Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, in Montgomery, Alabama, is designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor of the church from 1954 to 1960, and helped organize the renowned 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycotts from his basement office.

Apollo Theater

Since its beginning in 1914, the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, has been at the epicenter of African-American culture and a driving force in shaping America’s music landscape.

The Oaks at Tuskegee University

Tuskegee University in Alabama was part of the expansion of education for blacks in the South following the Civil War. A historically black college, it opened in 1881, with 30 students and one teacher, Booker T. Washington (whose home, The Oaks, is shown here). Also on the campus is the original laboratory of the renowned African-American scientist George Washington Carver.

Little Rock Central High School

Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States. In 1957 the persistence of nine African-American students to attend the all-white high school was the first important test of the implementation of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

Jackson Homestead

The Jackson Homestead in Newton, Massachusetts, was built in 1809 and served as a station on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.

Sojourner Truth

The sculpture “Sojourner Truth” by Manuelita Brown is sited at Thurgood Marshall College on the UC San Diego campus. The artist wanted to capture the suffragist and abolitionist as “a drum major for social justice, equity and voting rights.”

Illustrated here are details from significant places in African American history. Hover over the locations for additional information.

Schedule of Events

FEB
Everyday


Afro-Centricities: Dreams of Blended Black Cultures

Mon - Thurs: 9am - 9pm, Fri: 9am - 4pm, Jan 6 – Feb 8 / Cross-Cultural Center / Price Center East Cross-Cultural Center • FREE

Come to the Cross-Cultural Center for our exhibition of the work of local artist Anya Hall-Flores. January 6 to February 8 (Reception February 5)

FEB
Everyday


Jimmy Cheatham: Jazz Leader

February / UC San Diego Library / UC San Diego Geisel Library • FREE

Composer/performer/educator Jimmy Cheatham (1924-2007) brought a strong jazz presence to our city when he came to UC San Diego to lead the jazz program. An exhibit at Geisel Library outlines his work and features his spectacular trombone.Composer/performer/educator Jimmy Cheatham (1924–2007) brought a strong jazz presence to our city when he came to UC San Diego to lead the jazz program. An exhibit at Geisel Library outlines his work and features his spectacular trombone. Click here for more info.

FEB
5-29


"The Black History Month Tribute to Sports" Exhibit

February 5 – 29 • Mon - Fri 8am - 6pm / African and African-American Studies Research Center RIMAC Arena, Ground floor • FREE

This exhibit covers over a half-century of African and African American Athletes, including photographs, memorabilia, and instructional signage. Click here for more info.

Sun
Jan 17


Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade & Day of Service

7am – 4pm / Center for Student Involvement, Volunteer 50, Associated Students, Circle K International at UCSD, Black Student Resource Center, & Raza Resource Centro / Father Joe's Village • FREE

Join the UC San Diego community for a day of service prior to marching in the MLK Jr. Parade downtown. Click here for more info.

Sat
Jan 23


Beyond La Jolla: The History and Hair Story: 400 Years Without A Comb

9am – 3pm / Cross-Cultural Center / Escondido • Free ($5 deposit returned on the day of the event)

An excursion to view an art exhibit about the history of African American hair at California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Buses leave at 10am from outside the Raza Resource Centro. Light refreshments provided. Click here to reserve a spot.

Fri
Jan 29


Higher Learning

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

The college campus in John Singleton's 1995 film is a racial and ideological war zone, where students rarely talk to other students who are more or less just like themselves.

Mon
Feb 1


"block party"

11am - 2pm / UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, Ethnic Studies Department 25th Anniversary Committee, Literature Department, History Department, The Library, Cross Cultural Center, Black Resource Center, the Black Studies Minor, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion / Library Walk • FREE

Join the BSU for the Black History Month kick off "block party". Various Organizations tables, performances, and give-a-ways. Click here for more info.

