HAMILTON — Racial profiling, economic empowerment and media images will be among the issues affecting African-American men to be discussed today during a symposium at Miami University in Hamilton.

        “The African-American Men's Empowerment Symposium: From Problems to Solutions” is free, from 1-5:30 p.m. in the Harry T. Wilks Conference Center.

        The program will begin with a keynote speech by Na'im Akbar, a Florida State University psychologist, followed by a panel discussion of university staff, faculty, students and community leaders. There will be workshops between 2:45-4 p.m. and 4:10-5:30 p.m.

        Shauntae Brown White, assistant professor of communication and Black World Studies at Miami University in Hamilton, said though the focus will be on black men, the entire community is welcome.

        “People who are not men or African-American still have to relate and interact with African-American men,” Dr. White said. “So
they have just as much of a vested interest to learn and understand some of the issues that face them.”

        Some of the interactive workshops are:

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        • “Police Brutality and Racial Profiling” by the Rev. Damon Lynch III of the Cincinnati Black United Front, pastor of New Prospect Baptist Church in Over-the-Rhine.

        • “Helping African-American Men Succeed in College” by Dr. Michael Cuyjet, University of Louisville.

        • “Economic Empowerment” by Darren Anderson, a financial consultant with Merrill Lynch.

        • “The African-American Male Image in the Media” by Dr. Ronald Jackson of Pennsylvania State University.

        Mark McPhail, chair of the department of communication at Miami University in Oxford, will lead a workshop titled “The Hip Hop Culture and the African-American Male Identity.”

        “I'll look at how things have changed from the late '60s and early '70s until today and focus primarily on the difference between the discourses of early rappers, like The Last Poets, and the types of things that are coming out now,” Dr. McPhail said. “I'll focus largely on the way that women are depicted.”

        The symposium is sponsored by Miami's Black World Studies Department, Office of Multicultural Services and Office of Multicultural Student Enrichment.

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