A New Perspective on Black History Month

Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Norfolk State University who has co-authored Black America Series: Portsmouth (2003), co- edited Voices from Within the Veil: African Americans and Democracy (2007), co-wrote Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools (2009) and I Too, Am Norfolk. Newby-Alexander is a board member of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Historical Commission of the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Norfolk Sister City Association and the Norfolk Historical Society.