Welcome to Glendale Community College's Black History Month Celebrations
Black History Month is celebrated annually from February 1 - 29 to acknowledge the history, culture, the achievements, and contributions of African Americans in the United States.
Learn about the origins of Black History
Participate in an event celebrating Black History Month
Watch a movie or read a book about African American Contributions to society
Support Black-owned businesses
Donate to Black-led organizations
About Event:
Join us on each Wednesday in February for Soul Food Wednesday. Each Wednesday, Glendale Community College will host a different Soul Food Truck. Below is a list of trucks that will be featured on each day.
2/7 - Mingo's Louisiana Food Truck
2/14 - AZ Fry Guy Food Truck
2/21 - Mel and Libby's Soul Food Truck
2/28 - Screaming Hot Chicken
Please stop by the Soul Food Truck to purchase your plate of food.
In honor of Black History Month, the Glendale Community College presents Black History Month Trivia. Join us for an day of Black History and Black Music Trivia. Winners will receive a Maya Angelou Quarter and a Black History Month Sticker.
Join us as Dr. Patrick Rolando discusses this year's National Black History Month's theme, African Americans and the Arts.
About the Presenter:
L. Alexander Patrick-Rolando, PhD, (He/Him/His) is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is Residential Faculty in Social Sciences, working to ensure students, faculty, and staff have equitable access to education and safe and inclusive work environments. Outside of the education world, Dr. Patrick-Rolando continues enjoying the world of the arts! Throughout his artistic timeline, he has consistently enjoyed working as a visual artist, a theatrical performer, a dance performer, and on occasion, a vocalist. Currently, his primary mode of artistic expression is through dance. He has trained and performed, locally, nationwide, and internationally. Additionally, he uses his art to help fundraise for a number of charities. He is currently dancing as a company member of Convergence Ballet and Scorpius Dance Theatre in Phoenix. He appreciates the arts in every way and continues to work towards a shared value for the experiences of every being. Dr. Patrick-Rolando is thankful for his family and friends and all of the amazing and inspirational teachers, artists, and everyone that has supported and nurtured his talents.
In his talk, Black Wall Street, Mr. Gilmore will discuss one of the wealthiest Black communities, the horrendous events of June 1, 1921, and its impact on African Americans, and how the event was discussed in America before it became mainstream knowledge.
About the Presenter:
Rorvis(Roar-Vis) Gilmore Jr. is a first generation college student. He attended Estrella Mountain Community College, where he obtained his Associates in Arts. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies through Northern Arizona University (NAU). He was a Student Ambassador at EMCC but now is a Lead in the GCC Peer Success Coach Program. He is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Sigma Chi Eta and Lambda Pi Eta.
About the Presentation:
Jeff Kruse will share his passion for this civil rights leader and extraordinary playwright. Spend your time on this Zoom Webinar and find out more about all that Lorraine accomplished in her much too brief life. This will include a time for your questions and comments.
Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/484eQeK
Meeting ID: 96580652820
Passcode: 932179
In her talk, Where are all the Black Folks? Exploring the erasure of Black History in Arizona, Dr. Glegiabher will explore how discursive and geographic erasures combine to render Black Arizona's indisceniables within dominant narratives about the state.
About the Presenter:
Meskerem Glegziabher earned her doctorate and master's in anthropology with a graduate concentration in gender and development from Michigan State University in 2016. She is an applied cultural anthropologist whose research and praxis focuses on intersectional marginalization, notions of belonging, and structural inequity. Most recently, she was a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of Inclusion and Community Engagement in Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. In 2019, she curated and co-developed the traveling multi-media exhibit, "The Great Migration: Indiscernibles in Arizona,'' exploring Black Migration into the state.
Infographic listing Glendale Community College's Black History Month Reading List Recomendations
A Black Women's History of the United States by Diana Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
A More Beautiful & Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
A Promise Land by Barack Obama
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Black Firsts by Jessie Carney Smith
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism by Jenn M. Jackson
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Caste: The Orgins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Chocolate Cities by Marcus Anthony Hunter & Zandria F. Robinson
Chokehold by Paul Butler
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture & History by Colin A. Palmer
Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha Blai
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by Elizabeth Hinton
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
His Name is Geroge Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I'm Still Here Austin by Channing Brown
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
Just As I Am by Cecily Tyson
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Kindred by Octavia Butler
Locking up Our Own by James Forman
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
North of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack
Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Reproductive Injustice by Dána-Ain Davis
Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership & Activism by Jelani M. Favors
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde & Cheryl Clarke
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi, Joel Christian Gill
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Alex Haley (as told to)
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Similios
The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Black Revolution on Campus by Martha Biondi
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Challenge of Blackness by Derrick E. White
The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston by Michelle Moore
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Jon Hale
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Vanishing Half by JBrit Bennett
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin, Martellus Bennett
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker
Unseen by Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave & Rachel L. Swarns
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad by Andrew K. Diemer
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
When they Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Angela Davis
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Infographic listing Glendale Community College's Black History Month Films & TV Series Recomendations
Films:
Just Mercy - HBO Max
Ballerina's Tale - Prime
Moonlight - Prime
42 - HBO Max
Crooklyn - Prime
Boyz n the Hood - Hulu
Drumline - Prime
The Hate U Give - Hulu
The Butler - Prime
The Princess and the Frog - Disney +
I Am Not Your Negro - Prime
I will Follow - Netflix
12 Years a Slave - Prime
Malcolm X - HBO Max
Black Panther 1 & 2 - Disney +
If Beale Street Could Talk - Hulu
Judas and the Black Messiah - HBO Max
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - HBO Max
Marshall - Prime
Selma - Prime
Hidden Figures - Disney +
13th - Netflix
Harriet - Prime, Netflix
Fences - Prime
Akeela & the Bee - Prime
Soul - Disney +
Bessie - HBO Max
Raisin in the Sun - Prime
The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Prime
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Netflix
Love & Basketball - HBO Max
Summer of Soul - Hulu
Soul Food - HBO Max
Loving - Netflix
Race - Prime
Black is King - Disney +
TV Series:
Moesha - Netflix
Sister, Sister - Netflix
Girlfriends - Netflix
On my Block - Netflix
Colin in Black & White - Netflix
Self Made - Netflix
The Get Down - Netflix
Dear White People - Netflix
Pose - Netflix
All American - Netflix
Grownish - Hulu
When they See Us - Netflix
Grassrootz Bookstore & Juice Bar
Andy's Shoe Shine and Repair Shop
To find additional Black-Owned Businesses, please click the button below:
The following resources are recommended by the GCC Library and the American Library Association.
GCC Library's Black History Month Guide
400 Years of African American History, National Park Service
African American History, National Archives
African American Heritage, National Park Service
Amistad Research Center at Tulane University
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Behind the Veil Oral History Project, Duke University Libraries
Black History Month, Library of Congress
Black History Collection, Fold 3 by Ancestry
Black History Month Resource Guide, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Black History Month Resource Collection, Facing History and Ourselves
Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874, Library of Congress
The History Makers: The Nation’s Largest African American Video Oral History Collection
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Open Access Initiative
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Virtual Exhibitions
National Underground Railroad, Freedom Center Online Learning Resources
Origins of Black History Month, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Stories to Celebrate Black History Month, StoryCorps
Please note that Black History Month events are free and open to the public. For questions regarding Black History Month, please contact the Student Leadership Center @ 623.845.4617
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