FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Black Life, Hip Hop, Activism
7:00 p.m. | Leadership Auditorium, MU Student Center
Performance & Conversation with Hip Hop Artist/ Activist Jasiri X.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee, MU College of A&S, School of Journalism
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Sunday’s Best
3:00 p.m. | Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
Join the GOBCC and the LBC Gospel Choir for a time of fellowship. Sunday’s Best gives Mizzou students the opportunity to express themselves through gospel music and performances by LBC Gospel Choir & His Life Dance Ministry.
Sponsored by: Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center & the Legion of Black Collegians Gospel Choir
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Film: Proscenium
5:30 p.m. | Ragtag Cinema
Screening and Discussion with Director Allison Harrison
Proscenium is a short fi lm, set at the historic Ward Theatre, one of Jamaica’s iconic cultural landmarks, long abandoned in downtown Kingston.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee and Ragtag Cinema
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Meklit Hadero: Music and Art
8:00 p.m. | Corner Playhouse
San-Francisco based, Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero will lead her band in a musical performance that highlights the art installation “Braiding As Sculpture”.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
Lecture: Hip-Hop, Race, and American Culture
6:15 p.m. | Room 12, Middlebush Hall
A presentation by Dr. Jeff rey O. G. Ogbar, Professor of American Studies and History, and the founding Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the
University of Connecticut.
Sponsored by: MU Honors College and MU Black History Month Committee
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Lecture: Racism, Reparation, and Reconciliation
6:00 p.m. | Room 204, Neff Hall
Presented by historian Dr. Verene Shepherd, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee, Kinder Institute, Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative