Black Academic Power: Celebrating the Legacy of HBCU Libraries

On this episode of Black in the Stacks, Marquita chats with Dr. Shaundra Walker about the importance of HBCU libraries, the significance of HBCU week, and her life working in academia. A proud HBCU graduate, Dr. Walker works as an academic Library Administrator and is also a professor of library science. She received the 2020 DEMCO Outstanding Librarian of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, authored grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts and co-edited the book, The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance and Reawakening.