Saturday, January 30
Hunger Banquet for Haiti
Hosted by: Interfaith Youth Core and Faiths Act Fellows, in collaboration with: Interfaith Dialogue, Muslim Students Association, African & Caribbean Students Association, Beats & Pieces, Hindu Student Sangam, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Action, Catholic Students Association, University of Chicago affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance, Student Composer Alliance, South Side Solidarity Network, Splash!, PAECE, Organization of Black Students, Students Promoting Interracial Networks, Mission for Vision, Puerto Rican Student Association, QueeReligious, Brent House, Calvert House, Out&About, UChicago for Haiti.
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: West Lounge, 2nd Floor of the Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street
$3.00 donation suggested. All proceed benefit the Oxfam Haiti Response Fund.
Working Across Difference: Student Activist Conference
Host by : UCSC
Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Location: Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street
Register Here
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
HUNGER BANQUET FOR HAITI
Join Uchicago's collaborative effort to tackle the crisis in Haiti and understand global hunger.
What is this? A hunger banquet is an event to raise awareness of global hunger--in this case, to put the crisis in Haiti in the context of global poverty. Each attendee will be randomly assigned to a group upon arrival. These groups reflect global food distribution statistics, and each group will receive a different meal accordingly.
This Saturday, January 30th, 6:00-7:30 PM
West Lounge, 2nd floor of Ida Noyes
$3.00 Suggested Donation. All proceeds benefit the Oxfam Haiti Response Fund
To learn more, visit our facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/event.php?eid=265225193885
Presented by the Interfaith Youth Core and Faiths Act Fellows, in collaboration with: African & Caribbean Students Association, Interfaith Dialogue, Muslim Students Association, Beats & Pieces, Hindu Student Sangam, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Action, Catholic Students Association, University of Chicago affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance, Student Composer Alliance, South Side Solidarity Network, Splash!, PAECE, Organization of Black Students, Students Promoting Interracial Networks, Mission for Vision, Puerto Rican Student Association, QueeReligious, Brent House, Calvert House, Out&About, UChicago for Haiti.
For more information email elmccreless@uchicago.edu or aliya@uchicago.edu
What is this? A hunger banquet is an event to raise awareness of global hunger--in this case, to put the crisis in Haiti in the context of global poverty. Each attendee will be randomly assigned to a group upon arrival. These groups reflect global food distribution statistics, and each group will receive a different meal accordingly.
This Saturday, January 30th, 6:00-7:30 PM
West Lounge, 2nd floor of Ida Noyes
$3.00 Suggested Donation. All proceeds benefit the Oxfam Haiti Response Fund
To learn more, visit our facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/event.php?eid=265225193885
Presented by the Interfaith Youth Core and Faiths Act Fellows, in collaboration with: African & Caribbean Students Association, Interfaith Dialogue, Muslim Students Association, Beats & Pieces, Hindu Student Sangam, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish Action, Catholic Students Association, University of Chicago affiliate of the Secular Student Alliance, Student Composer Alliance, South Side Solidarity Network, Splash!, PAECE, Organization of Black Students, Students Promoting Interracial Networks, Mission for Vision, Puerto Rican Student Association, QueeReligious, Brent House, Calvert House, Out&About, UChicago for Haiti.
For more information email elmccreless@uchicago.edu or aliya@uchicago.edu
2010 Student Activist Conference - Saturday, January 30, 2010
The Student Activist Conference is an annual event offering an opportunity for students at the University of Chicago to learn the skills and tools to be activists. This year's theme is Working Across Difference, and through the keynote address and the workshops which follow, the conference seeks to challenge and work through ideas on how one can be an active student and work within, across, and on issues of difference (race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.), and how these differences play into the work that someone does.
The conference will be held at 10am - 4pm in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street.
Click here to register for this year's conference.
For more information contact University Community Service Center
5525 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 753-GIVE (4483)
Fax: (773) 834-1160
E-mail: ucsc@uchicago.edu
http://ucsc.uchicago.edu/index.html
The conference will be held at 10am - 4pm in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street.
Click here to register for this year's conference.
For more information contact University Community Service Center
5525 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 753-GIVE (4483)
Fax: (773) 834-1160
E-mail: ucsc@uchicago.edu
http://ucsc.uchicago.edu/index.html
Monday, January 25, 2010
Notable Black Individuals: John Harold Johnson
This month the University of Chicago and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs celebrates Black Heritage . As part of the celebration, each week the OMSA Blog will feature a notable Black individual. This week, we feature John Harold Johnson.
