Text Box: This event is open to women and men and young people of all ages and backgrounds.  You can help tremendously by spreading the word about this exciting activity, particularly among your students and colleagues at Lansing Community College...and by attending along with your own family members and friends! Visit http://www.oneunitedmichigan.org to register online. Contact Information 517-272-3600 MIWomenUnited@SharedDemands.com Text Box: An event sponsored by Michigan United/Michigan Women United for Women of Color and All of Our Friends and Allies to provide information about affirmative action to promote informed voting on Proposal 2 (which would ban affirmative action in Michigan).  This event will be held in Lansing on Sunday, October 29 from 3:00 - 5:00 pm in "Old Hort" Building on MSU's campus.  The fee for students with an ID is $2.00; and the sliding scale registration fee allows for other adult Text Box: participants to pay, as they are able.  Free child care will be provided. The program will include an inspirational ceremony whereby the torch will be symbolically passed to those in the next generation, particularly ages 13 - 35, to encourage them to carry on a commitment to equal opportunity, diversity and affirmative action.  There will also be a performance by Wordspirit (formerly Hakkama) - a women's musical group from Detroit; and a dessert reception. Text Box: INGHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER BOARD MEETING October 25, 2006 4:30 PM Ingham County Health Department Bldg 4th floor This is an important Text Box: NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING There is a neighborhood meeting on Monday October 9, 2006 at 6:20 PM—Faith Fellowship Baptist Church, 1142 Lathrop Lansing, Michigan. Text Box: meeting involving the closing and consolidating of health clinics. Text Box: Passing the torch, preserving the flame Text Box: Neighborhood and area meetings Text Box: African american education Text Box: graduation for African Americans continues to be the lowest of all the races. Of African Americans between 18—24, the study reports 28% lack a high school diploma. For African Americans with no diploma lifetime earnings are estimated Text Box: at $441,000.00, with a Bachelors degree estimated lifetime earnings are $1,617,000.00. That’s difference of more than one million dollars. Article Retrieved from http://www.collegecampaign.org/facts/research-library/ROI-African-American-Snapshot.pdf Text Box: The Campaign for College Opportunity, written in California discusses the end result of education for African Americans. It is estimated although graduation rates have increased from 63% in 1970 to 81% in 2004 the rate of high school Text Box: Page #

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African American & African Studies Conference


Michigan State University, College of Arts and Letters

 

October 11-13, 2006

Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center

Michigan State University
East Lansing MI

 

For more information:

http://www.msu.edu/~aaas/