Featured Event - Saturday February 28 7th Annual Black History Month Celebration & Scholarship Brunch
10:30am–1:00pm @ UC San Diego Faculty Club
UC San Diego will hold it annual celebration of Black History Month with this traditional event which includes a tasty soul food brunch, keynote address by Farai Chideya (noted author and journalist), local gospel choirs, a Silent Auction with proceeds benefiting undergraduate scholarships at UCSD, and recognition of outstanding student scholars. This is always a sell-out event so purchase your tickets now!
NPR photo of Fadai Chideya Keynote speaker - Farai Chideya Farai Chideya has combined media, technology, and social justice during her 20-year career as an award-winning author and journalist. From 2006 to early 2009, she hosted NPR’s News and Notes, a daily national program about African-American and African diaspora issues. She and the teams she has worked with have won awards including a National Education Reporting Award, a North Star News Prize, and a special award from the National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association for coverage of AIDS. She has written three nonfiction books, all of which are taught on college campuses across the country, and The Color of Our Future has found an increasingly broad audience as America has become more diverse (and Americans more aware of our collective diversity). Her novel Kiss the Sky is Essence Magazine’s book club selection for May 2009. Chideya also founded PopandPolitics.com in 1995. It is now one of the longest continuously operating blogs in the world.