University at Buffalo (UB)
Release Date: February 7, 1997 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A panel discussion on "African Americans in Government" will be held at noon on Thursday, Feb. 20 in the Archie L. Hunter Library in the University at Buffalo's Educational Opportunity Center, 465 Washington St.
Speakers for the event, which is free and open to the public, will include Buffalo Common Council member Beverly Gray, the Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden and the Hon. Judge Robert Russell.
State Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve, Jr. will be the moderator.
The panel discussion will be just one of the events held at EOC in observance of Black History Month.
There also will be three one-hour video and discussion presentations by EOC librarian Karen Jeffries. All presentations will be held at noon in the Hunter Library. The schedule:
€ Feb. 11, "The Best of Black Journal: The First Black Produced Network Program"
€ Feb. 18, "Angano...Angano: Oral Traditions of the Malagasy People"
€ Feb. 25, "That Rhythmn, Those Blues: Blues Singers of the 1940s and 1950s"