As part of 2019's Black History Month, Dr. Joy G. Kinard, Superintendent of the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce, will present a lecture on her father, John R. Kinard, the first African American Director of a Smithsonian Institution Museum. Dr. Kinard spoke with Niki Dakota on WYSO's Excursions about her book on her father, The Man, The Movement, The Monument, and her father's work as the director of the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington D.C.
Dr. Joy G. Kinard will be presenting her lecture at the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce on Saturday, February 9, at 1 PM. More details can be found at ohiohistory.org/naamcc.