Community leader to give annual Black heritage lecture

Derrell Roberts, CEO and co-founder of the Roberts Family Development Center in north Sacramento, will give the annual Carter G. Woodson Lecture, 1-3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 12, in the University Union’s Forest Suite.

Roberts is a long-time Sacramento-area community leader. The center he co-founded with his wife Tina serves more than 100 children and families each day providing day care, after school programs, family literacy programs and a summer camp for children. He was recently awarded the Metro Chamber’s Al Geiger Award given for leadership in economically challenged communities within the Sacramento area.

The lecture is sponsored by Sacramento State’s Cooper Woodson College Enhancement Program.  It is free and open to the public.

Carter G. Woodson is a historian and writer who is credited with instituting what has become Black History Month in the mid-1920s as a way to counter a lack of information about African-American contributions in many history books. He established The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now called the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History) in 1915, and later founded the Journal of Negro History.

For more information, contact the Cooper Woodson College Enhancement Program at 278-5363 or visit their website at http://www.csus.edu/cooper/.