September 25, 2008

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The UAB Department of History and the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences will host an unveiling ceremony for the U.S. Postal Service Black History Month Commemorative Stamp for 2009.

The reception will be held Thursday, Oct.2, at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel. The event is being held in honor of the Journal of African-American History as part of the 93rd annual convention of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) Oct. 1-5 at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel.

The convention will bring together national and local leaders in the fields of education, history, public policy and civil rights to celebrate the 2008 Black History theme "Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism."

Highlights of the convention will include panel discussions featuring internationally renowned poet and author Sonia Sanchez along and activist Mary Frances Berry;  Professor Cornel West, Ph.D., of the Princeton University Center for African-American Studies; Ronald Walters, director of the African-American Leadership Center at the University of Maryland; Robert Stanton, former director of the National Park Service; Associate Professor Peniel Joseph, Ph.D. of Brandeis University and a PBS political commentator; Odessa Woolfolk, founder and president emeritus of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute board of directors; and Professor Eddie Glaude Jr., Ph.D., of the Princeton University Center for African-American Studies.