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IU will be hosting its first Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC) gathering next month, titled “Politics of Identity in the New Millennium.” The 14th annual national conference of ABCC is Nov. 4-7 at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center at IU Bloomington.
Keynote speakers will be Molefi Asante, author and founder of the African American Studies Department at Temple University, the first program to offer a doctoral degree in African-American studies; Delores Aldridge, the Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of sociology and African-American studies at Emory University; Charlie Nelms, vice president for institutional development and student affairs at IU, and the choral ensemble called The Spoken Word.
ABCC, based at Knox College in Gales-burg, Ill., is an organization that advocates for the culture of people of African descent through networking, caretaking and institutionalizing black and multicultural centers. Its membership includes more than 200 centers across the U.S., West Africa and the Caribbean.
For more information about the conference, contact Fred Lee Hord, executive director of the ABCC, at 309-341-7862; E-mail: fhord@knox.edu.
http://www.abcc.net/
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