Please join celebrations throughout the month:

February 8 - 13:  Black Health Week

February 8:  6 PM at BNAACC - Black Taboo: What Are We Afraid Of?

February 9:  4:30 PM at Ike Dining Halls - Themed Dinner: Gumbo Cook-Off

February 10:  11 AM at BNAACC - Food for the Soul: Black Girls Speak: More than Sass or Silence

February 11:  4:30 PM at Illini Union Exhibit Hall - Shades of Style Art Gallery Opening Ceremony

*Art displayed for the duration of February*

February 12:  12 PM at University YMCA - Panel on Local Efforts for Racial Justice

February 13:  3PM at BNAACC - Stress-Free Social

February 14-20:  Central Black Student Union Week

February 17:  12 PM at BNAACC - Food for the Soul: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Exploring Healthy Black Relationships

February 17:  7 PM at Women’s Resource Center - “I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America” Film Screening + Discussion

February 18:  12 PM at La Casa - Lunch @ La Casa: Mirrors of the Heart: Exploring Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Identity

February 18:  4:30 PM at LAR and FAR - Themed Dinner: Super Soul Thursday

February 18:  7 PM at Urbana Free Library - What We Do When We Believe Black Girls

February 19:  12 PM at Allen Hall Main Lounge - A Conversation with Opal Tometi, Co-Founder of the National #BlackLivesMatter Organization

February 20:  2:30 PM at Foellinger Auditorium - CBSU Cotton Club Variety Show

February 24:  12 PM at BNAACC - Food for the Soul: Eating Disorders in African Americans: Debunking the Myths, Changing Attitudes, and Raising Awareness

February 24:  7 PM at University YMCA - Hearing Black Girls’ Truths: Keynote Lecture by Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown

February 25:  12 PM at Illini Union - Courtyard Café - Jazz Café featuring the Lamonte Parsons Experience

February 25:  4:30 PM at ISR and PAR - Themed Dinner: Neo Soul

February 26:  12 PM at University YMCA - Reclaiming OUR Narrative: How History Can Inform Policy, the Change, and the Future

February 28:  3 PM at BNAACC - Fourth Sunday Fellowship

February 29:  2 PM at BNAACC - Cultivating Creative Expression: Black Arts Appreciation Mixer

March 5:   9:30 AM at I-Hotel & Conference Center - 2016 Black and Latino Male Summit

March 5:   4 PM at Illini Union - Courtyard Café - 10 Year Academy of African American Arts Anniversary Concert

For more info, go to http://oiir.illinois.edu/bnaacc.