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Importance for Student Body Unity During Black History Month
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 but also African and Afro-Caribbean students. As Henderson shared, “Davidson has been a transformational experience in seeing how ‘Blackness’ is defined and experienced differently by people across the US and around the world. Students who exist within the Black experience but do not have an African American experience have really shaped and broadened my viewpoint.”
Student organizations have sought to celebrate this diversity of Black experiences throughout the month. Just last weekend, the BSC hosted a food truck on Friday where students enjoyed Haitian cuisine. Undeterred by the line of forty people, students of all races waited their turn to eat beef pate or Haitian-style fried chicken, celebrating a heritage claimed by many Black students at Davidson. Later this month, DASA has planned an event on Feb. 17 to have a conversation linking the
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African-American experience to Africans. “As a Black person from Africa, I often ask, ‘how connected am I to these people?” Edong’a said, “they come from Africa. Even though they lived there centuries apart, it means a lot to me. If they made it, then it inspires me to keep going.”
Apart from encouraging students to attend more events hosted by Black student organizations, Petties wants to inspire a general attitude change towards Black history in members of the Davidon community. “It doesn’t start and end at slavery or something tragic. There’s a ton of really awesome, cool Black history about little stuff. Try to do your day without using Black history. We can’t even turn on a light switch without it being an invention from someone Black. Black history is an all-year thing. Black history is general history.”
Black History Month Event Calendar
February 12 Sunday February 13 Monday
Super Bowl Party (APA, KAP)
February 14 Tuesday
Bundtinis of Love (BSC)
February 19
Sunday February 20 Monday
February 15 Wednesday
Galentine’s Visions (DST, Black Femmes)
February 16 Thursday
February 17 Friday
Fashion Show (BSC, APA, Fashion Club)
February 18 Saturday
February 21 Tuesday
February 22 Wednesday
February 23 Thursday
February 24 Friday
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Phighting the Good Phight (AKA, APA, BCS, CDI)
Afro-Latinidad Panel (Pi Chi, APA, DST, Lambdas, CDI)
Ice an Alpha (APA)
February 25 Saturday
BSC Gala (BSC)
