WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
September 3, 2004
Table of Contents
---Meet the ABPAFS Members
---Black Welcome Week
---Taste of Culture
---Program for Multicultural Health Conference
---Interesting Web Sites
*Black America Web series on
black wealth
*Profile John W. Rogers Jr, founder
of Ariel Capital Management in Chicago
*A website, that contains VIDEO STREAMING
of black women scholars in US delivering lectures at the conference last October
Past Issues
Editor's Comments
Many people wrote in and said they liked the new format of the newsletter, BUT NOBODY volunteered to be a reporter, and only two people submitted any information. Now, I know there is more going on among 2,000 African Americans than what I got last week!!!
You can fill out the comment form at the end of this page and add any biographical information you want to share with the group or you can go to the ABPAFS Member Profile Web Page . Then just forward a digital photo to me, Charles Ransom via email or a regular photo via campus mail, Charles Ransom, 209 Hatcher North, 1205, which I will scan and return. I don't want to come out looking with my camera.
ABPAFS Members Profiles
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Melvin Williams
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Sheila Green
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Dr. Williams is a Professor of Anthropology and last
year's ABPAFS winner of the Career Service Award. He has done research
and published on the Strait Salish of Vancouver Island, urban Pentecostalism,
urban neighborhoods, African-Churches in the Midwest, critical race theory,
human nature and the mirror images of water and human nature. Dr. Williams
has worked in the Belmar Neighborhood for 40 years and continues to the
present. He has established a community museum there to document the social
changes during the past century. He produces a television program there
entitled LIFTING THE VEIL
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Ms. Green is a Secretary IV in Housing. She has been with the university since 1976. |
The Taste of Culture is a Student Affairs welcoming event representing students
of color. It will be held September 11, 3-7 pm, at the William Monroe Trotter
House. Delicious ethnic dishes will be served, entertainment provided, and prizes
will be given away.
Come meet students and enjoy a free meal. The Trotter House is located at 1443
Washtenaw. Dishes will represent African-American, African, Hispanic/Latino,
Asian, and Middle Eastern ethnic populations.
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Innovative
Approaches to Eliminate Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities Conference 
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2004
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Conference Goals National best practice models, policies, and research will be shared
from various from various health and social institutions, including industry,
media, higher education, community, health and more. Registration: $35.00 Program and registration information are available at: |
Keynote Speakers Nathan Stinson, Jr., Ph.D., MD, MPH, Director of the
Office of Minority Health Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, MS , Michigan Surgeon General John Lumpkin, MD, M.P.H., Vice President Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
The conference is sponsored by the University Of Michigan Health System's Program For Multicultural Health And The African American Health Institute in collaboration with several other organizations. For more information contact:
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Black
America Web four part series on black wealth
Recent studies show less than 8 percent of African-Americans have inherited
wealth, that compares to 22 percent for whites.
The mean in inherited wealth for blacks is $21,000.
John
Rogers is founder and President of Ariel Mutual Funds.
Ariel was one of the options offered to UM employees for retirement savings.
The university discontinued the Ariel option a few years ago, however the Ariel
Fund still exists, as one of the largest African American owned Mutual Funds
in the United States. Rogers is considered one of the top African-American money
managers in the country and one of the most generous--and most powerful--business
and community leaders in Chicago. The privately owned money management firm
(with 73 employees and $17.5 billion in assets under management) manages separate
account portfolios in the small and mid-cap value style and serves as investment
advisor for the Ariel Mutual Funds,
which are comprised of four publicly traded mutual funds. For the full article
on Rogers see Ebony Magazine August, 2004.
Gender and
Race: Together at last?
This web site features the opening panel of an all-day conference focusing on African American women's history, and on the ways that the study of U.S. women's history has been shaped by the conjunction of gender and race questions.
Charles G. Ransom
Multicultural Studies Librarian
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(734) 764-7522 Office Phone
(734) 764-0259 FAX
