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1/20/09
Story by Peggy Graham

JCCC observes Black History month

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Johnson County Community College will observe Black History Month with events beginning with Kansas Day and continuing through February. Events are listed in chronological order. All events are open to the public and free unless noted.

Thursday, Jan. 29, Kansas Day

• Presentation by Carmaletta Williams, executive director, ODEI, Free Did Not Mean Welcome: The Establishment of Kansas as a “Free” State, 11 a.m.-noon, Craig Community Auditorium, 233 General Education Building
• Lecture by David Nichols, author of A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution, 5-6 p.m., room 234 of the Carlsen Center

Friday, Feb. 6

• Student Activities showing of The Express, noon and 7:30 p.m., Craig Community Auditorium. Noon showing is free; 7:30 p.m. showing is 50 cents for students with a JCCC ID and $1 for the general public.
• Book discussion of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son by author Tim Wise, facilitated by Diane Kappen, adjunct associate professor, psychology, 2-4 p.m., In-Focus Dining Room, Commons Building

Tuesday, Feb. 10

• Allison Smith, assistant professor, art history, JCCC, discussion, African American artists in the JCCC collection, followed by a discussion of African American contemporary quilts by Pearl Johnson, whose Ph.D. dissertation was African American Quilts: An Examination of Feminism, Identity, and Empowerment in the Fabric Arts of Kansas City Quilters, 3-4 p.m., room 352 of the Carlsen Center

Wednesday, Feb. 11

• Kansas City Black Poets Collective, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Corner Lounge, Commons Building

 
Tuesday, Feb. 17

• Tim Wise, anti-racist writer and activist, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Craig Community Auditorium
• Tim Wise reception, 6-7 p.m., Carlsen Center lobby
• Tim Wise, 7-8:30 p.m., Yardley Hall
  Wise is the 2008 Oliver L. Brown Distinguished Visiting Scholar for Diversity Issues at Washburn University, Topeka, an honor named for the lead plaintiff in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Wise has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass, where he co-taught a master's level class on racism in the United States; a visiting faculty-in-residence to eliminate racial bias in reporting, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.; a trainer on issues of racial privilege and institutional bias at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, Patrick Air Force Base. Fla.; an adviser to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, Nashville; and an associate director, Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, the largest of the many groups organized for the purpose of defeating neo-Nazi political candidate, David Duke. 
  
  Wise is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, and his recent releases, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male and Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.
  
  Wise has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Tulane University, where his anti-apartheid work received global attention and the thanks of Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 

Thursday, Feb. 26

• The Souls of Black Folk: Beyond the Veil, a presentation on WEB Dubois by Fred Krebs, history professor, JCCC, and Carmaletta Williams, executive director, ODEI, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Hudson Auditorium, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

For more information about ODEI events, call Susan McGarvey, administrative assistant, ODEI, 913-469-8500, ext. 4327, or mcgarvey@jccc.edu, or Danny Alexander, interim  director, Multicultural Center, JCCC, at 913-469-8500, ext. 3429, dalexand@jccc.edu.