Black Heritage Month 2017

We look forward to sharing the depth and richness of Black history and heritage with you during February. This year’s theme is: A Legacy of Triumph Enlightens Our Path Forward.

• Opening Day – Wednesday, Feb. 1, 11:45 – 2pm
  • Processional from College Hall to flagpole
    • Libation
    • Proclamation
    • Flag raising
    • Black National Anthem
    • Welcome
  • Opening Day Program in Student Center 411
    • Overview of Theme
    • Presentation: We Are Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
    • Champions of Change Award presented to Professor Emeritus, Dr. Daniel Williams
    • Reception
    • Announcements
• Feb 6 and 8 – MyBlackIs
  • Student Center Lobby, 11:30-4pm, (Ladies First)
• Feb 13 – HerStory Hidden
  • Student Center, Room 411 7-9pm
• Feb 14 – Black Entrepreneurs – Thinking of A Master Plan: Building A Business From Scratch
  • 1pm – 2:30pm, Business School Room 101
• Feb 15 – Poetic Abolition ~ Black Lives Matter Poetry Slam
  • 8:05 p.m., University Hall, 1070
• Feb. 16 – I, Too, Am Montclair ~ Racial Microaggressions Education
  • Feliciano SBUS, Room 140, noon – 1:30 pm
• Feb 20 & 22 – BlackWomenMovement
  • Student Center Lobby, 11:30-2:30; 10:30-1pm)
• Feb 21 – Foods of the Diaspora
  • Machuga Heights Multipurpose Room, 2-4pm (OSAU)
• Feb 21 – Tribute to Lt. Col. Spann Watson, Tuskegee Airman
  • Montclair Public Library, 7-9pm
  • African American Studies will present the Champion Of Change Award posthumously to Lt. Col. Watson; There will be a shuttle bus between the University and the Montclair Public Library.
• Feb 22 – Black Lives Matter Panel
  • 3-5pm (Univ Hall 1070)
• Feb 22 – Black Faculty and Student Mixer
  • 5:30 -9pm (Ladies First)
• Feb 24 & 25 – Day of Absence; Michael Allen, Director
  • Fox Theater, 7:30pm
  • Post-Performance Panel Discussion on Feb 24
• Feb 27 Black in Latin America film and discussion
  • UH 2004, 8:30-10pm
• Feb 28 – Closing ceremony (OSAU, NASO)
  • Student Center Ballrooms