Students, faculty and staff will celebrate with a wide range of cultural and educational activities, including screenings, performances and lectures

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Rutgers will celebrate Black History Month 2017 with a wide range of cultural and educational activities, including:

February 9, 7:30 p.m. Film screening of Chris Rock’s Good Hair. Rutgers Cinemas, Piscataway. 

February 9, 8 p.m. Rutgers University Programming Association presents “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour.” Bell is a critically acclaimed sociopolitical comedian who hosts the Emmy Award-nominated United Shades of America. Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick.

February 11, all day. The HAIRitage conference honors Black History Month and celebrates the history of Black and Afro-Latino hair. Sessions and workshops delve deep into the chronology of Black and Afro-Latino hair and its influence in the United States and abroad. Lucy Stone Hall, Piscataway.

February 13, 5 p.m. Black Women in Film Series. Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, New Brunswick.

February 13, 7 p.m. Film screening of Documented, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Rutgers Cinema, Piscataway.

February 13, 8 p.m. National Poetry Slam Champion Porsha O performs. Campus Center, Camden.

February 14, 8 p.m. The Office of Student Involvement hosts a screening of “Southside with You.” Campus Center, Camden.

February 15, 12:30 p.m. Undergraduate Academic Affairs and Student Access and Educational Equity presents Access Week keynote speaker Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in The New York Times Magazine. Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick.

February 15, 4:30 p.m. Student-activist Markenzie Johnson hosts a panel discussion of the history of black women and social movements. Campus Center, Camden.

February 16, 12:20 p.m. The Political Science Society hosts an in-depth conversation on the status of “Black America.” Campus Center, Camden.

February 16, 1 p.m. Undergraduate Academic Affairs presents award-winning journalist, author, activist and television personality Marc Lamont Hill as part of its James Dickson Carr Distinguished Lecture Speaker Series. Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick.

February 16, 6 p.m. The Rutgers University-Newark Department of African American and African Studies hosts a talk by Dorothy Wang, “Amiri Baraka, Ed Dorn and Revisionist Narratives of American Literary History.” John Cotton Dana Library, Newark.

February 18, 9 a.m. A Black History Month Lecture Series: Black Physicians and Scholars. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway.

February 18, 9 a.m. The 37th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series presents “City Moves: Black Urban History Since 1967,” which focuses on issues of civil and human rights, housing and gentrification, and health and income inequalities in American cities. Paul Robeson Campus Center, Newark.

February 18, 9:30 a.m. Men and Women of Color Symposium, featuring keynote speaker Symone Sanders, a democratic strategist and CNN political commentator. Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick.

February 18, 8 p.m. Annual Night of Comedy, Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick.

February 21, 8 p.m. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. presents a showcase of black art. Campus Center, Camden.

February 22, 12:15 p.m. The Office of Student Involvement presents an edition of “Bring it to the Table,” an open roundtable discussion about what is going on in the world today. Campus Center, Camden.

February 22, 8 p.m. The Office of Student Involvement hosts a screening of the film Loving, which tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, plaintiffs in the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Campus Center, Camden.

February 24, 4 p.m. The Art Students League and the Campus Center host a social justice-inspired art show. Campus Center, Camden.

February 25, 9 a.m. The Social Justice Summit is a one-day workshop guided by artists, social activists and community organizers to increase awareness of issues of inclusion and to help students develop action plans that will assist them in being agents of change on campus and in surrounding communities. Paul Robeson Campus Center, Newark.

February 25, 9 a.m. TRiO Day & Bernard Fein Scholarship Walk. Livingston Campus, Piscataway.

February 27, 6 p.m. The Rutgers University-Newark Department of African American and African Studies presents a film screening of Changing Face of Harlem, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Shawn Batey. Registration requested. John Cotton Dana Library, Newark.

February 27, 7:15 p.m. Black Women in Film Series: HBO’s Insecure. Kathleen W. Ludwig Global Village Learning Center, New Brunswick.

February 28, 1 p.m. Rutgers University-Newark History Department hosts the Teach-In “White Backlash.” Much has been made of the role of white racial resentment in the recent presidential election. This entry in the teach-in series seeks to place this political phenomenon in a longer story of American racial politics, with a particular focus on the conservative ascendancy of the late 20th century. Engelhard Hall, Newark.

February 28, 6 p.m. Black History Month Closing Reception. Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Piscataway.

All Month. The Zimmerli Art Museum exhibits “Reflections: Photographs of Iconic African Americans by Terrence A. Reese.” The show closes July 30. New Brunswick.