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Monday, February 20
Documentary film screening -- Where Are They Now
Q &A to follow with filmmaker, Rico Speight
6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Alfred Lerner Hall's Roone Arledge Cinema
This feature length documentary profiles the lives and views of representative African American and Black South African twenty-somethings. It looks beyond the headlines to address issues of Hip-Hop culture, youth opportunities, racism, and terrorism. The film features Hip-Hop performances and South African Kwaito music. In co-sponsorship with Columbia University's Black Student Organization, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University and Rico Workshop Productions. Click for more information on the film.
Wednesday, February 22
"Reflections of Time: An Educational and Historical Experience"
7:30 p.m. , Alfred Lerner Hall
"Reflections of Time: An Educational and Historical Experience" is a theatrical portrayal of the joys and sorrows experienced by slaves from the 1850s through the 1940s. Actors play roles inspired by the writings of classic poets, including Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Imamu Amiri Baraka, and a musical background of African-American spirituals guides their journey from beginning to end. This event is part of the Arts and Culture Foundation's 18 th Annual Black History Month Celebration.
Tickets for these shows are $20 general admission, $10 students and seniors; tickets are available at the Lerner Hall box office from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 and 22. For more information call 212-926-2537.
Wednesday, February 22
Discussion: Abortion in the Caribbean
9 p.m. - 10 p.m., Room C555, Alfred Lerner Hall
A discussion on abortion in the Caribbean, will the current Pro-life/Pro-choice debate have an affect on laws and opinion in the islands? What is the current stance of most West Indians on the issue and what is the basis for such a stance?
Sponsored by CSA
Sunday, February 26
"TOTAL PRAISE"
10:30 a.m., 116 th Street & Morningside Drive (entrance to park)
Join the Ladies of the Rho Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., for worship service at 1st Corinthian Baptist Church. Meet at the entrance to Morningside Park, located on 116th Street and Morningside Drive at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, February 26
2nd Annual BHM Showcase
8-11 p.m., Roone Alredge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall
Columbia's finest perform a variety of talents in the 2 nd Annual Black Heritage Month Showcase. The event includes dancing, singing, spoken word, poetry, food and more.
Monday, February 27
"Black Freedom in Communist Russia: Great Expectations and Utopian Visions" by Simone James Alexander
Noon,
Room 1219 International Affairs Building
In this Harriman Institute discussion, Simone James Alexander (Department of Africana & Diaspora Studies, Seton Hall University) will trace the migrations and movement of "oppressed" black people in the Americas to communist Russia. Incorporating her own personal travel narratives that document her journey to Russia as a student, Alexander will examine, against the backdrop of the traveling experiences of such travelers as Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, the gender and race specificities of her travel and experiences.
Monday, February 27
Movie Series: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
6-8:30 p.m., Alfred Lerner Hall Cinema
In March 1931, a freight train crowded with homeless and jobless hoboes left Chattanooga, TN. A short time after it crossed into Alabama, a fight erupted between two groups of hoboes-one black and one white. The train was stopped by an armed posse in the tiny town of Paint Rock, Alabama. Before anyone knew what had happened, two white women stepped from the shadows of a boxcar to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers aboard the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the 20 th century. Before it was over, the Scottsboro affair-so-named for the little Alabama town where the nine were put on trial for their lives-would divide Americans along racial, political, and geographic lines. It would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War, yield two momentous Supreme Court decisions, and give birth to the Civil Rights Movement. |
