ABORTION AND RACE 
An Address by: Star Parker Founder and President, Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:00-8:00 P.M. Burgiss Theater, University Center (#20 on this map) Presented in association with Young America's Foundation In this talk, Star Parker, founder and president of the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, will discuss abortion and how it relates to race in the United States. As a social policy expert, Ms. Parker's lecture will address not only the issue of abortion in general but also how abortion affects inner city communities. Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education, a non-profit think tank that provides a national voice of reason on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods, and public policy.
Prior to her involvement in social activism, Star Parker was a single welfare mother in Los Angeles, California. After receiving Christ, Star returned to college, received a BS degree in marketing and launched an urban Christian magazine. The 1992 Los Angeles riots destroyed her business, yet served as a springboard for her focus on faith and market-based alternatives to empower the lives of the poor.
As a social policy consultant, Star Parker gives regular testimony before the United States Congress, and is a national expert on major television and radio shows across the country. Currently, Star is a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC,and FOX News. She has debated Jesse Jackson on BET; fought for school choice on Larry King Live; and defended welfare reform on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Star Parker's personal transformation from welfare fraud to conservative crusader has been chronicled by ABC's 20/20; Rush Limbaugh; Readers Digest; Dr. James Dobson; The 700 Club; Dr. George Grant; the Washington Times; Christianity Today; Charisma, and World Magazine. Articles and quotes by Star have appeared in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and New York Times.
Star has written three books. Her autobiography Pimps, Whores & Welfare Brats was released in 1997 by Pocket Books, Uncle Sam's Plantation was released by Thomas Nelson in the fall of 2003, and White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay was released in 2006.
Today, in addition to heading CURE, Star is a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service, offering weekly op-eds to more than 400 newspapers worldwide, including the Boston Herald, the Dallas Morning News, The Orange County Register, San Diego Union, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the Washington Times, and the Star and Stripes, the largest paper serving the men and women of our Armed Forces. | PRO-LIFE SUCCESS IN THE STATES  An Address by: Dr. Michael New Political Science Professor, University of Alabama Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:00-8:00 P.M. Johns Hall 101 (Johns Hall is #14 on this map.) In this talk, Dr. Michael J. New, assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama, will give the history of the modern pro-life movement starting with the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Dr. New will describe how a series of events in the early 1990s caused the pro-life movement to place a greater emphasis on state level activism. Furthermore, he will analyze how the laws passed at the state level during the 1990s affected the incidence of abortion between 1990 and 2003. ---- Michael J. New is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New received a master's degree in statistics and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University in 2002. Before coming to Alabama, Dr. New worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-MIT Data Center.
Dr. New's research interests include the positive impact of state level pro-life legislation, state level budget rules and fiscal limits, and campaign finance reform. Four of his studies on the effects of pro-life legislation have been published by the Heritage Foundation. Dr. New has given presentations on his pro-life research at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the College of the Holy Cross, the University of Alabama Law School, Louisiana State University, and The George Washington University. His writings have appeared in The Journal of Insurance Law, Catholic Social Science Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Weekly Standard, National Review, National Review Online, and the New York Post.
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