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2025 Black History Month Events

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Event Name Date Time Location RSVP or Ticket Information Sponsored by Event Description
BHM Kickoff 2/3/2025 4:30 PM South Quad Flag Pole South Quad Commons/
Lumpkin Hall
BHM Committee Flag Raising/Reception (BSU)
Keynote Dr. Alonzo Ward 2/3/2025 5 PM to 6 PM Lumpkin Auditorium (reserved) Free for students OBAE, CLAS, History, Sociology US Black History Keynote on history in IL (founding of NAACP, etc…)
American Red Cross Blood Drive for Sickle Cell Anemia 2/7/2025 11 AM to 4 PM MLK UBR Free  OBAE Blood Drive w/American Red Cross (Sickle Cell Anemia Themed)
Sigma Gamma Rho, Sorority, Inc.'s Annual Soul Food Fundraiser 2/8/2025 4 PM to 6 PM EIU Cultural House (reserved) Plates: $13/$16
Dessert: $3
The Delta Beta Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Annual Soul Food Fundraiser
BSU Super Bowl Watch Party 2/9/2025 4 PM to 9:30 PM EIU Cultural House (reserved) Free BSU Committee Super Bowl Watch Party
Black Lives Matter Speaker Series: Beyond Brave: Black Women, Depression and Higher Education! 2/11/2025 1:30 PM to 3 PM MLK Arcola/Tuscola Free for students Africana Studies Program Speaker Series
Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective 2/22/2025 7:30 PM Doudna Theatre Ticket Pricing $20/$20/$15, Groups of 4+ save $5 per ticket Doudna Led by guitarist José Guzmán, the band embraces traditional rhythms from the Puerto Rican and Cuban songbooks, and expands their sonic palette by incorporating modern jazz idiom. 
MBEIU 2/22/2025 7:00 PM MLK GBR SAC SAC Pageant
ImPact Life Blood Drive  2/25/2025 10 AM to 1:30 PM MLK Union Free Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED) Pre-Health Honor Society Blood Drive w/Impact Life
Honoring Ridgeway 2/25/2025 6:30 PM to 8 PM  Buzzard Hall Auditorium, Room 1501 Free Biological Sciences/iStem/The Zeta Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Honoring the first Black faculty in Biology
Building Black Wall Street/Black Business Fair 2/27/2025 3 PM to 6 PM South Quad Commons (reserved) Free for students Committee Panel Discussion on small business and Black Business Fair
BHM EIU Bball Game 2/27/2025 Women's: 5 PM/Men's 7:30 PM Groniger Arena Free for students BHM Committee & Athletics EIU vs UA Little Rock
For The Culture 2/28/2025 6 PM to 9 PM EIU Recreation/ Bball Court (reservation/BSU) Free for students BSU Game Night 

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