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

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Black Culture & Relationships: Part II
6:00 p.m. | Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center
Dr. Scott Brooks continues his discussion/workshop on Black culture and relationship dynamics on Mizzou’s campus.
Sponsored by: Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center & the Black Studies Department

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11
Presentation by Dr. Vincent Wimbush, “Signifying on Scriptures: The Black Atlantic Reads King James”
4:00 p.m. | Room 204, Neff Hall
Esteemed scholar Dr. Vincent Wimbush will discuss theories that frame our understanding of the Black Atlantic, the Scriptures, and the concept of Modernity.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee, MU chapter of Phi Beta Kappa

Jazz Concert with Meshell Ndegeocello
7:30 p.m. | Missouri Theatre
Join us for an invigorating evening of jazz, funk, and Rhythm & Blues with awardwinning jazz bassist and vocalist Meshell Ndegeocello. The artist will be joined by MU’s jazz band under the
direction of Dr. Arthur White. Following the performance, Dr. Stephanie Shonekan will moderate discussion with Ndegeocello.
Sponsored by: MU Black History Month Committee, the School of Music, the Chancellors Distinguished Visitors Program, MU Student ORG, and MU Jazz Society

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Lecture, Lest We Forget: Lynching at the Stewart Road Bridge
3:00-4:30 p.m. | Wrench Auditorium, Memorial Union
This event will inform the audience about the well known lynching of James Scott at the Stewart Road Bridge in Columbia in April 1923.
Sponsored by: Association for Black Graduate and Professional Students

Meet the Author: Jonny Steinberg
3:30 p.m. 114A Ellis Library
You can pick up a copy of the book, A Man of Good Hope, at the Mizzou Store. He will be available to sign books.
Sponsored by: MU African Interdisciplinary Studies Hub, MU Libraries, Black History Month Committee, Lectures Commitee and School of Journalism

Lecture, The Vertiginous Power of Decisions: an African Journey
6:00 p.m. reception & book signing | 7:00 p.m. presentation | Leadership Auditorium, Student Center
Dr. Jonny Steinberg will explore the paradox of the forced migration of a Somali man.
Sponsored by: School of Journalism, Black History Month Committee, Law School, MU African Interdisciplinary Studies, MU Libraries, Department of English

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Sites of Black Memory in the Missouri State Capitol: The Radical Representation of African Americans in Thomas Hart Benton’s 1936 mural “The Social History of Missouri”
5:30 p.m. | Main Gallery, State Historical Society of Missouri
Art historian Joan Stack will explore the representation of African Americans in the art of the Missouri State Capitol, focusing primarily on the decoration campaign of ca. 1918-
1920, and Thomas Hart Benton’s “Social History of Missouri” mural.  
Sponsored by: The StateHistorical Society of Missouri

ZouSoul Concert
8:00 p.m. | The Shack, MU Student Center
Performances dedicated to the history of black popular music.
Sponsored by: ZouSoul

TUESDAYS IN FEBRUARY
Black Queer Film Festival
February 2 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 9 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 16 | 7 PM | Women’s Center
February 23 | 7 PM | TBD
See screen representations of black queer and trans lives, histories, and stories every Tuesday in February.
Sponsored by: Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) and the Black History Month Committee

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
The African-American Experience in Missouri Inaugural Lecture, “Contesting Slavery: Enslaved Missourians Enduring Struggle for Self Determination”
6:00 p.m. reception | 7:00 p.m. presentation | 8:00 p.m. book signing | Jesse Auditorium, Jesse Hall
Diane Mutti Burke, author of On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small – Slaveholding Households, will examine the lives of African-Americans who were enslaved in Mid-Missouri.
Sponsored by: The State Historical Society of Missouri and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4
Afro-Latino Memory Through Film
6:00 p.m. | Room 12, Middlebush
Explore two examples of Black experiences and memories in Latin America. This event off ers the opportunity to look at the arts and identity, and the organization for rights and well-being. Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital is an upbeat film about how an Afro-Indigenous community got fed up and built their own hospital. Nancy Morejon: Paisajes celebres is a documentary about the most widely translated Latin American poet. Her writing addresses contemporary issues of ethnicity, gender, history, and Afro- Cuban identity. Sponsored by: the MU Black History Month Committee, Voz Latina, Cambio Center, Department of Romance Languages

A Musical Tribute to Thomas Hart Benton
7:00 p.m. | Missouri Theatre
Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band will play a tribute to Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton
Sponsored by: ”We Always Sing” Jazz Series, The State Historical Society of Missouri

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Black AIDS Day
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Room 2205 A&B, Student Center
Come learn about the HIV/AIDS epidemic and update your status with free, rapid, and confi dential HIV testing administered by the Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services.
Sponsored by: Mizzou Black Men’s Initiative, Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, Multicultural Center

Film: Democrats
6:30 p.m. | Waters Auditorium, Waters Hall
Director Camilla Nielson’s film Democrats, takes an inside look at the process involved in writing and ratifying a democratic constitution for Zimbabwe.
Sponsored by: Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy

 

Paula Roper is the elected chair of the Black History Month Planning Committee for 2016. Charlie Nilon, Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, is co-chair. Already generating significant program ideas for February, Rachel Brekhus has agreed to serve on the committee. Paula would like the coming Black History Month to be one in which the library plays a most strategic and integral role and looks forward to your advice, assistance, cooperation and participation in making this a reality.