Great Bay (February 22, 2011)—Historian Howard Dodson will be the guest speaker here at the 20th annual Black History Celebration Lecture on Saturday, February 26, said Shujah Reiph, president of the Conscious Lyrics Foundation (CLF).
The lecture takes place at the University of St. Martin conference hall, at 8 PM.
Dodson, who is also a noted US library curator will speak on the theme, "Documenting the history we make." As director of the prestigious Schomburg Center for Research in New York City since 1984, Dodson is in a great position to focus on "the role of a national library and government archive department in a developing nation," said Reiph.
"Mr. Dodson will also touch on the use of digital archiving and data recording, storage and retrieval technologies," said Reiph.
As a scholar, consultant, and educator, Dodson has committed his professional life to the retrieval, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of the history and culture of African and African American peoples, including Latin America and the Caribbean.
The center is named after Puerto Rican scholar and bibliophile, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, it is considered to be the world’s largest center for Black research. "For over 80 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting Black life," amounting to date to some 10 million items on Black history and culture www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg.
The 20th annual Black History Celebration Lecture is organized by CLF in collaboration with University of St. Martin Student Government Association.