Education- Created on 28 February 2012
Talk On Ancient Egypt & African Hair At Auburn Research Library Sunday
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Dr. Nefertari Patricia Hilliard-Nunn will lecture on "The Kitchen Doesn't Lie: Kemetic Roots and African American Hair," Sunday, Feb. 26, from 4-7 p.m. at the Auburn Avenue Research Library Auditorium (4th Floor). She will discuss "Ancient Egypt and the Exploration of African Hairstyles and Their Meaning and Relationship to the Styles in the African American Context." The program is sponsored by the International Trends and Services facet of the Atlanta Chapter of Links, Inc.
This is a historic lecture that promises to give first-hand information of Egyptian and African-American history. There will be a questions and answers period following the lecture. Dr. Nefertari Patricia Hilliard-Nunn is the daughter of Patsy Hilliard, former mayor of East Point and the late Dr. Asa Hilliard and currently owns Makare Publishing Company and works as an independent media producer. She is a graduate of Florida State University, where she earned her doctorate in 1993.
The speaker's areas of research include media and culture, audience analysis, enslaved Africans in Alachua County and African American history in Alachua County. Her creative practices include Media Production, West African Dance & Mixed Media Art. Before teaching in African American Studies at Florida State University, she taught Black Women and Film in the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida and served various populations while working as a community organizer in Alachua County. She has traveled to Kemet (Egypt) many times and lectures regularly on topics related to the African origin of Ancient Kemet.
Dr. Hilliard-Nunn has a strong sense of civic responsibility and is an active member of numerous community organizations. She is currently the president of the Gainesville Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., an organization committed to community service. She is also active with the Gainesville Chapter of the Links Inc., the Florida Media Arts Center, and PACE Academy for Girls. Recently, she served as the chair of the East Gainesville Community Health Summit.
Co-chairs of the International Trends and Services facet of the Atlanta Links are Patsy Hilliard and Dolly Adams with several Link members of the facet. The public is invited.
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GABEO & GLBC Stand In Support Of Quitman 10
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Rep. Tyrone Brooks (D-Atlanta), president of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, joined members of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus recently for a news conference to demand justice for the Quitman 10 + 2.
United in their support, they gathered with members of GABEO, the NAACP and Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda to raise awareness for those who have experienced voter suppression and have been disenfranchised.
The GLBC will use all available resources to make sure those involved receive a fair trial and are reinstated to the job they were elected to do.
Three school board members and nine Brooks County residents were indicted on Nov. 22, 2011, on multiple counts of alleged unlawful possession of ballots.
The three suspended board members, who have not been convicted of any wrongdoing, were removed from their position on Jan.10, 2012, by an executive order from Gov. Nathan Deal.
During the news conference Tyrone Brooks said the indictments were "systematic of what is happening across America. This is the tip of the iceberg, voter suppression, voter intimidation, voter ID, cutting early voting, and anything they can do to tamper down the vote leading into the 2012 election."
A statement issued by the GLBC stated: "Under the protection of the Constitution, citizens of the United States are assumed innocent until proven guilty by the court of law. We have yet to receive any explanation as to why these board members were removed from their position before their case has been brought before a judge."
Participants in the news conference included several members of the Quitman 10, Sen. Emmanuel Jones, chair, GLBC; Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, chair and convener, GCPA; and Kevin Miles, regional director NAACP.
The Quitman 10 will host the annual GABEO Winter Conference when the organization meets in Quitman, Ga., Feb. 24-26. The conference is open to the public.
The next event will be April 7 at noon – commemoration of the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and annual march on the Moore's Ford Bridge, 1st African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler St., Monroe, Ga., 30655 (corner of Main Street and Hwy. 11)
GABEO meets with the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda every Tuesday, at noon, SCLC Women, 328 Auburn Ave. at Hilliard Street, Atlanta.
For more information contact: Rep. Tyrone Brooks, 404-656- 6372 and 404-372-1894. Or visit www.ga-gabeo.org. Also visit www.gainformer.com and Google The Quitman 10.
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Civil War-Era Estate Given To Rust College
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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) -- Rust College is now owner of an 1858 Civil War-era mansion. Rust College President Dr. David Beckley says the estate, valued at $3 million, is located just a few blocks from campus.
The mansion known as "Airliewood" was built back in 1858 as a cotton plantation.
Beckley said that in October, Memphis Banker Joe Overstreet and his wife, Kathy, told Rust it could have Airliewood if it could raise $750,000 in matching funds.
The school was able to do that and recently took ownership of the estate.
