| Feb 9 |
”DeWolfe Family Burden” lecture
6 pm — Alumni Hall, Student Center — sponsored by the MOSAIC Center |
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Thomas Norman DeWolfe, author of Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in US History, and Belvie Rooks, an African-American woman whose family story of enslavement is chronicled in The Seeds of Sally Good’n: A Black Family in Arkansas, 1833–1953, explore the hidden slave history of the North as part of an effort to reach racial conciliation through public discussions and education. |
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| Feb 11 |
Broken Promises, Broken Dreams! Civil Rights in the 21st Century”
3:30 pm--Marcus White Living Room--African-American Studies Black History Month Lecture Series |
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Dr. Stephen Balkaran, Adjunct Professor of African-American Studies (Central Connecticut State University)
For more information, contact Dr. Felton O. Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African-American Studies at (860) 832-2190. |
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| Feb 17 |
“Engaging African-Americans into Outpatient Mental Health Interventions”
3:30 pm--Marcus White Living Room--African-American Studies Black History Month Lecture Series |
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Dr. Reginald Simmons, Assistant Professor of Criminology/Criminal Justice (Central Connecticut State University)
For more information, contact Dr. Felton O. Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African-American Studies at (860) 832-2190. |
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| Feb 19 |
“An Analysis of Ava Gardner’s ‘Showboat’ (1951)”
2:00 pm--DiLoreto Hall Room 001--African-American Studies Black History Month Lecture Series |
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Dr. Felton Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy & Director, African’ American Studies (Central Connecticut State University)
For more information, contact Dr. Felton O. Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African-American Studies at (860) 832-2190 |
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| Feb 23 |
SEVENTH ANNUAL AMISTAD LECTURE: “The Relevance of the AMISTAD to the Ralph Bunche, Wangari Maathai, & Barack Obama Nobels”
3:30–4:45 pm — Torp Theatre, Davidson Hall |
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Keynote speaker: Dr. Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome, professor of political science, Brooklyn College, New York, and co-editor of Jenda: A Journal of Culture & African Women Studies.
For more information, contact Dr. Olusegun Sogunro at 832-2131 or Dr. Gloria Emeagwali at 832-2815. |
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| Feb 25 |
“Black Intellectual Ministers in the Civil Rights Era”
11:00 am--Robert Vance Academic Hall Room 105--African-American Studies Black History Month Lecture Series |
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Archbishop Reverend Dr. LeRoy Bailey, Jr. Senior Pastor, First Cathedral Church (Ten Thousand Membership Congregation, Bloomfield, CT)
For more information, Dr. Felton O. Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African-American Studies at (860) 832-2190 |
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| Feb 25 |
“Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama”
3:30 pm--Alumni Hall (Student Center)--(A book signing will be held after the lecture) African-American Studies Black History Month Lecture Series |
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Dr. Peniel Joseph, Distinguished Professor of History (Tufts University; Boston, Massachusetts)
For more information, contact Dr. Felton O. Best, CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African-American Studies at (860) 832-2190 |
