{"id":36092,"date":"2025-02-03T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=36092"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:42:46","slug":"black-history-month-at-furman-features-events-for-students-faculty-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/black-history-month-at-furman-features-events-for-students-faculty-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month at Furman features events for students, faculty and staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">Various student groups and offices at Furman University have come together to develop Black History Month programming for our community. The month&#8217;s celebration kicked off on Jan. 31 with the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/joseph-vaughns-courage-a-model-for-all-at-furman-to-embrace\/\">Joseph Vaughn Day<\/a>. They continued on Saturday\u00a0at the Women&#8217;s Basketball Game and at the Legacy Celebration hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/serve\/leadership-opportunities\/bac\/\">Black Alumni Council<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">There are many more events happening on campus this month. A few of them are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 3, &#8220;We Are not OK,&#8221; Promoting mental health in the workplace, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Trustees Dining Room in the Dining Hall, Sponsored by the Black Faculty and Staff Association<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 12, NAACP Founder&#8217;s Day Banquet, 6-7 p.m., Chapel Garden Room, Sponsored by the Furman Chapter of the NAACP<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 13, Black Politics (CLP), 5-6:30 p.m., Trustees Dining Room, Sponsored by the Center for Interpersonal Connections and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 21, Get Aktive, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Playhouse Studio, Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 27, FUGE Black History Month Concert, 6 p.m., Daniel Recital Hall, sponsored by FUGE, the Furman University Gospel Ensemble<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Students, staff, faculty and other partners to watch the events tab on <a href=\"https:\/\/furman.campuslabs.com\/engage\/events\">SyncDin<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/cultural-life-program\/upcoming-clp-events\/\">CLP calendar<\/a> and follow these groups on social platforms for the latest updates:<\/div>\n<ul data-editing-info=\"{&quot;applyListStyleFromLevel&quot;:true}\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Student Diversity Council (SDC)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Center for Interpersonal Connections (CIC)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Afrikiya<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Rho Zeta Chapter<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Black Alumni Council (BAC)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Black Faculty and Staff Association (BFSA)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Furman Chapter of the NAACP<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Furman Office of Spiritual Life<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Furman University Gospel Ensemble (FUGE)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Purple Diamonds<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Xi Omega Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Student League for Black Culture (SLBC)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black History Month kicked off on Jan. 31 with Joseph Vaughn Day. Events are scheduled throughout February, wrapping up with a FUGE concert on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":16591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-center-for-interpersonal-connection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36095,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36092\/revisions\/36095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}