2009 Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival at HU

HU’s  Department of English’s Cinema Studies Program presents the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Black Film Festival (MABFF) symposiums and screenings. The MABFF will be held on September 16-19 at the Hampton University, the historic Attucks Theater in Norfolk, Va., and Norfolk State University. Screenings are $5 for students, faculty and staff and $10 for the general public. Symposiums are free and open to the public. 

The MABFF offers the best in black and multi-cultural independent films, powerful narratives, compelling historical and contemporary documentaries, innovative films by students, colorful animation shorts, music videos and discussions and workshops with distinguished guests from the film industry. The MABFF recognizes artistic excellence in the past, present and future of black cinema and is bound to have something that will enlighten and entertain.  Eleanor Earl, assistant professor of English at HU, is MABFF festival director.  

Short films and documentaries will also be showing on Sept. 18-19 featuring:

A Matter of Race (short film)

Foreign Exchange (short film)

Act Like You Know (short films about acting)

Mere-bi (documentary with subtitles)

My Mother Was a Butterfly (documentary)

The Life and Tragic Death of James Byrd, Jr.

Student Film Competition

HU Summit Addresses U.S. Marriage Crisis

More than 100 prominent leaders will gather at Hampton University to discuss the state of marriage and families in the U.S.  The HU National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families will be held on Sept. 29-30 in the Student Center Ballroom.  This groundbreaking event will explore the declining status of today’s marriages and the importance of healthy, effective parenting in the U.S.  The summit will streamline live on the web at www.hamptonu.edu for the public.

Panel discussions featuring leaders in business, media and entertainment, military, religion, politics and education will research findings on the status of marriage, parenting and families and the consequences of the weakening of family relationships in the U.S.  They will also explore creative and effective ways of moving marriage and family research evidence from academic journals to classrooms and the American public.

Panelists include Joshua DuBois, head of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; clinical psychologist and television personality Jeff Gardere; Paula Parker-Sawyers, director of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Raspberry; actors and producers Tim and Daphne Reid; and Douglas Wilder, former governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia.  

         

        

An index on the state of marriage in the U.S. will be released at the summit.  The U.S. Marriage Index uses specific measurement indicators to track the health of American marriages through the past forty years and assess areas of improvement for the future.  This index is a product of a partnership between HU and the Institute for American Values.

“We’re really focused on raising awareness about the crisis of marriage in the U.S.  But we’re also solutions focused, identifying what it is we can do to address this issue,” explained Dr. Linda Malone-Colon, chair of the Summit and director of the HU National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting (NCAAMP), to be launched at the summit.  

The summit will also feature:

Summit Luncheon: Sept. 29 at 11:30 a.m., Student Center Ballroom.  Featuring the husband-wife team of Roland Martin, award-winning journalist and CNN analyst, and the Rev. Jacqui Hood Martin, founder of Jacqui Hood Ministries, as keynote speakers.

       

Fundraising Gala Dinner Event: Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m., HU Convocation Center.  Open to the public.   Featuring Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Ga., as keynote speaker.  Ticket prices are $60 individual, $100 per couple with funds going to support NCAAMP.  For ticket information, please contact (757) 728-4912.

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HU Nursing School Awarded $3.2 Million

The Hampton University School of Nursing was recently awarded approximately $3.2 million in grants. The three grants will serve several purposes in the department, including the preparing nurses for the workforce, retaining students and enhancing the doctoral program. The grants were awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration.

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http://www.hamptonu.edu/news/081909_08_nursing_school.html 

HU Summit to Release U.S. Marriage Index

Dr. Linda Malone-Colon

Hampton, Va. – An index on the state of marriage in the U.S. will be released at the upcoming Hampton University National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families on Sept. 29-30.  The U.S. Marriage Index uses specific measurement indicators to track the health of American marriages through the past forty years and assess areas of improvement for the future.  This index is a product of a partnership between HU and the Institute for American Values.

More than 100 of the nation’s most diverse, influential leaders will be present for the unveiling at the HU National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families. The summit is a groundbreaking public conversation about marriage and families aimed at increasing the national conversation on the declining status of today’s marriages and the importance of healthy, effective parenting.  The Summit will streamline live on the web at www.hamptonu.edu for the public.  

“We’re really focused on raising awareness about the crisis of marriage in the U.S.  But we’re also solutions focused, identifying what it is we can do to address this issue,” explained Dr. Linda Malone-Colon, chair of the Summit and director of the HU National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting (NCAAMP), to be launched at the Summit.  

According to Malone-Colon, the number of married couples in the U.S. dropped from 72 percent in 1970 to 56 percent in 2004. In addition, nearly 40 percent of babies born in the U.S. in 2007 were delivered to unwed mothers, marking a more than 24 percent increase from five years earlier.  

The statistics also support the need to take further efforts within the African-American community.  Although all racial groups are showing increases in out-of-wedlock births, the percentage of unwed mothers differs from race to race.  For example, while 29 percent of Caucasian women gave birth out-of-wedlock in 2007, more than 51 percent of Latinas and nearly 72 percent of black women did.

NCAAMP aims to strengthen African-American families by helping them gain essential knowledge, skills and other resources required for building and sustaining healthy marriages and practicing effective parenting.

“A U.S. marriage index that measures the health of marriage will help our society to determine what we are doing well and what we need to improve, so that more Americans might have the opportunity to grow up in a healthy marriage,” said Malone-Colon.

HU J-School's Caldwell Honored by NABJ Hall of Fame

Earl Caldwell

Hampton, VA -Earl Caldwell, a visiting professor at Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, will be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame at the organization’s 2009 Annual Convention held Aug. 5-9 in Tampa, Fla.  Caldwell will be recognized on Aug. 7 at 11 a.m. at the Tampa Convention Center.

“In our honorees, NABJ gives kudos to the industry leaders who have broken new ground without forgetting from where they came,” said Barbara Ciara, NABJ President.

Caldwell is a nationally renowned journalist who has witnessed and chronicled some of the most important civil rights events of the past 40 years.  He was the only reporter present when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Caldwell rose to fame while a reporter at The New York Times when he refused to disclose information to the FBI and the Nixon Administration involving his sources in the Black Panther party. The case, United States v. Caldwell, reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972 when the court ruled against him. The “Caldwell Case” led to the enactment of shield laws in many states that allow reporters to protect sources and information.

“It’s a high honor.  I consider it recognition not just of my work, which I’m proud of, but also for my generation of black journalists who came to the top in the 1960s in a difficult, tumultuous time in America,” said Caldwell. At HU, Caldwell is writing “The Caldwell Journals,” a serialized account of the black journalist movement spawned by the 1960s civil rights movement.