OID Signature Speaker Series: Etu Evans

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Black History Month Events

Thursday, February 22, 2024, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

OID Signature Speaker Series: Etu Evans

School of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Building , 129

202 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401

Contact: Courtney Howard howardca1@cofc.edu

Free and open to the public

Join us for the Office of Institutional Diversity Black History Month Signature Speaker Series. Our third and final speaker will be Etu Evans, celebrity shoe designer, Solesville Foundation founder and media guru. Despite being labeled as learning disabled in middle school in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Etu Evans earned two degrees and began his own fashion design company. His fashion-forward footwear designs have been worn by Beyoncé, Danny Glover, Hally Berry and more. He founded the Solesville Foundation that collects and distributes shoes where they are needed. Etu Evans will speak on the topic, "The Power of a Footprint."

Thursday February 22, 2024, 3:15 p.m to 4:15 p.m.

"Charleston and Rurality." 

School of Education Alumni Center

86 Wentworth St, Charleston, SC 29424

Contact: Valerie Frazier

Join the 1967 Legacy Program for a lecture featuring alumna Cherrise Jones-Branch (class of 1994 and 1997). Dr. Jones-Branch is Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History at Arkansas State University. She will be speaking on the topic, "Charleston and Rurality." 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

50 Years of Hip-Hop, 38 Years of Friendship: a Conversation with 9th Wonder

Rita Liddy Hollings Science Center, 101

58 Coming St, Charleston, SC 29424

Contact: Meaghan Poyer aastinfo@cofc.edu

Free and open to the public

The African American Studies Program and the Arts Management Program with generous support by the Quattlebaum Artists in Residence Fund, the School of the Arts and the Office of Intitutional Diversity invite you to a conversation with Grammy Award-winning producer 9th Wonder. 

Patrick Douthit, professionally known as 9^th Wonder, is a hip-hop record producer, record executive, and DJ from North Carolina. He began his career as one of the founding members of the N.C.-based hip-hop group Little Brother. He gained recognition and critical acclaim for his production on their debut 2003 release, The Listening. The success of this album, along with a growing fan base, 9^th Wonder caught the ear of Jay-Z’s engineer Young Guru. An invitation to showcase his talents for Jay-Z led to 9th Wonder producing "Threat" for Jay-Z's Black Album. Over the span of a 20+ year career, he has worked with Destiny’s Child, Eryka Badu, Talib Kweli, Ludacris, David Banner and Kendrick Lamar – to name a few.

Since 2007, 9^th Wonder has served as artist-in-residence/visiting professor at various educational institutions such as N.C. Central, Duke, Wake Forest and most recently at Roc Nation School of Music/Sports Entertainment at Long Island University. He teaches courses on the history of hip-hop and Introduction to Hip-Hop Production.

Thursday, February 29, 2024, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

“Black and Indigenous Solidarities and Antagonisms,"

Education Center , Septima Clark Memorial Auditorium, Room 118

25 St Philip St, Charleston, SC 29424 

Join the Department of History for its annual Black History Month lecture on the topic, "Black and Indigenous Solidarities and Antagonisms," with Alaina E. Roberts. 

Dr. Alaina E. Roberts is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies the intersection of Black and Native American Life from the Civil War to the modern day. Dr. Roberts is the author of I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, which was awarded the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize and the Western History Association’s John C. Ewers Award and W. Turrentine Jackson Book Prize. Dr. Roberts has written multiple academic essays as well as op-eds and profiles for the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and High Country News. Her research has been featured in CNN, the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.