Poverty Awareness at UNC

Featured Events

June 3, 2008: 14th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health

This year's videoconference will feature a conversation on men's health disparities between four imminent speakers:
  • Claudia R. Baquet, Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Associate Dean for Policy and Planning; and Director, Center for Health Disparities
  • Spero M. Manson, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center and Director, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research
  • Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Professor, Department of Urban Planning and the Cesar E. Chavez Department for Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, and Director, Center for the Study of Urban Poverty
  • Frank Y. Wong, Associate Professor, Department of International Health, School of Nursing and Health Studies, Georgetown University
The panel will be moderated by Stephanie L. Crayton, Media Relations Manager, UNC Health Care and will be broadcast via the Internet and c-band satellite from the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium at the University of North Carolina School of Social Work.

The videoconference website is http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2008/.

Presented by the UNC Minority Health Project (School of Public Health), the UNC Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the NC A&T State University Institute for Public Health.

September 22, 2008: The Frank Porter Graham Lecture - John H. McWhorter

John McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes and comments extensively on race, ethnicity and cultural issues for the Institute's Center for Race and Ethnicity.  McWhorter's book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, generated widespread acclaim.  He was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and has appeared on numerous national TV and radio shows. 

McWhorter is also the author of the New York Times' best seller, Losing the Race, and an anthology of race writings, Authentically Black.  McWhorter's work on race and cultural issues has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the National Review and the Chronicle of Higher Education.  McWhorter also comments regularly for All Things Considered.

He will appear at Memorial Hall on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus.

Class Spotlight

Sociology 290 is a service learning class that works with nonprofits, schools, residents and city agencies to raise local awareness of international human rights.  Taught by Professor Judith Blau, the class is coordinating efforts with Chapel Hill and Carrboro to establish the two towns as "Human Rights Cities." 

To learn more about the class, visit the following student websites:

For more information about the Human Rights Cities campaign, visit the Human Rights Cities website.

Class Project - On the Line: Economic Hardship in North Carolina

In the spring of 2007, the Center worked with the students in Professor Pat Davison's documentary photojournalism class to create the stories in On the Line: Economic Hardship in North Carolina.  The students' riveting multi-media slide shows can be viewed at

http://www.carolinaphotojournalism.org:16080/ontheline/.

On the Line won the 2007 College Photographer of the Year's Award of Excellence, Multimedia Project and Crystal Street was awarded Gold in the Individual Still/Audio Story or Essay category for her story on Durham's McDougal Terrace neighborhood, The Mac.  On the Line also received recognition from the SNDies, a multimedia design competition judged by the Society of News Design.  

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