Black History Month Calendar

Feb. 1 The opening reception for the SE Campus Black History Month Exhibit will be held in Art Corridor III 10-11:30 a.m. The exhibit will run in Art Corridor III throughout the month of February. For more information, call Amy Staley or Frankie Ward in SE student activities at 817-515-3595.

Feb. 2 The Langston Hughes Project awareness event will be held in the ballroom on SE Campus at 11:30 a.m. For more information, call Amy Staley or Frankie Ward in SE student activities at 817-515-3595.

Feb. 2 NE Campus presents the Langston Hughes Project, Ask Your Mama: The Twelve Moods of Jazz 1:30-3:30 p.m. in the Darlage Center Corner (NSTU 1615A). The project is a multimedia concert of kaleidoscopic jazz that infuses poetry and a swash of musical influences and is Hughes’ homage to the struggle for social and artistic freedom in the 1960s. For more information, contact NE student activities at 817-515-6644.

Feb. 2 Discussion of Slavery by Another Name, a documentary, will show 10-11:20 a.m. in the SE Campus library. SE history professor Mike Downs will be the host. For more information, call the SE library at 817-515-3084.

Feb. 2 TR Campus will host an African Dance and Drum performance 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Riverfront Café on TRTR Main Street. Students, faculty, staff as well as the general public are invited to enjoy the performances of Moussa Diabate, master dancer, drummer, choreographer, teacher and musician who has performed and taught extensively across the globe. For more information, contact student development associate Axel Leos at 817-515-1908.

Feb. 16 Discussion of Freedom Riders, a documentary, will be 10-11:20 a.m. in the SE Campus library. SE government instructor Ruthann Geer will be the host. For more information, call the SE library at 817-515-3084.

Feb. 18-19 The South Campus theater program begins the year with Madame President? Compiled by students, the performance features vignettes focused on women’s rise to positions of power and the reaction of society around them. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Reservations are not required, but no one will be seated late. Tickets are $6 for general admission, $3 for other students and seniors and free for TCC students, faculty and staff.

Feb. 24 Understanding Black Leadership: An Overview of the Longstanding Debate over Nationalism versus Integration will be 10:40-11:35 a.m. in the SE Campus library. Jason E. Shelton, UTA sociology professor, will be the presenter. For more information, call the SE library at 817-515-3084.