“Failure is a word I don't accept.” John Harold Johnson (January 19th 1918 – August 8th 2005)
In 1972, John Harold Johnson was named publisher of the year by the major magazine publishers in the United States. 10 years later he became the 1st African-American to appear on the Forbes' list of the 400 wealthiest Americans.
John Harold Johnson, founder of the Johnson Publishing Company was a grandson of slaves, born in rural Arkansas City, Arkansas. After his father’s death, Johnson’s mother remarried and they moved to Chicago where he attended the nearby all black DuSable High School alongside classmates such as Nat King Cole, Redd Foxx and William Abernathy.
Upon graduation in 1936, he was offered a tuition scholarship to the University of Chicago, but he thought he would have to decline it, because he could not figure out a way to pay for expenses other than tuition. Because of his achievements in high school, Johnson was invited to speak at dinner held by the Urban League. When the president of the Supreme Life Insurance Company, Harry Pace, heard Johnson's speech, he was so impressed with the young man that he offered Johnson a job so that he would be able to use the scholarship.
Later, Johnson used his mother’s furniture as collateral for a $500 loan, which he used to publish the first edition of Negro Digest, later Black World, in 1942. Although that publication achieved some success, it could not be compared with Johnson's subsequent publication, Ebony magazine. Later publications included Tan magazine, Jet magazine, African American Stars and Ebony Jr.
Today, the Johnson Publishing Company is a multimillion empire. The company also publishes books exclusively by Black authors and owns Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the largest Black-owned cosmetics company.
Mr. Johnson became the chairman and chief Executive Officer of Supreme Life Insurance Company where he began his career as an office boy. He also chairs other major business corporations.
Johnson was a Brother of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
“Failure is a word I don't accept.” John Harold Johnson (January 19th 1918 – August 8th 2005)
In 1972, John Harold Johnson was named publisher of the year by the major magazine publishers in the United States. 10 years later he became the 1st African-American to appear on the Forbes' list of the 400 wealthiest Americans.
John Harold Johnson, founder of the Johnson Publishing Company was a grandson of slaves, born in rural Arkansas City, Arkansas. After his father’s death, Johnson’s mother remarried and they moved to Chicago where he attended the nearby all black DuSable High School alongside classmates such as Nat King Cole, Redd Foxx and William Abernathy.
Upon graduation in 1936, he was offered a tuition scholarship to the University of Chicago, but he thought he would have to decline it, because he could not figure out a way to pay for expenses other than tuition. Because of his achievements in high school, Johnson was invited to speak at dinner held by the Urban League. When the president of the Supreme Life Insurance Company, Harry Pace, heard Johnson's speech, he was so impressed with the young man that he offered Johnson a job so that he would be able to use the scholarship.
Later, Johnson used his mother’s furniture as collateral for a $500 loan, which he used to publish the first edition of Negro Digest, later Black World, in 1942. Although that publication achieved some success, it could not be compared with Johnson's subsequent publication, Ebony magazine. Later publications included Tan magazine, Jet magazine, African American Stars and Ebony Jr.
Today, the Johnson Publishing Company is a multimillion empire. The company also publishes books exclusively by Black authors and owns Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the largest Black-owned cosmetics company.
Mr. Johnson became the chairman and chief Executive Officer of Supreme Life Insurance Company where he began his career as an office boy. He also chairs other major business corporations.
Johnson was a Brother of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
GRAY VS. GREEN: Why Urban Renewal Didn’t & The Green Economy Must
Featuring
Applied Research Center Green Equity Toolkit
“Race: The Power of An Illusion” Film Excerpts
Moderator
Naomi Davis, JD—President & Founder, Blacks in Green
Roundtable
William Michael Cunningham
Creative Investment, Incorporated, Washington, D.C.
Nolen M. Ellison, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of Business
Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Ph.D.
University of Chicago Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
Terry Keleher
Director/ Racial Justice Leadership Action Network & Midwest Office Director, Applied Research Center
Claude Robinson
Executive Vice President of External Affairs & Diversity, UCAN
Kim Wasserman
Coordinator, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)
Host
Bart Schultz—Director, Civic Knowledge Project
Complimentary Copy Environmental Justice Magazine
Presented by BIG: Blacks in Green™ in Partnership With The Civic Knowledge Project, The Applied Research Center, UCAN, the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
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