Scholarly Advisory Committee

  • Michael Blakey, Professor of Archaeology, College of William & Mary and former Director of Investigation, Howard University, Skeletal Biology Lab
  • Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “America in the King Years”, a three-volume study of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Johnnetta B. Cole, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and former President of Spelman College
  • Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General
  • Deborah L. Mack, Independent Museum and Academic Consultant and Curator, Savannah, Ga.
  • Alfred Moss, Professor of African American, U.S. Social and U.S. Religious History, University of Maryland
  • Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art History, Duke University
  • Clement A. Price, Professor of History, Rutgers University
  • Bernice Johnson Reagon, Professor Emeritus of History, American University, Curator Emeritus, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
  • Alvia J. Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum at Texas Southern University, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Deborah Willis, Chair, Photography and Imaging and African Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
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