Dr. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr., Director of African American Studies, University of Texas El Paso
(photo courtesy of
Dr. Dailey's website)
Listed below are events that will be held in El Paso/UTEP to celebrate Black History Month.
Feb. 5: Max Sherman, "The Political Life and Career of Barbara Jordan," 1: 30 p.m. at Liberal Arts Building, Room 210, UTEP.
Feb. 6: Film: "Lackawanna Blues," 6:45 p.m. at Union East, UTEP Union Cinema.
Feb. 11: Alvin Johnson, "Family Entrepreneurship: MACA /METI," 6:45 p.m. at Blumberg Reading Room, UTEP Library.More events, 2D
Feb. 11: "Jazz Night: A Taste of the Motherland," 7 p.m. at EPCC Transmountain Campus, Forum Theater.
Feb. 13: Film Showing: "Crash," 6:45 p.m. at UTEP Union East, Union Cinema.
Feb. 16: "Colors of Harmony: Fashion, Food and Fun," noon at EPCC Transmountain Campus, foyer.
Feb. 16: Maceo C. Dailey Jr., director of UTEP African-American Studies Program, "El Paso's Enduring African-American Community and its Place in African-American History," 1:30 p.m. at the El Paso Museum of History.
Feb. 16: Miss Black El Paso Pageant, 7 p.m., Chamizal National Memorial Theater.
Feb. 18: "Who's Who Among African American High-School Students," 7 p.m. at EPCC Administrative Services Center, 9050 Viscount.
Feb. 21: Gary Kieffner, "A History of Black Borderlands Motorcyclists" 6:30 p.m. at UTEP Union East, University Suite.
Feb. 23: Citywide Black History Month Parade and Celebration; begins at 10 a.m. at Pershing and Montana, and continues with festivities at 11 a.m. in Mary Webb Park.
Feb. 24: Sonia Sanchez, American poet and internationally acclaimed writer, "A Night of Poetry," 6:30 p.m. at Natural Gas Conference Center at UTEP.
Feb. 25: "Choir Night: A Message in Song," 7 p.m. at EPCC Transmountain Campus.
Feb. 27: Film: "The Great Debaters," (pending) 6:30 p.m. at Union Cinema at UTEP.
Feb. 28: Sandra Braham and Jonna Perillo, "Two Case Studies in African-American Education: El Paso and New York," 6:30 p.m. at Tomas Rivera Conference Room, UTEP Union East.
