This week Dr. Benjamin educated everyone on the Eloquence of the Scribes. During her lecture she touched on the importance of ancient scribes to their civilizations. For example, Egyptian scribes where very important people in their societies, and they wrote in cuneiform on papyrus rolls. She also highlighted man important scribes throughout history like medieval scribes such as Jean Mielot.
Dr. Benjamin also emphasised on the fact that most of the buildings on Howard University's campus are named after truly great scribes like General Oliver Otis Howard for who Howard is named after, and also the first president of Howard University. The school of social work is named after Isabel Burns Lindsay who was also the first dean of the school. The largest school on Howard's campus, Locke Hall, is named after Alain Locke Hall who was a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance and its cultural revolution. Douglass Hall is named after Fredrick Douglass himself, a truly great scribe that refused to be a slave and refused to be uneducated. Drew Hall is named after Dr. Charles R. Drew the first to develop the concept of blood transfusion. Earnest Just Hall is named after Earnest Everett Just the creator of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and the first black man on a postage stamp. There are truly many eloquent African American scribes that were well presented by Dr. Benjamin.
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