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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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