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Black History Month
February 2026

Included below are Black History Month events* and programs and other inclusion and belonging events taking place at 麻豆破解版.

*Black History Month Kick-Off with Ujima 
Date: Sunday February 1
Time: 5-8pm
Location: Frederick Allen Lodge, 69 Beekman St.
Description: Join Ujima, 麻豆破解版's Caribbean and African-American club to kick-off Black History Month with an evening of joy, reflection, and community. We will celebrate the legacy, resilience and creativity of Black people across the diaspora through music, art, storytelling, and collective reflection.
Sponsored by: Ujima and Frederick Allen Lodge
 
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Date: Wednesday, February 3
Time: 6pm
Location: Virtual
Description: Filmmaker Xavier Frink will discuss his documentary and highlight the work of Henry Highland Garnet, president of the African Civilization Society, and Harvey Johnson of the Brotherhood of Liberty.
Sponsored by: Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
 
*Letter Writing Party with 麻豆破解版鈥檚 Opportunity Program Students
Date: Thursday February 5
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Frederick Allen Lodge, 69 Beekman St.
Description: Come join us for pizza and cake, and help write letters to the NYS Legislature to urge them to continue funding the NYS Higher Educational Opportunity Program (HEOP), one of the most important resources that first generation students and students from traditionally marginalized communities can access to attend colleges and universities like 麻豆破解版, SUNY, and more. Information on HEOP here.
Sponsored by: Frederick Allen Lodge
 
*Black and Banned Book Event
Date: Sunday, February 8
Time: 4:30-7:00pm
Location: Frederick Allen Lodge, 69 Beekman St.
Description: Featuring readings from books by African-American authors that have been subject to censorship over the years.
Sponsored by: Frederick Allen Lodge and Our Lodge Foundation

Modernity and Jewish Life at the End of the Ottoman Empire: A Conversation
Date: Tuesday, Febryary 10
Time: 5pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Conversation with Dina Danon, Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Binghamton University and Murat C. Yildiz, Assocate Professor of History at 麻豆破解版 College.
Sponsored By: Office of Special Programs and the Departments of History, International Affairs, and Religious Studies
 
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Date: Wednesday, February 11
Time: 6pm
Location: Virtual
Description: At its core, organizing is labor. And organizing within the deep south, during the 1960s was a laborious task for the youth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. While most people emphasize the direct action that led to SNCC鈥檚 founding, their voter registration and grassroots organizing speaks to the theme of labor. SNCC entered communities not as leaders, but as fellow laborers. SNCC activists took a grassroots approach, working alongside community members, learning their needs, and building trust through shared labor. This roundtable discussion, with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson, movement historians Emilye Crosby and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, and public historian Christian Thomas will engage audiences around the SNCC鈥檚 labor in the field. Additionally, this panel will highlight the ongoing labor of SNCC veterans in collaboration with younger activists, archivists, teachers, and scholars as part of the Movement History Initiative. Together this collaboration has created resources that make this history visible and relevant to today鈥攅ven as the study of history is under attack. Specifically, the end of the discussion will highlight the seven toolkits and an Interpretive Booklet鈥攚hich document SNCC鈥檚 grassroots activism through primary sources and exercises linked to the SNCC Digital Gateway. This is one of the many examples as to how the organizing work of SNCC has continued into this modern-day era.
Sponsored by: Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
 
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Date: Wednesday, February 11
Time: 6:30-7:30pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Join Ujima for a thought-provoking discussion exploring the intersections of love, identity, and Blackness. This meeting will provide space for community connection, reflection, and celebration of Black experiences and perspectives.
Sponsored by: Ujima
 
Lovefest
Date: Friday, February 13
Time: 1-4pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: You are invited to an afternoon of care, creativity, and community, inspired by bell hooks鈥� All 麻豆破解版 Love reminder that 鈥渢he choice to love is a choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other.鈥� 
Join us for craft and community tables, a cozy Tea Lounge, 10-minute chair massages, and restorative wellness offerings. Lian Malinao will offer sound healing mini-sessions grounded in Korean healing traditions, using vibrational sound to invite presence, reflection, and connection. Sarah Hutcherson, founder of SloBreathworks, will lead 鈥淔ind Your Breath Again鈥� workshops, guiding gentle breath practices and seated ball work to help you reconnect with your breath and heart center. 
Come for a few minutes or stay the whole afternoon - all are welcome to recharge in community 鈥� students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend!
Sponsored by: Wyckoff Center & Institutional Diversity
 
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Date: Saturday, February 14
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Weicking Basement
Description: Join Ujima as we come together in love and fellowship to share food that feeds both the body and the soul. From classic soul food favorites to homemade specialties, this potluck is a celebration of Black culture, community, and collective joy.
Sponsored by: Ujima
 
