“The Impact of B.L.A.C.K.” (Building Legacies Advocating Cultural Knowledge)” is the theme of Rider University’s month-long tribute to Black History Month on its Lawrenceville and Westminster Choir College campuses. Activities are free and open to the public.

Maxine Maxwell, a noted actress whose credits include “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…When The Rainbow Is Enuf,” kicked off activities February 1 on the Lawrenceville campus. Maxwell presented excerpts from “Echoes of the Past & Voices of Hope,” a dramatic performance celebrating African-American women. This past Monday, the Protestant Campus Ministry and the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Community Service sponsored a Soul Food Dinner in Gill Chapel. Other events during February will include:

• A Diabetes Forum on Thursday, February 8, co-sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge of the BLC on the Lawrenceville campus.

• A basketball double-header on Friday, February 9 in Alumni Gym on the Lawrenceville campus. The Rider women vs. Niagara game begins at 5:30 p.m.; the Rider men vs. Manhattan game at 8 p.m.

• Movie Nights on Fridays, February 2, 9, 16 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Seabrook Lounge on the Westminster Choir College campus. Students will have an opportunity to view movies dealing with the struggle for equality for all.

• Gospel Choir Concert featuring St. Benedict’s African American Gospel Choir on Sunday, February 11 at 7 p.m. in Gill Chapel on the Lawrenceville campus.

• A Celebration of Black Love/Poetry Night gathering on Wednesday, February 14 from 8 to 11 p.m. in the BLC Pub on the Lawrenceville campus;

• A Bronc Buffet “Black Trivia: Fun and Games” Night on Friday, February 23 at Daly’s from 10 p.m. to midnight on the Lawrenceville campus.

• First Annual Black Male Conference hosted by Rasheed-Ali Cromwell, Esq., an associate at a Washington, D.C.-based intellectual property law firm, and founder of The Harbor Institute, on Saturday, February 24 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the BLC Cavalla Room on the Lawrenceville campus.

• A Gospel Fest on Sunday, February 25 from 5 p.m. to midnight. The concert will take place in the BLC Theater; dinner will follow in the BLC Cavalla Room on the Lawrenceville campus.

• The Third Annual Black Composers’ Night Concert on Sunday, February 25 at 7 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on Westminster Choir College campus.

• A closing ceremony, “The Color of Music,” co-sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity on Tuesday, February 27 from 7 to 10 p.m. in the BLC Theater on the Lawrenceville campus.

Rider’s Black Student Union (BSU) and Westminster Choir College’s Black and Hispanic Alliance (BHA) are the chief sponsors of programming. Co-sponsors for various events on the Lawrenceville campus include Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., R.O.C.A.S., VOX, RHA Executive Board, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. For further information about Lawrenceville and Westminster events, call 609-895-5781.

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