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Black history celebration events slated
4:47 p.m., Feb. 14, 2007--Lectures, discussions and performances marking Black History Month and Beyond at UD are scheduled to take place at several campus venues in the coming weeks. The schedule follows. Thursday, Feb. 15 At 5 p.m. in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center, UD's African Consciousness Celebration kicks off with a lecture, “Diversity and Democracy: Making Multiculturalism Work,” by Manning Marable, an historian, political theorist and human rights activist who has been a professor of public affairs, political science and history at Columbia University since 1993. The evening will begin with a reception and live entertainment featuring UD's Gospel Choir. Manning will take the podium at 5:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Saturday, Feb. 17
Monday-Wednesday, Feb. 26, 27 and 28 Portions of filmmaker Spike Lee's HBO-TV documentary on Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, will be screened at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 26, in the Visitors Center Annex, followed by a discussion and light reception. Two parts of the four-part film, which each run two hours, also will be shown in the Center for Black Culture:
Wednesday, Feb. 28 At 7 p.m. in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center, Our Young Black Men Are Dying, a series of vignettes addressing issues facing young black men in America, will be performed. The free performance is intended to generate local community activism and will be followed by a discussion. The event is open to all members of the UD community and their guests. Thursday, March 8 At 5 p.m. in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center, “Beyond Barriers: Coalition Building in African-American and Latino Communities,” a lecture-and-discussion event, will feature guest speakers and facilitators Black Panthers cofounder Bobby Seale and Young Lords cofounder Felipe Luciano. This event is open to the public.
At 7 p.m. in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center, guest speaker Julian Bond will lecture on “Contemporary Civil Rights: How Do We Gauge Progress?” Bond, who has been chairperson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) since 1998, has been active in civil rights and economic justice efforts for the past 47 years. He received the National Freedom Award in 2002 and is a professor of history at the American University in Washington, D.C. Wednesday, March 21 At 7:30 p.m. in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center, Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman?, a one-woman play by Kathyrn Woods, will re-enact the life of 19th-century civil rights movement co-founder Sojourner Truth. The title is taken from Truth's “Ain't I a Woman?” historic protest speech, which she delivered in 1851 at the Women's Rights Convention. The events are cosponsored by UD's Cultural Programming Advisory Board, Black Student Union, Black Leadership Council, Campus Alliance de la Raza, Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority, Hekima Book Club, Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity, Affirmative Action and Multicultural Programs, Bank of America Career Services Center, Black American Studies program, Office of Women's Affairs and Women's Studies program. For more information on any of the events listed above, call UD's Center for Black Culture at (302) 831-2991.
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