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* African American Econ Summit

African American Econ Summit

Day 1 of the African American Economic Summit will be held at UNC-Chapel in collaboration with the Institute of African American Research (IAAR). Day 2 will be held at Duke University by the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality. Invited participants include Jim Johnson, Julianne Malveeaux, William Spriggs, Algernon Austin, Sandra Phillips, Arthur Paris, Lance Freeman, Darrick Hamilton, Cecilia Conrad, Cecilia Rouse, Sam Myers, Edward Montgomvery, Patrick Mason, William Rogers, William Darity, Gregory Price, and Karolyn Tyson. The discussion will center around the current economy and its affect on black america, and policy recommendations to be submitted to the current administration.

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* African American Econ Summit

African American Econ Summit

Day 1 of the African American Economic Summit will be held at UNC-Chapel in collaboration with the Institute of African American Research (IAAR). Day 2 will be held at Duke University by the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality. Invited participants include Jim Johnson, Julianne Malveeaux, William Spriggs, Algernon Austin, Sandra Phillips, Arthur Paris, Lance Freeman, Darrick Hamilton, Cecilia Conrad, Cecilia Rouse, Sam Myers, Edward Montgomvery, Patrick Mason, William Rogers, William Darity, Gregory Price, and Karolyn Tyson. The discussion will center around the current economy and its affect on black america, and policy recommendations to be submitted to the current administration.
* SHC Book Series

SHC Book Series

Time: 5:00 pm

Devin Fergus will join us to speak about his book LIBERALISM, BLACK POWER, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN POLITICS, 1965-1980. Reception: 5:00 pm, Lobby Talk: 5:45 pm, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library

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* Hutchins lecture

Hutchins lecture

Time: 4:00 pm

"Native Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow," Hutchins Lecture by Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC Chapel Hill In this lecture, Perdue focuses on the ways in which white racism has divided Indians and African Americans. Race relations in the South developed in the context of a colonial economic system that rested on Indian land and African labor. The dispossession and expulsion of most Native peoples by 1850 meant that the Indians who remained became a small minority scattered across the region. They struggled to retain their ethnic identity, especially in the Jim Crow era when whites sought to preserve their own racial purity by categorizing both Indians and African Americans as "colored." Native communities often set up their own churches and schools, which they closed to African Americans and defended against integration. The result was the marginalization of Indian people at the time and the subsequent exclusion of Indians from histories of the period.
* Human Rights Film Series

Human Rights Film Series

Time: 7:00 pm

"No Umbrella" - Witness Fannie Lewis in action on November 2, 2004 as she struggles to manage a polling station in a predominantly African American precinct in Cleveland. Facing record numbers at the polls, Ms. Lewis spends her day on a cell phone begging for the machines and the technical support needed to handle the throngs of voters. "No Umbrella" is a sobering reminder of the United States' inadequate election process. "Please Vote for Me" - Is democracy a universal value that suits human nature? Do elections inevitably lead to manipulation? "Please Vote for Me" is a portrait of a society and a town in through a school, its children and its families. A Grade 3 class holds an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted position, egged on by teachers and doting parents. When: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Where: Perkins Library Rare Book Room Cost: Free

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* Sonya H Stone Memorial Lecture

Sonya H Stone Memorial Lecture

Time: 7:00 pm

Author, journalist and cultural critic Farai Chideya will deliver the Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture on November 5 at 7 p.m. Chideya will also meet with journalism students to discuss the changing media landscape. A graduateFarai Chideya of Harvard University, Chideya’s journalism career has spanned across broadcast, print and radio media. She has covered topics from Hurricane Katrina to the recent Presidential election. Chideya prides herself on her ability to go from discussing serious journalism to popular fiction. For three years, Chideya formerly hosted NPR’s News and Notes, a daily national program about African-American and African diaspora issues. Before NPR, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show in San Francisco. She wrote three books on race and ethnicity including The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century (2000). Essence magazine selected her novel, Kiss the Sky (2009), as its May 2009 book club selection. The lecture will be held on Thursday, Nov 05 from 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm at UNC's Stone Center. For more information, please contact: 919-962-9001

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* What is a Human Right

What is a Human Right

Time: 5:15 pm

"What is a Human Right?", Dr John Tasioulas, Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford Details to follow. Co-sponsored with the Duke Human Rights Center. For more information, contact Erin Daniel at daniel@law.duke.edu. The talk will be held in Law School 4042 from 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

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* Pauli Murray Project

Pauli Murray Project

Time: 12:00 pm

Barbara Lau, Pauli Murray Project Director and Students from Civil/Human Rights Activism in Durham Course, will be giving a talk as part of the Wednesdays at the Center Lecture series.

