Dr. Carl Hart Keynote at University of Texas El Paso (UTEP)

Dr. Carl Hart to Speak at UTEP

Keynote Address at the Vida Conference 2014

More information: vida.utep.edu/vida-conference-2014

I first heard of Dr. Carl Hart in the documentary the House I Live In, a film we recommended this Spring in The Beat Within course, in addition to the required viewing of Slavery by Another Name.  Dr. Carl Hart will be giving the Keynote Address at the UTEP Vida Conference 2014 (Vulnerability to Drug Abuse Among Hispanics, Bridging Science and Society, May 29-30, 2014).  The event will take place at the Tomas Rivera Conference Center (UTEP) in El Paso, Texas and will also feature New Mexico State University Associate Professor (CJ), Dr. Robert Duran on panel session #5: Qualitative Inquiries into Drug Use, Drug Markets, Gang Behavior and Successful Reentry (Gangs on the United States Side of the Border: A Story of Contradictions).  

Dr. Hart's keynote address is titled, "On Drugs: Keeping It Real".  On the conference agenda it states that the "presentation will describe how Dr. Hart came from housing projects in Miami to become Columbia University's first tenure African American professor in the sciences.  Dr. Hart will go beyond the hype and misinformation perpetuated by the antidrug movement to explain the real effects of drugs and drug policy."  Dr. Hart is Co-Director and Professor of Psychology at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University and a nationally recognized author of High Price.

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Advocate | The Mission of Marian Wright

The Mission of Marian Wright

I've started to learn how to use the "Labels" function on the blogger system and have decided to create a section to this blog called "Advocates".  It's something that I started to keep track of on Zotero, which is a lot harder to manage considering its tucked away inside of their research tool, not as easy to find on search engines, and plus Zotero seems to run out of space quickly.  So I'm through using it.  I mainly hope to share notes and information online that will have a presence online regardless of whether I have an open account or not.  Google is the best tool for someone who is a sponge for information and a self anointed archivist.  

Our first Advocte feature is Marian Wright Edelman.  I stumbled across this article at work and felt there was a connection to the New Jim Crow read that we covered during the Spring semester of 2014.  Several connections, especially in thinking about individuals that paved the way for advocates today, not only in the community but in Marian Wright Edelman's case, as a civil rights lawyer.  

The citations below will connect you to an article posted in the Chronicle of Philanthropy and another is to a Ponchitta Peirce article that was published in an Ebony magazine (1966).  

As I was watching the video the Lyndon B. Johnson quote stood out to me.

"For the war against poverty will not be won here in Washington, it must be won in the field, in every private home, in every public office from the courthouse to the White House."

Introducing Marian Wright Edelman:

Knaan, Idit, and Suzanne Perry. "War on Poverty Spurs Lifelong Advocacy for Children." The Chronicle of Philanthropy 6 May 2014. Web. http://philanthropy.com/article/War-on-Poverty-Spurs-Lifelong/146391/?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en.

Pierce, Ponchitta. "The Mission of Marian Wright." Ebony June 1966: 94-97. Web. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ql8CIGb9y5QC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&dq=the+mission+of+marian+wright+ponchitta&source=bl&ots=Q2mT12NNiu&sig=DBmwbQVNKee4esbEp8LJ1rMG5C0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FV9_U_D7NYqMqgbljIDIDA&v.