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Celebrating Black History

by Black Issues , February 12, 2004

•  Virginia Tech, blacksburg, va.
Forum: "Segregation: Does the Struggle
Continue?"
Lecture: "Desegregation: An Analysis of Selected Litigation 1954-2002" featuring Lynn T. Brown; "Celebrating 50 years of Brown v. the Board of Education in Virginia," featuring Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, Virginia's Secretary of Education and former president of NOVA and Central Virginia Community College.

•  Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
Lecture: Richard Stratton, co-writer/producer of SLAM and co-founder of High Times discusses the complexities of the drug war; Professor Robert Hill, "The Remains of the Name: The Origins of the Harlem Renaissance in the Discourse of Egyptology."

•  Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Dinner: Annual Black History Month Dinner with Poet, Nikki Giovanni.
Discussion: Dessert, Film and Discussion with filmmaker, St. Claire Bourne — "A Great and Mighty Walk: The Life of John Henrik Clarke."
Lecture: "Fighting Hate Across Cultures and Generations," discussed by a Rwandan woman and Jewish man.
Performance: Cultural Caravan, annual performance for elementary school children in New Haven.
Play: "For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf." n



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