Oxford University Press has announced the following update to its African American Studies Center:

600 NEW BIOGRAPHIES
We are excited to present an additional 600 biographies from the African American National Biography, produced in conjunction with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, and edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. October’s biographies include the celebrated singers Roberta Flack and Gloria Gaynor, actor Morgan Freeman, professional football coach Tony Dungy, and more. Also featured in this update are the lives of many lesser-known persons, such as Lester Blackwell Granger, social worker and former leader of the National Urban League, famed Haitian dancer and choreographer Jean-Léon Destiné, and Anna Madgigine Jai, a West African slave who later became a plantation owner in the early 1800s.