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Black History Month, Feb. 2003
Film Festival & Celebration Events
ALL Events Are Open to All Students and the General Public
Refreshments Served!
Feb. 6th
12–1:30pm &
6–7:00pm
Film: Black History Lost, Stolen or Strayed
Narrated by Dr. Bill Cosby, Ed.D.
Location: Navajo Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 10th
9–10:30am

African American Reparations Discussion/Micro Tech
Gershom Williams, African American History Professor (MCC, SMCC)
Location: Navajo Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 13th
12–1:30pm
Film: "Almost Free, History of Blacks in Arizona"
Book Promo: "100 Years of Blacks in Arizona," Mr. Richard Harris and "I Refuse to Leave the Hood" the Hon. Clovis Campbell, Sr.
Location: Papago Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 19th
9– 11:00am
The Black West
"Nat Love Presents...True Tales of the Olde West"
Presenter: Madison Walker, Storyteller Extraordinaire
A combination of historical accuracy and contemporary stagecraft is presented. The real Nat Love published his autobiography in Los Angeles in 1907, proving that all cowboys were not illiterate, nor were they all white.
Location: Pima Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 20th
12–1:30pm & 6–7:00pm
Film: Tony Brown's Journal
A Panel Discussion Presentation on eclectic Africentric view of our challenges and concerns
Location: Navajo Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 27th
6–7:00pm
Movie: SANKOFA! Directed by Haile Gerima
Filmmaker Haile Gerima took the story of Mona, a Black American fashion model who is possessed by spirits lingering in the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, and send Mona on a journey into slavery—and then into liberation, as the theme for his 1993 Sankofa. "Sankofa" is the name of a mythical bird who looks back - whose motto is "Pick it up if it falls behind you" and is a symbol of the ability to learn from the past Ancestral spirits.
Location: Navajo Room (Kirk Center)
Feb. 28th
12:00 noon
Making A Global Difference: My Sojourn Through South Africa
Presentation: Ms. Cecily Morgan, M.B.A.
Business Manager of Department of African American Studies University of Maryland, College Park
Location: Navajo room (Kirk Center)
Lunch Provided! Limited Seating
 
 
 
 

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