Black History Month Archives

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - Chapel with Dr. Stephen Newby

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Thursday, February 6, 2025 - Dr. Stephen Newby and Robert Darden

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Friday, February 7, 2025 - Recognize Black Athletes at the Home basketball game with a 3.0 GPA and above

7PM- Memorial Gym

Monday, February 10, 2025 - BSU presents Smores and Solidarity

8PM- Lucky's Firepit

Thursday, February 13, 2025 - National Endowment for the Arts and Teatro De Artes De Juan Seguin Present OUR TOWN SEGUIN "Roots of Resilience: The African American Experience in Seguin Through Art and Legacy" Joined by Howard Crunk and Created in Collaboration with the Community of Seguin, TX.

5:30 PM Schuech Fine Arts Building

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Thursday, February 20, 2025 - Soulfood Night

5:30PM- Hein Dining Hall

Monday, February 24, 2025 - BSU presents Family Feud

8PM- ASC Conference Room A/B

***Time and Events are subject to change*** 

“The Journey Continues”
TLU welcomes all to celebrate the achievements and excellence of the African American and Black communities during the month of February (and we hope all year!) We seek to honor those who have given so much in the fight for racial justice so that others can thrive. The Black Student Union and the Center for African American Studies offer numerous events that encourage us to practice hope and resiliency as we engage in meaningful conversations as the journey for racial justice continues.

Wednesday, February 7: Kick-Off Black History Month at Chapel with the BSU
During February, each Wednesday in Chapel is a special Black History Month service with new speakers. Come join us in hearing from special guests, including Dr. Reverend Sharon Grant, the Director of the Center for African American Studies, and Dr. Malikah Pitts Harvey.

Location: Chapel of the Abiding Presence
Time: 10:00-10:20am
 

Thursday, February 8: Brown Cultural Enrichment Series: Nontombi Naomi Tutu
Location: Jackson Auditorium
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
 

Monday, February 12: Black Student Union hosts “Smores and Solidarity”
Join the BSU student body meeting for this special event.
Location & Time: TBA.

Follow TLU BSU on Instagram for updates and events throughout the month. BSU welcomes all students.

Thursday, February 15: Center for African American Studies Open House
 

Location: Center for African American Studies, Langner Hall
Time: 11:45am-1:00pm

 

Wednesday, February 21: Chapel Speaker with Reverend Arthur Malone II
Reverend Malone is the pastor at New James Baptist Church in Seguin and founding member of the Seguin Community Coalition, established as a response to the George Floyd murder. The Coalition brought together Seguin Police, Texas Lutheran University, and local Pastors.

Location: Chapel of the Abiding Presence
Time: 10:00am-10:20am

Thursday, February 22: Dr. Mario Salas Discussion on the Alamo
With special guest Paula Wilson King - President of Wilson Pottery Museum

Location: Tschoepe, Dunne Conference Center
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
 

Thursday, Feb 22: BSU presents “Blame It on the Boogie”
Come join BSU for a fun celebration!
 

Location & Time: TBA.
 

Wednesday, Feb 28: Soul Food Night
Location: Hein Dining Hall
Time: 5pm

Follow TLU BSU on Instagram for updates and events throughout the month. BSU welcomes all students.

TLU honors the accomplishments and impact the African American community has had on our world as we celebrate Black History Month 2023. As a campus, celebrating Black History Month helps foster diversity by promoting Black Student Union-sponsored events and creating additional opportunities for students to learn the true meaning behind the month and the history of African Americans.
 

Feb 3: Black is Community

Open House Presentation
Location: African American Studies Center
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Join Black Student Union for an open house of the African American Studies Center. There will be student presentations on the peoples of South Africa and South African snacks.

Feb. 3: Black is @TLU

Location: The doghouse (next to Alumni Student Center)
Time: 12-1 p.m.
We will all as a community meet up and put our handprint and name on doghouse and mingle with our fellow black students at TLU.

Feb. 6: Black is Delicious

Purple Pig Food
Location: Outside ASC
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Feb. 11: Black is Excellence Leadership Conference

Student Conference
Location: Tschoepe Hall
Time: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
 

Feb. 13: Black is Love Valentine’s Day Party

Location: Fireside Lounge (Alumni Student Center)
8 p.m.
A Valentine's potluck party co-hosted by Black Student Union and the Mexican America Student Association.

Feb. 20: Black is Fellowship

Location: Chapel of the Abiding Presence 
Time: 10 a.m.
Rev. Lee Martin of Second Baptist Church

Feb. 26: Black is Faith
 

Church at Second Baptist
Time: TBD

Black History Month Kick-Off! (Fellowship Matters)

February 1 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Stop by the Library parking lot and hang out with Black Student Union at The Purple Pig BBQ food truck. Students must RSVP on Connect@TLU by January 27.

