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A Documentary
by James E. Brown
& Yssa R. Santos
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Project Advisors |
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Sharon Hinton - Program
Coordinator, Legacy Mentoring Program
John D. O'Bryant African
American Institute
Northeastern University, Boston,
MA |
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Kantigi Camara, BA, MLS,
Head Librarian
John D. O'Bryant African
American Institute Library
Northeastern University, Boston,
MA |
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Mr. Camara,
a native of North Carolina, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
from Livingstone College and a Masters Degree in Library and
Information Science from Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Born and raised in North
Carolina, Kantigi Camara always believed that
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Born in
Asheville, NC on
November 1, 1948, his early education was in the Jim Crow
South. As part of his involvement in the Civil Rights
movement, Mr. Camara helped integrate a previously
all-white high school during his last two years of his
secondary education.
Mr. Camara attended
Livingstone College
in Salisbury,
NC
as a liberal arts major with a concentration in U.S.
History and minors in African American history, business
and physical education. Three years after graduation, he
was accepted to the master’s program at Simmons College
School of Library and Information Science and attended
graduate school part-time while working full time as a
Young Adult Librarian with the Boston Public Library. Kantigi
began going to public schools and giving a slide/talk
program entitled “Black Americans on Postage Stamps.”
In 2000, Kantigi joined the staff of the
John D. O’Bryant African American Institute as Head
Librarian.
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Napoleon Jones Henderson
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Artist, Educator, Activist,
Citizen of the Universe Napoleon Jones-Henderson Research
Institute of African and African Diaspora Arts, Inc 12
Morley St., Roxbury, MA 02119Napoleon Jones-Henderson
attended the Sorbonne in Paris,
received a BA of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago
and completed his graduate studies at Northern Illinois
University in DeKalb. He is a founding member of Africobra,
one of the most important visual arts collectives to come
out of the Chicago Black Arts Movement. He received the
Mayor of Boston Award of Recognition for Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibit; the Massachusetts State Senate Omical Citation for
Cultural Excellence, and an Award of Excellence from the
National Conference of Artists. |
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Bijan C Bayne |
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Bijan C.
Bayne is an award-winning Washington-based freelance
columnist and critic, and author of Sky Kings: Black
Pioneers of Professional Basketball, which was named to the
Suggested Reading List of the Basketball Hall of Fame in
2004.
Bayne’s
chapter on Black baseball in North Carolina appears in the
book Baseball in the Carolinas (McFarland 2002). He was a
contributor to Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary
(Greenwood 2005). In addition to appearing in the upcoming
documentary on the historic International League Baltimore
Orioles, “The Forgotten Birds”, Bayne has been interviewed
and/or quoted by The Washington Post, Atlantic, AOL Fanhouse,
Rack magazine, Slate, The Philadelphia Inquirer, SLAM
magazine, OregonLive.com, and has guested on radio programs
in Puerto Rico, New York, Boston, Providence, Durham,
Baltimore and Washington, D.C. A member of United States
Basketball Writers Association, his essay on schoolyard
basketball appears in the anthology “Basketball in America”
(Haworth 2005). Bayne has been a writing instructor in
afterschool programs and at adult education centers, as well
as a public relations writer. He has written for
TheRoot.com- a Washington Post/Newsweek web affiliate,
Washingtonian, Diversity Issues in Higher Education, and the
Journal of Sports History. Bayne is cited in the book
Basketball For Weekend Warriors (The Lyons Press 2005).
Bayne
is a literary critic for The Bay State Banner, for whom he
has written reviews of books about Willie Mays, Henry Aaron,
Bill Russell, Richard Pryor, Sugar Ray Robinson, Thelonious
Monk and Louis Armstrong. |
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