"It is a 10,000-foot mansion, very well maintained and ideal for entertaining and hosting groups," said Beckley. "The facility will be used as a guest facility, museum facility, and entertaining and community use."
Currently the college is using space in the Leontyne Price Library to house an international collection of art and artifacts from around the world.
Known since 1938 as Airliewood, the mansion is a gothic-style villa, built as a townhouse in 1858 for planter William H. Coxe, on a 15-acre estate in the heart of Holly Springs. Its iron gate and fence are identical to those at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
At the invitation of Coxe, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant occupied the home as his headquarters and residence for him and his family during the winter of 1862-1863. Since 1858, the house has changed owners and undergone many renovations.
The Overstreets purchased the mansion in 2002 and presided over a multiyear restoration of the original 5,070-square-foot home, and added a 4,000-square-foot addition, all done under the direction of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The mansion is on the National Register as a historic site.
Rust is a historically Black college in Holly Springs with an enrollment of about 900.
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Clark Atlanta University Graduate’s Photos On The Way To Smithsonian
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It all started over 42 years ago when Palmetto, Ga., native Horace Henry was a student at Clark College in the Atlanta University Center. On Jan. 15, 1969, nine months after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a celebration was held at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church to commemorate his birthday.
This very first Ecumenical Service, as it was called, happened as a direct result of Dr. King's widow Mrs. Coretta Scott King making sure that Dr. King's legacy would live on forever and never die.
Horace Henry, along with a few of his Alpha Phi Alpha brothers at Clark College had made plans to attend the birthday celebration for Dr. King and when they were leaving Brawley Hall, as an after thought, he grabbed a camera and some film to take along with him. This was a period during the Vietnam War, and one of his brothers had sent him the camera from overseas.
The photographs that he took on that day later became a private collection of 11x14 black-and-white enlargements that Henry owns titled "One Day In January."
The Smithsonian Institution got wind of the collection of prints and contacted Henry to arrange a visit to his home to see the collection. As a result of the chief curator's visit, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture will be taking in the full "One Day In January" collection. These photographs will become part of the museum's permanent collection.
The projected opening date for the new museum is sometime in 2015 and at that time, people from all over the world will be able to see this historical collection of photographs.
There is also a book available that Henry has published containing pictures with captions from his "One Day In January" collection.
Henry is a 1971 graduate of Clark College and studied at Atlanta University.
To view his book, go to: www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2465117.
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Study: Black Men Don’t Recapture Same Career Benefits From Mentoring As Whites
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ATHENS, Ga. – Networking within an organization and having a mentor are widely thought to promote career success, but a new University of Georgia study finds that African-American men don't receive the same measurable benefits from these professional connections that Caucasians do.
Study co-author Lillian Eby, a professor in the Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, said the finding shouldn't discourage African Americans from seeking mentoring and networking opportunities. Rather, it emphasizes the need for women and minorities to think broadly about the mentors they choose and with whom they network. People tend to have professional and social networks that are composed of people who are similar to them, she explained, and African Americans remain underrepresented in high-level positions.
"If African-American men are picking mentors who are like them, then they're more likely to be networking with people who have less power and influence within an organization," Eby said, "which may be why mentoring is not predicting career success for them."
The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior, examined data from nearly 250 college-educated, African-American men to determine which factors were most closely related to their career success. Co-author C. Douglas Johnson, an associate professor of management at Georgia Gwinnett College, said the intent was to see if conclusions from previous studies with Caucasians held true for African Americans.
Unlike mentoring and networking, universal predictors of success were level of education, training and willingness to move for new opportunities. "The study shows that if you are willing to put forth the necessary effort and obtain the education and appropriate training, then you can achieve career success," said Johnson, who conducted the study while a doctoral student at UGA.
For purposes of the study, career success was defined with measures such as annual compensation, number of promotions in one's career and managerial level. Yet Johnson emphasized that career success also involves less objective components, such as personal satisfaction and work-life balance.
Mentoring was associated with greater career satisfaction in this population, and the researchers said that choosing multiple mentors might be a way for people to gain both objective and subjective career gains.
Eby discourages organizations from implementing formal mentoring programs created for specific racial, ethnic or gender groups, since they can be viewed as favoritism and perpetuate stereotypes that those individuals need extra help to succeed. Creating opportunities for all employees to expand their skills and knowledge, however, can benefit both the individual and the organization.
"Especially in a bad economy, having a climate that encourages learning and development is probably a better strategy than programs that are targeted toward a particular group," she said.
