Community Engagement Video: Technology and the African-American Church in Champaign-Urbana, Part 1

One of five videos produced on local community institutions in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Produced by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science course LIS418: Community Engagement, in Spring 2011. This video focus on Bethel A.M.E. Church, Salem Baptist Church and New Hope Church of God in Christ, all in Champaign, Illinois. Produced and Edited by Will Kent, Cameron Myers, and Joel Spencer. Students in course include: Bridget Anderson, Karina Anglada and Tricia Dean, Jared Dunn, Sung Hwan "Sunny" Kim, Andrei Rosulescu. Community Consultants: Brian Bell, Connie Dillard and Chris Hamb. Course instructor: Abdul Alkalimat. Teaching Assistant: Jeff Ginger. Cameras courtesy of the University of Illinois Undergraduate library, the GSLIS helpdesk, Urbana Public Television and the Community Informatics Club. Video features interviews with Rev. Charles O. Nash, Rev. Claude Shelby, Sr., Charles Phillips, Nathaniel Banks Carol Lewis, Eloris Nash, Gayle Adkisson, Cynthia Keaton-Williams, Brenda Wiggins, Lynette McYntire, and others, and the msuic of Mo' Betta Music and Salem Baptist Church Choir.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Community Informatics
• Community Engagement
• Religion
• African-American Church
• UC2B