JackieRwigamba02182010

=Black History Month= By: Jackie Rwigamba rwigambaj@students.nescom.edu

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Husson University is celebrating Black History Month in a different style. The student activities organized a showing of two movies to students and faculty in honor of the tradition. The movies were Precious and Good Hair. Precious was shown during the first week of February and good hair will be shown the last Friday of the month some students think that movies are not enough to honor the tradition.======

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Jamilla AbdulKadir did not like the choice of the movie precious; “I don’t see the relevance of the movie to black History month. It is just a regular movie with black characters.” She suggested that instead they should have shown Rosa Park movie of some other documentary that is about black history.======

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Husson Professor Paul Marrow thinks that the school should have guest speakers come to classrooms and educate students on black history. He also said that, “it should be taught to so that equality will prevail in future. Students should learn about it especially at a legal structure like the Scott decision and maybe Brown versus Board of education.======

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Carter G. Woodson founded Black History Month in 1926. It was first celebrated as negro week then as Black History month in 1976.Woodson chose the month of February because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population; Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. The theme this year is the e history of black economic empowerment.======

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The University of Maine has also been holding events in honor of the tradition. Among them are: a discussion about why black history month is important and whom it benefits, interracial dating in a predominantly white campus, African themed dinner among others.Today they will be showing 'Hotel Rwanda,on february 19th Paul Resesabagina,the director f Hotel Rwanda will be discussing the movie.====== __[] http://www.umaine.edu/multicultural/bhm.htm__