College of DuPage Kicks Off Black History Month Celebration

College of DuPage students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the community, enjoyed a performance by the Afrikan Dance and Music Institute at the College’s official Black History Month opening celebration.

View photos from the ceremony.

The ceremony included remarks from College President Dr. Brian Caputo, Provost Mark Curtis-Chavez and Student Diversity and Inclusion Center Manager David Swope, and featured student speakers Manuel Nartey, Black Student Alliance president, and Magauta Ntsoeu, a South African Community College Initiative program participant. The event also included a performance by the COD Chamber Singers led by COD Choral Music Director Lee Kesselman.

Additional Black History Month programming includes the annual African American Read-In from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5; guest speaker Dr. Fredrick Douglas Dixon discussing African Americans and the vote from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13; and “History Through Music, This is My Country…It was Just a Dream,” a survey of jazz, blues and soul culture, presented by WDCB Station Manager Dan Bindert, from noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18.

View a schedule of events.

For more information on all Black History Month at College of DuPage, contact Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion Manager David Swope at swoped28@cod.edu or (630) 942-2565.