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Opening of the exhibit "Race: Are We So Different?" at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. This moving and thought-provoking exhibit runs through Jan. 4, 2009.

Go here for more information about the exhibit and the many associated forums and events throughout the community.

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National and local experts who will look at the national context in which Carl Stokes was elected Mayor of Cleveland and the current state of race, politics and cities, and what still needs to change in America's cities.

Keynote Address: Leonard Moore, associate professor and assistant vice president Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, The University of Texas at Austin and author of "Carl B. Stokes and The Rise of Black Political Power."

Panel Discussion: Moderator, Mansfield Frazier, author and columnist for Cool Cleveland

• Norman Krumholz, Professor, Levin College of Urban Affairs and former Planning Director of the City of Cleveland from 1969-1979.
• Dennis Keating, professor, Levin College and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Ronnie Dunn, assistant professor, Levin College
• Roldo Bartimole, journalist and former editor and publisher of Point of View and a columnist for Cool Cleveland

Free and open to the public.

To register and for more information visit our website at www.urban.csuohio.edu or call 216.523.7330

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Keynote Speaker: Guion S. Bluford, Jr., Ph.D., First African American to fly in space

Entertainment provided by The Eric Gould Trio

For more information, please call 216-381-3266

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The event is to encourage Northeast Ohio’s collaboration in attracting and retaining a culturally diverse mix of entrepreneurs to our region. How do we transform NEO into a global powerhouse?

Special guests Pete Engardia, Senior international news editor for Business Week and Vivek Wadhwa, Founder, chairman, and CEO of Relativity Technologies, named one of the 25 “coolest” companies in the world by Fortune Magazine for its vision in helping businesses recycle legacy systems.

Fee. For reservations, email reservations@ccwa.org or call 216-781-3730 x102 or you may
register online at www.ccwa.org. 

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Explorer Lecture Series with Harriet Washington:  The history of medical research with African Americans remained largely unexplored until journalist Harriet Washington published the book Medical Apartheid, the product of years of research into long-undisturbed medical journals and experimental reports. Using this work and many arresting, rarely seen images, she discusses the science and ethics behind this long-neglected chapter in the history of medicine, which paralleled American culture at large. She also demonstrates how for centuries, racist mythology, economics and politics trumped scientific and medical discipline – and how this history can serve as a cautionary tale.

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Conference sponsored by the Kirwan Institute of Ohio State University about "toward a transformative agenda around race."

City Xpressionz Urban Art Festival organized by Cleveland Public Art, with aerosol art exhibitions and b-boy and b-girl battles and other entertainment.

Free to watch.

Diversity isn't just about race or ethnicity. It's also about age.

Here is a beginning list of organizations in Northeast Ohio that are involving a younger generation of leaders in the life of the community:

32 Below - Cleveland Advertising Association
Black Singles Network
City Club New Leaders
Cleveland Bridge Builders
Cleveland Clinic GOAL Group
Cleveland Council on World Affairs Young Professionals
Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club
Cuyahoga County Young Democrats
International Partners in Mission
Young Associate Network
MotivAsians
National Black MBA Association - Cleveland Chapter
Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland
Playhouse Square Partners
Society of Urban Professionals
Swagelok Emerging Professionals
The Bridge of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland
The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland Foundation’s Associate Board
The Nature League of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
United Way Services GeneratioNext Leadership Cabinet
Urban League of Greater Cleveland Young Professionals
YWCA Women's Leadership Initiative
Young Latino Network
Young Professionals Group at the Ronald McDonald House
Greater Cleveland Young Republicans
National Society of Black Engineers
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland - Young Leadership Division
Young Visionaries at the Cleveland Sight Center  

Benefit event for Hard Hatted Women, with guest speaker Eric Fingerhut, Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents.

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Noted urban historian, John J. Grabowski, hosts a lively talk and slide presentation focusing on the Jewish roots of Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood. Learn more about why this community is the birthplace of Superman, sports heroes and intellectual giants. Fee.