Feb. 24 NE Campus student activities and Black History committee will sponsor Langston Hughes Project: Ask Your Mama 12:30-2 p.m. in NSTU Center Corner. The multimedia concert is a jazz montage that tells the story of Hughes, a poet, novelist, columnist, playwright and early innovator of the literary art form of jazz poetry. Ron McCurdy and his band from California will provide music. The group has performed nationally.
Feb. 24 As part of Black History Month, NW Campus will host the Langston Hughes Project: A Reflection of Poetry and Jazz. The event is 9-10 a.m. in WSTU 1303. The presentation will examine and illustrate Hughes’ vision of the global struggle for freedom in the early 1960s. For more information, contact Vesta Martinez at 817-515-7795.
Feb. 25 NE Campus student activities and Black History committee will sponsor Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas 12:30-2 p.m. in NSTU Center Corner. Texas Wesleyan Law School associate professor Jason Gillmer, who researched Michelle Obama’s ancestry, will discuss the lifestyle of a family of free blacks in pre-Civil War Texas. Refreshments will be available.
Feb. 25 The South Campus Black History Month Closing Ceremony will include a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and “Litany for Libations,” a time to remember ancestors and call on them for strength. The ceremony will take place 1-2:30 p.m. in SSTU Living Room.
Feb. 25 The South Campus music department’s Festival in Celebration of African Heritage Month will feature both vocal and instrumental music from students and faculty 7:30 p.m. in Recital Hall on South Campus. Admission is free. A reception will follow the performance.
March 2 South Campus will host Negro Spirituals and Compositions by African-American Composers, a faculty and guest recital, 7:30 p.m. in Recital Hall. The performance will feature Angela Cofer, opera singer and Southwestern Theological Seminary voice professor, and Oscar Dressler, pianist and South Campus music professor. Admission is free. A reception will follow the performance.