NDSU is capping the celebration of Black History Month with a one-actress performance portraying the lives and times of four powerful African American women.
“Ain’t I a Woman!” is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 25, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall in the NDSU Reineke Fine Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Christy Hall will perform vignettes celebrating renowned novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale-Hurston, ex-slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth, folk artist Clementine Hunter and civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer.
Piano accompaniment will be contributed by Byron Sean of Core Ensemble.
The event is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Programs, Campus Attractions Issues and Ideas and Compass Program Foundation.
To learn more about Black History Month at NDSU, visit www.ndsu.edu/multicultural.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation’s top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.