MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE CALENDAR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH EVENTS, FEBRUARY 21-24, 2012. OPEN TO PUBLIC AND FREE.
(Note: The following calendar was taken from Medgar Evers press release; events subject to change.)Tuesday, February, 21, 2012
Media Center Films and Screenings
Spotlight Film Screening: Spike Lee’s Malcolm X
2:30pm-4:00 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
“Malcolm X” in the Media Room, B-2042A
Films: Malcolm X Make It Plain; Malcolm X Nationalist or Humanist; and Legacy of Malcolm X
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Panel Discussion: Health Disparities in Black America
11:30am-12:45 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
Panelists include Alethia Maybank, MD, the Brooklyn Commissioner of the NYC Department of Health; and Dexter McKenzie, MD, President of Provident Medical Society. Presented by The School of Science, Health and Technology and the Male Development & Empowerment Center.
Media Center Films and Screenings
Spotlight Film Screening: Blacks in Science – Dr. Ivan Van Sertima
2:30pm-4:00 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
“Blacks in Science” Films in the Media Room, B-2042A
Films: Carver: Man of Vision; Concepts of White Supremacy; Digging for Slaves: The Excavation of American Slave Sites; Melanin and the African Origin of Civilization; Melanin: Biophysics of Melanin and Consciousness and Race – The Power of an Illusion
Book Discussion: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6:00pm-7:00 P.M. Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library
Written by Rebecca Skloot, the book explores how cells from Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, became one of the most important tools in modern medicine.
Wednesday, February 23, 2012
Media Center Films and Screenings
Spotlight Film Screening: John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk
2:30pm-4:00 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
“Black Americans of Achievement” Media Room, B-2042A
Films: Blacks Americans of Achievement; James Baldwin; Langston Hughes; Mary Mcleod Bethune; W. E. B. Du Bois; Booker T. Washington and Legacy of Barbara Jordan
Friday, February 24, 2012
Trailblazers and Pioneers in the Struggle for Justice
6:00pm-8:00 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
This event features a film presentation, a short discussion on prisoner-based gerrymandering legislation, an award presentation to NYS Assemblyman Hakim Jeffries and a cohort of students who authored letters to the U.S. Justice Department in support of the State Assembly’s legislation on the NYPD “stop and frisk” practices. Sponsored by the Dubois-Bunche Center for Social Policy, Professor Roger Green & Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries.
Media Center Films and Screenings
Spotlight Film Screening: Blacks & Jews & a Film & Culture Series Special
2:30pm-4:00 P.M. AB1-EOJ Auditorium
“Black Americans of Achievement” Films: African American Judges Speak Out on Injustice In; America; Black History 1992; Black Is, Black Ain’t; Buffalo Soldiers; Color Adjustment; Decisions That Shook the World; Every Mother’s Son; Morehouse Men; The Contemporary Black Male Experience; Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey; Reverend Jeremiah Wright Speaks Out; and Tulia Texas
Directions (from the college website)
Address: 1650 Bedford Avenue, BrooklynMap : See a map of the campus: http://www.mec.cuny.edu/directions/
By car from Manhattan: Over Manhattan Bridge to Flatbush Avenue Extension (proceed straight off bridge); straight onto Flatbush Avenue to Grand Army Plaza; go 270 degrees around Grand Army Plaza onto Eastern Parkway; proceed approximately 1 mile to Bedford Avenue; right on Bedford Avenue.
By car from Queens: Grand Central to Jackie Robinson Parkway (formerly Interboro Parkway); JRP to Jamaica Avenue (becomes East New York Avenue); right onto Howard Avenue; left onto Eastern Parkway; proceed approximately 2 miles and then turn left onto Bedford.
By Subway to Carroll Street Building: IRT 7th Ave. Express No. 2 or 5 to President Street, or No. 3 to Nostrand Ave.
By Subway to Bedford Avenue Building: No. 2, 3, 4 or 5 to Franklin Avenue.
By Bus to Carroll Street Building: No. 44 to Nostrand Avenue and Carroll Street; or No. 49 to Rogers Avenue and Carroll Street; or No. 43 to Empire Blvd. and Nostrand Avenue. Recorded travel directions are available by calling (718) 270-4900.
