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The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library<\/a> was constructed in 1982 and named in honor of the late Robert Winship Woodruff, philanthropist and former CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. It is a shared resource supporting a consortium of four independent Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) \u2013 Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College. Each of these prestigious schools comprises the AUC and has a unique academic culture steeped in history, tradition and excellence. As the \u201ccenter of the Center,\u201d the AUC Woodruff Library is the intellectual and information hub of the Atlanta University Center. <\/span><\/p>\n The AUC Woodruff Library is a nationally recognized and award winning institution serving over 1,000 AUC students daily. Located in the center of the AUC, the Library prides itself on offering a plethora of services and resources to advance its vision of being the first and best choice for its users. Resources like the Archives Research Center (which holds the Martin Luther King Jr. Collection and Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection), the Technology & Design studio, and their digital collections of scholarly works define the Library as a cutting-edge institution for research and scholarship. Under the leadership of CEO & Library Director, Loretta Parham, the Library was named the winner of the 2016 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. The Library is the only HBCU library to receive this award which is one of the highest honors an academic library can receive.<\/span><\/p>\n We serve as the center of the academic village for Clark Atlanta University, the Interdenominational Theological Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College, providing the highest level of information resources and services in support of teaching and learning, scholarship and cultural preservation of the Atlanta University Center.<\/span> [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”on” admin_label=”Section” _builder_version=”3.22.3″][et_pb_fullwidth_image src=”https:\/\/www.nnpa.org\/chevydtu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/auc-library-header.jpg” admin_label=”Fullwidth Image” _builder_version=”3.0.87″ animation=”off” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”][\/et_pb_fullwidth_image][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on”][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” _builder_version=”3.22.3″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.22.5″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] HISTORY The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library was constructed in 1982 and named […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" As The Washington Informer<\/a> reaches its milestone 50th anniversary at a time when the business model has changed dramatically for newspapers around the globe, many mainstream outlets have fallen on hard times, and several have folded.<\/span><\/p> For 50 years, The Informer has provided coverage of the District and its surrounding jurisdictions, having overcome many of the challenges faced by publications that don\u2019t possess the resources of major newspaper companies like Gannett, The Washington Post, and others.<\/span><\/p> Founded in 1964, The Informer continues to serve metropolitan Washington, D.C., and the newspaper now reaches more than 50,000 readers each week through its print edition, a weekly average of 20,500 unique visitors to its website, 7,500 weekly subscribers through its weekly email newsletter, and potentially 300,000 viewers through The Washington Informer TV show.<\/span><\/p> \u201cMy father wanted a newspaper that would challenge institutions that would not open their doors of opportunities to blacks, including the Metropolitan Police Department, the fire department and the local media, especially the local television stations,\u201d Rolark Barnes said.<\/span><\/p> At a time when there are more media outlets than ever before, most of them electronic, and a time when many newspapers find themselves is jeopardy, the Black press continues to be of vital importance. That includes the Michigan Chronicle<\/a> which is celebrating its 75th year. \u2014 Editors<\/em><\/span><\/p> In April 1936, John Sengstacke, the young nephew of Chicago Defender founder Robert Abbott, sent Lucius Harper, then executive editor of the Defender, to Detroit. Armed with $135 in capital \u2014 and a one-way bus ticket\u2014 Harper\u2019s mission was to launch a Detroit-based sister paper.<\/span><\/p> The Defender had a Detroit edition \u2014 led by Russ Cowans \u2014 but people in Detroit wanted more local coverage. Subsequently, the Michigan Chronicle \u2014 then the Detroit Chronicle \u2014 was born. The Chronicle has been recognized five times as best Black newspaper in the country by the National Newspaper Publishers Association<\/a>.<\/span><\/p> The Chicago Defender<\/a> is a Chicago-based weekly newspaper founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott for primarily African-American readers. Historically, The Defender is considered the \"most important\" paper in what was then known as the colored or negro press. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow era violence and urged blacks in the American South to come north in what became the Great Migration. Under his successor, John H. Sengstacke, the paper took on segregation, especially in the U.S. military, during World War II.<\/span><\/p> In 1919\u20131922 the Defender attracted the writing talents of Langston Hughes. Later, Gwendolyn Brooks and Willard Motley wrote for the paper. It was published as The Chicago Daily Defender, a daily newspaper, from 1956 to 2003, when it returned to a weekly format. Abbott's nephew, John H. Sengstacke, took over the Defender in 1940. In 1948, he encouraged President Harry S. Truman to integrate the armed services, which he did soon after. Sengstacke served as a member of Truman's appointed committee to assure that the military implemented this plan.\u00a0Sengstacke also brought together for the first time major black newspaper publishers and created the National Negro Publishers Association, later renamed the National Newspaper Publishers Association<\/a> (NNPA). Today the NNPA consists of over 200 member black newspapers.<\/span><\/p> One of Sengstacke's most striking accomplishments occurred on February 6, 1956, when the Defender became a daily newspaper and changed its name to the Chicago Daily Defender, the nation's second black daily newspaper. It published as a daily until 2003, when new owners converted the Defender back to a weekly. The Defender was one of only three African-American dailies in the United States; the other two are the Atlanta Daily World,[7] the first black newspaper founded as a daily in 1928, and the New York Daily Challenge, founded in 1971.<\/span><\/p>TODAY<\/h1>\n
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