SPONSORS: UNCW: Academic Affairs, Association for Campus Entertainment (ACE), College of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Honors Scholars Program, Office of Campus Diversity, Philosophy and Religion, Public Service and Continuing Studies, Randall Library, Student Affairs, Watson School of Education, and The Landfall Foundation
 

• JAN 15: "Brown v. Board of Education and How It Has Changed Us" kickoff reception at Special Collections Room, Randall Library, UNCW, 7 p.m.

  Related event: Andrew Young to speak at the Fourth Annual City-wide Interfaith Service honoring the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:30 p.m. Schwartz Center Cape Fear Community College 610 North Front Street (corner of Hanover and Front Streets) Wilmington, NC  28401

• JAN 22: Juan Williams,  author of the critically acclaimed Thurgood Marshall - American Revolutionary and the nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, will present the Martin Luther King Day Speech, "Eyes on the Prize: The Truths of American Race Relations.". Sponsored by the Office of Campus Diversity. 7 p.m. Kenan Auditorium. Free tickets at Kenan box office.

• JAN 29: FILM Series: “Lean on Me.” Introduction by Sue Richardson. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.

• FEB 1: Brown v. Board of Education Library display. To run through the Spring semester. In addition to this display, the students of the graduate course in public history, HST 573-02, will construct another display on this subject, which will be installed during the month of March.
   

  Related event: Amy Kirschke lecture on "African American Artist Romare Bearden" 2 p.m., Sunday, February 1, Cameron Art Museum.

   

• FEB 5: FILM Series: “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Introduction by Tom Maclennan. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.

  Related events: Lecture-performance by distinguished Wilmington musician Grenoldo Frazier, "A Journey through the World of Gospel Music," 4 pm. , Sunday, Feb 8 in Kenan Auditorium.  Panel: "Brown v. Board of Education: Where Are We Today, Where Do We Need To Go?" Dorothy Deshields, Robert Smith, Earl Sheridan, and Max Allen, facilitated by Rhonda Bellamy. 7 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 10th King Hall Auditorium.  To be broadcast on UNCW-TV. English Department film series: "The Color Purple" introduced by Lu Ellen Huntley, 7:30 pm. , Tuesday, Feb 10, in Morton 100, Bryan Auditorium.  Panel: The Office of International Programs is sponsoring a panel discussion on Monday, February 9, 6-7:30 pm (in the Warwick Center Ballroom), "The Beloved Country, South Africa Ten Years after Apartheid." The panel members will include: Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie, William E. Leuc htenburg Professor of African Studies and Professor of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill; Dr. Kenneth Vickery, Professor of History, NC State University; Sean Cumberlege, UNCW student from Knysna, South Africa and John Kynoch, UNCW student from Port Elizabeth, South A frica. The event will be moderated by Dr. James P. McNab, Assistant Provost for International Programs.

   

• FEB 12:  Keith Medley, author of the highly regarded  We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy (1896) established constitutionality of "separate but equal" schools, and intensified the process to segregate American society. Sponsored by the Office of Campus Diversity. 7:30 p.m., Morton Auditorium.

• FEB 19: FILM Series: “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.” Introduction by Glen Harris, Robert Toplin. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium

• FEB 26:  James Patterson, Bancroft-prize winning author of  Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Landmark and Its Troubled Legacy. Brown (1954) ended the constitutionality of "separate but equal" schools, and began the process to end segregation in American society. B. Frank Hall Lecture. Co-sponsored by the Philosophy & Religion Department and the Landfall Foundation. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.

MARCH
 

• MAR 18: Melton McLaurin, "The First Black Marines." Dr. McLaurin, Lillian Smith prize-winning author of Separate Pasts: Growing Up White in the Segregated South and Celia, a Slave. Sponsored by the History Department. 7:30 p.m., Morton Auditorium.

• MAR 24: Minnijean Brown-Trickey, "The Little Rock Nine." Mrs. Brown-Trickey was a leader in the desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sponsored by Honors Scholars Program. 7:30 p.m., Warwick Center.

• MAR 25: FILM Series: “City of God.” Introduction by Regina Felix. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.

• MAR 27:   POETIC THEATER: "UNCW Poetry Flow." An extraordinary group of young performers and poets, including Taylor Mali- mid-aged white school teacher, Abyss- African American hip hop poet, Flaco Navaja- Puerto Rican poet, Vanessa Hidary- Jewish story teller, Poetri- African American comedic poet, alternate Lemon- Puerto Rican street poet. Co-sponsored by Association for Campus Entertainment (A.C.E.) and Student Affairs. 8:00 p.m. Kenan Auditorium. Tickets free to UNCW students/faculty/staff/available at Union, $5 for community (available at Kenan). (picture N.Y.Times Sunday Magazine).

• APR 1: “The Afro-Brazilian Condition:  Past and Present.” Panel: Herbert Berg, Regina Felix, Hal Langfur, Maurice Martinez, and Carlos Rodriguez. Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.
• APR 13: Ruby Bridges, “I have a dream . . . for Wilmington.”   Ruby Bridges

        Due to scheduling difficulties, the Ruby Bridges event has been cancelled.

• APR 22: Clarence Willie, "Brown and Its Legacy in the Carolinas." Dr. Willie is superintendent of Clarendon County Schools, South Carolina, one of the four original plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education. Co-sponsored by the Landfall Foundation and the Watson School of Education. 7:30 p.m. Morton Auditorium.