San Jacinto College announces Black History Month events

San Jacinto College will host a variety of free events to celebrate African-American culture during Black History Month.

The Bernard Woma Ensemble will perform percussion-driven dance music, directed by composer and musician Bernard Woma from Ghana. The performance will feature a gyil, the Ghanaian xylophone, and will be at 11:30 a.m. today and tomorrow, Feb. 7 and Feb. 8. The show on Feb. 7 will be in the cafeteria area of the Newton Student Center at the SJC Central Campus. On Feb. 8, the show will be in the atrium of the J.D. Bruce Student Center at the SJC South Campus.

A presentation by the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum, including a reenactment, will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 13 in the Marie Spence Flickinger Fine Arts Center auditorium at the South Campus.

An African-American "read-in" will be held in the Monument Room at the North Campus. It will consist of video clips, oral presentations, excerpts from poetry and prose and famous speeches.

For more information and campus locations, visit www.sjcd.edu.