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Inclusive Excellence is accepting event/program submissions for Black History Month 2025! Events must be open to the SSU community, celebrate, and/or bring awareness to the histories, cultures, experiences, contributions, and futures of people of African descent across the diaspora. Event Submission Form.
Submission deadlines: poster: 1/21; Webpage: 1/30
Black History Month 2025 Event List
Intergenerational Hip Hop Dance Symposium | 1/30 – 2/1
Reserve your spot for this electrifying weekend of battles, films, workshops, and performances as we celebrate the legacy and cultural influence of hip-hop across generations!
- Hip Hop Dance Workshop | 1/30: 1:40 - 2:55 pm in O'Keefe 303
- Battle with DJ Will B | 1/30: 4:30 - 8 pm in Vets Hall
- Hip Hop Dance Workshop with Bboy El Nino | 1/31: 12:15 -1:30 pm in O'Keefe 303
- Hip Hop Dance Film Festival | 1/31: 7:30 pm in Sophia Gordon Center
- Hip Hop Dance Showcase ft. The Floor Lords | 2/1: 7:30 pm in Sophia Gordon Center
- Tuesday, 2/4 : 4-6 pm in the Sophia Gordon Center;
- Reception: North Campus Café 2nd Floor
- Hosted by: Inclusive Excellence, JEDI Community of Practice??
Karaoke Night | Thursday, 2/6: 6 pm in Starbucks
- Hosted by: Black Student Union
Movie Night | Thursday, 2/13: 6pm in ECC MLK Room
- Hosted by: Black Student Union
BHM Jeopardy Night | Thursday, 2/20: 6 pm in ECC Metro
- Hosted by: Black Student Union
Annual BHM Dinner | Friday, 2/21: 6 pm in ECC Vets Hall
- Hosted by: Black Student Union
BHM Keynote ft. Keith Knight | Monday, 2/24: 11:30am in Vets Hall
- Hosted by: Inclusive Excellence
- Light dinner and discussion, followed by a meet & greet and print signing
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Keith Knight is a critically acclaimed comics creator and cartoonist. He has received the Comic-Con Inkpot, a CXC Master Cartoonist Award, several Glyph Awards for best comic strip, a Harvey Award and has been nominated for an Eisner,, and an NAACP Image Award.
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Knight is the creator of the long-running autobio comic strip, the K Chronicles. One of the most widely distributed alt-weekly comic strips since its launch in the early nineties. His socio-political single panel cartoon, (th)ink, has graced the pagesof both Black newspapers/websites, and alt-weeklies. And he drew the daily syndicated strip, the Knight Life for over a decade until 2019.
In 2020, Knight's life and comics were the inspiration for the comedy series, Woke, on Hulu. Knight served as co-creator, writer, and executive producer on the show. It ran for two seasons.
Knight is a graduate of Malden High School and Salem State University, where he received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2022.
Let's Talk About It: Hair and Skin Care | Thursday, 2/27: 6 pm in ECC MLK
- Hosted by: Black Student Union