In 1991, he was on the Advisory Committee of the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit. In 1994-95, he was a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. And in 1994 he was co-facilitator of the Symposium for Health Research and Needs to Ensure Environmental Justice, an event sponsored by major federal agencies, where over a thousand grassroots activists, government personnel and scientists and people from the academic community participated. Dr. Bryant was a part of a movement that was responsible for President Clinton's signing of the Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898--an order that is having a major impact on federal agencies and communities throughout the country. In addition to teaching courses, Dr. Bryant has been a consultant to a number of nonprofit environmental organizations across the country. In addition to writing and consulting with government, Dr. Bryant has lectured on environmental justice at a number of universities across the country.

Andrew Campbell, M.D. Pediatric Hematologist

Director, Pediatric Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program

MD: Case Western Reserve University 1996
Pediatric Residency, Mass. Gen. Hosp. 1996-1999
Fellowship (Hematology/Oncology), Northwestern 1999-2002

Dr. Campbell is a 1991 graduate of Morehouse College. He has been at Mott Children's Hospital since 2002. Dr Campbell is married to Monica Lypson, MD, Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education, University of Michigan School of Medicine.

Dr. Campbell is the Director of the Pediatric Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program. The Sickle Cell Program is a clinical program designed to take a multidisciplinary approach to the management of sickle cell disease patients. Operated by the Pediatric Division of Hematology/Oncology at Mott Children's Hospital, this program is composed of a multidisciplinary team of health professionals, who along with patient and caregiver, have as their primary goal coordinating delivery of specialized comprehensive health care and necessary resources to children and families affected by sickle cell disease in a five county region of southeastern Michigan. The sickle cell program serves approximately 90 patients with sickle cell disease within this region of Michigan.

Information about the program can be found
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Program
http://www.med.umich.edu/sicklecell/index.htm

GEORGE E. CURRY
JOURNALIST

George E. Curry is Editor-in-Chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. His weekly column is syndicated by NNPA to more than 200 African-American newspapers, with a combined readership of 15 million.
Curry was Editor-in-Chief of Emerge: Black America's Newsmagazine from 1993 until June 2000. He is past President of the American Society of Magazine Editors, the first African-American and non-New York based editor to hold the association's top office. Curry covered the 1984 presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson and the vice presidential campaigns of Geraldine Ferraro and the senior George Bush. He accompanied Jackson to Rome in 1985 for an audience with Pope John Paul II. In 1992, Curry covered the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton and the vice presidential campaign of Senator Al Gore. Born in Tuscaloosa, AL, Curry graduated from Druid High School and attended Knoxville College in Tennessee, Harvard and Yale. He has appeared on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, The Today Show, 20/20, Good Morning America, CNN, C-SPAN, BET, Fox Network News and MSNBC. The National Association of Black Journalists named Curry its 2003 "Journalist of the Year." He is on the NABJ's list of "Most Influential Black Journalists of the 20th Century," and has been selected the National Association of Black Journalists' (NABJ) 2003 "Journalist of the Year."

Kerry loss prompts call for closer look at Black Democratic role
Date: Thursday, November 04, 2004
By: H.R. HARRIS, BlackAmericaWeb.com

President George W. Bush's defeat of Sen. John Kerry in spite of an historic turnout by black voters Tuesday is prompting some black leaders and members of the Congressional Black Caucus to ponder their future role in the Democratic Party.

“Kerry lost in Ohio because there was a ballot issue on same-sex marriage and this brought religious voters to the polls,” said Bositis. “The Republicans realized that it would be to their advantage to have anti-gay referendums on the ballot. The Democrats attempted to stop them in some states, but they were unsuccessful.”

Bositis said Bush’s victory can also be attributed to the black vote he got in Ohio, which was higher than what he got nationally.

“In Ohio Bush got 16 percent of the black vote compared to 9 percent in 2000. Nationwide, Bush got 11 percent of the black vote.” Bush's inroads with blacks in Ohio was also was helped by
Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell,

one of the most
prominent blacks in the Republican Party, he said.

Hip Hop Portal

Rap music and Hip Hop culture can no longer be dismissed as merely a fad: the two have grown and melded to rival other musical cultures. Recognizing this, Case Western Reserve University Librarian, Tiffeni Fontno has initiated the creation of a prototype database that will centralize access to known, published resources that document Hip Hop culture. This database is now publicly available on the World Wide Web as a searchable collection.

The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement

CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement) promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. CIRCLE was founded in 2001 with a generous grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts and is now also funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is based in the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy.