BLACK HISTORY MONTH | Scheduled events

A list of area events in February to commemorate Black History Month as submitted to The Vindicator:

YOUNGSTOWN

Beulah Baptist Church, 570 Sherwood Ave., will host Black History Month programs at 4 p.m. every Sunday during the month of February.

Sunday: Speakers will discuss health and wellness in the black community. The issues of drugs and the infant-mortality rate also will be addressed.

Feb. 19: There will be a talent show with various church choirs, mime groups and readings on black history.

Feb. 26: Blane Griffen will speak on black history and preparing young people for the future.

Friday: East High School begins its program, “A Tribute to Black Pioneer Doctors – The Door to Awareness” at 8:50 a.m. Dr. David M. Davis, a family practitioner, is the featured speaker. The program will allow students to reflect on black pioneers in the medical field who have paved the way for others to follow.

Sunday: The Black/Jewish Book and Dialogue Club will take place from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, 505 Gypsy Lane. The event will feature an intercultural, interfaith discussion of Rebecca Walker’s “Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.” In this book, Walker attempts to define herself as a soul instead of a symbol created by her parents, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker and Atty. Mel Leventhal.

Next Wednesday: Chaney Visual and Performing Arts will offer a Black History Month performance of “Dream” at 6 p.m. in the school auditorium, 731 S. Hazelwood Ave. Tickets are $3 for students and $4 for adults. For information or to book a special school performance, contact Tracy Schuler Vivo at 330-744-8830 or tracy.schuler-vivo@youngstown.k12.oh.us.

Feb. 18: Annie Hall of the Eastside Crime Watch and Bob Burke, director of Youngstown Park and Recreation Department, will present a Feast of Salads from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Wick Park Pavilion on the North Side. Music will be provided by Mr. Vince. Speaker will be Clarence Boles, community activist and columnist for The Buckeye Review. For information, call Hall at 330-742-4880 or 234-719-9142.

Feb. 25: The Youngstown Chapter of The Links Inc. will host a black diamond leadership brunch at 10 a.m. at the Holiday Inn, 7410 South Ave., Boardman, honoring influential black male leaders in the Mahoning Valley. Donations are $30 per person. For information, call 330-406-9550.

Feb. 25: Mount Hope Veterans Memorial Park Inc. sponsors a program from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Reed’s Chapel A.M.E. Church, 1939 Jacobs Road. The event will include vendors and displays. A program at noon will feature guest speaker William J. Blake, director of student diversity at Youngstown State University. Refreshments will be served. For information, contact 330-501-9808.

Youngstown State University

Thursday: Those interested in a law career are invited to Kilcawley Center’s President’s Suite from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. to listen to successful black female attorneys share their experiences in the legal field. Speakers are Carla Baldwin of Youngstown, magistrate, Mahoning County Juvenile Court, and Baker Botts law firm partner Christa Brown-Sanford from Dallas.

Monday: Ava DuVernay’s film, “13th,” which exposes the rapid increase of black male incarceration, will be shown at 6 p.m. in James Gallery in Kilcawley Center. After the film, a panel discussion led by student organizations, Sisters with a Vision and the Youngstown Chapter of the NAACP will take place.

Next Wednesday: The public is invited to join the Student Diversity Council from 6 to 8 p.m. at James Gallery for refreshments and a game of Who Knew. Four groups of participants will answer questions and fill in riddles based on black leaders.

Feb. 16: A magic and comedy show, co-sponsored by the Division of Student Experience, Student Diversity Programs and Black Student Union, will take place at 8 p.m. in the Chestnut Room. Magician Josh Triplett will be on the TV shows “My Crazy Ex” and “Super Girl.” Comedian Quincy Carr will make his film debut this year.

Feb. 16: Dr. Ken Fones-Wolf, history professor at West Virginia University, will speak about black workers and religion in the post-World War II South from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Youngstown Museum of Labor and Industry, 151 W. Wood St.

Feb. 24: Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, 2724 Mariner Ave., will host a Black History Month celebration at 1 p.m.

Feb. 24: The African Student Union movie night will take place at 7 p.m. in James Gallery. Clint Eastwood’s film “Invictus,” which explores how a country divided can come together to celebrate athletic success, will be shown.

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Today: The Lawrence County Historical Society will present a program “Traveling Shoes: Looking at African-American Migration” at 7 p.m. in the Joseph A. Clavelli History Center at the historical society, 408 N. Jefferson St. In 1910, 7 million of the 8 million black people in the U.S. lived in the deep South. Blacks sought to build a new home for themselves and to take control of their own destiny. They put on their “traveling shoes” and pulled up roots, and then journeyed to places unknown to them. Event speaker Jean Speight will offer a Power Point program and a lecture that addresses many questions relating to the success of the migration. The program is free. For information, call 724-658-4022.

WARREN

Today: Kent State University at Trumbull will host “On the Matter of Lives,” a community discussion about the issues associated with both Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter campaigns at 7 p.m. in the Kent State Trumbull Auditorium, in the Classroom/Administration building, 4314 Mahoning Ave. NW. Panelists are Capt. Daniel Zampelli, Akron Police Department; Professor Stanley Smith, retired police officer and visiting lecturer, Department of Disaster Science & Emergency Services at the University of Akron; and Molly Merryman, film documentarist and director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at Kent State University. Dr. Lance Grahn, dean and chief administrative officer, Kent State University at Trumbull, will moderate. The free event is sponsored by Kent State Trumbull’s Diversity in Action Council. Guests are invited to a reception after the discussion. Sign-language interpreters will be provided. Free T-shirts will be available at the door for Kent State Trumbull students.