Black History Month celebration at IPFW

January 19, 2012 Updated Feb 15, 2012 at 2:30 PM EDT

“African-Americans in STEM Related Career Fields”
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Noon-1:15 p.m.
WU 114-116

"Stories from the African American Tradition"
Presenter: Chief Condra Ridley, Storyteler
Tuesday, February 10, 2012
6-8pm
WU 114-116

2012 Black History Month Event
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Noon-1:15 p.m.
WU 114-116

Multicultural Campus Visit Day
Friday, February 17, 2012
8am-1pm
Walb Union

Brother Outside: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Saturday, February 18, 2012
2 p.m.-5 p.m.
ACPL, Downtown Branch, 900 Library Plaza

Omnibus Lecture Series: Michele Norris
"If You Meant It, Then You Should Have Put a Stamp on It"
February 20, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Rhinehart Music Center, Auer Performance Hall

Rhyme and Reason Reunion (Talent Expo) Featured poet: Brandon “Xplicitpoet” Thornton
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
7 p.m.-9 p.m.
WU Ballroom

Redefined 2012: African-American Male Summit
Saturday, February 25
9am-4pm
Walb Student Union Ballroom
Admission free for IPFW students
Call 481-6604

8th Annual Gospel Fest
Sunday, February 26, 2012
6 p.m.-8 p.m.
WU Ballroom
The fest will feature a number of genres in the field of gospel music
and will be multicultural in its expression. The participants are from
diverse organizations, including church and school choirs, family and
community-based singing groups, and college musical groups.

The following groups have confirmed their presence this year:
● Greater Progressive Baptist Church Mass Choir
● Greater Progressive Baptist Church Youth Choir
● Greater Mount Ararat Baptist Church Mass Choir
● Dupree Memorial COGIC Goldenaires Choir
● Live 4:1
● A Cappella Choir, Northfield High School, Wabash
● Anointing Gospel Choir, Indiana Tech, Fort Wayne
● Crazy for Christ (CFC)
● Practice at 5! Christian Band

Gospel Fest is free and open to the public.

Voices From the Motherland: Personal Narratives of Refuge and Migration
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Noon-1:15 p.m.
WU 114-116

Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America (Free Movie)
Allen County Public Library Meeting Room A
900 Library Plaza
6:00pm
Contact Sally Williams, Urban Life Matters at 317-748-6269.