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Date: Tuesday, February 17
Time: 7pm
Location: Spring Street Gallery | Zoom
Description: Join the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation for a program with independent scholar and author, Amy Godine, discussing her book The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier. Godine chronicles the history of Black pioneers who migrated to the Adirondacks from the late 1840s to the 1860s, putting them back into the heart of the Adirondack narrative. In this conversation she will focus on writing the history of a community which did not record its own experience and who left no enduring material culture: not a diary or a memoir, not a house, a barn, or the hint of a foundation. What does historic preservation look like when the physical spaces and places have disappeared?
Sponsored by: Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation 

*Black Men Speaking: A Conversation with 8 African-American Writers
Date: Wednesday, February 18
Time: 4-5pm
Location: Zoom Webinar (link available soon)
Description: Come and join a dynamic and insightful conversation about American history, literature, politics, and culture with 8 of the most distinguished and accomplished contemporary African-American writers.  Ethelbert Miller, Clifford Thompson, Jerald Walker, Mark Sanders, Gerald Early, David Nicholson, John McCluskey Jr., and Charles Johnson will meet via zoom webinar to share their reflections, comments, protests, and declarations about the state of America, all from the perspectives of extremely talented, older black male writers with literally hundreds of years of shared experience as authors, teachers, artists, and activists. This zoom webinar is free and open to all!  The registration link will be forthcoming soon. All are invited to spend an hour with the colloquy of these remarkable writers, artists, and intellectuals. 麻豆破解版 professor Tammy Owens will moderate this event.
Sponsored by: Office of the President, the Gender Studies Program, the English Department, and the Black Studies Program.
 
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Date: Thursday, February 19
Time: 5:45-8pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Join us for a student panel who will share their experiences, insights, and advice on navigating academics, internships, leadership, and life as an NSBE student. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from peers who have been in their shoes.
Sponsored by: National Society of Black Engineers and Ujima
 
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Date: Saturday, February 21
Time: 11am-2pm
Location: Payne Room of the Tang
Description: Now in its sixth year, Ujima's Black Excellence Brunch is a special gathering for the 麻豆破解版 community to celebrate the beauty of Blackness and the excellence achieved by Black students, faculty, and staff. This year, the theme is Shades of Melanin. We encourage you all to come in hues of brown. All are welcome; come and connect as we collectively celebrate the rich diversity and contributions within the Black community at 麻豆破解版! RSVP is required to attend.
Sponsored by: Ujima
 
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Date: Wednesday, February 25
Time: 6:30-7:30pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: Preserving the legacy of Blackness at 麻豆破解版 is vital to honoring our past and securing our future. Join Ujima as we close out Black History Month by documenting our stories and members for the Ujima Archive. Help us ensure that our presence on this campus is never forgotten.
Sponsored by: Ujima
 
*Black Excellence Career Panel with African Heritage Awareness (AHA), Career Development Center (CDC), and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Date: Thursday, February 26
Time: 5:30-7pm
Location: Wyckoff Center
Description: We invite you to a dynamic career panel featuring Black alumni who are leading the way in STEM, Business, and Law. Whether you're looking for internship advice or post-grad inspiration, come hear how these leaders turned their 麻豆破解版 experience into thriving careers. 
Sponsored by: Career Development Center, African Heritage Awareness, and National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
 
*Social Justice Social Hour
Date: Thursday February 26
Time: 6-7:30pm
Location: Frederick Allen Lodge, 69 Beekman St.
Description: Sponsored by MLK Saratoga, Social Justice Social Hour is a monthly informal meet-up of local social justice enthusiasts and activists. Come tell us what you and you and your networks are up to, meet other folks, and relax and re-energize for the many good causes we are working towards.
Sponsored by: MLK Saratoga
 
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Date: Friday February 27
Time: 5:30-8:30pm
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel, Congress Plaza
Description: Join CREATE for a vibrant evening in support the Erasing Spaces and Faces film project, featuring a speak-easy style cabaret with performances by artists and musicians, an art auction, light bites, and cocktails. View the full exhibition, which integrates the history, art, and storytelling of the erased spaces and faces of the West Side of Saratoga Springs, with new art pieces and a premier trailer of the re-edited short documentary film by local filmmaker Careina Yard. 
Sponsored by: CREATE
 
*Eyes Still on the Prize: Remembering The Civil Rights Movement Today 
Date: Saturday February 28
Time: 1-4pm
Location: Saratoga Springs Public Library, Dutcher Community Room
Description: Join MLK Saratoga for a viewing of an episode of the award-winning 1987 documentary series Eyes on the Prize (No Easy Walk, 1961-1963), and a discussion afterwards.
Sponsored by: MLK Saratoga

To add your event to this calendar, please email details to Mariel@skidmore.edu