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The Road to Freedom, Tuesday, January 20, 2009.

Key Arts Productions will be presenting a production commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders. This free performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Norman James Theatre. This event is being co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Student Government Diversity Committee, and the Black Studies Program.

Book Club Meeting, Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

The Black Studies Program and Office of Multicultural Affairs will be co-sponsoring their first book club meeting of the year. Please join us in the CAC Commons Room (1st floor) from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. to discuss On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker by A'Lelia Bundles.

Book Club Meeting, Wednesday, February 18, 2009.

The Black Studies Program and Office of Multicultural Affairs invite you to their second book club meeting. Please joing us in the CAC Commons Room from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. to discuss A Mercy, Toni Morrison's new novel.

Book Club Meeting, Wednesday, March 18, 2009.

Please join the members of the Blacks Studies/Office of Multicultural Affairs Book Club for a lively discussion of Midaq Alley, by Naguib Mahfouz. We will be meeting in the CAC Commons Room from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Book Club Meeting, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

The Black Studies and Office of Multicultural Affairs will be co-sponsoring their final book club meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year. Please join us at 7:30 p.m. to discuss The Color of Water, by James McBride, and to select our reading list for the 2009-2010 year. Location TBA.

Roundtable Discussion on Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois

Tutor Thomas May, St. John's College, and Dr. Alisha Knight, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Washington College, moderated an open discussion about Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Address" and Du Bois's critique of Washington in "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" on April 10, 2007. This forum was co-sponsored by the Black Studies Program, the Department of Philosophy, the Philosophy Club, as well as Campus Events and the William James Forum.

WC Black Studies Trivia Contest

The Black Studies Program invited students to test their knowledge of black history directly related to the College. All contestants received a limited-edition Black Studies Program t-shirt. Congratulations to Emily Richardson for winning first prize!

Robert Earl Price's "Blue Monk"

Robert Earl Price, playwright in residence at 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta, performed poetry and a selection from his play about jazz pianist Thelonious Monk on February 13, 2007. Mr. Price was accompanied by the Washington College Jazz Combo, under the direction of Prof. Ken Schweitzer.

Reginald F. Lewis Museum Tour

The Black Studies Program sponsored a day trip to the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture on February 3, 2007.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration

Leon Williams, Director of Intercultural Programs, Buena Vista University, Iowa, performed "SHATTERED DREAMS," WHAT WOULD DR. KING SAY TODAY, on January 30, 2007, as part of the Washington College Martin Luther King Day Celebration.

WC Gospel Choir Annual Christmas Concert

Washington College's Gospel Choir presented its annual Christmas concert, "A Savior is Born," on December 2, 2006.

Rose O'Neill Tea and Talk Series Examined Radical Revisioning in African American Literature

Dr. Alisha Knight, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, presented a paper, "Famous Women of the Negro Race and Pauline Hopkins's (En)Gendered Gospel of Success," on November 15, 2006.

Sophie Kerr / C.V. Star Center Lecture on Poetry and the Abolition of Slavery

Dr. James Basker, Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History, Barnard College, gave a lecture, "Why Literature Matters: Poets and the Abolition of Slavery," on October 9, 2006.

Sophie Kerr Lecture on Tupac Shakur

Dr. James Peterson, Pennsylvania State University, delivered his lecture, "Flashing Forward: Tupac Shakur and the Prolepsis of Popular History," on September 20, 2006.