Ralph Bunche, edited by Beverly Lindsay

When I think of Ralph Bunche I remember the first time I saw the small sculpted bust of him in the U.N. conference center in Geneva. I also remember meeting his beautiful daughter, Joan, twelve years ago during the dedication of the Ralph Bunche Center at Howard University. Internationally, and especially in the international system as represented by the U.N., other than the offhand mention of Dr. Bunche, there is so little recognition of Black Americans' existence (i.e., we, the people who are the descendants of Black people enslaved in what is now the United States.) And now Beverly (Dr. Beverly Lindsay) has edited a new book on Dr. Bunche. The foreword is written by singular historian John Hope Franklin. Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate is published by University of Illinois Press. Today Beverly's being interviewed on the Alvin Jones radio programme broadcast from Oxford, North Carolina. Those of us who may not be near Oxford, or North Carolina, or the U.S., can hear the programme playback via dralvinjones.com. List of the book's nine contributors:

Lorenzo DuBois Baber, John Hope Franklin, Charles P. Henry, Jonathan Scott Holloway, Ben Keppel, Beverly Lindsay, Princeton Lyman, Edwin Smith, and Hanes Walton Jr.