The Penn community — from cultural groups to the University at large — has organized a variety of programs throughout February to celebrate Black History Month.
Campus organizations, including Penn’s chapter of the Student National Dental Association and the Black Student League, have planned community-focused events throughout the month to honor the achievements and cultural contributions of Black people.
SNDA is set to host its annual Black History Month event on Feb. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in the Levy Center for Oral Health Research building’s Arthur E. Corby Auditorium. The event reflects SNDA’s goal of supporting the academic and social environment for minority students on campus.
BSL coordinated with Harnwell College House to launch a Black History Month mural event on Feb. 3. The event of approximately 30 students was catered by Sheba’s Soul Plate, a local Caribbean restaurant, and gave students “an artistic outlet and a way to support and celebrate Black history,” graduate student Fionnuir Ni Chochlain, a Harnwell resident advisor, told The Daily Pennsylvanian.
The organizers provided participants with flags from African and Caribbean countries, Black History Month stickers, and other supplies. The completed mural will be presented in the Harnwell mezzanine and displayed throughout February.
Penn Dining similarly launched its celebration of Black History Month on Feb. 3 with new culinary and musical offerings. Students can enjoy recipes from award-winning chef and author Patrick Clark at multiple dining halls. Partnering with Makuu: The Black Cultural Center, Penn Dining welcomed DJ KillSing and violinist Tauhida Smith for performances at 1920 Commons and Kings Court English House.
Onyx Senior Honor Society, an organization that seeks to promote leadership among underrepresented communities on campus, will kick off the month on Feb. 4 by hosting a panel featuring Penn professors Amalia Daché, Tukufu Zuberi, and Herman Beavers. The event will explore the professional and personal successes of Black members of the Penn community.
As part of the “Explore. Reflect. Become.” lunch series, Penn’s Women’s Center will host DaCarla Albright, a physician and professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, on Feb. 5 to speak about her career as a Black woman in healthcare and her expertise in women’s health.
Penn’s Black History Month programming will run alongside the University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium events from Jan. 16 to Feb. 7. The symposium will culminate with “The Light of Creative Altruism” art exhibit and reception at Irvine Auditorium, which is sponsored by the Division of the Vice Provost for Student Engagement Educational Talent Search Program and the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs.
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