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Christopher M. Bell (1974 – December 25, 2009) was a disability studies scholar working in the area of HIV/AIDS, race and ethnicity.He was the former president of the Society for Disability Studies and contributed to national discussions about race, ethnicity and disability studies.
He was also a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and a clinical provider for the 360 Men of Color Program. [10] While with Pangaea, Goosby played a key role in the development and/or implementation of HIV/AIDS national treatment scale-up plans in Rwanda, South Africa, China, and Ukraine.
Delegates at the National Convention of Colored Men in Syracuse, NY founded the National Equal Rights Leagues and attempted to form state-level Equal Rights League chapters across the United States. In response to a denial of African American admittance to the National Labor Union, community leaders formed the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU ...
Terry Francois (c. 1922–1989) first African American member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and a prominent African-American civil rights attorney in the 1960s. Ella Hill Hutch (1923–1981), city supervisor [87] Willie Brown (politician) (born 1934), elected 41st Mayor of San Francisco and 1st African American Mayor in 1995. He ...
Black male studies (BMS), [1] also known as Black men's studies, [2] [3] Black masculinist studies, [4] African-American male studies, [5] and African-American men's studies, [6] is an area of study within the interdisciplinary field of Black studies [7] [8] [9] that primarily focuses on the study of Black men and boys. [10]
William Taylor (1821–1902) was an American Methodist missionary reverend, who in 1884 was elected by the Methodist General Conference as bishop over the Methodist missions in Africa for the Methodist Episcopal Church. Taylor spent most of his adult life performing missionary work around the world.
McKean was a founding member of ACT UP in 1987. McKean was a frequent spokesman, representing the organization at international AIDS conferences (San Francisco in 1990, Florence in 1991, and Berlin in 1993) and on national television.
They were published by their enterprise, The Black Think Tank of San Francisco. They include: The Endangered Black Family, San Francisco: The Black Think Tank, 1984, ISBN 0-9613086-0-5. Bringing the Black Boy to Manhood: the Passage, San Francisco: The Black Think Tank, 1985, ISBN 0-9613086-1-3.