Please join the State Department’s U.S. Diplomacy Center this Wednesday February 24 at 3pm EST for our monthly Google Hangout series: “Telling the Story of American Diplomacy”. In honor of Black History month Wednesday’s Hangout will trace the history of African Americans serving in the Foreign Service and feature commentary from Dr. Carleton McLellan, Senior Fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training and head of the Bunche Library’s Legacy Project.

The Hangout can be accessed at https://goo.gl/MYKSC8. Please submit any questions for our panel to this same website as soon as possible! Follow the Hangout live on our Facebook page or on Twitter @DiplomacyCenter.

Panelists:

Dr. Carlton McLellan, Senior Fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) where he leads the Bunche Legacy Project on the contributions of African Americans to U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs.

Christopher Teal, Author of the book Hero of Hispaniola: America’s First Black Diplomat, Ebenezer D. Bassett and Consul General of U.S. Consulate Nogales

Monty McGee, Public Affairs Officer in EB/EPPD