“The Eloquence of the Scribes” : Initiation, Expectations, and Mastery

New York Times,” Diversity in Higher Education”. Throughout the beginning of the lecture, we had the opportunity to explore and apprehend our well-known Howard University history. Ronald W. Walters, one of the country’s leading scholars of the politics of race who was a long time professor at Howard University; writer and civil rights leader Roger Wilkins said, “He was a man who used his intellect and wisdom to make this a fairer and culturally richer country than the one we were born into.” Then you have 2004 Tony Award Winner, Phylicia Rashad, the onetime “Cosby Show” star.

We went through the imperative museums that have a lot to do with our history as well, for example, the Smithsonian: Anacostia Community Museum. Going through the Gullah Images, and reading through all the portraying of the photos were quite breathtaking. Then we had the honor to go through the literature written by Toni Morrison.

You can’t go anywhere without knowing your history. Which is very important in being a student at Howard University. We all should know the history so we can understand it and follow on and uphold it in the future.

Before we got into learning our history, we learned about Ancient Scribes such as the Egyptian Scribe with papyrus scroll. Also, the medieval scribe, jean Mielot, a European author and scribe at work, 15^th century.