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BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS AT CWE
Start: 02/09/08
End: 02/09/08
NEW YORK, February 9, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE) and The Langston Hughes Festival , have organized a series of events at CWE in honor of Black History Month, beginning February 15.
“CWE, Finley Student Center a.k.a. Student Life and Leadership and The Langston Hughes Festival are happy to sponsor three events for Black History Month at The City College of New York,” said Gordon Thompson, Director, Langston Hughes Festival at the City College of New. “The highest profiled event is a celebration of the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade as reflected in a talk by Sylviane Diouf, author, historian, and Schomburg Library Scholar. Her talk on Thursday, Feb. 21th is on the last Africans to arrive in American before the slave trade was officially outlawed.”
The Center, located at 25 Broadway, will be honoring this historically celebrated time with an exciting line-up of films, speakers, and surprise events. All events, held in the CWE auditorium, are free and open to the public.
February 15, 22, 29: The first screening of three parts of Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke (2006),” an examination of the U.S. government's role and its response to Hurricane Katrina. 5 p.m.
February 21: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Dr. Sylviane Anna Diouf to present a lecture on "The Slave Trade and its Abolition: Beyond Numbers." 6 p.m.
February 23: Film screening and discussion on “Roots of my Heart,” an independent short feature by Gloria Rolando, Cuba's only living Black woman filmmaker. "Roots of My Heart" deals with the 1912 massacre of over 6000 Black Cubans who were members and supporters of the Independents of Color, the hemisphere's first Black political party outside Haiti. In the period after Cuban independence, the Independents of Color organized a political party to fight for their rights to full employment, education, full political participation, respect, and dignity. A discussion to follow with the film’s co-producer Gilberto Martinez. Event co-sponsored by the Center for Worker Education Student Government (CWESG) and the CWE Alumni Association. 5 p.m.
CWE Contact Information
For more information about Black History Month events, contact Deborah Edwards-Anderson, (212) 925-6625 x235, edwa@ccny.cuny.edu.
For information on the Center for Worker Education, contact Elena Romero, Communications Coordinator, CWE, (212) 925-6625 x 258, eromero@ccny.cuny.edu.
About the Center for Worker Education
The Center for Worker Education (CWE), headquartered in Lower Manhattan, is a division of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) College of Liberal Arts & Science. Founded in 1981, it has become one of the leading working adult educational institutions in New York City. CWE offers an excellent interdisciplinary B.A. degree in Liberal Arts with a number of special concentrations and a B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education. It attracts over 750 working professionals per semester and reflects the multi-ethnic composition of New York City.
About The City College of New York
For more than160 years, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. Over 14,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; The School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA); The School of Education; The Grove School of Engineering, and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. For additional information, visit www.ccny.cuny.edu.
Start: 02/09/08
End: 02/09/08
NEW YORK, February 9, 2007 – The City College of New York (CCNY) Center for Worker Education (CWE) and The Langston Hughes Festival , have organized a series of events at CWE in honor of Black History Month, beginning February 15.
“CWE, Finley Student Center a.k.a. Student Life and Leadership and The Langston Hughes Festival are happy to sponsor three events for Black History Month at The City College of New York,” said Gordon Thompson, Director, Langston Hughes Festival at the City College of New. “The highest profiled event is a celebration of the bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade as reflected in a talk by Sylviane Diouf, author, historian, and Schomburg Library Scholar. Her talk on Thursday, Feb. 21th is on the last Africans to arrive in American before the slave trade was officially outlawed.”
The Center, located at 25 Broadway, will be honoring this historically celebrated time with an exciting line-up of films, speakers, and surprise events. All events, held in the CWE auditorium, are free and open to the public.
February 15, 22, 29: The first screening of three parts of Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke (2006),” an examination of the U.S. government's role and its response to Hurricane Katrina. 5 p.m.
February 21: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Dr. Sylviane Anna Diouf to present a lecture on "The Slave Trade and its Abolition: Beyond Numbers." 6 p.m.
February 23: Film screening and discussion on “Roots of my Heart,” an independent short feature by Gloria Rolando, Cuba's only living Black woman filmmaker. "Roots of My Heart" deals with the 1912 massacre of over 6000 Black Cubans who were members and supporters of the Independents of Color, the hemisphere's first Black political party outside Haiti. In the period after Cuban independence, the Independents of Color organized a political party to fight for their rights to full employment, education, full political participation, respect, and dignity. A discussion to follow with the film’s co-producer Gilberto Martinez. Event co-sponsored by the Center for Worker Education Student Government (CWESG) and the CWE Alumni Association. 5 p.m.
CWE Contact Information
For more information about Black History Month events, contact Deborah Edwards-Anderson, (212) 925-6625 x235, edwa@ccny.cuny.edu.
For information on the Center for Worker Education, contact Elena Romero, Communications Coordinator, CWE, (212) 925-6625 x 258, eromero@ccny.cuny.edu.
About the Center for Worker Education
The Center for Worker Education (CWE), headquartered in Lower Manhattan, is a division of The City College of New York’s (CCNY) College of Liberal Arts & Science. Founded in 1981, it has become one of the leading working adult educational institutions in New York City. CWE offers an excellent interdisciplinary B.A. degree in Liberal Arts with a number of special concentrations and a B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education. It attracts over 750 working professionals per semester and reflects the multi-ethnic composition of New York City.
About The City College of New York
For more than160 years, The City College of New York has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. Over 14,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; The School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (SAUDLA); The School of Education; The Grove School of Engineering, and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. For additional information, visit www.ccny.cuny.edu.
