In celebration of Black History Month, the Center for Culture, Gender & Sexuality invites the community to learn, experience and share Black culture through the events presented in the month of February.
This year's featured speaker for Black History Month is Dr. Lani Guinier at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 26 in the Evert B. Person Theatre. Her appearance is presented as part of the Andrea Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series. Guinier challenges conventional thinking on the issues of race and class. She focuses on the ways that those who have been excluded (based on race or class) are like the canary in the mines: their very vulnerability signals problems with the larger atmosphere affecting society.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated Guinier to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, only to have her name withdrawn without a confirmation hearing. In 1998, she became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. SSU students, faculty and staff admission is free, general admission is $10.
The complete Black History Month schedule for 2007 includes:
Noon, Thursday, Feb. 1
CCGS Movie Fest - "Race: The Power of an Illusion"
Student Union, Erin Fisher Room
What does science have to say about the concept of biological race? How do social institutions today shape and create race?
10 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 4
Communion at Community Baptist Church, Santa Rosa
Noon, Thursday, Feb. 8
CCGS Movie Fest - "Tongues United"
Student Union, Erin Fisher Room
Derogatory accusations, judgments, and jokes in the culture are met head-on by this video about black, male, and gay identity. Poetry, personal testimony, and drama unite to oppose the homophobia and racism that attempt to split a person into opposing loyalties.
8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9
Black Comedy Jam w/ W. Kamau Bell
Cooperage
Co-sponsored by the Scene, Black Scholars United, Associated Students Productions
Noon, Thursday, Feb. 15
CCGS Movie Fest - "Lost Boys of Sudan"
SSU Student Union, Multi-Purpose Room
The journey of two teenage Sudanese boys, orphaned by their war torn country, who traveled to America looking for a safer environment and learning to cope with the unfamiliar complexities of contemporary American society.
8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15
"Down from the Mountaintop: A Solo Performance on the Life of James Baldwin"
Warren Auditorium
Free to SSU Students, Staff & Faculty
$10 General Admission
"Down from the Mountaintop" depicts the rich and impassioned life of the esteemed novelist, playwright, essayist and civil rights activist James Baldwin. Tony Award nominee Calvin Levels' spirited portrayal of Baldwin traces the fervent life of this American writer recognized for his novels on sexual and personal identity, along with his works of nonfiction, plays and essays on human rights.
7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 16
Gospel Extravaganza featuring the Santa Rosa Community Baptist Church Gospel Choir with host Reverend James E. Coffee
Cooperage
Noon, Thursday, Feb. 22
CCGS Movie Fest - "What's Race Got to Do With It?"
SSU Student Union, Multi-Purpose Room
This film chronicles the experiences of Berkeley undergraduate college students enrolled in "Facing you, facing me," a 16-week intergroup dialog on race and class and its impact on lives in 2005.
9 p.m., Friday, Feb. Feb 23
Dance hosted by Black Scholars United
Commons
Noon, Saturday, Feb. 24
Flag Football hosted by Black Scholars United
South Lawn
7:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 26
The Andrea Neves and Barton Evans Social Justice Lecture Series Presents
Rethinking Race & Class: A New Vision of Social Justice with Harvard Law Professor Lani Guinier
Evert B. Person Theatre
Free to SSU Students, Staff & Faculty
$10 General Admission
Co-sponsored by the Heritage Lecture Series, Instructionally Related Activities, Center for Culture, Gender & Sexuality, Associated Students Productions and the Sonoma Student Union Corporation.
7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 28
Closing Ceremony
Cooperage
