Black History Month events are scheduled

The work of Paul Laurence Dunbar will be featured at three events.
YOUNGSTOWN -- Youngstown State University is offering a wide range of programs spread over the next several weeks in its celebration of Black History Month.
The programs and dates are:
Feb. 4: Noon to 6 p.m., "The African Marketplace" in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center. Vendors from neighboring states and beyond bring goods, artistic creations, jewelry and artifacts and more from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Feb. 6-28: "Three Black Women, Three Pan-African Visions," an art display in Bliss Hall featuring the work of Geraldine Jackson-McCorr of Beaver Falls, Pa., Virgie Patton-Ezelle of Cleveland and Jane Ogunro of Greenville, Pa. The show opens with a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 6 in McDonough Museum Auditorium.
Feb. 8: 6:30 p.m., "South Africa After Apartheid" forum in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center. Panelists are Dr. Robert Herbert, YSU provost and vice president of academic affairs; Dr. Barbara Nykiel-Herbert, assistant professor of English; Mona Jackson, YSU graduate and doctoral student at Michigan State University; and Mongezi Nkomo, a South African activist and founder of Azania Heritage International in Pittsburgh.
Feb. 11: 7:30 p.m., Documentary Film: "James' Journey to Jerusalem" in the Ohio Room tells the story of James, a devout Christian making a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land.
Feb. 14: 7:30 p.m., "Music Performance by the Kalimba King" in the Chestnut Room. Carl Winters, a member of the International Association of Jazz Education, is the king of kalimba, a musical instrument more commonly known in the West as a thumb-piano.
Feb. 16: 1-3 p.m., "Faculty Discussion on the Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar" in the Chestnut Room. Participants are Dr. Dolores Sisco, associate professor of English at YSU; Leon Stennis, former coordinator for diversity initiatives at YSU; Dr. Robert Herbert, YSU provost and vice president for academic affairs; Dr. Victor Wan-Tatah, professor of philosophy and religious studies and director of the Africana studies program at YSU; Dr. Stephanie Tingley, YSU professor of English; and Dr. Diane Barnes, assistant professor of history at YSU.
Feb. 18: 7:30 p.m., "Christianity and the Afrikan Consciousness" lecture in the Chestnut Room, featuring Dr. Ray Hagins, senior pastor and chief elder of "The Afrikan Village" Church in St. Louis, Mo.
Feb. 21: 7 p.m., "Paul L. Dunbar Centennial Poetry Reading" in The SMARTS Center, Powers Auditorium, downtown Youngstown.
Feb. 24: 7 p.m., drama by The Archangel Touring Theater called "For the Love of Life" by Karen Clark-Green, a Youngstown native, in the Chestnut Room. The musical drama focuses on the struggles of black American and Hispanic women dealing with breast cancer.
Feb. 23: 3 p.m., "Paul Laurence Dunbar: One Hundred Years Later" lecture by LaVerne Sci, manager of the Dunbar Museum in Dayton, Dunbar's hometown.