January 28, 2010
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Student Senate and the Black Student Union have planned events for the month of February in honor of African American History Month.
African American History Month, which was extended to the entire month of February in 1976, was first celebrated through a weeklong celebration in 1926. According to The Library of Congress, the month is an opportunity to pay “tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.”
Campus events will include the annual Soul Food Dinner with speaker Jeff Johnson, musical entertainment, a poetry night, the Black Student Union’s annual banquet and a speaker on the birth of the NAACP.