Celebrating Black History Month
Benedict College (S.C.)
18th Annual Harambee Festival
Berklee College of Music (Mass.)
Performance/Discussion: “Black Music Matters” — Grammy Award-winning musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock, scholar Dr. Cornel West and the Berklee student gospel ensemble Overjoyed combine to weave a performance and lecture on the history and current landscape of Black music
Bryant University (R.I.)
Lecture: President’s Cultural Series — musician Ellis Hall
Clark University (Mass.)
Performance: Storyteller Onawumi Jean Moss tells stories of African folklore
Presentation: “99 Questions” — Mark Cryer uses multimedia to answer “all the questions you’ve wanted to ask African-Americans but were too afraid to ask”
College of DuPage (Ill.)
Lecture: Garrard McClendon, author of The African-American Guide to Better English: An African-American Survival Manual for Speaking and Writing
College of William & Mary (Va.)
Black History Month Trivia Quiz