Oral Historian, Documentarian Danita Mason-Hogans: 2020 Annual MLK Program Speaker

Hillsborough, NC – Oral historian and documentarian, Danita Mason-Hogans will serve as this year’s featured speaker at the Orange County Chapter of North Carolina Central University Alumni Association and the Orange County Department of Aging annual observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. The event, free and open to the public, will take place at the Jerry Passmore Senior Center (103 Meadowlands Drive) on Friday, January 17, 2020, at 10:30 am. Light refreshments will be served. 

Danita Mason-Hogans, a native of Chapel Hill, NC, comes from seven generations of “movement people.” She is a local historian and curriculum specialist with a theater arts background. Danita received her undergraduate professional theater arts degree from NC A&T State University and holds a Master’s degree in education from Virginia Tech. She has been an education activist for over thirty years and is employed with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University where she serves as Program Manager for the Critical Oral Histories program.

Her current projects involve working with veteran Civil Rights activists in order to document their experiences and transform them into K-12 Civil Rights curriculum components. She was the organizer for the national 2015 One Person One Vote voting rights conference and uses the Critical Oral History methodology in her work with school systems, universities, activists, and historians to document local and national history from the “inside out” and from the “bottom-up.”

She lives in Durham with her husband, Dr. Cory Hogans and is the proud mother of two Cheatham White Scholars, Akin and Akanke, who both attend NC A&T State University.  In 2019 Danita received the Hometown Hero Award by Chapelboro.com.

For more information contact Dianne Pledger at nccuvpregionIII@gmail.com or 919-672-3429.