February 2009
To Know My Mothers Name 8:00am - 10:00pm 1 February 2009 @ Black Cultural Center Lounge
Continues every weekday until 25 February This is a Project Respect collaboration between African American Studies and Research Center and the BCC, which features portraits by Delita Martin, a Purdue graduate student in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Martin uses her experience as an African American woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, and artist to create a series of portraits that speak about women of color. These portraits reinforce the extraordinary resolve to survive life's obstacles and to define love and passion.
Thursday, February 5th - Opening Reception 4:00 -6:00 p.m. BCC
Wednesday, February 25th - "To Know My Mother's Name" Gallery Talk with Delita Martin Black History Keynote Lecture 7:00pm 4 February 2009 @ Fowler Hall, Stewart Center Featuring Benjamin Todd Jealous, President & CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Difficult Dialogues - Race and the Academy 3:00pm 11 February 2009 @ Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room 1 The Black Cultural Center in collaboration with American Studies continues its Difficult Dialogues Series on Race in 2009. Like no other time in American history conversations on Race and how it is impacts the daily life of all people are needed so that we can better understand and appreciate ourselves and our world. Difficult Dialogues on Race gives students, faculty, staff and community members the opportunity to talk about Race and issues that intersect Race in our attempt to understand those that have been traditionally under-represented. Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future 7:00pm 17 February 2009 @ Fowler Hall, Stewart Center Dr. Manning Marable, Educator, Author, Journalist. Dr. Marable is one of the most influential and widely read intellectuals in the United States. He is a national leader in the fields of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies. Widely respected for his insights on the politics of race in America, Dr. Marable also champions the struggles of racial minorities, women, lesbian, gay, labor and social justice groups. Imagining Mending Mother Earth: An Environmental Poetry Event 7:00pm 20 February 2009 @ Black Cultural Center Come out and hear poets from the campus community share poems that express concern for the earth's sustainability and also honor and respect our planet's natural resources.
Co-sponsor: Women's Resource Office
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