Wed
Feb 3


Our Contributions, Our History, African Americans in the Military

Program: 11:30am – 1:00pm, Lunch 11:00am - 2:00pm / Housing*Dining *Hospitality/ Cafe Ventanas, Eleanor Roosevelt College • No charge for admission. Lunch is available for purchase.

Come and experience the 19th Annual Black History Luncheon at Cafe Ventanas, Eleanor Roosevelt College. Click here for more info.

Wed
Feb 3


Panel Discussion: Political Imprisonment, the Prison Industrial Complex and Radical Resistance with Sekou Odinga & Dr. Johanna Fernandez

5 - 7pm / African American Studies Minor, Ethnic Studies, Literature, Critical Gender Studies, Black Student Union, Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion/ Price Center Theater • Free

Panel discussion on the subject of political imprisonment, the prison industrial complex, radical resistance and solidarity. Recently released Black political prisoner, Sekou Abdullah Odinga and Dr. Johanna Fernández, Professor in the Department of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College in New York City will serve on the panel discussion. Panel will be moderated by Dr. Dennis R. Childs. Click here for more info.

Thu
Feb 4


What Happened, Miss Simone?

Food 7pm, Movie 8pm / ArtPower, ArcLight Cinemas; Co-sponsor: African and African-American Studies Research Center and African-American Studies Minor / The Loft UC San Diego • Regular: $34 Food + Movie, $10 Movie; Student: $29 Food + Movie, FREE Movie

This film about iconic performer Nina Simone covers her life, personal struggles, and contributions to civil rights. Pre-screening ArtTalk with UC San Diego professors David Borgo (music), Zeinabu Davis (communications, and Jillian Hernandez (ethnic studies). Click here for more info.

Thu
Feb 4


African-American Athlete Activism: From the 1968 Revolt to the Present

3:30 – 4:50pm / African and African-American Studies Research Center / Social Science Building #101 • FREE

Based on original original research and oral histories, Professor Douglas Hartmann's (University of Minnesota) lecture places the 1968 Olympic Black Power Protest into the context of ongoing African-American athlete activism. Click here for more info.

Fri
Feb 5


Afro-Centricities: Dreams of Blended Black Cultures

Reception 5:30 - 7:30pm / Cross-Cultural Center / Price Center East, Cross-Cultural Center • FREE

Come to the Cross-Cultural Center for our reception celebrating the work of local artist Anya Hall-Flores.

Fri
Feb 5


"The Black History Month Tribute to Sports" Opening Reception

3:30 – 6pm / African and African-American Studies Research Center / RIMAC Arena • FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This exhibit covers iconic figures and key moments in the lives and careers of African and African-American sports figures and their larger social impact. Click here for more info.

Thu
Feb 11


Creating Spaces: Women's Football in Africa and the Indian Ocean

3:30 – 4:50pm / African and African-American Studies Research Center / Social Science Building #101 • FREE

This lecture situates women’s football within the African and Indian Ocean region to interrogate its political, economic, and cultural meanings, relating competitiveness and development to local circumstances impacting women’s conditions. Click here for more info.

Fri
Feb 12


61st Annual Black & White Ball

6pm – 12am / Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. San Diego Alumni Chapter / Doubletree by Hilton - Mission Valley • 7450 Hazard Center Dr. San Diego CA. 92108 • $85.00 per person

This formal BLACK TIE event is held each Fall and serves as the premier San Diego social event for our chapter. The Black and White Ball is an invitation only rendezvous of Kappa Brothers along with our Silhouettes, Sweethearts, closest friends and generous supporters of the Kappa Alpha Psi mission. Click here for more info.

Fri
Feb 12


Dope

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

Writer-director Rick Famuyiwa 2015 film uses Webster’s take on its title, “Dope” defining it as slang for a stupid person, drugs and something that’s cool. To “Dope’s" credit, it presents us with credible examples of all three.

