NEW YORK (AP) — The great-grandson of Nation of Islam leader
Elijah Muhammad has been chosen as the new director of New York City's
world-renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The New York Public Library announced Wednesday that Khalil Gibran Muhammad had been appointed to oversee the Harlem institution on Malcolm X Boulevard.
Muhammad is a professor of history at Indiana University and the author of a recently published book, "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America."
He is also the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ozier Muhammad.
He will succeed Howard Dodson Jr., who plans to retire after 25 years leading the Schomburg center. The 80-year-old organization collects, preserves and helps scholars to research black life.
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