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* Reaffirming the Role

Reaffirming the Role

Time: 10:00 am

Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Public Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:00 AM Howard University School of Law - Moot Court Room, Hamilton Hall, 2900 Van Ness Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. This conference brings together a wide range of government officials to converse with educators, civil rights advocates, and scholars who support racially and economically integrated K-12 public schools. Participants will learn about racial and socioeconomic integration incentives in current and proposed federal policies, regulations and spending programs. Panelists and audience members also will discuss current integration efforts on the ground that sustain quality integrated schools and stable communities.

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* NC Equality Conference

NC Equality Conference

Equality NC will present North Carolina's 3rd Annaul statewide LGBT Equality Conference. This year's conference will take place in Greensboro, NC. The LGBT Center will be coordinating transportation to and from the conference. This one-day advocacy summit will bring together individuals and community organizations from across the state to help chart the course for LGBT equality and justice through keynote and breakout sessions on key LGBT issues.
* Guantanamo Bay

Time: 5:00 pm

Sharifullah, an Afghan Army soldier, was detained by United States forces on January 29, 2003, during a raid on an Afghan military compound where improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found. The IEDs were neither in his possession nor in his immediate vicinity. Sharifullah denies involvement with the IEDs, and many of his interrogators and interpreters say he is being truthful. He has never been charged with any crime. Another Afghan Army officer captured at the same time as Sharifullah and held without charges on the same evidence was freed from Guantánamo in 2007 and is now back home in Afghanistan, a free man. The event will raise funds for Sharifullah’s and other detainees’ defense. There will be presentations by Habeas Counsel for Sharifullah, including Robert M. Elliot and J. Griffin Morgan of Elliot, Pishko, Morgan, P.A., of Winston- Salem, and Frank Goldsmith of Goldsmith, Goldsmith, and Dews, P.A., of Marion, North Carolina.

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* Gallery Talk

Time: 2:00 pm

A gallery talk given by Holly Smith, lead curator of the exhibit We Shall Not Be Moved. Come hear more about the people, places, events, and themes represented in the exhibit. 2:00 p.m., Melba Remig Saltarelli Room, Wilson Library
* Portraits in Black

Portraits in Black

Time: 7:00 pm

Portraits in Black: U.S. Moving-Image Documents, King to Obama 7pm - 9:15pm Wed November 18 2009 (in conjunction with Michael Renov lecture on Thur Nov 19th) Chapman 201 Carolina Campus ScreenArts Monthly Screening Series Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema This event is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Institute for African American Research and the Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC-CH as well as Duke University's Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Center for International Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Program in Arts of the Moving Image and Program in Women’s Studies. Free and Open to the Public. Program 1. "oh dem watermelons." robert nelson, 1965. 10:46. 2. "black panther." newsreel collective, 1969. 14 minutes 3. "san francisco state: on strike (for ethnic studies)." newsreel collective, 1969. 20 minutes. 4. "hairpiece: a film for nappy headed people." ayoka chenzira, 1985. 10 mins. 5. public enemy, "fight the power" video. spike lee, 1989, long version. 7:19. 6. segment from *non, je ne regrette rien.* marlon riggs, 1992. 13:15. 7. "we wuz robbed." spike lee, 2002. 10 mins. from *ten minutes older: the trumpet (2002)* 8. greensboro nc truth and reconciliation project publicity dvd. "greensboro truth and community reconciliation commission: first truth commission in the us." seel, 2006. 16 mins. 9. segment from *the black list.* timothy greenfield-sanders and elvis mitchell, 2008. hbo documentaries. 5:20. 10. segment from *the charlie rose show.* "obama's ambition." live coverage of third presidential debate at hofstra university, hempstead ny. wed october 15 2008. 11 mins. guests maria bartiromo, david brooks, doris kearns goodwin, mark halperin, al hunt and katty kay. 11. segment from *the charlie rose show.* "by the people." wed november 12 2009. 21 mins. guests amy rice, alicia sams and ed norton.

