Feb 4, 2015 2 min read

California University of Pennsylvania will celebrate Black History Month with the following free events:

• Feb. 12-28 – “Significant African-Americans with Pittsburgh-Area Roots,” Manderino Library, lobby. The photo exhibit showcases notable artists, athletes, business professionals and humanitarians, each with a connection to Western Pennsylvania.

• Feb. 17 – “What’s Going On: The State of Black America,” 6 p.m. in Keystone Hall, room 205. Psychology professor Rueben Brock, this year’s Frederick Douglass Institute visiting scholar and author of “A Young Man’s Wisdom,” will moderate a panel discussion of issues and trends in the black community.

• Feb. 19 – Poetry Slam with Drew Law, 1 p.m. workshop in the Natali Student Center, Student Organization Suite 101, with a 9 p.m. performance in the Natali Food Court. Law is the original host of the Graffiti DC slam series, a teaching artist for Split this Rock, an organization that uses written and spoken word as an agent for social change, and Poetry NOW, a nonprofit group that creates spoken word curricula for high schools and governments in northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.

• Feb. 19 – “The Confederate Flag: Symbol of Hate or Freedom of Speech?” at 7 p.m. in Morgan Hall, room 222.

• Feb. 23 – “Historically Black Greek Letter Organizations” with Carlton Heywood, 7 p.m., Morgan Hall, room 222. Heywood, a graduate of Clarion University, is a

lifetime member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity and a teacher/librarian in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

For more information, visit http://www.calu.edu/news/press-releases/2015/01/black-history-month.htm.