Upcoming Events
Events | 2011-12
Welcome to the Events page for the Office of Educational Opportunity Initiatives. Please check back in regularly to see event dates and times for our College and Pre-College programs!
For more information call the office at (810) 762-3365 or visit suite 280 UCEN.
Upcoming Events
“Black Women in American Culture and History”
African American Heritage Month 2012
University of Michigan-Flint
From the American Revolution to the present, African American women have played a myriad of critical roles in the making of our nation. Their labor and leadership, their motherhood and patriotism, and their intellect and artistic expression have enriched both the African American community and the nation at large. In slavery and freedom, their struggles have been at the heart of the human experience, and their triumphs over racism and sexism are a testimonial to our common human spirit.
Events & Activities
Happy to Be Nappy: A Hair Story!
Wednesday, February 8th
6:00 p.m.
Alvin A. Loving Cultural Center
From Don Imus’ utterance of “those words” that stunned us in his description of the Rutgers women’s basketball team to Chris Rock’s critical analysis of “good hair”, women of color have debated the merits of natural hair. Whether you’re natural, relaxed, weaved or wigged, this interactive presentation and discussion furthers the dialogue of hair as a dimension of identity for all women. Refreshments provided.
Safe Love Lasts Forever!
Celebrate National Black AIDS Day and National Condom Week
Tuesday, February 14th
Black women are contracting HIV and AIDS at a higher rate than any other group. Love your life, protect yourself and get tested!
Wellness AIDS Services Table
10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
3rd floor UCEN
Stop by the Wellness AIDS Services table and pick-up free, safe sex information and supplies, and sign up for HIV testing!
Love Yourself Condom and Pizza Party!
2:00-4:30 p.m.
Alvin A. Loving Cultural Center
Join in the fun and win prizes learning how to protect yourself!
Black Women and the Civil War
Wednesday, February 15th
6:00 p.m.
Ontario Room
Award winning filmmaker Rodney Brown presents the compelling history of African American women and their significance in and to the Civil War. Black women, who could not formally join the Army, nonetheless served as nurses, spies, and scouts including Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth who lived in Battle Creek, Michigan. Brown tells why it is important for African Americans to study the civil war and the story of the quest for freedom through the eyes of revolutionary black women. Refreshments provided.
Sweet Honey In The Rock Performance
Friday, February 17th
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor
Bus will depart University Center at 4:00 p.m.
Sweet Honey In The Rock focuses on music that challenges, inspires, teaches, encourages, and empowers audiences from all walks of life to become interested and involved in issues that are central to their lives. For over three decades, Sweet Honey In The Rock has celebrated our collective humanity, singing about the challenging issues of racism; social, economic, and environmental injustice; equal rights; and the greed that seems to be pulling our nation apart. Space is limited. Call Diversity Education Services to reserve your seat today! Open to UM-Flint students, faculty and staff only.
Rising: A Staged Reading
Thursday, February 23rd
7:00 p.m.
Kiva
Written by Carolyn Nur Wistrand of the Africana Studies department, RISING tells the story of American men and women, Black and White, discovering the costs of freedom. On the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, Helen Bruce, a free African American schoolteacher from Baltimore, begins teaching a night class for slave women on an island in South Carolina recently liberated by the Union Army. As they learn to read and write, the women struggle with what it might be like to be free in a re-imagined America. Winner of the 2011 International Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Playwriting Award, Castillo Theatre, New York City. Refreshments provided.
African American Heritage Month is sponsored by the Office of Educational Opportunity Initiatives Diversity Education Services with generous support from the Office of the Chancellor. For more information, contact us at (810) 762-3169.
Student Leadership Conference | March 22, 2012
The 2012 Student Leadership Conference will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2012. more information will be forthcoming. Pre-Registration is open until January 2012.
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