If available, most loans are available for pickup within three business days at the Founders Library Circulation Desk. Junious Whitaker IV is a first-year masters/PhD candidate of history from Raleigh, North Carolina who also works at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. I am deeply grateful that the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation has chosen to fund the processing and digitization of the Black Press Archives, which are a tremendous gift not just to Howard but to the nation and the world.. WASHINGTON The Howard University Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) received a $2 million grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation to support the preservation and digitization of the Black Press Archives, a newspaper collection of titles by Black journalists, editors and publishers. The Black Press Archives represents more than 2,000 newspaper titles from the United States, Africa and the African diaspora. For more information about using the Archives, or making a donation to the Archives, please [email protected]. 2023 Howard University. PubMed. Much of his papers relate to civil rights cases in the District of Columbia and Montgomery County from the 1940s through the 1990s. It benefits our students so much to examine the present in the light of the past, and to realize how much our presence and our priorities can change the present and society. Home | The Bison yearbooks cover the period 1923-2012. 1851 9th Street NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20059. The cataloguing and digitizing of this amazing collection will make it possible to share this indispensable resource with the world students, journalists, scholars everyone, anywhere. Also includes First Consult, ProceduresConsult, over 13,000 videos and millions of images. There are images showing graduating classes from the schools and colleges; freshman, sophomore and junior class images; faculty and staff; student life and activities; student clubs and activities; campus scenes and buildings; student athletics; major university events and convocations; and visiting dignitaries. For more information, or to make an appointment, please email a request to [email protected]. Assistant Professor, Department of Afro-American Studies The digitalization of this object was part of a collaborative effort with the Washington Research Library Consortium and George Washington University. Much of his papers relate to civil rights cases in the District of Columbia and Montgomery County from the 1940 through the 1990s. Hours. Collections - Archives - Howard University School of Law However, borrowing privileges depend on your university or library affiliation. Mrs. Niketha McKenzie, Head of Technical Services and Special Collections, oversees archival requests. Its principal building is large and well arranged, and it has extensive grounds, valued at many thousands of dollars. The centers founder, Nikole Hannah-Jones, also serves as the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University. For generations, the stories of Black people in America were not deemed worthy of telling by the newspapers delivered to the homes of white people.