WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Michael K. Honey Presents A Sharecropper’s Troubadour
7 p.m., Allen Auditorium, Arts & Science Building
Honey, an award-winning distinguished professor, recounts the life of John Handcox, his work as an organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and songs he used to tell the stories of laborers badly in need of an organization to negotiate on their behalf. Honey provides an unusual
lecture format by combining the narrative, based on oral history, with an accompanying musical performance.
Sponsored by the Black History Month Committee
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Black AIDS Day
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 2205 A&B MU Student Center
Come learn about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and update your status with free, rapid, and confidential HIV testing administered by the Boone
County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Sponsored by the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Mizzou Black Men’s Initiative, Multicultural Center, and Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services
Racial Democracy in Cuba: Lessons from the Cuban Revolution
5:30–8 p.m., Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
Professor Alejandro De La Fuente, Robert Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics at Harvard University, will discuss race relations in contemporary Cuban society and the complex links between economic justice, access to basic goods and services, and racial inequality.
Sponsored by the Afro-Romance Institute and the Black History Month Committee
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8
Black Faith/Black Radicalism
4 p.m., Second Missionary Baptist Church, 407 East Broadway
Carl W. Kenney II, MU journalism instructor, author, and pastor, will reflect on the history of activism generated from the Black church, and how theological and ideological shifts re-frame the terms of social justice movements led by Black pastors.
Sponsored by the Black History Month committee