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The historic Black archives on Florida A&M University\u2019s campus has a new director. Timothy A. Barber says he hopes to use his position to help visitors understand how history impacts their lives today.<\/p>\n

\u201cLearning history teaches us how to discern lifestyles, how to discern issues. If you don\u2019t know the history you\u2019re doomed to repeat it. That\u2019s just a valuable statement. And we see that in modern times where things are happening all over again and the issue that happens is that we treat these things that are happening as if it\u2019s the first time. But there\u2019s nothing new under the sun. It isn\u2019t the first time,” Barber says.<\/p>\n

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He believes understanding events of the past can help people navigate events in the present.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you understand history,” he says, “if you understand what happened then you\u2019ll kind of learn how to deal with what is happening now. It\u2019s a transfer of learning. So what we want to do here at Meek-Eaton is teach people how to transfer that knowledge of past life into what\u2019s happening today and use it as a tool to strengthen your trajectory forward.”<\/p>\n

Barber returned last month to the Meek-Eaton Black Archives Research Center and Museum <\/a>where he was trained as a FAMU student. For the past 13 years, he has served as executive director of the Black Archives at the Historic Lyric Theater in Miami<\/a>. He says he helped the Miami archives enter the 21st<\/sup> century by introducing new techniques and technology. When the job opened up at FAMU, Barber says he was excited about the idea of bringing similar initiatives to Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter weighing the decision about what was happening here and what could I bring to the table to strengthen the organization that helped me be who I was, I made the decision that it was time to transition, it was time to, like LeBron [James] would say \u2018take my talents to South Beach,\u2019 but it would be take my talents to Tallahassee,” Barber said.<\/p>\n

Barber says he hopes to use connections he\u2019s made over the years to attract new grants and funding to FAMU\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n

You’ll have a chance to hear Barber talk more about the importance of ensuring history is not forgotten in WFSU Public Media\u2019s upcoming podcast, Not So Black and White: A community\u2019s divided history.<\/a> <\/p>\n

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