{"id":73776,"date":"2025-01-24T14:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=73776"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T21:21:59","slug":"black-history-month-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/black-history-month-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Black history and culture this February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Every February, the Lumberjack community comes together to celebrate Black History Month with a wide variety of events that recognizes the rich, diverse culture, history and societal contributions of Black Americans and the global African diaspora. Many of the month\u2019s events also raise awareness of the historical and ongoing struggles faced by Black Americans.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bernadine Lewis<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, program director of NAU\u2019s Center\u202ffor\u202fInclusive Excellence and Access, said it\u2019s important for NAU to recognize Black history and culture because the history of the university is intertwined with the history of Black Americans.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cBlack history includes the stories of the freedom of enslaved Africans, the civil rights movement and the elections of Vice President Kamala Harris and President Barack Obama, but it is so much more than that,\u201d\u202fLewis\u202fsaid. \u201cBlack history is the world\u2019s history, and it encompasses the resilience, ingenuity and brilliance of billions of people through many millennia. That is why the Lumberjack community must come together to recognize and celebrate Black History Month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">This year\u2019s event lineup includes a book giveaway, a soul food cookout, a skate night and more. For details and information, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/inclusion\/bhm\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">visit the Office of Inclusion website\u2019s Black History Month page<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/black-history-month-25\/\">Every February, the Lumberjack community comes together to celebrate Black History Month with a wide variety of events that recognizes the rich, diverse culture, history and societal contributions of Black Americans and the global African diaspora. Many of the month\u2019s events also raise awareness of the historical and ongoing struggles faced by Black Americans.\u00a0\u00a0 Bernadine&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":73777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73776","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}