NAU celebrates Black History Month

Northern Arizona University continues to celebrate Black History Month with a number of films, lectures and other events planned throughout February.

• Black Student Union presents "Movie Clips"
  6:30 p.m. Feb. 15, University Union, Sycamore Room
  An open discussion about blacks in films
• Southside Community Association Board Meeting
  6 p.m. Feb. 16, Cogdill Recreation Center, 301 Paseo de Flag, Public invited
• Lecture: "Discourse at a Distance: Colonial Regimes of African Linguistic Demography," by Judith Irvine, anthropology professor
  2 - 3:30 p.m. Feb. 17, Social and Behavioral Sciences Bldg., Room 304
  Sponsored by Ethnic Studies and the departments of History, Political Science and Anthropology
• Black Student Union presents African American Contributions
  11:30 a.m. -1 p.m. Feb. 20, du Bois Center Cafeteria
  Vignettes about the significant contributions that blacks have made in science, technology, education, the arts and more
• "Southside Educates" information forum for Southside residents
  5:30 p.m. Feb. 21, Cogdill Recreation Center, 301 Paseo de Flag
• Black Student Union presents "It's a Celebration"
  6:30 p.m. Feb. 22, du Bois Center ballroom
  Join NAU's Black Student Union for fun, food, music and friends celebrating Black History Month.
• Music and Readings to Soothe the Soul
  6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Feb. 24, Bookman's Used Bookstore, 1520 S. Riordan Ranch Rd.
  Live music and readings
• Southside Matinee: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
  4 p.m. Feb. 25, Cogdill Recreation Center, 301 Paseo de Flag, Free
• Mardi Gras Family Event (the True History of Mardi Gras)
  5:30 p.m. Feb. 28, Cogdill Recreation Center, 301 Paseo de Flag
• Mardi Gras celebration
  8 p.m. Feb. 28, The Boardwalk, 26 S. San Francisco
  Ages 18 and older, $5 cover charge. Costume contest for biggest bells and most "bling." A fund raiser for Southside Community Association, a non-profit local organization preserving the Southside Flagstaff neighborhood.