{"id":133,"date":"2015-01-30T13:22:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/africana-studies\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-01-30T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T18:22:51","slug":"saint-peters-celebrates-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/2015\/01\/30\/saint-peters-celebrates-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Peter’s Celebrates Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saint Peter’s will host a number of celebrations and remembrances throughout the month of February in honor of Black History Month. On February 2<\/span><\/span>, the community is invited to attend, “Reasonable or Deadly Force: Ferguson Missouri to Staten Island and…” The event will be held in McIntyre Conference Center at11:00 a.m.<\/span><\/span> and features Junius Williams, J.D., director of the Rutgers Abbott Leadership Institute. On February 4<\/span><\/span>, the University will hold a flag raising for the month, which will take place at the flag pole by the bridge at noon<\/span><\/span>. On February 9<\/span><\/span>, students are invited on a first come, first served basis to watch the film Selma<\/em>at the AMC Menlo Dine-In Theatre. Buses and dinner will be provided. A discussion will be led by Amir Billups ’08, history teacher at Central High School in Newark. The event is free to attend unless you do not show-up. Students have the ability to cancel 24 hours in advance. Click here to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On February 11<\/span><\/span>, the community is invited to attend, “The Collateral Consequences of Incarceration: Abolishing THE BOX through Student\/Community Organizing.” The event will be held in the Roy Irving Theatre at 1:00 p.m.<\/span><\/span> “What is Black Literature: African, American or More?” will be held on February 17 at 3:15 p.m.<\/span><\/span> in Pope Lecture Hall and will be led by Professor Fatima Shaik. On February 18<\/span><\/span> an Afro-Caribbean Dance Performance will be held at 6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span> For more information, please contact Professor Alex Trillo atatrillo@saintpeters.edu<\/a>. On February 24<\/span><\/span>, Rev. Marion Franklin will lead a discussion titled, “My Experiences Working with Langston Hughes.” The event will be held in Pope Lecture Hall at 12:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span> For more information about any of these events, please contact Professor David Surrey at\u00a0dsurrey@saintpeters.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saint Peter’s will host a number of celebrations and remembrances throughout the month of February in honor of Black History Month. On February 2, the community is invited to attend, “Reasonable or Deadly Force: Ferguson Missouri to Staten Island and…” The event will be held in McIntyre Conference Center at11:00 a.m. and features Junius Williams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/africana-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}