AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr will receive the ASALH's Inaugural Luminary Award and a "Retrospective Plenary" will focus on his work during the 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) being held from
September 14-30, 2021. The theme of this year's conference is "The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity." Many speakers are scheduled including
AAAS Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. For more information in the conference and registration visit ASALH's
website.