Tue
Feb 16


12 Years a Slave

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

Steve McQueen's 2013 film 12 Years a Slave begans in the antebellum United States. Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Tue
Feb 16


Historical Context of Racial Health Disparities; Speaker-Dr. Rodney Hood

6 – 8pm / Student National Medical Association (SNMA) and School of Medicine Office of Diversity / Liebow Auditorium in Biomedical Sciences Building, UC San Diego School of Medicine • FREE

Dr. Hood is a national authority on health disparities, medical history, and racism in medical care. Food will be provided. Please rsvp here

Tue
Feb 16


The Journey to Justice: "Achieving Judicial Diversity in San Diego"

6 – 9pm / Thurgood Marshall College, African and African-American Studies Research Center, UCSD Political Science / The Hojel Auditorium at the Institute of the Americas, UC San Diego • FREE

This event honoring the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall includes a moderated discussion featuring local African-American judges on the topic of achieving judicial diversity in San Diego. Click here for more info.

Thu
Feb 18


Annual Presidents' Day Forum

12 - 1:30 pm / Black Staff Association / Cross-Cultural Center • FREE

We invite you to join us Join us for an interactive discussion featuring diverse political perspectives on the U.S. Presidency with UC San Diego faculty, community leaders, and elected officials

Thu
Feb 18


Afro-Caribbean Dance and Drumming Workshop with Gene Perry

3:30 – 4:50pm / African and African-American Studies Research Center / Social Science Building #101 • FREE

African Hip-Hop and athletic and acrobatic dancing with special rhythms presented by percussionist extraordinaire Gene Perry and student performers, including audience participation. Click here for more info.

Thu
Feb 18


F-Word Film Screening: Girlhood

5 – 7pm / Women's Center / UC San Diego Women's Center • FREE

Join us for a screening of Girlhood, a film that follows a young girl in Paris navigating growing up, sexism, and independence. Free food. Dialogue to follow film.

Thu
Feb 18


Chi-Raq ( Panel Discussion )

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

Spike Lee 2015 film is setting his retelling of Lysistrata, the Aristophanes ancient play in a modern-day Chicago.

Fri
Feb 19


Harlem Quartet

8pm / Jon and Bobbie Gilbert, UC San Diego Partner; Black Resource Center; The Preuss School, UCSD / Department of Music's Conrad Prebys Concert Hall • Regular: $36–$54 UCSD Student: $12

The Harlem Quartet preforms Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4; Buena Vista Social Club Medley, Jazz Standards; Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2. Pre-performance ArtTalk at The Loft at 7 pm. Click here for more info.

Mon
Feb 22


Meet the National Pan-Hellenic Council Greeks

6:30pm / UC San Diego Black Resource Center / Price Center Theater • FREE

Meet the Greeks will consist of introducing local and national chapters of the NPH. Click here for more info.

Tue
Feb 23


Sixth College Presents - Let it Flow: The Art of Black Love

7 – 9:30pm / Sixth College Student Affairs and Residential Life / PC West Ballrooms A & B • FREE

Celebrate Black History Month in perhaps the deepest and most intimate way possible - through a night of spoken word. Come experience an evening of incredible insights, beautiful truths, and musical wordplay, all over a delicious catered soul food dinner.

Tue
Feb 23


What Happened, Miss Simone?

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

A Liz Garbus 2015 documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."

Fri
Feb 26


Black History Month's Night with Athletics

5 – 7pm / Black Resource Center / The Green Room in RIMAC Arena • Free for students, complimentary tickets for faculty & staff who RSVP to GoTritons@ucsd.edu by 2/23/16

Join us in the Green Room for food and fun, and then cheer on our Triton Basketball Team as we take on San Francisco State at RIMAC Arena!

Fri
Feb 26


Herskovits Documentary At the Heart of Blackness – ( Panel Discussion )

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm / University Centers / Price Center Theater • FREE

A 2009 Documentary in which the question is asked Who has the right to define a culture? When a white, Jewish intellectual named Melville Herskovits asserted in the 1940s that black culture was not pathological, but in fact grounded in deep African roots, he gave vital support to the civil rights movement and signaled the rise of identity politics. But what does it mean that his subjects had little or no say in the academic discourse about them?

