UMaine to celebrate Black History Month with flag raising, film screening
Black History Month at the University of Maine will kick off at noon Feb. 1 with an opening ceremony and Black Lives Matter flag raising at the Memorial Union.
Among the other event highlights:
Feb. 8, the Office of Multicultural Student Life will show the film “Southside With You” at the Collins Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. The critically acclaimed 2016 movie tells the story of one-day president and first lady Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson.
Artist and UMaine graduate student Eleanor Kipping will give a talk on her latest installation, “The Brown Paper Bag Test,” at 1 p.m. Feb. 10 at UMaine’s Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. The installation will be on display at the IMRC Center from noon to 8 p.m. Feb. 7–13.
At 6 p.m. Feb. 15, the Wilson Center will present a program on Shirley Chisholm’s role in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1968, Chisholm became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972, she was the first African-American to run for president and the first woman to run for the the presidential nomination in the Democratic Party.