<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">In celebration of Black History Month, Africana Studies presents:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"><b>Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Film Screening and Discussion</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Tuesday, February 22 at 7:00 PM in Yokum 206</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, <i>Summer of Soul</i> (2021) focuses on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, an event that lasted six weeks and featured many famous performers, including Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, and Sly & the Family Stone. The film, which includes original footage of the festival, explores the cultural, social, and political significance of the event as well as why the footage never aired. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">We hope you will join us for the film and stay for a discussion afterward.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">If you have further questions about the event, please contact Dr. Liz Onasch (Africana Studies </span><span style="color:rgb(85,85,85);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px">program coordinator</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">), Dr. John McMahon, or Dr. Tracie Guzzio.</span></p></div></div></div>