![]() The annual All Black Gala has been an affirmative and joyous in-person affair in the past. She’ll bring revealing and uplifting lyricism to this afternoon concert: “Sell your soul to be the flyest?/ What’s the use?/ I don’t undress like burlesque/ I just spit that naked truth.” MADlines (aka Maddy Cliff) is a musician, poet, writer, feminist, activist, rapper and teacher currently based in Oakland. The Otter Student Union isn’t letting the pandemic stop folks from gathering around music. This year’s honorees include Ben Jealous (former president and CEO of the national NAACP), Fred Jealous, Ann Jealous, Darchelle Burnett, Rhonda Mercadal Evans, and Dr. Ferretti, a first-generation American Latina/Mestiza artist and Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Maryland Institute College of Art.ĬSUMB / NAACP Black History Month ProgramĪn annual tradition (this year virtual) in which the campus hosts the NAACP Monterey County Chapter for their Black History Month meeting and program. The newly formed Center for Black Student Success presents Eesuu Orundide, an artist who works in painting, sculpture, apparel and other materials to “draw attention to the social imbalances inherent to the contemporary world socio-economic construct.”įor more than 10 years, the CSUs have partnered with faith-based leaders in February to deliver to young people the message of a college education in an effort to boost African American enrollment.įighting White Supremacy through Building BIPOC CoalitionsĪ workshop co-facilitated by Sofia Leung, a first-generation Chinese American librarian, facilitator, educator and the principal of Do Better, Be Better LLC and Jennifer A. 7 to May 2-for a free virtual tour of local historically Black churches. Join CSUMB community members-every Sunday from Feb. Spring 2021 Historically Black Virtual Church TourĬhurch has been at or near the center of many Black communities for solace and organizing, fellowship and support, music and food, tradition and culture. The Center for Black Student Success invites you to his sustainable soul food cooking workshop. That’s where he creates programming around food, farming, health, activism, art, culture and the African diaspora. James Beard Award-winner Bryant Terry has been the chef-in-residence at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora since 2015. 3 she will give the keynote and Q&A about educational justice inspired by abolitionists. She’s a professor at the University of Georgia and author of the book We Want to Do More Than Just Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Bettina Love was a Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at Harvard, and was part of President Obama’s White House Research Conference on Girls. The free community event is moderated by associate professor and chair of CSUMB’s Health, Human Services and Policy, Dr. Understanding the struggle reveals everything.”ĬSUMB joins in this endeavor by hosting Black History Month events, most open to everyone, many of them listed here.ĬOVID-19 & Monterey County’s Black CommunityĪ panel-from Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey County Health Department and Monterey City Council-talks about the intersection of the disease in Monterey County’s Black community. If you understand the struggle then you understand the energy that has been unleashed in the wake of the George Floyd murder. “If you understand the struggle then you understand why there is natural suspicion in the Black community over vaccinations. “If you understand the struggle then you would know why Black lives matter,” he said. He calls the 400-year history of Black people in America a struggle of courage, sacrifice and resilience. Black History Month is an important vehicle to understand it.” Americans need to understand all of the histories that make up our American story. “The uproar over the 1619 Project is from this ethnocentric mindset that only a particular version of history matters,” he said. ![]() History is not only alive and present, it is contentious and progressing.īrian Corpening, CSUMB’s associate vice president for Inclusive Excellence and chief diversity officer, finds more evidence to support that observation. The campaign to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill moves forward as Kamala Harris becomes the first Black woman to be vice president of the United States. An insurrectionist bears the Confederate flag through the halls of the Capitol building, though statues and monuments of people who upheld slavery are being removed from public spaces. A woman whose father was part of the secret Tuskegee Syphilis Study encourages Black Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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