by Elizabeth
Ashford
Staff Writer
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
will hold its first NAACP Week Feb. 9-12.
Feb. 12 is the 95th birthday of the NAACP, President of Appalachian
State University’s chapter of the NAACP Tenina Stallings
said.
“We’re trying to get people to understand what
the NAACP is, the things that have happened in the past and
how we’re moving forward as individuals,” Stallings
said.
The opening forum on Feb. 9 will be held in Grandfather Mountain
Ballroom of Plemmons Student Union at 6 p.m. It is open for
anybody who wants to attend and will be for open discussion,
BSA Advisory Board member Erica M. Copeland said.
“I’m looking forward to the forum on the n-word.
I think there’s a lot of hidden racism and use of the
n-word with out people knowing the context of it,”
NAACP member Monica Sanders said.
Dr. James F. Barnes will speak on “Moving Forward”
Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Multicultural Center of the student
union. Barnes is a faculty member at Appalachian and will
speak on cultural progress, the NAACP, and how things are
moving forward, Stallings said.
“You can learn a little bit more on who you are –
about your surroundings, about the people you come in contact
with – to learn about other people and other cultures,”
Stallings said.
LYRIC will co-sponsor a spoken-word freestyle rap event with
NAACP on Feb. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Multicultural Center, Stallings
said. The topic for the evening will be cultural progress,
Stallings said.
“Anybody can speak coming with spoken word, poetry,
raps, stuff like that, and we’re going to open it up
on the whole floor for anybody who has it, basically that
will be the topic for the evening,” Stallings said.
“School Days” will be shown in Greenbriar Theatre
Feb. 12 and will be the last event for the NAACP week.
“It has to deal with individuals – black, white,
Hispanic and the different controversies within a college
setting,” Stallings said. The movie is a Spike Lee
film and will be showing at 7:30 p.m.
“It’s a great opportunity for the entire student
body to participate in programs which educate us all about
diversity and help us understand one another’s differences,”
NAACP Parliamentarian Rebecca L. Gay said. |
