Dr. Allen Counter to Speak on Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of North Pole

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Feb 23, 2011, 05:03 ET

BOSTON, Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dr. Allen Counter, renowned neurologist, explorer and human rights activist, will speak at Bunker Hill Community College, on Thursday, February 24, 2011. The lecture, which is part of the College's Black History Month Celebration, will be held at 1:00 p.m., in C 202. It is free and open to the public.

Dr. Counter, D. M.Sc., Ph.D., is Director of the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He is also Neurophysiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2004, Dr. Counter was appointed Consul General of Sweden in Boston and New England by the King of Sweden and the Swedish ambassador to the United States.

In his lecture, titled "Henson, Peary and the North Pole Legacy," Dr. Counter will present the fascinating story of Matthew Henson, the African-American explorer, who co-discovered the North Pole, but was denied his place in history because of his race. He wrote a book about Henson, Peary and their Inuit children titled North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Colleen Roach, Executive Director of Communications & Marketing
Bunker Hill Community College
250 New Rutherford Avenue
Boston, MA 02129
Phone: (617) 228 2177
Email: [email protected]

Bunker Hill Community College is the largest community college in Massachusetts. The College enrolls more than 12,500 students on two campuses and at four satellite locations. BHCC is one of the most diverse institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth. Six in ten students are people of color and more than half of BHCC's students are women. The College also enrolls more than 700 international students who come from more than 90 countries and speak 75 different languages.

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