HISTORIAN RECOUNTS `A HELLFIRE TIME' FOR BLACK AMERICANS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CAROL DEMARE Staff writer

ALBANY -- A noted journalist, lawyer and official in the administration of President Johnson said Wednesday that black Americans are writing history every day.

Roger Wilkins, currently a professor of history and American culture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., told a luncheon audience if black history month means anything, it's a reminder to ``use our heritage better than we used it before.''

Wilkins, a lawyer with wide-ranging experiences in the public and private sectors, was the keynote speaker at the University at Albany's 17th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Black History Month Luncheon.

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