African-American Heritage Month celebration continues
February 17, 2019
There will be five events on campus this week that honor African-American Heritage Month.
On Monday the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs will host the “Evolution of the Black Woman” at 7 p.m. Monday in the Coleman Hall Auditorium.
Also on Monday Gaines Foster, a history professor from Louisiana State University, will give a presentation titled, “Still Fighting the Civil War? How to put Contemporary Controversies in Historical Context.” The presentation will be at 7 p.m. Monday in the Doudna Lecture Hall.
On Tuesday the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. will host “Natural Curlz 101,” a presentation at 6:20 p.m. in the Coleman Hall Auditorium.
On Wednesday the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. will host a presentation called “Black Women Who Made America” at 6:06 p.m. in the 7th Street Underground of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.
The week ends with the Ms. Black EIU pageant at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Grand Ballroom of the Union.
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