{"id":46327,"date":"2017-02-01T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=46327"},"modified":"2017-02-10T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:22:06","slug":"black-history-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/black-history-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Student Union announces events for Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate Black History Month, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nau.collegiatelink.net\/organization\/Black-Student-Union\">Black Student Union<\/a> at Northern Arizona University has the following events planned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Movie night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN: 8 p.m. every Thursday in February<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: Prochnow Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>WHAT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 2: \u201cBoyz n the Hood\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 9: \u201cSpace Jam\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 16: \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 23: \u201cSouth Side With You\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admission and concessions are free with an NAU student ID.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performances of &#8220;Caesar&#8221;\/&#8221;X&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Feb.\u00a010 (&#8220;Caesar&#8221;); Feb. 11 (&#8220;X&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: Clifford E. White Theatre on the Flagstaff campus<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: Performances of William Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Julius Caesar&#8221; and Malcolm Gardley&#8217;s &#8220;X&#8221; performed by the all-black cast of New York City-based The Acting Company. &#8220;X&#8221; is the story of the life and assassination of activist Malcolm X in the 1960s. Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans, NAU chief diversity officer Carmen Phelps, other administrators and members of the Black Student Union will be on stage, acting as silent members of the jury during the performance of &#8220;X.&#8221; Theatre professor Mac Groves and ethnic studies professor Ricardo Guthrie will discuss the themes of each play after the performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Renaissance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHEN: 7 p.m. Feb. 25<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: Ashurst Auditorium<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: A celebration that will include speeches from Brenda Thompson, executive director of the Arizona Humanities, and Miles Hodges, a famous poet from Strivers Row, as well as student performances. Dinner is included. Attire is black tie. Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for the general public and can be purchased from the NAU ticket office or online\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jan.ucc.nau.edu\/cto-p\/\">nau.edu\/cto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/black-history-events\/\">To commemorate Black History Month, the Black Student Union at Northern Arizona University has the following events planned. Movie night WHEN: 8 p.m. every Thursday in February WHERE: Prochnow Auditorium WHAT: Feb. 2: \u201cBoyz n the Hood\u201d Feb. 9: \u201cSpace Jam\u201d Feb. 16: \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d Feb. 23: \u201cSouth Side With You\u201d Admission and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}