training, gender studies, and ethnic studies classes. It would also be suitable for upper-level high school students( grades 11-12). It does have some graphic language and graphic images (hip-hop videos), so parental permission might be necessary.

This is a crucial issue that should be brought to the forefront.

Please see:http://www.soulsofblackgirls.com/
for more information.

NBC News Series looks at gender, race, education

NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS"
SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES
"AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEY STAND"
BEGINNING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26


New York, N.Y. -- Throughout the week of November 26, "NBC News With Brian Williams" will take a look at the issues facing African-American women across our nation in a new series "African-American Women: Where They Stand." The series will cover a wide-range of issues from their role in the *08 Presidential race, to the increased health-risks that they need to be concerned about.

Monday-Education
Monday's installment will discuss African-American women*s progress in the education field. Nearly two-thirds of African-American undergraduates are women. At black colleges, the ratio of women to men is 7 to 1. And that is leading to a disparity in the number of African-American women who go on to own their own businesses. Rehema Ellis will talk to educators, students and businesswomen about why this disparity exists.

Tuesday-Relationships and Education
Tuesday, Ellis will look at relationships within the African-American female community. Many agree the gender disparity in education and business among African-Americans is having an effect on relationships that African American women have. Some even say the implications could redefine "Black America*s family and social structure." In the past fifty years, the percentage of African-American women between 25-54 who have never been married has doubled from 20% to 40%. (Compared to just 16% of white women who have never been married today). Ellis sits down with the members of a Chicago book club and talk about this difference and how it impacts them.

Wednesday-Health
Dr. Nancy Snyderman will discuss the increases risks for breast cancer for African-American women on Wednesday. Mortality rates for African-American women are higher than any other racial or ethnic group for nearly every major cause of death, including breast cancer. Black women with breast cancer are nearly 30% more likely to die from it than white women.

Premenopausal black women are more than twice as likely to get a more aggressive form of the disease. And, not only are African-American women more likely to die from breast cancer, but they*re less likely to get life-saving treatments. Dr. Snyderman will profile one of the only oncologists in the world who specializes in the treatment of African-American women with breast cancer.

Thursday- Politics
On Thursday, Ron Allen will take viewers to South Carolina -- the first southern primary state -- and ask the question: Will race trump gender or gender trump race? In South Carolina, black women made up nearly 30 percent of all democratic primary voters in 2004. This year, polls show a significant number are undecided, torn between choosing the first African-American or first female Presidential candidate. Allen talks with the undecided, as well the state directors for the Clinton and Obama campaigns, who happen to be African-American women.

Friday- Miscellaneous
To close the series on Friday, Dr. Snyderman will raise the frightening statistic that African-American women are 85% more likely to get diabetes, a major complication for heart disease. And, like breast cancer, more black women die from heart disease than white women. Dr. Snyderman will profile a leading expert and a unique church-based outreach program in South Carolina that seeks to spread the word about heart disease risks to black women congregants.

Mara Schiavocampo, Digital Correspondent for "Nightly News," will address two hot topics in the African - American community: interracial dating and the impact of hip hop music on black women. Interracial dating is a growing trend in the African - American community. An Essence.com poll found that 81% of participants approved of black women dating non- black men. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report in 2000, 95,000 black women were married to white men. In 2005, that number increased to 134,000. Schiavocampo will talk to experts about the trend and discuss how this defines the "Black family" of the future.

Schiavocampo will convene a panel of leading black men and women from the hip-hop industry for an engaging discussion on whether hip hop lyrics and videos positively or negatively affect black women. The roundtable also will address how these portrayals are affecting relationships between black women and black men.

Comment: Many of these issues have been brought up and discussed before in the media. It will be interesting to see if there are any new perspectives to these issues. With statistics, it makes one wonder if they are disaggregated by income, geographical location and class, or are African-American women treated as a monolithic entity? Maybe there will be some "positive news" too.

African Burial Ground Monument opens in NYC

Grand Opening of the African Burial
Ground National Monument memorial
Duane Street between Broadway &
African Burial Ground Way (Elk Street)

Friday, October 5, 2007
1 p.m. – Opens to public

6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Greet the Torch
Battery Park
Drummers and a mass choir greet the ceremonial torch as it arrives from the Statue of Liberty.

8 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Candlelight Procession Battery Park to Foley Square
Honor the Africans who helped build the city of New York by marching in a candlelight procession from Battery Park to the African Burial Ground National Monument. Performances to follow at Foley Square.

Saturday, October 6, 2007
11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
International Tribute Concert Foley Square
Performers from Africa and the African Diaspora celebrate the ancestors of the African Burial Ground. For more information on dedicationevents call 212-491-2012.

October 8-12, 2007
Youth Week
Educational programs for youth. For class or group reservations,the African Burial Ground National Monument at 212-637-2019.

*All events are free and open to the About the African Burial Ground National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/afbg)
The African Burial Ground National Monument is the first National Monument dedicated to Africans of early New York and Americans of African descent. It is the newest National Monument in New York City, joining the Statue of Liberty, Governors Island, and Castle Clinton.

African Burial Ground National Monument
National Park Service
290 Broadway, First Floor
New York, NY 10007

Educator Workshop 9/22/07

The Adelaide L. Sanford Institute for Research, Development
and the Education of Students of African Descent in partnership with Medgar Evers College, CUNY; Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration; the Black Brooklyn Empowerment Convention; and the Coalition of Black Male Principals

presents

“Creating a Culture of Success for Students of African Ancestry”

Saturday, September 22, 2007
8:00 am - 6:00 pm
Medgar Evers College • Brooklyn, NY

This conference will prove to be one of the most important academic events in our community.

On-site registration begins at 8:00 am.
Workshops are limited.
Register early to gain admission to the workshops of your choice.

For more information,
please visit our website at
www.adelaidesanfordinstitute.org.

or email
adelaide.institute@mec.cuny.edu

or call 718.270.4814