Get your Praise on--IPFW Gospel Celebration

IPFW News Release: Fort Wayne, Feb. 4, 2008) -- Choirs and musical groups will gather Sunday, Feb. 17, for the fourth annual Gospel Celebration. The concert, which is part of the Black History Month celebration, will be at 5 p.m. in the Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Walb Student Union Ballroom.

It is free and open to the public.

The celebration will feature local choirs and musical groups and a guest choir, Music for Soul, from Indianapolis. Personalities from Fort Wayne's new gospel radio station, WQSW-LP 100.5 The Voice, will serve as emcees. Dancers will also perform and vendors will be on hand. The event is sponsored by the IPFW Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.

For more information, contact Christopher W. Riley, coordinator of student success and multicultural programs, 260-481-6847, rileyc@ipfw.edu.

Henry Gates at IPFW Omnibus Lecture Series

IPFW Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the Omnibus Lecture Series at Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne during Black History presents Henry Louis Gates, Jr to the local community. Gates lecture is entitled, Genealogy and Genetics and the African-American Experience . Gates was born on Sept. 16, 1950, is a scholar, college teacher, critic, writer and chairperson read more about Gates below.

From the IPFW Website:

Henry Louis Gates Jr, one of the United States’ most influential cultural critics, is both an eloquent commentator and formidable intellectual force on multicultural and African American issues. He is widely acknowledged for taking African American studies beyond the ideological bent of the 1970s and 80s black power movement, and bringing it into a scholarly sphere that is the equivalent to all other disciplines. He is currently the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies at Harvard University.

In 1997, Gates was named one of Time magazine’s “25 most influential Americans.” He is a prolific writer who has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited several books and written numerous articles. His books include Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man and The Future of the Race with co-author and Princeton professor Cornell West. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, The New Republic, and The New York Times. Gates is also the editor of Transition magazine, an international review of African, Carribean, and African American politics.

In 2006, he wrote and produced the PBS documentary African American Lives, the first documentary series to employ genealogy and science to provide an understanding of African American history. His current projects include a sequel to African American Lives, as well as a documentary titled Finding Oprah’s Roots, where he expands on one of the most popular individuals featured in African American Lives.

Gates’ honors and grants include a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and the George Polk Award for Social Commentary, a national humanities medal. Gates has also received more than 40 honorary degrees.


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Who Is Christopher Riley?

Christopher Riley, you will never forget him. Riley is focused and committed. Riley serves as Coordinator of Student Success and Multicultural Affairs at IPFW: Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. When you meet Riley, he is extremely attentive and committed to getting things done. Committed, it may appeare to be an overused word, but when you meet Riley, who is currently serving as co-chair of the Fort Wayne-Allen County #3049 Freedom Fund Banquet, the word fits him like a tee.

Who Protects the best interest of the Child

Here's another post about children, getting shafted. Years ago, not that long ago, within my life time, a rich man visited Bunch Elementary School, which is now a pre-kindergarten Montessori school. Anyways this rich man was amazed at the intellectual achievement of these students. Students who were African-Americans no less. Guess what? The rich made a promise that he would finance these students college education. Amazing huh? Of course it was. But here's the kicker, do you think those students go the money after they fulfilled their end of the bargain?


No..so where did it go? Disappeared after the man died. But, I know for a fact some of the money went into the Fort Wayne Educational Foundation Funds. I'll repeat this one, I know for a fact that some of the millions went into the Fort Wayne Education Foundation Funds. By the way, one of my professors still owns me a steak, or a cheeseburger. Demands on who's telling the story.

The parents and the children were denied the opportunity of an education. Sounds a little like the Schwab Foundation rip off, you think?