President Mary Sue Coleman participates in a community issues forum convened by the Michigan Chronicle newspaper of Detroit, and moderated by Chronicle senior editor Bankole Thompson, left. The Challenges of Empowering Education: Beyond Affirmative Action forum, held April 30 at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, featured an extended discussion and questions from the audience on access to higher education, diversity at the University and the role of diversity in higher education, the University Research Corridor and economic development of the state and region, and the University's new African Studies Center. (Photo by Rogers Wm. Foster)