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Lisa Brown’s first book is out Posing As Nuns, Passing For White: The Gouley Sisters. Kudos!
Adele Logan Alexander was interviewed on NPR regarding her recent book Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin - click to hear the interview.
Sandy Jowers-Barber - is the newly installed director of the newly established Oral History Center at the University of the District of Columbia (OHC@UDC). The University awarded a SEED Grant to the OHC@UDC to provide assistance in launching this new initiative.
Michelle Duster informs that there will be tribute to Ida B. Wells in a room at the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC. This is occurring at the suggestion of Senator Mary Landrieu of Lousiana because the room had been the site of Congressional hearings on lynchings and anti-lynching laws. The tribute will be in mid-April. Her brother, Dan Duster, www.danduster.net will attend the tribute on behalf of the family.
Ida Jones’s virtual exhibit on Black Women’s history is live. This was completed in conjunction with the National Women’s History Museum - the link is http://www.nwhm.org/exhibits/AfricanAmerican/index.html
In closing, early congratulations to those graduating - do not forget to share the good news with the membership. Welcome to our new and renewing members.
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