lwc celebrates black history month

“We just try to build awareness in between everyone that this is for everybody and we try to make everything diverse,” Thompson said about describing Black History Month.

He made it aware that they want all nationalities to be apart of it and to be apart of all discussions at the events.

“We want everybody's opinions on every discussion we have. Nothing is any bias toward any race or anything like that.”

Black History Month will kickoff on the first of February with the event BHM kickoff in the Cafe from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be diversity week that they will celebrate with Bonner and that event will be on the seventh at 6:30 p.m.

Diversity will further be explored with the club’s Diversity of African American Culture Fest on the 13th. The Culture Fest will consist of different events.

“We will probably have like different attire wore, have some different food cooked to just try different food from like across the country and things like that, and there are more events that we are actually still pending for right now.”

The event on the 20th will be the presentations that students this year will give on who influenced them and it should be from three to four minutes. It is expected to consist of 12 presentations, but if need to be it might be “narrowed down.”

He said it depends on how many people show up to give a presentation, however, it is not all about how many people show up.

“We pretty much probably might have a lower number just so we can have people actually focus on bigger people.”

Thompson first named Martin Luther King as somebody that will be celebrated for Black History Month. The past that he created for us and creating diversity stated Thompson as reason for why he would be one of the people celebrated.

“One and equal rights for everyone. He didn’t go through all the things that he went through in the past for us to pretty much hate each other and continue life you know in a disrespectful way.”

Martin Luther King had an impact on everyone extending to Thompson himself.

“He has put a huge impact on my life and it's just about the way I look at everyone and I just try to treat everybody equal you know just because I want to be the same.”

Presentations will be held in Hodge or Goodin room 203-204. After presentations on the 21st if not changed, the Black Student Union and LIFE will host a Gospel Explosion. He said people can expect “different music,” food, and a discussion.

“We are gonna since this is like a Methodist college I was gonna have like different gospel music and we are gonna actually try and relate this to LIFE.”

The Gospel Explosion will be held at Hodge at 9 p.m. To end Black History Month on the 27th a discussion will be held in VCR. Black Student Union also plans to donate canned goods for every event that is held during Black History Month.

“Every event that we have were also gonna be donating canned goods to campus kitchen and other organizations that are for in need. So, were also going to do a lot of things positive for people come to our event as well.”

Thompson hopes that by the end of Black History Month that all the events have empowered people and taught them that there is more “outside” what they think about the club. He wants them to learn what they as a club discuss and build awareness for.

“I just want them to learn that like what we actually talk about, what we build awareness for, the discussions that we have, and how there triggered toward everybody’s life today.”

He wants people at Lindsey Wilson College to learn more about the Black Student Union, but overall the club wants it to be a “learning experience.”

“The main thing is just come out and learn. That’s the only thing.”

It might not be in class, but like he said that is why we come to school for. The events of Black History Month can be a “learning experience” about their own lives and what people in society go through everyday.

“We feel like we can pretty much take this month and just really charge and just build an awareness in people.”