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Special BHM Feature: The Long Walk  |
Friday, Feb 2
2:00 pm
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Undergraduate Library, Multimedia Center
Main Campus |
University Libraries
Contact: 202-806-5435 |
American Blackout
"Defending & Preserving Our Voting Rights,"
Black History Month Video Series |
Wednesday, Feb 7
5:30 pm
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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Reading Room, Founders Library |
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center |
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Wednesday, Feb 7
6:30 - 8:30 pm
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Room 504, College of Dentistry
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Student National Dental Association (SNDA)
Contact:
Dr. Cecile E. Skinner |
Annual Black History Month Program, College of Dentistry. The program will be informative and entertaining, with dancing, games, food and fellowship. Dr. Ricardo Jones, President, Robert T. Freeman Dental Society is slated to be the guest speaker.
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Thursday, Feb 8
1:00 pm |
Founders Library,
Browsing Room |
University Libraries
Contact:
Shelley Stokes-Hammond,
202-806-7234 |
Restoring Memories: Carter G. Woodson, African American History Month, and the Education of Black America
Presenter: Dr. Gregory Carr, African American Studies |
Friday, Feb 9
2:00 pm |
Undergraduate Library, Multimedia Center
Main Campus |
University Libraries
Contact: 202-806-5435 |
Fannie Lou Hamer
"Defending & Preserving Our Voting Rights,"
Black History Month Video Series |
Monday, Feb 12
11:00 am - |
Ira Aldridge Theater:
lecture
Reception & Book Siging: Art Gallery, Fine Arts Building |
Ralph J Bunche International Affairs center |
Patricia Roberts Harris Lecture in Public Affairs, with Senator Edward W. Brooks
Presenter: Senator Edward W. Brooke.
Senator Brooke's autobiography, Bridging the Divide: My Life, was recently published, and this will constitute in large measure the subject of his lecture.
The lecture, to be followed by a reception and a book signing will be held in the Gallery of the Fine Arts Building, adjacent to the Ira Aldridge Theater. Read more >>.
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Tuesday, Feb 13
4:30 pm
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6:00 pm |
School of Law |
West Campus, School of Law Room 4, Houston Hall, |
American Education on Trial: The Struggle to End De Facto Segregation in American's Public Schools
Presenter: Susan Eaton, Research Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institution for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School.
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Thursday, Feb 15
3:00 - 5:00 pm |
Blackburn Center Auditorium |
Department of Political Science |
History of Black Political Engagement
Presenter: Dr. Hanes Walton, the distinguished Visiting Professor from the University of Michigan, will present the COAS Social Science Division Black History Month lecture on African Americans and the U. S. Senate since the Civil War. Dr. Walton is one the nation s most prominent political scientists in the field of black politics. A prolific author, his books are standard texts in many universities. His research on the history of the political experience is singularly influential. Dr. Walton holds the first Ph.D. in Political Science awarded at Howard U.
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Thursday, Feb 15
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Howard Thurman Chapel |
HU School of Dvinity
1400 Shepherd Street, NE.
Professor C.H. Felder Chair and Director of the Institue (BISC) |
Black Images in History & the Media
The Biblical Institute for Social Change at the HU School of Divinity will hold its Annual Black History Month Program.
Speaker: Professor Gregory Carr of the HU African American Studies Department.
NOTE: The second lecture presentation will be made by Professor Jahi Issa (HU Ph.D. May 2005), AssisantProfessor in the History Department of Elizabeth City University. He will address the substance on the new book that he and Drt. Salim Faraji edited, titled The Origin of the Word "AMEN".
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Thursday, Feb 15
7:00 pm - 8:30pm |
Blackburn Center
Gallery Loiunge |
UGSA
Contact:
Coordinator,
806-4143
ugsacoordinator@yahoo.com
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What happened to Africa?
Presenter: Shantrelle P. Lewis, Museum Educator at the African American Museum in
Philadelphia
Africa has often been referred to as "the Black" continent, third world,
underdeveloped, and uncivilized. This workshop will address the labels
placed on Africa and take participants through a four hundred year journey
that highlights Walter Rodney's concept of "how Europe Underdeveloped
Africa" Issues such as poverty, AIDS, ethnic wars, and low technology will
be addressed. |
Friday, Feb 16
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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Founders Library
Browsing Room |
University Libraries
Contact:
Shelley Stokes-Hammond,
202-806-7234 |
Black Midwives: Yesterday and Today
Presenter: Marsha Jackson, CNM, FACNM
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Friday, Feb 16
2:00 pm |
Undergraduate Library, Multimedia Center, Main Campus |
University Libraries
Contact: 202-806-5435 |
One Woman, One Vote
"Defending & Preserving Our Voting Rights,"
Black History Month Video Series |
Friday, Feb 16
8:30 am - 4:30 pm |
Blackburn Center |
English Department, COAS |
Hearts Day 2007: Three Faces of Poetry
Conference
http://www.coas.howard.edu/events/ |
Friday, Feb 16
7:00 - 10:30 pm
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Blackburn Center |
English Department, COAS |
Hearts Day 2007: Three Faces of Poetry
Gala Dinner
http://www.coas.howard.edu/events/ |
Tuesday, Feb 20
12:00 - 1:30 pm |
Founders Library,
Browsing Room |
University Libraries
Contact:
Shelley Stokes-Hammond,
202-806-7234 |
Black Studies and White Studies Beyond Howard University: An Overview.
Presenter: Dr. Russell Adams, Professor Emeritus and former chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University.
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Tuesday, Feb 20
7:00 - 10:00 pm |
Blackburn Ballroom |
UGSA
ugsacoordinator@yahoo.com |
Trivia Game Show with contemporary black history questions. |
Wednesday, Feb 21
12:00 noon
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Blackburn Center
Art Gallery
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Department of Music,
Division of Fine Arts
Contact:
Dr. Raymond Jackson
202-806-7091
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The Negro Spiritual.
Noon Fine Arts Series
Food is permitted in the Gallery during this performance
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Thursday, Feb 22
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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Founders Library
Browsing Room
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Dept. of Afro-American Studies |
State of Afro-American Studies in the 21st Century: From the Black Cultural Arts Movement to Hip Hop
(Seminar/Conference) |
Friday, Feb 23
2:00 pm |
Undergraduate Library, Multimedia Center
Main Campus |
University Libraries Contact: 202-806-5435 |
Why Vote?
"Defending & Preserving Our Voting Rights,"
Black History Month Video Series |
Wednesday, Feb 28
12:00 noon |
Blackburn Center
Art Gallery |
Department of Music,
Division of Fine Arts
Contact:
Dr. Raymond Jackson
202-806-7091 |
Black History Month & the Music of African Americans.
Noon Fine Arts Series
Food is permitted in the Gallery during this performance |
