On this day, August 1, 2014, Dr. Helen Easterling Williams began serving as dean of Pepperdine’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Brought to you by the Black365 Calendar. Find out more at BlackHistoryCards.com.
“Discover Your Roots,” the 14th annual conference focusing on African American genealogy, takes place on Saturday, March 12, in Los Angeles. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 1209 S. Manhattan Place in Los Angeles. Registration at the door is $40. For more information visit discoveryourrooots.org or call 1-800-533-2444. Among the more than 20 workshops will be a class on the Freedmen’s Bureau Project presented by Thom Reed, who oversees global communication for the project. Emancipation freed nearly four million slaves and the Freedmen’s Bureau, formerly known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned