Black History Month Calendar
Diversity and Multicultural Affairs encourages everyone to participate and attend as many events as possible to celebrate black history and promote unity on our campus and in the community.
20% OFF African American Authors
All Month
Location: Bull’s Head Bookshop, UNC Student Stores, Contact: Kyle Mckay
Description: To celebrate Black History Month, Bull's Head Bookshop is offering 20% off of all book in our Afircan American Studies section, as well as 20% off all works of fiction by African American authors. Sale applies only to regularly priced, in-stock merchandise. Sale cannot be combined with any other discount, coupon, etc.
Sponsor: Bull's Head Bookshop
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
All Month
Location: Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Arts, Contact: Jenny Wales at 919-962-249
Description: Debuting in 1959 and nominated for multiple Tony Awards, A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. In this groundbreaking drama, proceeds from a life insurance policy give the Younger family hope for a better life. Can their "dreams deferred" be realized by moving into a home in an all-white neighborhood when they are confronted with conflicting desires within the family and racial prejudice outside their door? Single tickets $15 - $50 ($10 for UNC students)
Sponsor: PlayMakers Repretory Company
Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris
All Month
Location: Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Arts, Contact: Jenny Wales at 919-962-249
Description: Written in 2009, Clybourn Park takes up where Raisin leaves off, in 1959 with a white couple selling their home to the Youngers and causing uproar among their middle class neighbors. The second act fast-forwards 50 years with neighborhood demographics radically shifted and the first family of gentrifying whites about to move into what is now a predominantly black community. Times have changed, but what about the no-holds-barred conversation about race and the politics of the comminity? Single tickets $15 - $50 ($10 for UNC students)
Sponsor: PlayMakers Repretory Company
ParK Library Black History Month Display and Guide
All Month
Location: Park Library, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Description: 2013 marks the anniversaries of both the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), the event at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr gave his extraordinary “I Have a Dream” speech. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has chosen these two events for the theme of this year’s Black History Month. Click here or go to guides.lib.unc.edu/bhm2013 to see the Library’s Black History Month Guide.
Sponsor: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Black history Month (BHM) Kickoff
February 1st
Time: 11:00am- 2:00pm, Location: The Pit, Contact: Rachel Tates
Description: Join BSM for Black History Month calendars and cake in the Pit!
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
Health Fair
February 4-5
Time: 11:00am- 2:00pm, Location: The Pit, Contact: Rachel Tates
Description: BSM will be providing ribbons, pamphlets, contraceptives, and other supplies in the Pit!
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
BSM HIV/AIDS Session
February 6th
Time: 5:30pm, Location: Upendo, SASB North, Contact: Rachel Tates
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
BHM Dinner
February 6th
Location: Rams Head and Top of Lenoir
HIV/AIDS Testing Appointment Scheduling
February 7th
Time: 11:00am-2:00pm, Location: The Pit, Contact: Rachel Tates
Description: Students will have the opportunity to make appointments with Campus Health to be tested for HIV/AIDS
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement and UNC Campus Health
Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum Exhibition Opening Reception and Artist Talk
Haiti in its Own Words—Social and Linguistic Perspectives on Haitian Creole
February 7th
Time: 4:00pm, Location: FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003
Description: A talk by Jacques Pierre, Visiting Lecturer in French, Haitian Creole and Culture in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University.
Sponsor: Institute for the Study of the Americas
February 7th
Time: 7:00pm, Location: Stone Center
Description: Bloodlines, by Los Angeles sculptor, painter, and multi-media artist Toni Scott, is an all-encompassing large-scale installation on the subkect of the African American journey from slavery to freedom. It speaks of resilience and tragedy, hope and history. Scott uses photography, graphic design, digital rendering, and in an "extraordinary fusion of forms and materials in this remarkable installation."
Sponsor: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Education For Action: A Social Justice Series Event
February 12th
Time: 7:00pm, Location:Stone Center, Room 210
Description: In this workshop El Kilombo Intergalactico will explore the limitations and possibilities of both activism and the academy to enact political change and discuss the lessons that we draw from the history of struggle in the US and across the world in order to lay out a rough guide to our approach to contemporary political action. El Kilombo Intergalactico is a community of migrants, studentsm working class, and people of color in Durham, NC.
Sponsor: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Ackland Film Forum presents Los Chigualeros
February 12thTime: 7:00pm, Location: Varsity Theatre, Chapel Hill (Free for students with valid HS or University ID; $4 for all others)
Sponsor:Ackland Art Museum
Description: This 2009 documentary is about the most famous salsa band from Ecuador, the Chigualeros. Presented by the Institute for the Study of the Americas in celebration of Black History Month.
