Tag Archives: Black History Month
The Black History Month Planning Committee partnered with the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement and has been working since early last spring planning and organizing Black History Month events to ensure activities were available almost every weekday. “We hosted our first planning meeting in April,” Shawnboda Mead, committee director, said. “At the...
This February, students across the country celebrate Black History Month. They read books by black authors, wrote research papers on civil rights activists, memorized Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and watched videos about the Underground Railroad. And as they learn about the struggle of the past, they’ll begin to recognize it in their own present...
It’s that time of year again – Black History Month. If you guessed Valentine’s Day, that’s okay. Cupid and his arrows usually over shadow black history every February. Please, I repeat please spare me your angry Wikipedia-researched, self-centered, my great great great great grandfather was a farmer letters. My grandmother is older than Jim Crow, for goodness sake. Let...
More Than A Month is a new storytelling campaign sharing photos and personal anecdotes from students to empower and inspire the University community. The goal of the campaign created by senior psychology major Summer Wigley is to “celebrate those around us who are history in the making.” The campaign is sponsored by the UM Black Student Union and the UM National Association...
Last year, I wrote an article discussing Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Artist and The Racial Mountain.” Hughes’ essay discusses a young poet’s rejection of his “black identity” in an effort to declassify his talent. The poet’s disdain for identity has been echoed in contemporary society. From Raven-Symoné to Stacey Dash, the black community has been plagued...
