California State University, Northridge

PRESS RELEASE

April 11, 1996

Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler,
Director of News and Information,
(818) 885-2130

Exploring the Black Experience

The W.E.B. DuBois-Fannie Lou Hamer Institute for African-American Achievement at Cal State Northridge will host a series of "conversations" later this month to explore the challenges facing African-American students.

The first conversation, "African-American Youth and Violence: Implications for Educational Achievement," will be Thursday, April 25, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Grand Salon of the University Student Union near the center of the campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

"An Evening of Conversation with Dr. Bonnie Dill," will be Friday, April 26, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the University Club and examine issues impacting young African-American women.

"One of the things we want to do at the institute is focus on the complexities in the lives of African-American students that might interfere with their achievement," said Pan African Studies professor Barbara Rhodes, one of the coordinators of the events.

Taking part in the April 25 conference are C. Boyd James, director of the Center of the Study of Violence and Social Change; Henry T. Stuckey, president of the Stop the Violence - Increase the Peace Foundation; and Garth Kasimu Baker-Fletcher, author of "Somebodyness: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Theory of Dignity" and "Xodus: An African American Male Journey."

Dill, who is speaking on April 26, is founding director of the Womens Resource Center at the University of Memphis and professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, Moorpark.

To reserve a seat for "An Evening of Conversation with Dr. Bonnie Dill," call (818) 885-3312. For more information about either event, call the Pan African Studies Department at (818) 885-3312.