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Wilson University Union, Room 134Comments by:<\/strong> Professor Burnis R. Morris, Director of The Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum and Co-Chair of the American Milestone Celebration Committee, and by Dr. Montserrat Miller, Executive Director, John Deaver Drinko Academy for American Political Institutions and Civic Culture.<\/p>\nRecitations:<\/strong> Precious Fagbenro and Isaiah Ray<\/p>\nKeynote address:<\/strong> \u201cA Family-Focused, Place-Based, Framework to Address Poverty\n \n \n Session Seven: 2:30-4:00\n <\/div>\n\n
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Wilson University Union, Room 134Chair: Mr. Maurice R. Cooley, V.P.\/Dean, Intercultural and Student Affairs, Emeritus & Founding Director, Marshall University Society of Black Scholars<\/p>\n
\u201cHow the Vanguards of Abolition Defied the Spiral of Silence about Slavery in America\u201d
\u201cFrederick Douglass, Journalist\u201d
\u201cWilliam J. L. Wallace: The Man of the Hour\u201d
Comment: Mr. David Harris, Marshall Health Network Board Member and Community Organizer<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n \n \n \n Reception: 4:00-5:00\n <\/div>\n\n
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Wilson University Union, West Virginia State University<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\nBus back to Huntington: 5:15<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nSATURDAY, March 7th, 2026 – Drinko Library, Marshall University<\/h3>\n\nDrinko Atrium:\u00a0 Student Poster Exhibit<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n \n \n \n \n Session Eight: 9:00 to 10:15\n <\/div>\n\n
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Drinko Library Room 138Lucile Maroux, 1st Place, 2026 Black History Centennial High School Poster Competition<\/p>\n
Kim Arden, 1st Place, 2026 Black History Centennial College Poster Competition<\/p>\n
Baylee Parsons, 1st Place, 2026 Black History Centennial College Essay Contest
Comment: Ms. Alicia Gray, Ross County Historical Society<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
\nBreak: 10:15-10:30<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n \n \n \n \n Session Nine: 10:30-12:00\n <\/div>\n\n
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Drinko Library 138Pedagogies of Race, Pedagogies of Care<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cRace All Around Us: Historical Monuments and the Politics of Public Memory\u201d
\u201cLearning from the Community at the Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures
\u201cCentering Students\u2019 Stories in and about K-12 Schools\u201d
\nLight Lunch: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.\n \n \n Session Ten: 1:00-3:00\n <\/div>\n\n
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Drinko Library Atrium<\/strong>Approaching the Bicentennial of America\u2019s Black Press and Making the Centennial of Negro History Week\/Black History Month a Reality<\/strong>Black By God<\/i><\/p>\n \u201cRevisiting Carter G. Woodson\u2019s Harvard Years through The History Makers Digital
\u201cBlack History Month in the Contemporary Black Press\u201d
\u201cEnabling Woodson: How the Black Press Helped Popularize Black History\u201d
\u201cDiscredit, Disrupt, and Destroy: Federal Attempts to Intimidate and Suppress the
Comment: Ms. Jacqueline Proctor, Deputy Director of the West Virginia Bureau of\n \n \n Concert: 4:00 \n <\/div>\n\n
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Joan C. Edwards PlayhouseDr. Ollie Watts Davis and the University of Illinois Black ChorusDr. Davis\u2019s address and the choir\u2019s performance will reflect the enduring and steady
Free tickets available at the Joan C. Edwards Box Office: 304-696-6656<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n
Register for the Online Black History courses<\/a> honoring the Centennial of Negro History Week\/Black History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrating an American Milestone: Negro History Week \/ Black History Month Sponsored by the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Lyceum, Marshall University, Huntington, WV With Cosponsors Marshall health and the City of Huntington. PROGRAM You may download a printable version here. THURSDAY, March 5th, 2026 – St. Mary’s Center for Education Break:\u00a0 10:30-10:45 FRIDAY, March 6,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1178\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/woodsonlyceum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}