Sat
Feb 27


14th Annual Black History Month Scholarship Brunch

10am Doors and Silent Auction, 10:30am – 1pm / UC San Diego Black History Month Planning Committee / PC West Ballroom • $5 UCSD Student* with ID, $50 Non-UCSD Student, $65 UCSD Staff/Faculty/Alumni, $70 General Admission, $75 Day of event

Please join us for the 14th Annual Black History Month Scholarship Brunch. Keynote Speaker: Danny Glover; Actor, Producer and Humanitarian with a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for over 30 years. Click here for ticket registration.

For a list of Silent Auction donors click here

Wed
Mar 2


2016 Imminent Questions Speaker: Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad

3 – 5pm / UC San Diego Center for the Humanities, Ethnic Studies Department 25th Anniversary Committee, Literature Department, History Department, The Library, Cross-Cultural Center, Black Resource Center, the Black Studies Minor, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. / Price Center Ballroom East • FREE RSVP

Dr. Muhammad is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, published by Harvard University Press. The Condemnation of Blackness won the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, which is awarded annually to the best published book in American studies. The book is notable for its lengthy discussion of the role of the social sciences – and of black and white social scientists – in shaping and sanctifying racial “data,” with terrible consequences for African Americans. Click here for more info.

Thu
Mar 3


Noura Mint Seymali Concert

8pm / ArtPower!; Co-Sponsors: UCSD Women's Center, African and African-American Studies Research Center / UC San Diego Price Center East Ballroom • Regular: $30; Student: $12

Mauritanian musician Noura Mint Seymali, an African griotte trained by her grandmother, will perform traditional and contemporary music of the Sahel, followed by a Q and A. Click here for more info.

Thu
Mar 3


21st Annual Diversity Awards Program

2 – 3:30pm / Equal Opportunity/Staff Affirmative Action / Price Center Ballrooms West • FREE

This event will honor those that have made outstanding contributions to equal opportunity, affirmative action and diversity at UC San Diego Click here for more info.

Thu
Mar 4


Hallowed Ground: The Douglas Hotel and the Creole Palace, San Diego, 1924 - 1984

12 – 1pm / UC San Diego Library, Black History Month Committee / Seuss Room, Geisel Library • FREE

This event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Hosted by the UC San Diego Library and Black History Month Committee Join us for a lecture and film screening with Michael Austin, an adjunct professor in Black Studies at San Diego City College. He a historian who is passionate about local history and has done extensive work on African American Heritage in San Diego and the Douglas Hotel in particular. The Douglas Hotel, known as the “Harlem of the West,” included the Creole Palace nightclub where black stage and screen stars performed. During the era of segregation, the Douglas Hotel was the only major downtown hotel in San Diego to provide services to black visitors. Click here for more info.

Sponsors
Office of the Chancellor • Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor • Office of the Vice Chancellor-Student Affairs • Office of the Vice Chancellor-Equity, Diversity and Inclusion • San Diego Foundation • Vice Chancellor-Chief Financial Officer • Vice Chancellor-Resource Management and Planning • Council of Provosts • Division of Social Sciences; Graduate Division • Housing Dining and Hospitality • Creative Services and Publications • Financial Aid Office • Cross-Cultural Center • Associated Students • Department of Education Studies • UJIMA Network • Black Staff Association • University Centers • John Duca • University Development • Parking and Transportation Services • San Diego Foundation

Special Thanks to
Creative Services and Publications and A.S. Graphic Studio

Very Special Thanks to
All of the people who worked together to make all of this happen: 2016 Black History Month Planning Committee Members: Pamela Frugé • Marcia Strong • Maddy Agamata • Mya Hines • Terece Moret • Beverly Ward • Edwina Welch • Davyda Johnson • Linda Doughty • Tammy Blevins • Stacia Solomon • Bennetta Jules-Rosette • Heather McMaster • Davell Jackson • Tamika Franklin