Black History Month activities are in full swing at the two New Jersey campuses. Lectures, movies, games and other educational and entertaining events have been held on both campuses. The following programs are still to come.

On Monday, February 23, “Black Bootylicious: Marketing Black Women’s Sexuality in Adult Entertainment,” a talk featuring Mireille Miller-Young, a PhD candidate in history at New York University and a dissertation fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be given in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion, College at Florham, at 1 p.m. Miller-Young will present work from her doctoral dissertation, “A Taste for Brown Sugar: The History of Black Women in Pornography, 1880s–The Present.” The event is sponsored by the campus’s Diversity Council and Women’s Studies Program.

Miller-Young is the winner of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Dissertation Grant for 2003; has participated in the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and has studied at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. Her primary interests are in woman of color feminisms, sexuality, popular and visual culture and media technologies.

Closing ceremony for the College of Florham’s Black History Month will be held on Thursday, February 26, at 6 p.m. in Lenfell Hall, the Mansion. For information call 973-443-8570.

At the Metropolitan Campus, Black History Month continues on Tuesday, February 17, at 8 p.m., with African Dance Lessons in the Rutherford Room, Student Union Building. On Saturday, February 21, a Black Movie Marathon will be held all day in the Knight Club, also in the Student Union Building. On Sunday, February 22, a trip to a soul food restaurant in New York City is planned. Black History Jeopardy will be played at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24, in the Lobby, Student Union Building. On Saturday, February 28, Metro Knight with Bobby Konders will be featured at 8 p.m. in the Knight Club, Student Union Building.

The month’s celebration ends at 8 p.m., on Sunday, February 29, with “An Extravaganza Closing Ceremony” in the Rutherford Room, Student Union Building.

Metropolitan Campus events were planned and sponsored by the Black History Month Committee comprising the Office of Student Life and the following student organizations: Black Men Alliance, Haitian Cultural Association, Inspirational Gospel Ensemble, Multi-Cultural Council and Student Programming Board. For information call 201-692-2231.

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College at Florham, Madison, N.J.

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