DBC to Publish Book on Green Economy
The DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy is preparing to publish a book that looks at strategies to ensure that people of color in the United States can be a vital part of the nation’s emerging green economy.
The book, “Black, Brown and Green,” which includes a wide range of essays by some of the nation’s leading thinkers on the issue of the green economy, will be published in early 2012.
Among the list of authors are: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the renowned environmental activist; Adolfo Carrion, the regional director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development; Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, the director of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at San Francisco State University; Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, the chief executive officer of Green For All; J. Phillip Thomson, an urban planner and political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.
The book, which will include a chapter by Roger Green, the executive director of the DuBois Bunche Center, is being edited by Jonathan Hicks, a DBC senior fellow.
Students in Medgar Evers College’s public administration department will also be involved in the planning and execution of a symposium on the topic of the role of people of color in the nation’s emerging green economy. That event, which will coincide with the publishing of the book, will take place in February.
Journalism Symposium Co-Sponsored By DuBois Bunche Center
In Liberia’s Capital of Monrovia Drew Media and Political Officials
The role of media in the upcoming presidential and legislative elections in Liberia was the focus of a two-week seminar cosponsored by the DuBois Bunche Center that ended Dec. 2 in the country’s capital city, Monrovia. The event was called “Preparing for Election 2011: A Symposium on Political and Election Reporting in Liberia.” It brought together more than two dozen working journalists and mass communications students along with civil and political leaders in Liberia.
The symposium was also co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation, the Press Union of Liberia, the Liberia Media Center and the University of Liberia, which hosted the symposium on its campus.
The symposium on election reporting came less than a year before what is considered a pivotal election for Liberia. The opening speaker was Norris Tweah, Liberia’s Minister of Information. Mr. Tweah filled in for Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who had been scheduled to address the symposium. But the president has been consumed with reshuffling her cabinet. In early November, she placed virtually all her cabinet on leave saying she would determine whom she would maintain in order to have what she called a fresh start in the year before the election. She is now in the process of refilling positions
The symposium featured presentations by several journalists with important roles in Liberia. They included Peter Quaqua, the president of the Press Union of Liberia; Joseph Roberts-Mensah, Officer in Charge, UNMIL Public Information; Torwon Sulonteh-Brown, the acting president of the Female Journalists of Liberia (FEJAL) and Ora Garway, the editor of the newspaper Punch, and the woman editor in Liberia.
Preparing for Election 2011, was coordinated by Jonathan Hicks, a senior fellow at DBC and former political reporter for The New York Times.
Links to News Coverage of the Symposium
From the Liberian Inquirer
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From Global News Network, Liberia
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From the Liberian Observer
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This Week On Urban Focus
Roger Green, the executive director of the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy, appeared recently before the City Council, promoting the workforce development recommendations contained in the Thurgood Marshall Plan, a broad proposal created by DBC and aimed at targeting assistance and resources at urban centers with the most dramatic need. The plan includes a number of proposals aimed at reducing unemployment in urban areas through job creation initiatives.