Time: 9:30 am–3:30 am
Taking Good Care: A History of Health and Wellness in the Black Community
The centrality of health in the history of black Americans will be the focus of the 2012 Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series. New Jersey’s largest and most prestigious conference commemorating Black History Month celebrates its 32nd anniversary on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the Paul Robeson Campus Center on the Rutgers University’s Newark Campus, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public.
This year’s program entitled Taking Good Care: A History of Health and Wellness in the Black Community, will examine the intersection of health and race in American life. Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States under President Clinton, will deliver the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture, Health Disparities in Black America. Dr. William Owen, president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, will comment on Dr. Elders lecture.
MTW Lecturer:
Dr. Jocelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States
Lecture Title: Health Disparities in Black America
Dr. William Owen, president, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
Lecture Title: “My Genetic Code or my Zip Code: Which Is More Important?”
Afternoon Speakers:
Dr. Sharla Fett, associate professor of History, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Lecture Title: ‘You Just Had to Depend on Yourself’: Self-Reliance and the Healing Work of Enslaved Women on U.S. Antebellum Plantations
Dr. Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Il Lecture Title: Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race and Health
