NONPROFIT THURSDAY
Distinguished
historian speaking at Karamu Sunday, Feb. 24
Rutgers
University historian Clement A. Price
will speak at Karamu on Sunday, February 24 as part of an African American
History Month program sponsored by the Cleveland Restoration Society.
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| Professor Clement A. Price Rutgers University |
Price,
who is published widely in African American history, American cultural policy
and American urban history, is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service
Professor, one of the highest faculty honors at the university. He chaired
President Obama’s transition team for the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Price
appears in Cleveland in conjunction with “The African American Experience in
Cleveland”, the 40th Anniversary Legacy Project of the Cleveland Restoration
Society.
Price’s
appearance is free and open to the public but registration is requested here
by Feb. 18.
The
Black Professionals Association Charitable Foundation, Karamu House, National
Forum for Black Public Administrators, the Phillis Wheatley Association, and United
Pastors in Mission are co-sponsors of this event.
• • •
Turmoil at
Wilberforce subject of national story by Cleveland writer
The
continuing fiscal struggles of Ohio’s tiny Wilberforce University, the first
HBCU founded by African Americans, are the subject of a report by Afi-Odelia
E. Scruggs.
According
to her report, published by Diverse Issues in Higher Education, the school is
$29 million in debt and its enrollment may have dwindled to just above 400
students.
You
can read her bleak account online here.
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