In February the College will celebrate Black History Month with a series of events across the campus.
At some events we will be collecting donations to send to St. John's #5 Faith Church in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans. This church is headed by last week's guest speaker, pastor Bruce Davenport. Suggested donations will be posted to Intercom next week!
February 1 – African Latino Society (ALS) Flag Raising Ceremony
1:00pm – Academic Quad - Keynote Speaker John W. Rawlins, III, Asst. Dir. of OMA
and a Musical Selection by Tyrell Lashley
February 1 - LBGT Center Film Series
7:00pm – Textor 101 – “I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs” and “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin”
February 6-8 - Department of Writing Visiting Writing Series with Cornelius Eady
Feb. 6 Lecture - 7:30pm – Emerson Suite A Feb. 8 Reading – 7:30pm Park Auditorium
February 8 - ALS African-American Jeopardy
7:00pm – ALS Room, West Tower Lobby
February 14 - ALS Taste of Soul – Valentine’s Day
7:00-9:00pm – Emerson Suites, $5 Valentine’s Day Supper Club Style Dinner
RSVP by February 7, 2007 to tsy1@ithaca.edu
February 17 - Music School “Africa to America”
7:00PM – Ford Hall - a musical tribute in honor of 2007 Black History Month.
The program will feature elementary students from the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Utica, New York, the Community School of the Arts, and the Community Unity Music Education Project Afterschool program. Also performing will be the Ithaca Multicultural Chorus “Voices”, Ghanaian master xylophonist Bernard Woma from Accra, Ghana, and civil rights pioneer Dr. Dorothy Cotton, who served as education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for twelve years under the direct supervision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Working closely with Dr. King, Dorothy served on his executive staff and was part of his entourage to Oslo, Norway, where he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
February 27 - ALS Taste of Soul – Terraces
4:30-8:00PM – Terrace Dining Hall – Come enjoy some soul food as we switch up the main line in the dining hall!
February 27 - OMA Guest Speaker Dr. Robert Westley
7:00PM – Emerson Suites
February 28 - Sports Department – “An Evening with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith & LSU’s Leonard Moore”
For more information, please contact John Rawlins III, Assistant Director, OMA
at jrawlins@ithaca.edu or 607-274-1692
Special thanks to the Office of Multicultural Affairs, African Latino Society, the LGBT Resource Center, the Department of Writing, the Music School, and the Sports Department.
