February 2003
  • Wednesday, February 5

    Maya Angelou Maya Angelou
    An Evening with Maya Angelou
    Elliott Hall of Music 7pm

    Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature. Being a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the world making appearances spreading her legendary wisdom. Dr. Angelou will captivate the Purdue community lyrically with vigor, fore and perception. Dr. Angelou has authored twelve best-selling books including I know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her current best-seller A Song Flung Up to Heaven. She is only the second poet in U.S. History to have the honor of writing ad reciting original work at the Presidential Inauguration in 1993. Sponsors: Project Respect Committee. Admission $5/Purdue students (with ID), $10 general public. View news story on this event.

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  • Saturday, February 8

    Doreen Rappaport
    Presentation
    Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room 1pm

    Doreen Rappaport is the author of several children’s books including No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance, a riveting anthology compiled by Doreen Rappaport and stirringly illustrated by Shane W. Evans and Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., illustrated by Bryan collier, which received a Caldecott Honor Award and a Coretta Scott King Honor Award for illustration.

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  • Tuesday, February 11

    Grandma’s Quilt “Grandma’s Quilt"
    "The Journey of an African Woman from Slavery to Freedom”
    Experimental Theatre 7pm

    “Grandma’s Quilt” is a theatrical chronicle of an African female born in slavery and her struggle through into finding freedom. “Grandma’s Quilt” begins in the post-slavery era of the 1920’s, winds through two world wars, explores the innocence of America in the 1940s and 50s, and completes in present day. View news story on this event.

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  • Thursday, February 13

    A Day of Quilting
    Black Cultural Center 11 to 3pm

    The BCC will sponsor "A Day of Quilting". Helpful quilting tips and the history of quilting are some of the topics that will be dissucs by the members of the Old Tippecanoe Quilting Guild, Mary Losey, and Bessie Baker. Presidents of the Sisters of the Cloth Quilting Guild, Letha Anderson and Katrina Gorman, from Fort Wayne, IN, will also be speaking. View news story on this event.

  • Thursday, February 13

    Hands Haraka Writers
    Images of Human Rights Reflections
    Stewart Center Galleries 5pm

    The BCC Haraka Writers will present poems in response to the Images of Human Rights artwork on display in the Stewart Center Gallery. View news story on this event.


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  • Thursday, February 27 – Saturday, March 1

    Woman Black Women’s Studies and the Academy
    A National Symposium

    The symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty, students, professionals and other researcher to trace the development of Black Women’s Studies as a discipline; discuss theory, pedagogy and epistemology as related to the study of Black women; and consider issues of institutional and canonization. The symposium will also provide a forum for scholars to consider critical issues facing Black women and explore possibilities of a collective research agenda toward effecting positive social change. Confirmed Speakers: Delores Aldridge, Darlene Clark Hine, Valerie Lee, Obioma Nnaemeka and Jessie Carney Smith.

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