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The Association for The Study of African American Life and History on Another View

It was September 9, 1915, when Dr. Carter G Woodson established the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. It's Mission- to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about black life, history, and culture to the global community. The City of Norfolk will host the one hundred eleventh annual ASALH conference later this month. On this edition of Another View with Barbara Hamm Lee, Dr. Colita Fairfax, Professor, Honors College Senior Faculty Fellow, Inaugural Faculty Scholar with The Center on African American Public Policy at Norfolk State University and the Local Arrangements Committee Chair for ASALH 2026 and Dr. Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Historian of Black Life in America- Professor of Communication and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and The Founding Executive Director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, and Social Justice and host of the award-winning "Today with Dr. Kaye" on WEAA at Morgan State University and the 30th President of ASALH discuss the organization and the upcoming conference. This, and all Another View Programs can be heard on demand on the show's program page.

Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.