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.