Berea College - Black cultural Center

TBA

Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
The Peacemaker Spotlight on the Middle East Series with Frances and Louise Hutchins Center for International Learningg

Light Refreshments!

Few remember the name, Dr. Ralph Bunche (1903-1971), much less the legacy of his historic achievements. Yet this African American mediator and United Nations diplomat was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. The Peacemaker depicts Ralph Bunche's successful negotiation of four armistice agreements that ended the first Arab-Israeli war in 1949, and proved that the United Nations could fulfill its peacekeeping mandate.

2-16-2008
4:00 p.m.

12th Annual Unity Banquet "Champions of Change: Social Justice through Activism"

Upper Seabury Gym

Event Highlights include a Student Showcase, Awards Ceremony, and Keynote Speaker Ms. Attica Scott, Coordinator for Kentucky Jobs for Justice.

Tickets: $5.00 with B-Number for BC students, $8.00 for BC Faculty

2-16-2008
8:00 p.m.

Copasetic Poetry Night

Baird Lounge

2-21-2008
3:00 p.m.

The Miseducation of American People with Dr. Alton Hornsby Jr.

Carter G. Woodson Memorial Convocation
Phelps- Stokes Auditorium
Sponsors include the Convocation Committee, AAAS, and CCC.

2-22-2008
7:00 p.m.

Defining a Culture: Are We Holding up our End?

Baird Lounge

Community Discussion
Sponsored by BSU and ASALH

2-24-2008
3:00 p.m.

Works by African American Women Composers

Gray Auditorium
Performed by Shawn-Allyce White
Sponsored by the Music Department

2-25-2008
12:00 p.m.

Tukule, Tusome; To Eat, To Learn Saddest Days: Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Black Collge Students in New Orleans

CommonswithDr. Clyde Robertson, Community Activist
Lunch Provided

4-16-2008
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Interracial/Intercultural Community Dinner

Black Cultural Center

Please make reservation by contacting the BCC, space is limited to 20 participants.

4-29-2008
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

It’s a Multiracial Thing! Sponsored by the People Services, Teaching and Learning Center, Gear- UP, and the Black Cultural Center

Television journalist and author Elliott Lewis shares insights from his life as a black-and-white biracial American in this stimulating, down-to-earth, and uplifting session on the multiracial experience. Blending research data with a one-of-a-kind sense of humor, Elliott explores issues facing members of interracial families and examines the identity development process of multiracial individuals. Elliott’s book, “Fade: My Journeys in Multiracial America,” has been praised by The Washington Post as “a postcard from the edge of racial boundaries,” offering readers “a much-needed clarification of America’s new racial reality.” Highlights of his presentation on the Berea campus include excerpts from an award-winning documentary on interracial families and Elliott’s “Top Ten Signs You’re Living the Multiracial Experience.” A book signing will follow his presentation.

5-6-2008
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Interracial/Intercultural Community Dinner

Black Cultural Center

Please make reservation by contacting the BCC, space is limited to 20 participants.

6-4-2008

The Black Elite/Bourgeoisie Class

Co- Teachers Dr. Linda Leek and Tashia Bradley
Explore race and class in America through the experience of the Black Elite and travel to Martha’s Vineyard, New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. Course Cost: $1400.00 (approximately)

BCC Annual Graduation Recognition Event- TBA

8-19-2008

Black Madison County Bus Tour with Dr. Jackie Burnside & Exploring Racism and Internalized Racism in the Classroom Professional Development Seminar with Dr. Barbara Love, Social Justice Education, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Bus Tour and Luncheon
1:30-5:30 p.m. Seminar

Please register by August 15, 2008

8-24-2008
3:00-5:00 p.m.

Welcome Activity “Wings and Tings”

Black Cultural Center

Join us for this opportunity to meet & greet students, faculty, staff and community members.

8-25-2008
8:00 p.m.

Orientation Program “American Voices”

Phelps-Stokes Auditorium

Join us for a 65 minute live play that explores the voices of a Latino and his perspective of immigration, an Arab American explaining her choice to ‘cover-up’, an Asian American pleading to be released from ‘model minority status and the ‘college girl’s disease" of anorexia/bulimia that it has invoked, an African American on death row trying to make clear the injustices of the American legal system, a Gay American questions whether or not he can be a Christian, and a Deaf American shows deafness as a culture and not a handicap.
Artist Talkback Following Program.

8-29-2008 to
8-31-2008

S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Weekend Program

Saturday- Depart 9:00 a.m. for Gatlinburg, TN.
Sunday- Return 3:00 p.m. to Berea, KY.
Bring homework, swimsuits, plans to have fun, learn about college, get to know your peer mentor, and much more! All expenses paid for S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Program Participants.
Sign-up in BCC!

9-4-2008
5:00 p.m.

Black Student Union “Back 2 School” Cook-Out

Alumni Patio

Free Food!

9-5-2008 to
9-7-2008

Roots and Heritage Street Festival

Lexington, Kentucky

Sign- up in the BCC for Van transportation!

9-5-2008 to
9-7-2008

The Black Male/Female Think Tank Weekend Trip- Cincinnati, OH

Facilitators: Bryant K. Smith of Smith C.A.N. and Tashia Bradley
Explore manhood and womanhood and their relationship to your success at Berea College. Students will begin with dinner on Friday evening in the BCC, travel to Cincinnati’s Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum, participate in a facilitated learning experience, and stay overnight in Cincinnati. Free!

Sign-up in BCC by September 3rd, 2008

9-14-2008
6:00-8:00 p.m.

Treat Her Like a Lady Dinner

Baird Lounge

Limited to 50 participants
Reservations Required

Sign-up in the BCC by September 9, 2008

9-16-2008
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Interracial/Intercultural Community Dinners

Black Cultural Center

The I.I.C. dinners are designed to bring members of the campus community together to discuss race and other experiences relating to diversity. Dinner is provided (vegetarian option available). Limited to 20 participants, sign up in the BCC!

9-22-2008

Tukule, Tusome, To Eat, To Learn Series
On the Edge of Water: Reflections of a Changing River A Woman’s Perspective of Katrina with Artist Jacqueline Mooney

Join us for a perspective on the Katrina Disaster three years later…

12 noon (Lunch begins at 11:45 a.m.), Commons

Exhibition & Reception featuring
My Soul Up Over the Moon with Artist Jacqueline Mooney
6:00 p.m., BCC& Student Organization Lounge