February 2011 :BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Enlightenment, Equity & Excellence
Thursday, February 10, 2011
*Class Matters: Race, Labor and Public Policy in Contemporary America featuring Cheryl Hicks
5:30pm
Minor Hall, Room 125
Cheryl Hicks is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Hicks is also a graduate of the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D from Princeton University and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American Studies in 2004. She will discuss her latest book, Talk With You Like A Woman: African-American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
She will also field questions regarding the historical roots of the current mass incarceration crisis, the rising rates of incarceration among African American women, and the necessity of bringing women into existing conversations on the social and political consequences of mass imprisonment.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Black History Bowl
6:00pm
O-Hill Forum
This program will unite University students in a fun game of Jeopardy with facts relating to Black history in both Virginia and the world.
It's a history lesson without the lecture!
SPONSOR: Black Student Alliance
February 18, 2011
Rhythm and Roots: A Celebration of Culture
7:00 p.m.
Student Activities Building
Cost: $5.00
Step It Up and the Student Organization of Caribbean Awareness celebrate African-American and Afro-Caribbean Achievement. From politics to entertainment, African-Americans and Afro-Caribbeans have made tremendous contributions to the world. Come see various groups from within University community as they recognize these wonderful accomplishments through a variety of presentations. Proceeds from this event will be donated to a local charity.
Sponsor: Step It Up, Student Organization of Caribbean Awareness
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE MEDIA
5:30-7:00 pm
The Harrison Institute/ Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
A panel discussion chaired by Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus and board member of the NAACP and Professor, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia; with Arlie Schardt, journalist and public-activist, who covered the Civil Rights Movement as Time Magazine's correspondent for seven of its most intense years; and Judy Thomas, Clemon's Director of Arts and Media Services, showing original video footage of the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia and discussing their Civil Rights Video Archiving Project.
SPONSORS: The University of Virginia's School of Continuing and Professional Studies and The Clemons Library.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Seminar: Keeping it Rich with Sakina Spruell
7:00 p.m.
Monroe Hall, Room 110
Sakina Spruell, Personal Finance Expert This seminar is designed to motivate, encourage and educate college students to have a financially lucrative life while still keeping it real. Learn how you can pay down student loan debt, build credit, invest in the stock market and still have money left over to buy the car of your dreams. This presentation maintains a lively interactive discussion about money and the steps you must take to make it grow. Sakina Spruell is a personal finance journalist who contributes to a variety of publications to include MONEY, FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS, ESSENCE and BLACK ENTERPRISE magazines. Ms. Spruell was also the founding editor for BLACK ENTERPRISE 's TEENPRENEUR, a quarterly magazine targeted at teenaged entrepreneurs as well as BET.Com webcast Keeping it Rich.
SPONSOR: Office of African-American Affairs, Get on the Street
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Black History Month Closing Ceremony
4rd Annual Image Awards
7:00pm
The Harrison Institute/ Small Special Collections Library Auditorium
Students, faculty and staff of the University community will be honored for their commitment and service to the Black Community at the University of Virginia.
SPONSORS: Office of African-American Affairs, Black Student Alliance, Black Leadership Institute, UVa Chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), University of Virginia Dining
Saturday, February 26, 2011
What is Africa to me?
5:00pm -6:30pm
Zion Union Baptist Church
1015 Preston Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22903
What is Africa to Me? is a celebration of the illustrious history and achievements of Africans and African Americans. The event will use a play, poetry readings, monologues and a fashion show to illustrate the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and the ways the Black community on the Continent and in the US are working to overcome it. Refreshments will be provided afterward.
SPONSORS: The Organization of African Students, the Zion Union Baptist Church , Old Dominion University African Caribbean Association and the Albemarle Baptist Church of Africa International
Please call the Office at (434) 924-7923 for more information.
*Class Matters: Race, Labor and Public Policy in Contemporary America
Toward the goal of facilitating greater dialogue around issues relating to race, class, poverty, and public policy within and beyond the city of Charlottesville, "Class Matters" will consist of six interdisciplinary/inter-communal conversations. Topics to be discussed include but are not limited to: the economic health of African Americans, particularly low wage workers; the racial dynamics and democratic possibilities of the living wage movement; representations of the black poor in the mass media; public policy opportunities for UVA undergraduate and graduate students, particularly underrepresented minorities.
The purpose of this forum is three-fold: (1) to facilitate among students of color a greater understanding of the political economy, the labor movement, and the complex intersections of race and class in our everyday lives; (2) to provide a space in which UVA students and the larger Charlottesville community can discuss matters of economic policy and justice; and (3) to further expose African American graduate and undergraduate students to public policy opportunities within and beyond the University of Virginia.