Black History Month

Join us for a cooking demonstration by a local chef from Sun Devil Hospitality to enjoy shrimp and grits.

Come join us to hear a panel answer questions from a moderator and share about their faith background and how that influences the way they live. Please share your learning outcomes, intentions of the event, target audience, etc.: Students will learn more about faith leaders and how their faith influences their lives - hoping to inspire students.

This year, the Black Student Union DPC is partnering with the Multicultural Communities of Excellence to decorate the space at the downtown campus. Come enjoy music and community as we decorate the MCOE space for this year's theme, "You are Black History."

Join Taylor Place CAs for our monthly book club to celebrate the Heritage Months leading up to the end of the semester. February is Black History Month, and we are reading "The Death of Vivek Oji" by Akwaeke Emezi (they/them). The first 13 people to email jwalhof@asu.edu will receive their own copy of the book! But, even if you don't get one of those copies, you are welcome to join with your personal copy or a library copy.

The Baháʼís of Scottsdale are hosting “I, Too, Sing America,” its first Black History Month Film Festival beginning Saturday, February 4. Sponsored by the Public Discourse & Social Action Task Force of the Baháʼís of Scottsdale in partnership with Arizona Faith Network, NAACP-Maricopa County Brand and Project Humanities/ASU, the free festival will feature 13 films over four weekends.
 

The Student Pioneer Award was established to recognize students attending Arizona State University who have demonstrated exemplary leadership, contributions, and service to ASU and the greater Phoenix African American community. To be considered for the Student Pioneer Award, please submit the nomination form by February 17, 2023. Nominations will be reviewed by the ASU West Pioneer Award Committee. Finalists will be recognized at the Pioneer Awards Dinner on Saturday, February 25, 2023, ASU West. For the Nomination Form, please click the "Registration Information" button below.

Brooke Coley, Ph.D. she/her/hers Assistant Professor of Engineering + Director of the Center for RARE JUSTICE Dr. Coley’s research focuses on racial equity, and specifically, the lived experience through the counterstories of Black engineering students elucidating how anti-Blackness is perpetuated and manifests in engineering academic environments to inform macrolevel accountability, faculty development and transformative policy. Dr. Kimberly Scott she/elle/ella Founding Executive Director & Professor, Center for Gender Equity in Science & Technology, School of Social Transformation Trained as a sociologist of education and childhoods, Dr. Scott’s interdisciplinary work examines girls’ of color (African American, Native American, Latina) social and academic development in informal spaces and their technosocial innovations. Vernon Morris, Ph.D. he/him/his Foundation Professor and Director, School of Mathematical & Natural Sciences, New College Dr. Morris’ research focuses on the dynamic influences of the chemistry, physics, and microbiology of airborne particulate in planetary atmospheres on air quality, weather, climate. Mesert Hailu, Ph.D. she/her/her Assistant Professor, Higher and Postsecondary Education Dr. Hailu researches how higher education institutions retain minoritized women in STEM higher education pathways and professions.

The Piper Writers House is excited to host an open mic poetry reading in celebration of Black history Month! We invite you to share your poetry, whether you are a page poet, a slam or performance poet, or maybe aren’t yet comfortable calling yourself a poet at all. Storytelling and spoken word welcome! This event specifically centers Black experiences, joy and resistance and we ask that performances be relevant to these themes. All community members are encouraged to attend, and food and refreshments will be provided. Free and open to all.

Join us as we celebrate Black History Month with a movie night! Come out for movie, friendship and prizes!

From the comfort of your home, join the Labriola National American Indian Data Center to discuss “An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States.” This book shows how intertwined Black and Indigenous history is, how similar our fight for freedom is in navigating our sense of space and place within anti blackness and settler colonialism. Afro-Indigenous Kyle Y. Mays argues that these perils continue to parallel and inform Black and Indigenous activism and that within the negative are bright refracted lights of possibility and solidarity. Melanin Mvskoke, an Afro-Indigenous (Mvskoke Creek) activist says, “Dr. Mays reminds us that both the ‘Indian problem’ and the ‘Negro problem’ are, in fact, a white supremacist problem.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States reflects, “Required reading to comprehend the deep historical relationship between the Indigenous peoples who were transported from Africa into chattel slavery and the Indigenous peoples who were displaced by Auropean settler colonialism to profit from land and resources, two parallel realities in search of self-determination and justice.” The Labriola National American Indian Data Center recognizes February as Black History Month and wants to bring light on books within our collection that strengthen our solidarity and struggles with the Black and African American community. Check out the Black Collections at ASU Library which document the lives of Black Arizonans and works to offer resources, like toolkits and free archival materials, to community members . To see upcoming events for February, check out https://sst.asu.edu/black-history-month for more information.