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The
Community Research Institute Presents
A
Community Forum
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A community panel discussion will be convened which poses the question:
?What is the Current State of African Centered Education in Detroit, Michigan??
Date: December 27, 2012
Time: 1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: 13535 Livernois (The Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore Livernois @ Davison)
Topic: The current state of African centered education in the Detroit?s Public, Private and Charter Schools.
Invited Panelist
Elizabeth Whitaker – Director of Nsoroma Institute. Hassina Murphy ? Director of Aisha Shule/ W.E.B. Dubois.
Bonotchi Montgomery- African centered educator, Cha-Rhonda Edgerson ? Director of Timbuctu Academy
Malik Yakini ? Co-founder and Former Director of Nsoroma institute
Dr. Kefentse Chike- ?From Black Power to the New Millennium: The Evolution of the African centered education movement in Detroit, Mi. from 1972-2000.?
Dr. Joyce Piert- ?SBA (teaching, wisdom, and study): An exploration of the experiences of African American young people who attended an African-centered school.?
Dr. Ebony Roberts-?A Journey of Transformation: Teacher Professional Development at an African-centered public school.?
Dr. Jeffrey Robinson- ?The African Centered School movement and the Detroit Public School System?.
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
315 E. Warren Avenue – Detroit, Michigan 48201
(877) 95-ASALH (877) 952-7254
The organizing branch of ASALH Detroit
Invites you to join us for our
2nd African American History Month Lecture
Guest Lecturer*
Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Director
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Harlem, New York
Dr. Muhammad will discuss his recent text,
The Condemnation of Blackness:
Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Museum of African American History
315 E. Warren Avenue – Detroit, MI 48201
Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 6:00 p.m.
*Dr. Muhammad is the great-grandson of the late Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a native of Chicago’s South Side, and has served as Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University. There will be a silent auction starting at 5:30 p.m. and a book signing event following the lecture.
Let’s all welcome him to Detroit!
Donation:
General: $20.00 Students
(with ID): $5.00 Children (under 13): Free
For tickets or more information contact:
Delores Cobb, Program Chair,
(313) 378-5944 or (877) 95-ASALH Ext. 806
(Tickets will also be available on-site.)
In the Spirit of the Ancestors,
Cheikh
Cheikh Ahmadou Banba Mbacke, Ph.D., (ABD), ACSW
President and CEO
Ujima Consortium, Inc. – Since 1989
dba Sankofa Arts
A Michigan 501(c)3 Private Foundation
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or an Anglo-Saxon in the 19th century. – Edward Wilmot Blyden
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