Black History Month 2024

On Campus:

2/22 12:30 - 1:30 pm Saudia Durrant will be February's THRIVE Thursday guest speaker! Stokes 106. RSVP here for lunch.

2/8 Black Students’ League (BSL) Black History Month Movie Night (music theme)

2/15 Distinguished Visitors Talk by Eyo Ewara, Assistant Professor of Philosophy from 4:15 to 6:30 pm in Gest Center 101.

"Racism and Repetition:  Identity, Continuity, and 'Working Through the Past'"

Philosophers have often been concerned with questions of identity: What makes something the same over time? At what point has something changed so much that it is now completely new? In this talk I put these philosophical concerns in conversation with contemporary debates around structural racism and history. While some thinkers have argued that American racism is best understood as continuous despite historical changes in its forms and functions, others have argued that it is best to think in terms of substantially different, though related, racisms. I draw on the work of Gilles Deleuze to argue that we can helpfully interpret these conflicts through the idea that racism repeats. Reading racism as repeating can help shift how we understand what racism is, how we see it working across time, and the stakes of trying to “work through” a racist past.

2/14 12 - 3 pm: Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon! 

Join the Libraries for cake and transcription! All are welcome to stop in at any time or stay for the fully program as we celebrate Frederick Douglass with a transcribe-a-thon featuring his correspondence from the Library of Congress. No prior experience or knowledge is needed! Lutnick 232

2/15 BSL Black History Month Movie Night (romcom theme)

2/22 BSL Black History Month Movie Night (comedy theme)

2/29 BSL Black History Month Movie Night (sports theme)

Enter the book raffle by 2/29

Office of Service is Collecting Diapers for the Oshun Family Center all throughout February and March. You can find the donation bin outside the OAR in Stokes Lobby.

Oshun Family Center provides racially concordant care to members of the Black community who are seeking to achieve optimal wellness through psychotherapy and holistic healing and birthing modalities such as doula and lactation support. It is our goal to center the experiences of Black people and create a welcoming space for healing and refuge. We welcome those looking to break generational cycles and have agency over their bodies.

Things to do off campus :

All month long, student tickets to Visit The African American Museum in Philadelphia are only $10

2/9 Black History Month Celebration at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on 2/9 5 - 8:45 pm (pay what you wish)

Support Black-owned businesses like a Black-owned Bookstores - Harriett's Bookshop and Uncle Bobbie's

2/17 Attend the Inclusive Leadership Conference

2/24 Black History Month Quaker Zoom Event: The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum 1 - 3 pm RSVP here

The BlackQuaker Project and Swarthmore College’s Department of Peace and Conflict Studies present “The Bayard Rustin Legacy Forum,” a virtual symposium sponsored by the American American Friends Service Committee, hosted by Dr. Harold D. Weaver Jr., and moderated by Palestinian-American Quaker scholar-activist Dr. Sa’ed Atshan. They will be joined by Haverford College Africana and Religious Studies scholar, Dr. terrence wiley, and Friends Council on National Legislation administrator, Laura Brownlee, for a series of presentations on the remarkable legacy of Friend Rustin, followed by an audience Q & A. Our distinguished panel will engage with the 2023 biopic Rustin, which we recommend viewing prior to this one-time event.
 

2/24 Building upon the Power of Student Voices and Ideas
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: University of Penn's GSE Building 3700 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Registration Link

2/26 Adultification Bias of Black and Brown Children from 6:00pm-7:30pm Virtual Registration Link

Check out this list of things to do in Philly!

Request a one-time septa pass from Student Engagement for civic and cultural events.