‘Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders’ Film Screening

Tuesday, April 9 | 4-5:30 p.m. | LI 103 Join us as we celebrate black women’s leadership with our screening of the award-winning documentary “Standing On My Sisters’ Shoulders,” followed by discussion. We’ll meet in Library Room 103. A powerful portrayal of a missing chapter in our nation’s record of the Civil Rights movement, this powerful film reveals the movement in Mississippi in the 1950s and […]

‘Invisible Reality’: A Conversation about Colorism

Thursday, April 4 | 3-4 p.m. | Art Annex Join us as we celebrate this photography/interview project created by MSUM students Talyne Nganansou Gnangassa and Ritu Pandey on beauty, race and colorism. View the seventeen photographs, which feature MSUM students, faculty and staff who volunteered to participate, and hear the project’s creators share what inspired them to start a conversation around this important issue. Free […]

Performance: ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’

March 28 & 29 | 7:30 p.m. | Glasrud Auditorium The Black Student Union and MSUM Women’s Center proudly present two nights of Ntosake Shange’s revolutionary, award-winning choreopoem on March 28 and 29. The performance stars an all-student cast and was co-directed by Black Student Union president Ponny White. Shange described her work as a “choreopoem,” a combination of poetry, dance, acting, and music. The theater […]