Join the African American Cultural Center as we celebrate the Opening of Black History Month with Cornel West, an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. Dr. West will participate in a 45-minute keynote speech, 15 Q & A (Event).

The African Student Association presents their Annual Fashion Show. Come ready to be amazed and have some fun.
RSVP Information available in ASA Instagram Bio (@ASAUCONN)

Receive help and information on financial aid. Students will get assistance filling out their FAFSA form. Pizza will be served.
Sponsored by Academic Achievement Center!

Join us and learn the fundamentals of Bomba music, dance, and storytelling.

Led by Movimieneto Cultural Afro-Continental (MCAC), INC., A cultural, arts, and community based organization whose mission is to educate people across Connecticut about Puerto Rico's rich African-based folklore, music, dance, and other art forms.

Refreshments: 'Frituras' - Fried Delicacies - will be served.

Workshop Will help students develop better time management and study habit skills.

Join us for a screening of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in the AACC Community Room; Food provided by Golden Krust Caribbean Restaurant.

Speak to students who experienced the 'Winter in Ghana' program over winter break!

Part II with helping students with exam-prep and develop better study habits.

This blockbuster film is the cinematic retelling of the true-life destruction of an African American community in 1923. It captures Jim Crow-era violence and the Black radical tradition of resistance.

Following this event on Wednesday, February 22 will be a discussion with Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, Founder & President of the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc. and Rosewood descendant.

More information and registration at https://lib.uconn.edu/about/news-events-2/black-history-month/black-history-month-events/

Rosewood, Florida was the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week of January in 1923. This rural town of about 200 people was one of several Black communities in the US that suffered racial violence and destruction in the post World War I era.
Lizzie Robinson Jenkins, Founder & President of The Real Rosewood Foundation, and descendant of Rosewood, will lead a discussion about the work they are doing researching, documenting, and preserving the tragic history that has been buried for nearly 80 years.
A film screening on Rosewood will take place on Tuesday, February 21 from 6-8:30pm (the day prior to this discussion).

More information and registration at https://lib.uconn.edu/about/news-events-2/black-history-month/black-history-month-events/

LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS w/Professor Shawn Salvant, English Dept & Africana Studies: The UConn Reads program invites you to participate in a campus and community-wide experience discovering this year’s book selection, Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. We are proud to celebrate Transgender Awareness Week (TAW) at UConn with the announcement of a significant university-wide program to raise the visibility of transgender people and address their needs and build dignity for all. AACC is providing a space for students to meet to discuss the book.

In honor of the "C.R.O.W.N act", we are creating a space to celebrate natural hair and provide free hair services for students. There will be food, games, and movies shown!

Black History Month Closing Ceremony- Overboard: Black Resistance and the Middle Passage w/Dr. Rik Stevenson, University of Florida African American Studies Program: Dr. Stevenson is a Professor of African American Studies from the University of Florida. His research explores Black resistance in the Middle Passage, connecting West African cosmologies and spiritual systems to revolutionary acts of resistance.