Revealing African American Lives
Celebrate the publication of the ground-breaking African American National Biography at The New York Historical Society. Spanning more than four centuries, with 4,100 entries written by 1,000 scholars, the series presents African American history as told through the lives of its most notable historic actors, documenting and dramatizing the central role played by African Americans in our nation’s history. Editors-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham will speak about the development of this, the largest African American biographical collection ever published.
February 14 @ 5:30 PM
170 Central Park West
between 76th & 77th Street
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Posted in: Books, Uptown/Downtown
Kevin Stith
March 20, 2008
Will Mr, Gates be speaking in Los Angeles?
p.b.
February 27, 2008
I agree with C. Carton – I was not adopted but in 1965 I was giving an ultimatum by my guardian to give up my child, born out of wedlock, or forget about my happy life in New York. I painfully signed temporary adoption papers but changed my mind the very last day in the hospital and kept my child. But still now, 43 years later, I continue to have painful regrets of signing those temporary papers to give him up. I can imagine the pain those mothers who actually went thru with the adoptions must be having at this very moment. I can imagine the amount of mothers/fathers/children that are actually looking for each other because of unfortunate circumstances. It would be a wonderful idea to have someone organize/create a system for those who want to locate each other.
C. Carton
February 14, 2008
Excellent series: African American Lives.
I would challenge Dr. Gates and others to do similar work on searching the identify of adult adoptees who like the African American have had their roots cut out from under them. Closed adoption records, the silence surrounding adoption have created multiple generations who have lost their identity and are searching for connection.
D. Bell
February 7, 2008
Also, I caught the second part his series on PBS last night and was just as fascinated with it as the first that was produced last year. It should be on weekly throughout the month of February. Check the PBS website.