Events

Thursday Feb 6, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Rockwell Hall Room 106 Masterclass on Spirituals with Dr. Alexis Davis Hazell from the University of Alabama and BUS’s Music Department students and faculty

Tuesday February 11, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Tech 160 Historical Figures in African American History. Celebrate the groundbreaking achievements of African American trailblazers who have shaped our society.

Tuesday February 11, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m Bulger 422 Blacks & Policing Know Your Rights! Featuring Attorney John Elmore 

Wednesday, FEB. 12,  5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Union Assembly Hall Black Alumni Speak to Today's Students. Featuring, Doc Thomas, Woody Brandy, and Marsha Jackson 

Thursday February 13, 12:15p.m. - 1:30p.m. Bulger 422 Should Africana Studies be an Activist Program? Featuring Professors Naila Catilo, John Torrey, Holly Quicksey, Marcus Watson, Barish Ali, Erin Habes, and Shantell Reid. 
 

Thursday Feb 20, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Tech 160 Bengal Success welcomes guest speaker Tommie E. Blunt. He is former President of NAACP Chapters in Boston and Syracuse. 

Thursday, February 20 7:00 p.m. Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Tower Auditorium Film: Daughters (2024) Panel discussion following the film. Beyond Boundaries presents Sundance award winning film Daughters (2024) Four girls prepare to reunite with their fathers through a special dance at a DC jail in this moving documentary about the healing power of love.

Thursday Feb 27, 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.  Rockwell Hall Room 106 BA Forum with Nicole Mitchell, an American Opera Singer from the MET Opera, a BSU alumna from Music Department https://youtu.be/I8F3jZ8Bh5A?si=0SikOo2qPpY0CHEu

All month Physical and digital display of books related to Black History Month, E. H. Butler Library. LibGuide and digital collection.

Wednesday, Feb. 26, 4:30-6pm, Upton 230. Film screening & discussion: The Lavender Scare. Description: “the first documentary film to tell the little-known story of an unrelenting campaign by the federal government to identify and fire all employees suspected of being homosexual.” Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Interdisciplinary Minor and E. H. Butler Library.

Bengal Success- A series of workshops to support personal and academic growth. 

Location: Tech 160

Time: 12:15-1:30

 Meeting Dates: 

• February 6
• February 20
• March 6
• March 20
• April 3 
• April 17

Social Justice Book Club- The Social Justice Book Club provides a space for Buffalo State University community members to have meaningful conversations about challenging topics. Join the club in Spring 2025 as we read essays from Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex Writers.

Location: Bacon 223 

Time: 12:15-1:30

Meeting Dates:

• February 11 
• February 20 
• March 6  
• March 20
• April 10
• April 24

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/LkEmscigRt

Visit: https://library.buffalostate.edu/sjbookclub for more information.

Beyond Boundaries: The Beyond Boundaries Screening & Discussion Series is an annual, six-part film series organized around categories of diversity including, but not limited to race, gender, class, sexuality, and abilities, with an emphasis on intersectionality.  

Location: Burchfield Penney Art Center’s Tower Auditorium

Time: 7:00 p.m. 

Dates:

• February 20 Movie: Daughters (2024)
• March 6 Movie: Power of the Dream (2024)
• April 17 Movie: Every Body (2023)      

Visit: https://communication.buffalostate.edu/beyond-boundaries for more information