BHM Dinner
February 13th
Location: Rams Head and Top of Lenoir
Role of Black Men and Women Forum
February 13thTime: 5:30pm, Location: Upendo, SASB North, Contact: Rachel Tates
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
Distinguished Speaker Series: Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam
February 13th
Time: 5:30pm, Contact: Frank R. Baumgartner
Description: Rep. Stam (R- Wake County) was one of the strongest critics of the 2009 Racial Justice Act and a prime mover of its revision in 2011. Speakers in this series will explore issues of wrongful conviction, the controversies surrounding the Racial Justice Act, and the future of capital punishment in the Tar Heel State.
Sponsor: UNC Department of Political Science, UNC Department of African and African-American Studies, UNC Law School Innocence Project, UNC Law School Center for Civil Rights, Black Student Movement, North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium
Love Safely
Februray 14thTime:11:00am- 2:00pm, Location: The Pit, Contact: Rachel Tates
Description: BSM will be passing out safe sex supplies in the Pit just in time for Valentine's Day!
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
33rd Annual Zollicoffer-Merrimon Lecture & Banquet
February 15thTime: 2:30pm-3:30pm, Location: Old Clinic Auditorium, UNC School of Medicine
Description: Please join us as Dr. Brenda Armstrong, Associate Dean, Medical Education and Director of Admissions at Duke University School of Medicine gives the 2013 Zollicoffer Lecture and inspires, informs, and challenges us all on the topic of mentorship and disparities in medical education.
Sponsor: UNC Chapter of SNMA and the Merrimon Family
Give My Poor Heart Ease: An Evening with Bill Ferris
February 15th
Time: 7pm, Location: The Friday Center for Continuing Education, Contact: Bill Ferris
Description: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. In celebration of Black History Month, the Friday Center will host a free lecture by Dr. Ferris in which he will share photographs, stories, music samples, and film clips from his book and CD, Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues. The evening will begin with a reception with live music and a photo exhibit tour at 6pm. The presentation will begin at 7pm. Please pre-register by sending an email to fridaycenter@unc.edu or calling (919) 962-3000.
Sponsor: The William and Ida Fricay Center for Continuing Education
Civil Discourse, Civil Communities: Free Expression in a Constitutional Democracy
February 16th
Time: 2:00pm, Location: Center for Dramatic Arts, Paul Green and Kenan Theaters
Description: Description: Gentrification and the future of urban development in Chapel Hill will be the topic of a free discussion after the 2 p.m. Feb. 16 performance of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s “Clybourne Park”. Participants are invited to attend the performance for free as well, but must pre-register as seats are limited. To reserve tickets contact the Program in the Humanities by calling (919) 962-1544 or visiting http://humanities.unc.edu/. The conversation after the play will feature Christian Lundberg, assistant professor of communication studies, who will discuss “What Makes a Conversation Civil?” Actor, producer and UNC alumnus Mike Wiley will speak about “The Place(s) of Race in America.”
Sponsor: Program in the Humanities and Human Values, Playmakers Repertory Company
Daring Dreams: What is the Price of Progress?
February 18th
Time: 7:00pm, Location: Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St., Durham, Contact: website
Description: With Durham County Library PlayMakers presents an open conversation with community leaders about the future of urban development in the Triangle. Join Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Shelley Green as she moderates a panel including Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, former Durham Mayor Wib Gulley, and other guest speakers as we explore the challenges and opportunities our community will face in coming years. FREE.
Sponsor: PlayMakers Repertory Company, Durham County Library
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film — Lunch and a Movie Series: Children Go Where I Send You
February 19thTime: 12:00pm, Location: Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Description: Children Go Where I Send You tells the story of Rosenwald Schools in Hertford County, North Carolina. Dr. Dudley E. Flood, noted educator and member of the UNC Board of Governors, narrates the history of the schools in his home county and their impact on the children, families, and communities in which they were located. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with film directors, Caroline Stephenson and Jochen Kunstler and film narrator, Dr. Dudley Flood. Sign up on our Facebook page 24 hours before the screening and we'll have a free lunch waiting for you!
Sponsor: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library, The Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Distinguished Speaker Series: Glen Edward Chapman and Prof. Pam Laughon
February 20thTime: 5:30pm, Contact: Frank R. Baumgartner
Description: Ed served 15 years on NC's death row for two murders he did not commit. Pam Laughon of UNC-A was an investigator assigned to his defense at trial and subsequently an advocate for his release. Speakers in this series will explore issues of wrongful conviction, the controversies surrounding the Racial Justice Act, and the future of capital punishment in the Tar Heel State.
Sponsor: UNC Department of Political Science, UNC Department of African and African-American Studies, UNC Law School Innocence Project, UNC Law School Center for Civil Rights, Black Student Movement, North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium
The Diaspora Festival of Afro-surrealist Film — Lunch and a Movie Series: Seven Songs for Malcom X
February 21st
Time: 12;00pm, Location: Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room
Description: Intercutting testimonies and eyewitness accounts with tableaux and dramatic reenactments, the film explores the life and legacy of Malcolm X. Film includes interviews with his widow Betty Shabazz, Spike Lee, and many others. Sign up on our Facebook page 24 hours before the screening and we'll have a free lunch waiting for you!