Black History Month Chapel Service (Worship Matters)

February 2 from 10-10:20 a.m. 
Chapel of the Abiding Presence

2022 Florence Price Celebration

February 5 & 6

Florence Price, a highly prolific and influential composer, was the first Black woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra. Her legacy lives on in her compositions, yet she is still widely underperformed within the musical canon. The Florence Price Festival will be held on the weekend of February 5 and 6 on the campuses of Texas Lutheran University and the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW).

Learn More About Florence Price & View A List Of Events

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – Honoring Our Lost & Celebrating Our Survivors

February 7 (All Day)

Black Excellence Networking: Meet The BSU and TLU’s Black Faculty & Staff (Connection Matters)

February 10 from 12 - 12:50 p.m. 
Alumni Student Center (ASC)

Enjoy food from Urban Soul, a plant-based eatery that serves traditional soul food, meatless, and alkaline food options. Stop by the ASC as we highlight another black-owned business! Students must RSVP on Connect@TLU by February 3.

African American Studies Open House (The Culture Matters)

February 16 (All Day) 
African American Studies Lounge (Langner Hall 239) 
 

Soul Food Night (Family Matters)

February 17 from 4:30-7:30 p.m. 
Hein Dining Hall

BSU Movie Night (Laughter & Relaxation Matters)

February 17 at 8 p.m. 
Alumni Student Center A/B
 

Black History Month Chapel Service (Worship Matters)

February 28 from 10:00-10:20 a.m. 
Chapel of the Abiding Presence

Spring Break Kick-Off! (Fellowship Matters)

March 10 from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Stop by the library parking lot so you don’t miss out on Q’s Place Creole Cooking & Seafood food truck. 

TLU Library Celebrates Black History Month

Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston, © Robert Houston

Visit the Blumberg Library to learn more about their Black History Month display and City Of Hope: Resurrection City and The Poor Peoples Campaign of 1968. The display is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
 

According to the King Institute at Stanford University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. started the Poor People’s Campaign with a vision of it as the next chapter in the struggle for genuine equality. Desegregation and the right to vote were essential, but King believed that African Americans and other minorities would never enter full citizenship until they had economic security.

Additional Books On Display:

• Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
• Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur
• On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
• My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King
• From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson
• Promised Land by Barack Obama.
• Vanguard : How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones.
• The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
• African American Poetry : 250 Years of Struggle & Song by Kevin Young, editor.
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
• Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes
• Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston
• Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
• Beloved : A Novel by Toni Morrison
• Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• In Search of the Color Purple by Salamishah Tillet
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : A Novel by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• Black Heroes of the Wild West by James Otis Smith
• Eyewitness to the Harlem Hellfighters by Jill Sherman.
• Sail Away : Poems by Langston Hughes
• Undefeated by Kwame Alexander ; illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.

Bulldog Cinema

In addition to the planned schedule of events, faculty, staff, and students are also encouraged to visit Bulldog Cinema to access a wide range of films in honor of Black History Month. Please note that Bulldog Cinema can only be viewed on campus from a computer or television in residence halls.
 

2022 Black History Month Sponsors:

• Black Student Union
• Campus Activities Board
• Campus Ministry
• Department of African-American Studies
• Student Affairs
• Sodexo
• Student Government Association

"Black Student Union: It All Begins With You"

TLU celebrates Black History Month with a variety of special events and guest speakers.

Chapel Service (Virtual)
February 1
10-10:30 a.m.
 

Yoga with Alumna Jaz Burgess '11
February 3, 10, & 24

Jaz Burgess will be hosting free yoga classes on the dates list at noon via Instagram Live through her account @hustlemeetsgrace. TLU faculty, staff, students, and community members are all welcome to join.

River City Drumbeat: A Virtual Discussion with Filmmaker Marlon Johnson
February 8
7 p.m.
Moderators: Prof. Beth Bronk & Dr. Chris Bollinger

Click Here to Watch River City Drumbeat before the Feb. 8 event.
 

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Guest Speaker: Dr. Omedi Ochieng (Virtual)
February 10
2:30 p.m.

Join TLU for a special presentation from Professor and Author Dr. Omedi Ochieng: "Representation, Experience, and the Capaciousness of Black Life"

During his talk, Dr. Ochieng will seek to invite participants to a conversation on Black life and experiences in the United States. A variety of Black scholars have offered strong criticisms of the idea that depictions of Black pain (e.g. in videos, photographs, and films) necessarily engender empathy and identification with Black people. Indeed, these scholars have argued that representations and discussions about Black suffering are often pleasurable to viewers and listeners raised in an anti-Black society.

This talk will discuss the methods by which various thinkers and activists have sought to talk about Black experiences, including the suffering of Black people, both by refusing to flinch from the destructive and damaging structures of white supremacy and by articulating the multilayered complexities of Black life.
 

