UA Events Celebrate African-American Heritage Month

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama is celebrating African-American Heritage Month in February with the theme “Creating History Every Day” to recognize the range and diversity of contributions African-Americans have made.

Events and programs are planned across campus for African-American Heritage Month, including:

Mondays throughout February
Children’s activities – storytelling, motivational speakers, classroom activities UA Brewer Porch Children’s Center
Sponsored by Brewer Porch Children’s Center

Friday, Feb. 1 – Friday, Feb. 29
African-American Women Who Dared Campaign
Campuswide activities
Sponsored by the UA Women’s Resource Center and Women Involved in Learning & Leading

Films: February 8, 2008- February 24, 2008
African American Film Festival (Discussion to follow each movie)
Ferguson Theater, 7:00 p.m.

• Gone With the Wind (Feb 8th)
• Bamboozled (Feb 9th)
• In the Heat of the Night (Feb 15th)
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Feb 16th)
• Chisholm ’72 (Feb 23rd)
• When the Levees Broke (Feb 24th)

Sponsored by University Programs

Saturday, Feb. 2
Founders Day
Ferguson Center Heritage Room, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the NAACP

Monday, Feb. 4
Hip-Hop Summit featuring Music on the Plaza, Hip-Hop Summit Trivia on 90.7 FM Ferguson Plaza, noon
Sponsored by Creative Campus, 90.7 and Ferguson Student Union

Monday, Feb. 4
National African-American Read-In
Crossroads Lounge, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the WRC, African-American studies program, College of Arts and Sciences, McNair Scholars program, McNair Scholars Student Association and African-American Graduate Student Association

Tuesday, Feb. 5
Hip-Hop Summit – Listening Party
Ferguson Center, east dining room, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 6
Hip-Hop Summit – Step Tease “Showcase” featuring sororities and fraternities
Ferguson Theater, noon-1 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 7
Hip-Hop Summit – Featuring performances from Central High School, marching band, gospel choir, dancers, skaters and more
Ferguson Ballroom, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb. 10
State of the Black Union Address
Ferguson Center Heritage Room, 4– 6 p.m.
Sponsored by the NAACP

Tuesday, Feb. 12
Community Conversation
Africa – Images and Reality. Personal Stories and Eyewitness Accounts
Crossroads Lounge, 4 p.m.
Sponsored by Crossroads Community Center, International Honors Program and Capstone International Programs

Tuesday, Feb. 12
Lecture by Dr. Micki McElya on her book, “Confronting the Mammy Problem in the Montgomery Bus Boycott”
Ferguson Center Forum, 6 p.m., reception to follow
Sponsored by the WRC, WILL, department of American studies and UA Counseling Center

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Founders Day Program
Riverside Living Room, 6:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the NAACP

Wednesday, Feb. 13
Brown Bag Lunch lecture by Dr. DoVeanna Fulton, director of African-American studies “Speaking to Write/Right: African-American Women’s Voices of Freedom”
308 Manly Hall, 12:30 p.m.
Sponsored by WRC and the department of women’s studies

Thursday, Feb. 14
“Stories that Heal, Stitches that Bind: The Syphilis Study and the Tuskegee Bioethics Community Quilt Project,” presented by Professor Muhjah Shakir of Tuskegee University
205 Gorgas Library, 4-5:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the history department

Thursday, Feb. 14
Documentary screening: “What Black Men Think”
Ferguson Theater, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the African-American Graduate Student Association

Tuesday, Feb. 19
Julie C. Laible Memorial Lecture Series on Anti-Racist Scholarship, Education and Social Activism featuring Jim Scheurich from Texas A&M University, “Race and Education, Racism and Spirituality,” Graves Hall Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the College of Education

Wednesday, Feb. 20
Roundtable Discussion, “Where Do We Go from Here?” Featuring Jim Scheurich, Pat Bauch, Jerry Rosiek, Rhoda Johnson, DoVeanna Fulton and Jim Hall
Carmichael Hall Rotunda, 10 a.m. – noon
Sponsored by the College of Education

Wednesday, Feb. 20
We Got to Do Better: Panel of Guest Speakers
301 Ferguson, 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Potluck Luncheon Celebrating African American Heritage Month
Student Lounge, Little Hall, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Sponsored by the School of Social Work

Thursday, Feb. 21
Media Panel Discussion,
Location TBA, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Capstone Association of Black Journalists

Thursday, Feb. 21
Tribute to Trailblazers
Location TBA, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the NAACP

Friday, February 22, 2008
Guest Speakers Phyllis Alston and H. James Chapmon, “Honoring Our Own: Social Workers Involved in the Civil Rights Movement”
Room 223 Little Hall, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. (Reception following in the Student Lounge)
Sponsored by the School of Social Work

Monday, February 25, 2008
Allen Durough discussion, Alabama’s Pioneer Black Architect: Wallace Rayfield
Room 205, Gorgas Library, 1:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the UA Libraries, Summersell Center for Study of the South, and the University of Alabama Press

Tuesday, Feb. 26
Lecture and book signing with Wilson Fallin Jr., author of “Uplifting the People: Three Centuries of Black Baptist in Alabama”
205 Gorgas Library, 4 p.m.
Sponsored by UA Libraries

Tuesday, Feb. 26
UA Leader Series, “Leading Across Cultures”
205 Gorgas Library, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Office of Campus Activities

Wednesday, Feb. 27
Quiz Bowl
252 Hardaway Hall, 7-8:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the National Society of Black Engineers

Wednesday, Feb. 27
Dialogue and Conversation with Eli Lilly CFO Derica Rice
Natural History Museum, 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Career Center

Thursday, Feb. 28
Everywoman Book Club will discuss a book relating to African-American history or culture – “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
The Globe Restaurant, Noon
Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center

Friday, March 7
Black Faculty and Staff Association 1st Black Faculty and Staff Recognition Banquet
Location, time TBA
Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association

Coming in April
Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture Series
“I Wanted To Write” with Sapphire
Ferguson Center Theater, time, date TBA
Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association

For more information, contact Dr. Beverly Hawk, director, 205/348-6930, beverly.hawk@ua.edu or Brice Miller, assistant director, 205/348-8514, brice.miller@ua.edu, UA Crossroads Community Center, www.crossroads.ua.edu.