doddson, chief of new york's public libraries shaumberg center for research in black culture, ebony jackson, a blogger for hello negro, a website they say is for colored people who have experienced problems integrating, and ellis kohs, author and noted "newsweek" columnist. thanks very much, appreciate it. mr. doddson, let me start with you in terms of what i wanted to get out of this interview and that is we talk often about black history and celebrate it obviously in february but my contention was that outside of maybe about ten figures, many of us, including schoolchildren who are being taught history know very little about african-american history in this country. do you see that as people come through? >> absolutely. there's a general, i think maybe one of the unfortunate things that's happened as a result of black history month is it's been reduced to a discussion of a half dozen, maybe 20 black historic figures, and black history is obviously much, much more than that, and we have not begun to probe both the significance and character of that history, but also the impact that it's ha