Week of Events
Black History Month: Body and Language: Invoking Remembering and Embracing Ourselves
Black History Month: Body and Language: Invoking Remembering and Embracing Ourselves
Host: Steven Johnson, adjunct faculty, Fine Arts A guided cross-cultural and cross-generational drawing activity. This event is part of the [...]
Black History Month: Body and Vision: Dream Mapping, Envisioning, and Decolonizing the Imagination
Black History Month: Body and Vision: Dream Mapping, Envisioning, and Decolonizing the Imagination
Host: Steven Johnson, adjunct faculty, Fine Arts A guided cross-cultural and cross-generational drawing and listening activity. This event is part [...]
UCE of FIT Presents: Racial Justice, Activism, and Jim Crow Imagery
UCE of FIT Presents: Racial Justice, Activism, and Jim Crow Imagery
The UCE of FIT invites you to a Black History Month event titled "Racial Justice, Activism, and Jim Crow Imagery" [...]
Black History Month: Body, Spirit, and Reflection: Embracing and Metabolizing Otherness
Black History Month: Body, Spirit, and Reflection: Embracing and Metabolizing Otherness
Host: Steven Johnson, adjunct faculty, Fine Arts A guided cross-cultural and cross-generational drawing and connecting activity. This event is part [...]
CANCELED: Maafa Reading/Dedication and Visuals of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
CANCELED: Maafa Reading/Dedication and Visuals of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
This event has been canceled. Maafa—the Kiswahili word for "calamity" or "catastrophe"—is the term used for the African holocaust of [...]
Black History Month: The Harlem Opera Theater
Black History Month: The Harlem Opera Theater
Presidential Scholars Program in collaboration with the African American and Africana Studies Minor present a virtual performance by the Harlem [...]
Black History Month: Talking Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity in African American Lives and Families
Black History Month: Talking Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity in African American Lives and Families
Students from History 201: Classics in African American History present a Black History Month video in which they talk with [...]
Black History Month: The Rich Legacy of the Black Extended Family From Slavery to the Present
Black History Month: The Rich Legacy of the Black Extended Family From Slavery to the Present
Presenters: Shawn Grain Carter, associate professor, Fashion Business Management Laticha Brown, assistant professor and assistant chair, Fashion Business Management The [...]
Fashion Culture Online Event: Stella Jean in Conversation with Valerie Steele
Fashion Culture Online Event: Stella Jean in Conversation with Valerie Steele
Stella Jean, the Italian-Haitian fashion designer, will join Dr. Valerie Steele, director of MFIT, for a discussion on how to [...]
Black History Month: Black Entrepreneurship: A Mother-Daughter Conversation
Black History Month: Black Entrepreneurship: A Mother-Daughter Conversation
Panelists: Shara McHayle and Jade Everett, founders of Hoop 88 Dreams Moderator: Elena Romero, assistant professor, Advertising and Marketing Communications [...]
Black History Month: Uncovering and Recovering Early African American Family Life
Black History Month: Uncovering and Recovering Early African American Family Life
This event has been canceled. This online lecture will share archaeological and archival research into early African American family life, [...]
Globally Connected @ FIT: BSU Presents: Back to the Present with Alumna Jo-Well Paupaw
Globally Connected @ FIT: BSU Presents: Back to the Present with Alumna Jo-Well Paupaw
Join Cultural Fellow Anya Swapp as she introduces Black Student Union Vice President Ashleigh Simpson in an interview with Jo-Well [...]
Black History Month: Soulful Cooking with Essence K. White
Black History Month: Soulful Cooking with Essence K. White
Join the Black History Month Committee along with the FIT community for a virtual soul food cooking session with Essence [...]