One step closer: selection of Black history museum director and museum site expected in 2005

Black Issues in Higher Education, Feb 10, 2005 by Ronald Roach

* Quincy Jones, Producer and Multimedia Entrepreneur

* Ann D. Jordan, Consultant for Northpoint Technology

* Dr. Michael L. Lomax, President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Negro College Fund

* Dr. Homer A. Neal, Director of the University of Michigan-ATLAS Project and the Samuel A. Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics, University of Michigan

* E. Stanley O'Neal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Merrill Lynch & Co.

* Samuel J. Palmisano, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of IBM Corp.

* Richard D. Parsons, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Inc.

* Franklin D. Raines, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae

* Linda Johnson Rice, President and Chief Executive Officer of Johnson Publishing Company Inc.

* H. Patrick Swygert, President of Howard University

* Anthony Welters, President and Chief Executive Officer of AmeriChoice

* Oprah Winfrey, Chairwoman of Harpo Inc.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS:

* Lawrence M. Small, Smithsonian Secretary

* Wesley S. Williams Jr., Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents

SCHOLAR'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

The Smithsonian has appointed a scholar's advisory committee to work with the museum on the issues of research, collections, educational programming and exhibitions. Members include:

* Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General

* Dr. John Hope Franklin, Professor Emeritus, Duke University

* Dr. Deborah L. Mack, Independent Museum and Academic Consultant and Curator, Savannah, Ca.

* Dr. Alfred Moss, Professor of African American, U.S. Social and U.S. Religious History, University of Maryland

* Dr. Richard J. Powell, Professor of Art History, Duke University