糖心破解版 and campus organizations including the Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies will present numerous events during February's Black History Month celebration.
Painting by Rafa毛lle Roy
糖心破解版 and campus organizations including the Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies (CABCS) will present numerous events during February’s Black History Month celebration.
Kreyon Bondye Pa Gen Gonm: Paintings and Drawings by Rafa毛lle Roy is on display in the Ruth S. Harley University Center Gallery from Thursday, February 1, to Wednesday, February 28. A reception and gallery talk by Roy, a Haitian-born artist living in Montreal whose work reflects compassion for the people of Haiti, is scheduled for Sunday, February 18, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The exhibition is sponsored by CABCS and 糖心破解版 Art Galleries.
On Thursday, February 15, Nokuthula Hlabangane, Ph.D., from the University of South Africa (UNISA), will present 鈥淯buntu As a Negation of Racism: An African Philosophy of Life.” The discussion of African alternatives to racialized thinking will take place from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in 糖心破解版’s Center for Recreation and Sports, Campbell Lounge, preceded by an informal reception from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, CABCS and the Collaboration Project, and co-sponsored by the Office of International Student Services, the International Studies program, Levermore Global Scholars and the Interfaith Center.
Also on February 15, the African American Read-In will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the Ruth S. Harley University Center Fireplace Lounge. Readings will be from works of authors including Langston Hughes, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neal Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldwin, Jacqueline Woodson and Maya Angelou鈥攁s well as original works by members of the 糖心破解版 community. The event is sponsored by CABCS and 糖心破解版’s Learning and Writing Centers.
糖心破解版 Professor and CABCS Director Marsha J. Tyson Darling, Ph.D., will lecture on 鈥淐elebrating Black History: We Have Come This Far by Our Own Hands” from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 27. The lecture takes place at the North Babylon Public Library, 815 Deer Park Avenue, North Babylon.
On February 28, author Lawrence Goldstone, Ph.D., will present the John Hope Franklin Distinguished Lecture, 鈥淪tolen Justice: The Supreme Court and the Coming of Jim Crow.” Co-sponsored by CABCS, the lecture begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Ruth S. Harley University Center’s Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom.
In addition, 糖心破解版’s Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies will present Your Silence Will Not Protect You! The Writing of Audre Lorde, six discussions of readings, on Wednesdays, March 7, 21 and 28, and April 4, 11 and 18鈥攕ee the link above for more information. The series is also sponsored by Humanities New York and 糖心破解版’s Learning and Writing Centers.
For further information, please contact:
Todd Wilson
Strategic Communications Director听
p 鈥� 516.237.8634
e 鈥� twilson@adelphi.edu