Upcoming Events
- Mon May 7
Special Luncheon honoring our first contributors to diversity - Fri May 11
2012 Commencement with speakers Will Allen and Susan Rice
Commencement Website
Past Events
- Wed Feb 1 – 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Live at the Apollo - The Patio - Sat Feb 4 – All day
Black Awareness Month Day of Service - Overtown Youth Center - Sun Feb 12 – 6:00 - 9:00pm
AAS & Department of Art and Art History- Art Exhibition: Slavery to Self Determination. Opening Reception, Wesley Gallery
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- Thu Feb 16 – 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Black Awareness Month Forum – Newman Alumni Center
Dr. Dexter Gordon (Univ Puget Sound) "Black Identity, Perpetually Under Production" AAS, UBS, BOND, ASA, MSA event
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- Tue Feb 21 – 7:45pm - 9:15pm
Cornel West lecture - BankUnited Center - Thu Feb 23 – 11:45am
President Obama to Visit UM - BankUnited Center - Wed Feb 29 – 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Gospel Explosion - School of Communications courtyard - Mon Mar 19 – 6:30pm
Women in Politics presented by the Yellow Rose Society - Communication School room 2055 - Thur Mar 22 – 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Dr. Chanelle Rose lecture – Wesley Gallery
"Desegregation, Student Activism, and Black Power at U.M."
This presentation examines how national/transnational forces bolstered the student-led opposition against token integration along with a hegemonic curriculum that privileged Anglo-European history - Thu Mar 22 – 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Student/Faculty Forum on Faculty Diversity - Wesley Gallery - Thu Mar 22 – 6:00pm - 8:30pm
WWMA Black Alumni, Staff and Faculty Reception - Newman Alumni Center - Fri Mar 23 – 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole lecture - Lowe Art Museum
"My Love Affair with Art" - Thu Mar 29 – 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Ray Bellamy Hall of Fame Induction - Parrot Jungle - Wed Apr 11 – 5pm - 6:30pm
Clay Cane
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UM Black Alumni of Distinction
- William Allen, Alumnus nongrad, attended from 1967 to Spring of 1971
First black basketball player at UM - Raymond Bellamy, B.S.Ed. '72 M.S.Ed. '97
First black athlete and first black president of student government - Chester Byrd, M.Ed. '63 (deceased)
First black UM administrator, hired in 1968 to be the Associate director of the Whitten Union, Associate Director of Student Activities and Counselor for black students.
- Dawnn Lewis, B.M. '82
UM's first major in voice and musical theater
- Harold Long, A.B. '68, J.D. '71
Among the founders of UBS and served as the president until 1968
- Vaughncille Molden, B.G.S. '73
First woman chairperson of UBS
- Mamie Pinder, Alumna nongrad, attended 1961 to 1962
One of first black students admitted to UM in 1961
- Kimberly Sands, B.Ed. '78
First black tennis player to win full scholarship
- Jacqueline Simmons, M.S. '80, M.D. '80
First black woman graduate of the UM Miller School of Medicine
