African-American Heritage Month celebration continues

Staff Report

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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