{"id":8632,"date":"2020-02-06T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/17\/february-is-black-history-month\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:20:05","slug":"february-is-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/february-is-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"February is Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will celebrate Black History Month in a variety of ways throughout February, beginning with Gospelfest on Feb. 8 and concluding with \u201cA Soulful Brunch\u201d on Feb. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a list of scheduled events on campus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Feb. 8 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Gospelfest, 2 p.m., Trone Student Center-Watkins Ballroom (sponsored by FUGE) (CLP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 9 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Founder\u2019s Day Banquet, 6:30 p.m., Hartness Pavilion (sponsored by NAACP). RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:Deborah.allen@furman.edu\">deborah.allen@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 10 \u2013 <\/strong>Black Cowboys: Then and Now, 6:30 p.m., Trone Student Center-Watkins Ballroom (sponsored by NAACP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 12 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Beyonc\u00e9 and Spirituality: At the Digital Cross(roads) with Beyonc\u00e9, 6:30. p.m., Johns Hall 101 (sponsored by SLBC) (CLP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 13 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>A Love Jones Open Mic Night, 7 p.m., Trone Center-Thomas Room (sponsored by SLBC)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 19 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Democratic Debate Watch Party, 8-11 p.m., Johns Hall 101 (sponsored by NAACP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 20 \u2013 <\/strong>The Importance of Diversity and Law-Yendelela Neely Holston, noon, Trone Center-Watkins Ballroom (sponsored by the Pre-Law Society) (CLP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 20 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Sustainable Faith in an Exploitative World with Rasheeda Graham Washington, 7 p.m., Trustees Dining Room (sponsored by Mere Christianity Forum)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 26 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Black History Month Monologue Contest, 6:30 p.m., John Hall 101 (sponsored by NAACP)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feb. 29 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>A Soulful Brunch, 11 a.m., Trone Student Center-Watkins Room (Sponsored by CIC, SLBC, NAACP) RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:Deborah.allen@furman.edu\">deborah.allen@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, email Deborah Allen at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:deborah.allen@furman.edu\">deborah.allen@furman.edu<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/search?q=Center+for+Inclusive+Communities\">Center for Inclusive Communities<\/a> in Trone Student Center 205.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University will celebrate Black History Month in a variety of ways throughout February, beginning with Gospelfest on Feb. 8 and concluding with \u201cA Soulful Brunch\u201d on Feb. 29. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":18351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-four-news-4th-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}