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* Civil Rights on the Screen

Civil Rights on the Screen

Time: 3:30 pm

Michael Renov University of Southern California "Civil Rights on the Screen" 3:30 pm Thursday 19 November 2009 Howell 104 Reception to Follow Inspired by Barack Obama's ascendancy and the assumption that the election of an African American president is the realization of a dream that began with MLK Jr., this talk looks to the archive of moving-image documentary for evidence of what has been mostly overlooked in the King/Obama connection—arguing that this presumed lineage effects a serious historical elision and over-simplification. Interdisciplinary Program in Cinema at UNC-CH Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Institute for African American Research and the Sonja Hayes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC-CH as well as Duke University’s Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Center for International Studies, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Program in Arts of the Moving Image and Program in Women’s Studies.
* Pauli Murray Lecture

Pauli Murray Lecture

Time: 7:00 pm

Inaugural Pauli Murray Lecture: Beverly Guy-Sheftall As the first annual Pauli Murray lecture, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall will speak about this Durham native's enduring legacy to civil and human rights. Sheftall is the founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spellman College. She is also adjunct professor at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies where she teaches graduate courses. Sheftall coedited the first anthology on Black women's literature, Sturdy Black Bridges: Visions of Black Women in Literature (Doubleday, 1980). In 2003, she coauthored Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003). Johnnetta Betsch Cole, currently the director if the Washington, DC Museum of African-American History. Sponsored by the Pauli Murray Project, part of the Duke Human Rights Center, and Jeff and Lea Levin. At the Lyons Park Community Center (http://www.insiderpages.com/businesses/15240109427/map) For more information, contact Robin Kirk by phone at 668-6511. Thu, November 19, 2009 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM. Location TBA

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* Exclusionary Urban Spaces

Exclusionary Urban Spaces

Mapping Exclusionary Urban Spaces: building the archives of historical redlining and racial discrimination Richard Marciano and Chien-Yi Hou School of Information and Library Science, UNC This presentation unveils the results of a 2-year IMLS grant entitled T-RACES (Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California's Exclusionary Spaces), in partnership with David Theo Goldberg at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, a HASTAC partner with Duke University. This project documents the New Deal Home Owners' Loan Corporation confidential security maps and surveys of the 1930s that form the genesis of neighborhood discrimination and restricted mortgage lending, known as redlining. A digitial library interface based on interactive databases and Google Map and Google Earth interfaces is demonstrated for cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland.
* Solo Performance Jena Six

Solo Performance Jena Six

Time: 5:00 pm

"Jena Six" is the final performance in the "Solo" series by UNC's communication studies department. In "Jena Six," Kashif Powell uses the civil rights incident in Jena, La., as a catalyst to explore the legacy of lynching and how that practice has tainted our understanding of race. More info? Gretchen Fox, uncperformancepublicrelations@gmail.com.

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* Solo Performance Jena Six

Solo Performance Jena Six

Time: 1:00 pm

"Jena Six" is the final performance in the "Solo" series by UNC's communication studies department. In "Jena Six," Kashif Powell uses the civil rights incident in Jena, La., as a catalyst to explore the legacy of lynching and how that practice has tainted our understanding of race. More info? Gretchen Fox, uncperformancepublicrelations@gmail.com.

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* The Glam Factor

The Glam Factor

Time: 4:30 pm

Jacqueline Goldsby "The Glam Factor: Photographic Publicity, the Allure of the Ephemeral, and the Construction of Black Women's Authorship during the 1940s-50s" Gender, Race and Visual Culture series How does photography and its visual technologies (re)figure the tropes of African American female authorship across these decades? What literary and cultural histories can we deduce--or not--from the "look" of this archive of photographic images? Come hear Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, Department of English at The University of Chicago speak as part of the Gender, Race, and Visual Culture Series.

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