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Eden Cross & Eden Place Community Service Event
February 12
3 p.m.
1220 Jefferson Avenue, Seguin, TX 78155
Volunteers should check Connect@TLU and their TLU email for more information.

African American Studies Open House
February 16
All Day
African American Studies Lounge (Langner Hall 239)

A Celebration of Music by Black Composers (Virtual)
March 5
Time: 7 p.m.

View The Event Program

Black Excellence Networking
This event has been postponed until April 2021
Zoom link will be provided to students who RSVP through Connect@TLU

Chapel Service (Virtual)
Celebrating 50 Years of Black Student Union
February 24
10-10:30 a.m.

TLU Chapel and Campus Ministry will celebrate the 50th anniversary of TLU's BSU with current members Brooke Kalinec, Naomi Nobles, Tierrah Adams, Moses Tillman-Young, and Rashad Tolbert. TLU graduate Kendra Nwosu will perform, alumna Jaz Burgess will preach, and a poem written specifically for the event by alumnus Fernando Rover will be read.

We Lift Our Voices in Song: A Virtual Discussion with Dr. Marques L.A. Garrett
Dr. Liliana Guerrero, moderator
February 25
7 p.m. 

Join the TLU School Of Music for a discussion with Dr. Marques L.A. Garrett as they explore the vast collection of classical music for solo voice and choir by Black composers. Dr. Garrett will speak about the history of the African-American spiritual and its modern day performance practice, as well as highlight the non-idiomatic contributions of many underrepresented composers. This is an interactive lecture in which questions from the community are welcome.
 

Learn More
 

In addition to the planned schedule of events, faculty, staff, and students are also encouraged to visit Bulldog Cinema to access a wide range of films in honor of Black History Month. Please note that Bulldog Cinema can only be viewed on campus from a computer or television in residence halls.

TLU RENAISSANCE: A CELEBRATION OF BLACK ART

FEBRUARY 4: SOUL FOOD NIGHT

4:30-7:30 PM Hein Dining Hall

FEBRUARY 6: AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES OPEN HOUSE

12-12:50PM

African American Studies Center, Langner Hall

FEBRUARY 11: CELEBRATING THE 15TH AMENDMENT

5:30-6:30PM

Alumni Student Center, Conference Room A/B

FEBRUARY 12: CHAPEL SERVICE

10-10:20 AM

Chapel of The Abiding Presence

FEBRUARY 17: FILM FESTIVAL, "WALK ON THE RIVER: A BLACK HISTORY OF THE ALAMO CITY"

7-10PM

Wupperman Little Theatre

A documentary, highlighting the history and contributions of African Americans in the city of San Antonio, TX.

FEBRUARY 18: FILM FESTIVAL

7-10PM

"Little"

"Sorry To Bother You"

Alumni Student Center, Conference Room A/B

FEBRUARY 19 GUEST SPEAKER: MR. GILBERT TUHABONYE

1-2:15PM

Location: Dunne Conference Center, Tschoepe Hall

Gilbert Tuhabonye is a beloved role model, coach and an inspiration to people all over the world. He is also a genocide survivor. In 1993, as a high school junior, Gilbert escaped a horrific massacre in the long Tutsi-Hutu war of Burundi where endured unbearable torture, witnessed mass murder and barely escaped his own fiery death. A runner since childhood, he ran from that horror, into a new life. A life of hope.

Over 20 years later, and more than 8,000 miles from Burundi, Gilbert is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit, as he emerged from the unimaginable ordeal with faith, forgiveness and perseverance. Today, Gilbert is a retired professional runner, philanthropist, author, and community leader in Austin, where he lives with his wife Triphine and two daughters, Emma and Grace.

He is also the owner and founder of , one of Austin's largest running training groups, the head cross country and track coach at St. Andrews High School, and a co-founder of the Gazelle Foundation, which provides clean water to people in his homeland of Burundi, Africa.

While Gilbert’s story includes great tragedy, it is also one of faith, hope, and resilience. He is living proof that one person can make the world a better, more compassionate place, and that love really does conquer all evil.

FEBRUARY 19: FILM FESTIVAL

“Black Belt Jones”

“Southside With You”

“The Perfect Guy”

7-10PM

Alumni Student Center, Conference Room A/B/C

FEBRUARY 20: FILM FESTIVAL

"Do The Right Thing" A Spike Lee Joint

7-10PM

Alumni Student Center, Conference Room A/B

FEBRUARY 27: POETRY READING & ART SHOWCASE

7:30PM

Jackson Park Student Activities Center

2020 Event Sponsors

• Department of African-American Studies
• Black Student Union
• Blumberg Memorial Library
• Brown Cultural Enrichment Endowment Fund
• Campus Activities Board
• Department of History
• Department of Women's Studies
• Student Life & Learning
• Sodexo