Black History Month is being celebrated at Fairleigh Dickinson University with a variety of events. The following programs are still to come at FDU’s two New Jersey campuses.

Eleanor Friedl, reference librarian, Library (Flor), and communications major Ian Bouie, who has worked in the library throughout his four years at FDU, view the special exhibit in the College at Florham Library. Bouie assembled the collection of noncirculating books in first printings by African-American authors from the early years of the 20th century through the 1990s. Also on exhibit (on loan from an anonymous lender) are anonymous portraits of African-Americans produced by an anonymous African-American Philadelphia photographer from the 1920s.

Also at the College at Florham, on Tuesday, February 18, at 1 p.m. in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, Mia Bay, history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., will present “White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830–1925.” The author of a book by the same title, published by Oxford University Press, N.Y., Bay also is project director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis’ seminar series on “The Black Atlantic — African Diaspora.” She holds a PhD from Yale University, Cambridge, Mass. This free presentation is co-sponsored by the Diversity Council and the Women’s Study Program. For additional information call Gloria Gadsden, sociology (Flor), at 973-443-8732 or e-mail gadsden@fdu.edu.

At the Metropolitan Campus, on Friday, February 21, the African-American Cinema Gallery, a traveling exhibit of African-American art, will be shown throughout the day in the Student Union Building. On Thursday, February 27, a representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will speak in the Rutherford Room, Student Union Building, at 9 p.m. The presentation is sponsored by Zeta Phi Beta sorority.

A Black History Month exhibit of figurative charcoal drawings by Laurence Finney will run in the Gallery, Edward Williams Building, through February 28. In addition, a bus trip to the Museum of African Art in New York City will take place on Saturday, February 15, from 11:30 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. The cost is $5 per person.

On Wednesday, February 19, students will compete for prizes in Black History Month Jeopardy, to be held in the Lobby of the Student Union Building.

For a full listing of Black History Month events at the Metropolitan Campus, visit http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/calendarth.html. For additional information call 201-692-2231.

February 2003

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