Black History Month at 69成人电影网 University
Student-organized events, video highlight what BHM means on campus
Black History Month is being marked at 69成人电影网 with a number of student-led initiatives and events.
Two student groups, the Islanders Society and the Black Students鈥 Union (BSU), working with the 69成人电影网 Students鈥 Union, have been leading Black History Month activities and events on campus.
鈥淥ur focus has been on education,鈥 says Aminah Simmons, one of the co-founders of the 69成人电影网 Islanders Society, formed in 2017. 鈥淲e鈥檝e been involved with community events like the World Bazaar during Sackville鈥檚 Moonlight Madness and have met with other Caribbean societies at universities in the region.鈥
The Islanders Society is for students from Afro-Caribbean countries, Bermuda, and allies. The group has been partnering with the Black Students鈥 Union (BSU) on events and campaigns specific to Black History Month.
Simmons, a third-year religious studies and women鈥檚 and gender studies student from Bermuda, says the Society is also partnering with the R.P. Bell Library to display book recommendations by Caribbean writers in honour of Black History Month.
The 69成人电影网 BSU is a group dedicated to black students and to creating a safe place to talk and share culture, to being a resource, and to hosting events.
鈥淭he BSU is for black students and allies and aims to help students feel comfortable and offer support on campus,鈥 says Kawama Kasutu, a second-year sociology student from Halifax, NS, and event co-ordinator for the group. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been great to work with the Islanders Society and the MASU on events and activities throughout the term for what we鈥檙e calling Black History Month 鈥 Extended. We want to keep the atmosphere and learning around black history going and continue the conversation on campus.鈥
The BSU has organized several awareness and educational events on campus including a panel discussion on Mental Health and Blackness with Yusra Khogali from Black Lives Matter, scheduled for March (location, date, and time to be announced shortly). The University recently welcomed Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives, to campus as part of the this term.
The student organizations also produced a with the 69成人电影网 Students鈥 Union about what Black History Month means to students on campus.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got a lot of activities in the works: poetry slams, hip hop trivia, and a few surprises coming up in the term,鈥 says Kasutu. 鈥淲e hope to make Black History Month 鈥 Extended at 69成人电影网 even bigger in the future.鈥
For more information on the BSU, including events on campus, find them on FB and Instagram (@mtabsu); MASU (masu.ca)
Photo captions: Yusra Khogali, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, will lead a panel discussion on blackness and mental health on campus in March (details to be announced shortly). The event is part of Black History Month activities at 69成人电影网, organized in part by the 69成人电影网 Black Students' Union, the Islanders Society, and the MASU.
