The following educational and community events have received support from Diversity and Multicultural Affairs:

January 2007

23 through May, 2007 | "I Raised My Hand to Volunteer": Students Protest in 1960s Chapel Hill | This exhibit and program sponsored by the Manuscripts Department of UNC's Wilson Library, uses diaries, photographs, personal papers, University records, and other original items to examine student engagement with desegregation, economic inequality, the war in Vietnam, and North Carolina's Speaker Ban Law

June 2007

25 | "Does Racism Make Us Sick?" 13th Annual Summer Public Health Research Institute
and Videoconference on Minority Health | 2 -4 p.m. | Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History and Webcast | For more informaiton and to preregister, visit www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2007

September 2007

6 | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Conversations with Cookie: Insensitive Speech

• Join Dr. Cookie Newsom, Director for Diversity Education and Assessment, for an informal conversation about insensitive speech. How does insensitive speech affect our experience in a community? What does it mean to cross the line with words? Open to the campus community and general public.
• Location: Campus Y Conference Room | map
• More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

October 2007

8 | 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Diversity Education Team Film Festival: In the Light of Reverence: Protecting America's Sacred Lands | Facilitator: Dr. Clara Sue Kidwell | More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

9 | Noon - 2:00 p.m. | Diversity Education Team Film Festival: Two Towns of Jasper | Facilitator: Dr. Cookie Newsom and Nikkia Sheppard | More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

9 | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Diversity Education Team Film Festival: Two Towns of Jasper | Facilitator: Dr. Cookie Newsom and Nikkia Sheppard | More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

• Join Dr. Cookie Newsom, Director for Diversity Education and Assessment, for an informal conversation about the complex relationships between black women and white women. What histories and perceptions do "sisters and sistahs" bring to the table? How can women find common ground, while respecting difference? Open to the campus community and general public.
• Location: Carolina Women's Center | 134 E. Franklin Street | map
• More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

11 | 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. | Diversity Education Team Film Festival: Race: The power of Illusion | Facilitators: Cricket Lane and Lucy Lewis | More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu

November 2007

8 | 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. | Conversations with Cookie: Self-Segregation

• Join Dr. Cookie Newsom, Director for Diversity Education and Assessment, for an informal conversation about current diversity issues. Topic: Self-Segregation | How do we self-segregate in everyday life? What consequences do we experience as a result of this?
• Location: Campus Y Conference Room | map
• More information: Contact Dr. Cookie Newsom at 919-962-6962 or newsom@email.unc.edu