Blackfest
Blackfest is an African-American cultural festival held in spring that includes community performances, student performances, Black-owned vendors from surrounding areas and a major hip-hop, R&B or neo-soul artist as the featured performance.
Intellectual Roundtable
The Intellectual Roundtable is a focused conversation around a contemporary or historical issue relevant to the Black Community. This noontime discussion occurs on Fridays over lunch in the Black Community Services Center Lounge and has successfully engaged students in discussing research around critical issues and topics. In these discussions, students are challenged to think critically and engage in constructive debate with other scholars, faculty and guests to campus. Past Intellectual Roundtables have featured the following topics:
- What is Black? No Faculty. No Panel. Just Us.
- Is It Ever Okay to Hit a Woman? A Discussion on Violence in Today's Society
- Black Reality Television: Fair Game to Blame, Featuring Latoya Peterson and Rahiel Tesfamiarian
- Gentrification or Mixed Income? An Interesting Conversation on Class, Race, and Housing
- Black, Gay, and Greek: A Conversation on Sexuality within the Black Greek System
- Awkward Black Girl, A Dialogue with Issa Rae and Tracy Oliver
- Is Marriage for White People, Featuring Prof. Rick Banks
- The Crossroads: Being an Black Ally
- Classism in the Black Community
- Preachers Pimps and Pther Controversies in the Black Church
- The Elephant in the Room: Black Republicans