Sponsor: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
3rd Annual Black History Month Read-In
February 21stTime: 6:00pm-8:30pm, Location: Stone Center, Contact: Deborah Stroman at (919) 843-0336
Description: Celebrate the culture, cuisine, and literature of the African Diaspora! This special event features readings related to or written by descendants of the African Diaspora, read by members of the university community.
Sponsor: The Carolina Black Caucus
9th Annual African American History Month Lecture
February 21stTime: 7:00pm, Location: Wilson Library, Pleasants Family Assembly Room, COntact: Jerma Jackson
Description:Dr. Tera W. Hunter is the featured speaker for the 9th annual African American History Month Lecture. A scholar of African-American women's and gender history, Hunter has published, To ’Joy My Freedom, an imaginative social history of domestic workers in Atlanta and other southern cities at the turn-of-the-twentieth century. Her upcoming lecture is entitled “Bound As Fast In Wedlock As A Slave Can Be: African-American Marriage, Slavery and Freedom.” click here for more information.
Sponsor: UNC Department of History
34th Annual Minority Health Conference: Constructing the Foundation for Health Equity
February 22nd
Contact: Cherelle Whitfield at (919) 843-9262
Description: The UNC Minority Health Conference attracts over 500 students, faculty, researchers, health professionals, and community leaders from around the nation each year. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to tackle the issues facing minority with the hopes of improving the health status of those communities.
Sponsor: Minority Student Caucus, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, the North Carolina Institute for Public Health
“Body as Battleground: Why the Law Continues to Fail Women” 2013 Conference on Race, Class, Gender and Ethnicity
February 23rdLocation: The Rotunda of Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, UNC School of Law, Contact: website
Description:This conference invites legal scholars, activists, and practitioners to explore the reality beneath the rhetoric of the war on women. We will challenge panelists to reconcile the narrow scope of the political discourse surrounding that narrative with the breadth of what women face within our culture on a daily basis. This should entail an exploration of not only the legal battles fought by and for women in the 21st century, but also how discourse and disparity shapes women's identity and people's perception of women.
Sponsor: UNC School of Law
Star Families: African Skies
February 23rdTime: 3:30pm-4:15pm, Location: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, Contact: Morehead Guest Relations at (919) 962-1236
Description: Anansi, the Spider, is one character you'll meet through this retelling of African sky legends under a planetarium dome filled with stars. $5 per person ($4 for Morehead members). Please register online in advance here
Sponsor: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
Sacrificial Poets Performance
February 25thTime: 7:00pm, Location: Paul Green Theatre, Center for Dramatic Arts, Contact: website
Description: Join PlayMakers for an evening of original spoken word performances inspired by issues of housing, gentrification, community, and "home." Featuring poems from the award-winning Sacrificial Poets, this evening will explore relevant and important issues prevalent in Raisin and Clybourne and within our own community. FREE.
Sponsor: Playmakers Repretory Company
"Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson" Book Discussion with author Barbara Ransby
February 26thTime: 3:30pm, Location: Bull's Head Bookshop, UNC Student Stores
Description: Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. She was a woman of unusual accomplishment—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women's rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie to the role of Mrs. Paul Robeson, a wife hidden in the large shadow cast by her famous husband. In this masterful book, biographer Barbara Ransby refocuses attention on Essie, one of the most important and fascinating black women of the twentieth century.
Sponsor: The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
An Arts Night Out
February 26thTime: 7:30pm, Location:Memorial Hall, Contact: Deborah Stroman at (919) 843-0336
Description: Join The Carolina Black Caucus for An Arts nIght Out with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Memorial Hall!
Sponsor: The Carolina Black Caucus
Book Reading
February 27thTime: 3:30pm, Location: Bull’s Head Bookshop
Description: Minrose Gwin, author and Kenan Eminent Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature will read from her new book Remembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement.
BHM Dinner
February 27thTime: 4:30pm-8:30pm, Location: Top of Lenoir Contact: Rachel Tates
Description: The BHM themed dinner will be served in Top of Lenoir along with a DJ, student profiles, and more!
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement
Distinguished Speaker Series: William Michael Dillon
February 27thTime: 5:30pm, Contact: Frank R. Baumgartner
Description: Bill Dillon, a Chapel Hill resident, served 27 years in Florida for a murder he did not commit. He is now a recording artist and public speaker. Speakers in this series will explore issues of wrongful conviction, the controversies surrounding the Racial Justice Act, and the future of capital punishment in the Tar Heel State.
150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
February 28thTime: 3:00pm-6:00pm, Location: Upendo, SASB North, Contact: Rachel Tates
Sponsor: UNC Black Student Movement