Xernona Clayton highlights GSA Black History Month celebration
The U.S. General Services Administration will host a Black History Month celebration Wednesday with a conversation with civil rights and broadcast journalism legend Xernona Clayton.
The program, which draws on the national theme, “Black Women in American Culture and History,” will also feature East Point Fire Department Chief Rosemary Roberts Cloud, the first African-American fire chief in the country.
The program, which is open to federal employees and the general public, will begin at 10 a.m. in Richard B. Russell Federal Building, 75 Spring St.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
