Join the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Black Student Union and many other campus groups for a series of events in celebration of Black History Month. Browse the schedule below, and watch your email for more event details.

  • Saturday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m. "Floetry" Open Mic at the Horn Gallery
  • Friday, Feb. 9, 6 p.m. Shaakira Raheem '11 and ASA at Allen House
  • Saturday, Feb. 10. Somatic movement and healing session with Shaakira Raheem '11 in Oden Hall 300
  • Wednesday, Feb. 14, 12 p.m. Celebrate Douglass Day at Chalmers Library and Allen House
  • Friday, Feb. 16, 5 p.m. Intro to the Divine 9: Historical Black Fraternities and Sororities in the Finn House Cheever Room
  • Saturday, Feb. 17, 3:30 p.m. Keynote address by Gary Tyler in the Community Foundation Theater
  • Sunday, Feb. 18, bus departs at 9 a.m. Trip to the Toledo Museum of Art
  • Thursday, Feb. 22, 4 p.m. Intro to Healing Through Writing with Rowana Abbensetts-Dobson '13, a Zoom workshop
  • Friday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. Informal dinner with BSU 55 planning committee and the Alumni Council in the Alumni Dining Room in Peirce Hall
  • Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m. BSU formal, 50 Years of Hip Hop, location TBD
  • Wednesday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. All Students Need Good Teachers: The Benefits of Teaching in Independent Schools with James Greenwood '02 in the Cheever Room
  • Thursday, Feb. 29, time TBD. All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Celebrating Black Feminism and Solidarity Among Sister Scholars in the Academy in Weaver Cottage

Please email odei@kenyon.edu if you have any questions or to discuss access considerations needed to participate fully in our events.