Take part in the oral history tour
(AP) WASHINGTON – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a project Wednesday that hopes to record at least 1,500 oral histories from black families over the next year.
The recordings are to be placed at the Library of Congress and in the archives of the Smithsonian Institution’s future National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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The first recording sessions are planned for Feb. 15 in Atlanta through a mobile recording studio that will stop in nine cities over the next year.
The mobile recording units also will travel to Chicago; Clarksdale, Miss.; Detroit; Memphis, Tenn.; Montgomery, Ala.; Newark, N.J.; Oakland, Calif.; and Selma, Ala. (more…)
For more information on this project, please visit www.storycorps.net/griot/ÂÂ
Or you can also invest in a camcorder and digital camera and record your own history. Either way, there is no excuse for us not to have our history recorded in this day and age.
