Black History Month

Black History Month is a remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Since 1976, it is celebrated annually in the United States of America and Canada in February and the United Kingdom in the month of October. The remembrance has its roots in 1926 by Harvard educated author and historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson as “Negro History Week”. Woodson chose the second week of February because it marked the birthdays of two Americans who greatly influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Woodson also founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.

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An Exploration of Social Change Through Photography
Fields Center - Clinton Seminar Room
5:30 pm

What is the role of documentary photography and photojournalism in civic engagement and work on behalf of local struggles for social justice? This non-credit workshop will look at photographers as global citizens and consider the lens as a means of addressing and seeing injustices that are often overlooked if not invisible. A team of students and university community members will create photo essays over the course of the semester, and present an exhibition to the community at the end of the term. GET INVOLVED:Come find out how to get involved in this EXCITING PROJECT at an upcoming GENERAL INTEREST MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 DINNER at 5:30PM, FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION AT 6PM SHARP! CARL FIELDS CENTER, Clinton Seminar Room, 2nd Floor

Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Kobina Aidoo "The Neo-African Americans"
Fields Center - 1985 Room
4:30 pm

The Neo-African Americans, a one-hour documentary, addresses how rapid, voluntary immigration from Africa and the Caribbean to the USA is transforming the “African American” narrative. From Somalis in Minnesota, to Trinidadians in New York, to Afro-Cubans in Miami, to Nigerians in Maryland, the term “African-American” means something unique to everyone. But are these individuals considered African-Americans?  Join us as we view the film and discuss it with the filmmaker, Kobina Aidoo. The film includes interviews with social scientists; activists; and African, Caribbean and Afro-Latino immigrants now living in cities across the United States, THE NEO-AFRICAN-AMERICANS analyzes the major issues arising from black immigration--self-identification, income, black-on-black tensions, education, affirmative action and more.