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1991.02.07 :  Black History Month

Contact: Moses Newson 202/245-6343
February 7, 1991

       HHS Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., has announced that
a special program and weekly workshops emphasizing the
contribution of black people throughout history will be co-
sponsored by four federal agencies during Black History Month.
       Dr. Charles S. Finch III, M.D., assistant director of
international health at Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta,
will address the special program Feb. 20 at 10 a.m. in the Great
Hall of the Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Ave. S.W.
       Anthony T. Browder, founder and director of the Institute
of Karmic Guidance in Washington, D.C., will conduct the Feb. 7,
14, 21 and 28 workshops which will run from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. 
The Feb. 7, 14 and 28 workshops will be held in HHS' Cohen
Building Auditorium, 330 Independence Ave. S.W.  The one on Feb.
21 will be in the Education Department's FOB-6 Barnard
Auditorium, 400 Maryland Ave. S.W.
       Joining the Department of Health and Human Services and
the Department of Education in co-sponsoring the events are the
United States Information Agency and the Federal Emergency
Management Agency. 
       The theme of this year's 66th anniversary celebration of
the observance started by Carter G. Woodson is "Educating
America: Black Universities and Colleges -- Strengths and
Crises."
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       Other participants in the special program on Feb 20
include Michael J. Calhoun, HHS chief of staff, presiding; and
the Rev. Vashti M. McKenzie,  pastor of the Payne AME Memorial
Church in Baltimore. 
       Music will be provided by the Social Security
Administration chorus, John Pitts, director.
       Finch and Browder are among the nation's foremost African-
centric experts and lecturers.  They cover contributions of black
people from civilization's beginning to the present.
       Finch, a board-certified family physician, has been at the
Morehouse School of Medicine since 1982.  He is a 1971 graduate
of Yale University and completed his M.D. degree at Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia in 1976.   He did specialty study
in family medicine at the University of California Irvine Medical
Center and spent two years as an epidemiologist with the Centers
for Disease Control.
       Widely traveled in Africa, Finch has written articles for
publications such as the Journal of African Civilizations, the
Washington Post and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution on
topics that included: "Race and Revolution in Prehistory," "The
Black Roots of Egypt's Glory" and "Africa and Palestine in
Antiquity." 

       Browder, a graduate of Howard University's College of Fine
Arts, describes himself as a chronicler of facts and information
relative to the positive portrayal of the worldwide African
experience.  His Institute of Karmic Guidance is a culturally 
oriented organization that is dedicated to the dissemination of
Ancient Egyptian history and metaphysics.  It includes a
speakers' bureau, sponsors lectures and publishes the newsletter
Human Insights.

       Workshop topics are: Feb. 7, "African Contributions to
Civilization";  Feb. 14, "African Influence on Religion"; Feb.
21, "African Americans and American History"; and Feb. 28, "The
Melanin Report," a discussion of the significance of melanin,
what it is, how it works and its vital role in human development
and well-being.

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