Black History Month Effort Supports Young Doctor for Nobel Prize

For Black History Month 2006, the Organization of Tribal Unity is basic a all-embracing accomplishment to accomplish abutment for the choice of Dr. Rick Kittles of Ohio State University for the Nobel Prize.

New York, NY -- For Black History Month 2006, the Organization of Tribal Unity (OTU) is basic a all-embracing accomplishment to accomplish abutment for the choice of Dr. Rick Kittles of Ohio State University for the Nobel Prize. The OTU is a New York non-profit that uses DNA analysis to hotlink African Diasporans with their African aboriginal and civic groups for cultural apprenticeship opportunities.

Dr. Kittles, a 40-year-old geneticist who descends from apprenticed Africans, was called for this account due to his different addition to the acreage of genetics. His aboriginal DNA analysis and appraisal is acclimation the accoutrement of 450 years of bullwork accompanying aboriginal cleansing committed adjoin humans of African descent. His different adjustment compares abiogenetic sequences to restore aboriginal and civic character -- two of the a lot of axiological animal attributes. Kittles' own DNA links him to the Yoruba aboriginal accumulation of Nigeria.

Prior to Dr. Kittles' groundbreaking work, this advice was aloof to millions of birth of apprenticed Africans. Most birth of apprenticed Africans accept no clue about their African aboriginal or civic identities.

"Dr. Kittles' DNA analysis fabricated it accessible for me to apperceive that I alight from the Tuareg of Niger," said Antoinette Harrell-Miller, Co-chair of the OTU. In 2004, she went home to Niger and lived a few weeks with her aboriginal people.

Reverend Al Sampson, Pastor of Fernwood United Methodist Church in Chicago, IL, and Chaplain of the OTU, abstruse he is Temne of Sierra Leone from Dr. Kittles' work. He catholic to Sierra Leone in December 2005 and spent a few weeks with his aboriginal tribe. He will acknowledgment in the Spring of 2006 for an African allotment ceremony.

"Thanks to Dr. Kittles, the aperture of no acknowledgment has been unlocked. He deserves the greatest ceremoniousness and acceptance the apple has to offer," said Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, Founder and Co-Chair of the OTU, and from the Mende aboriginal accumulation of Sierra Leone.

The civic and all-embracing communities are arrive to accompany in anniversary Dr. Kittles by signing an online address acknowledging his choice at: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/KittlesforNobel/ or by sending a letter to: secr-at-mednobel.ki.se, or by mail to:

Göran Hansson
Chairman
Nobel Committee 2006
Nobel Forum
Box 270
SE-171 77
Stockholm, Sweden    Fax:+46-8-320365

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