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- Black History Month will be celebrated at Davidson County Community College in February with a variety of special events — including an appearance by poet and author Carole Boston Weatherford on Feb. 15.
Other events include a lunchtime vocal concert, the showing of videos and documentaries, a “Read-In,” and “Black History Jeopardy.”
Weatherford will speak at DCCC on Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. in Room 106 of the Mendenhall Building to discuss her books “Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins” and “A Negro League Scrapbook.”
She is a visiting professor at Fayetteville State University and a resident of High Point who has written 20 books celebrating family, fading traditions and forgotten struggles.
The author has twice won the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award for her books “Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People,” and for “Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins.”
Another of Weatherford’s books, “The Sound that Jazz Makes,” was a NAACP Image Award finalist and won the Carter G. Woodson Award from National Council for the Social Studies. Her latest book is “The Carolina Parakeet: America’s Lost Parrot in Art and Memory.”
Weatherford’s appearance may inspire would-be writers to enter a Black History Month Essay Contest sponsored by DCCC.
Participants should compose a two-page essay inspired by a black history or culture theme. The winner will receive $75. Essays are due to the DCCC Learning Assistance Center in the Gee Building on Feb. 21.
Winners will be announced Feb. 28.
Other DCCC Black History Month events:
• Students and faculty members will test their knowledge of black history, culture, music, and literature by playing Black History Jeopardy on Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. in the Mendenhall Building, Room 116.
• An African culture presentation will take place Feb. 8 at 11 a.m. in the Reich Building, Room 100. Participants will experience the heritage and richness of the African culture through storytelling, African drumming and dancing, and by viewing collections of art including hand carved African masks and other African accessories.
• Vocalist Tonya Ross will sing at 11 a.m. on Feb. 13 in DCCC’s food service area — known as The Cube — located in the Brooks Student Center. Ross is the lead vocalist of a local rhythm and blues jazz group called “Ebonique.”
• The life and work of Rosa Parks, known as the mother of the civil rights movement, will be examined in a video shown Feb. 16 at 11 a.m. in the Mendenhall Building, Room 116. Dr. Dottie Burkhart, English instructor, will provide opening remarks. The video will be shown again Feb. 21 at 9 a.m. on the Davie Campus and on the Davidson Campus Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. in the Gee Building, Room 143.
• A Spike Lee documentary titled “Four Little Girls: The Church Bombing,” will be shown Feb. 23 at 11 a.m. in the Mendenhall Building, Room 116. The film documents the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that took the lives of four young girls. The event became a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle.
• DCCC’s Black History Month events will conclude Feb. 28 with a “Read-In” at 11 a.m. in Mendenhall 226. Staff and faculty and students will read from literary works that reflect the black experience.
For more information, call DCCC Director of Evening and Weekend Programming Lynn Watts at 249-8186, ext. 6355.
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