Lear Green Speaks: Unpacking the Underground Railroad - Feb 27th!

Lear Green Speaks: Unpacking the Underground Railroad

Celebrating Black History Month! 
“Lear Green Speaks: Unpacking the Underground Railroad” 

Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
Time: 6PM-8PM
Location: Zimmer Hall Auditorium

Vicie Rolling will present her touching and poignant original interpretation and portrayal of the life of Lear Green, a former slave, who lived the last three years of her life in freedom. The story goes that Ms. Green escaped from slavery, with the help of her future mother-in-law, in a trunk on a ship. Her fiancé and his mother were free persons of color from New York State and after eighteen hours in the trunk she arrived in Philadelphia where she stayed briefly. She arrived in Elmira via the Underground Railroad. Very few people know her story or she lived under the name Elizabeth Adams.

Come join the Office of Ethnic Programs and Services, the African American Cultural and Resource Center, Women’s Center, Department of Africana Studies, the LGBTQ Center, the United Black Student Association, the Counseling Center, Student Government, and Black Arts Collaborative to celebrate the life of Lear Green! 

Black Arts Collaborative presents The Last Poets

From the Facebook Event:

At 4:00 pm there will be free food from Island Fryday's and a panel discussion about Social Inequality with The Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign and The Last Poets.

This event is of great importance to networking as well as discussing incredibly important topics on social inequality. If you are trying to start up an NGO or group that serves to help our communities then these are the people to ask for pointers. To put the icing on the cake we will bring in the revolutionary Black Power Movement trio THE LAST POETS to do a performance.

These 3 incredible poets (Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, and Jalal Mansur Nuriddin) started performing on milk crates and now are featured on marquee event stages at the Apollo and all around America empowering the Black Community as well as any ear that has had the pleasure of listening.

Putting first hand effort in recording Black Creative Expression onto wax during the Black Power Movement, these inspiring, soulful, and spiritual artists will be here at 4:00pm on Thursday May, 20th to perform and provide insight to social inequality in the United States.Location-AACRC (African American Cultural and Research Center at the University of Cincinnati). No cover charge.

Celebrating the Legacy of Malcolm X

C.Y.P.H.E.R., Black Arts Collaborative and the United Black Student Association are collaboratively sponsoring UC Malcolm X Day to honor and recognize the lasting legacy of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz).
12-2PM in MainStreet Cinema: Make it Plain:The Documentary on Malcolm X
4-6PM at the AACRC: Malcolm X: By Spike Lee
7PM at the AACRC: Discussion on What does Malcolm X's legacy mean to College students today? (Dinner Served at this event)

For more details, check out the Facebook Event.