Â鶹¹û¶³ will host a variety of programs during February in observance of Black History Month.
At an event co-sponsored by the Black Law Students Association at Â鶹¹û¶³'s Cumberland School of Law, Congressman Artur Davis will present the annual Thurgood Marshall Symposium lecture Thursday, Feb. 22.
The symposium is part of a program co-sponsored by Cumberland's Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics that will focus on "The U.S Health-Care System: Access Equity and Efficiency."
Congressman Davis' 11 a.m. talk in the moot courtroom of Robinson law building is free and open to the public.
Many of Â鶹¹û¶³'s February programs are presented as part of the student convocation series that meets twice-weekly at 10 a.m. in Reid Chapel. The public is invited. The upcoming schedule includes:
Feb. 6---The Â鶹¹û¶³ Gospel Choir will perform and Â鶹¹û¶³ religion major Tyran Laws will speak during a black history program. Laws, a senior from Bakersfield, Calif., is president of Â鶹¹û¶³'s Black Heritage Association.
Feb. 8---Samford graduate Dr. Eric Motley of Washington, D.C., will speak. Motley, managing director, Henry Crown Fellowship Program, The Aspen Institute, is a former staff member of the George Bush White House and the U.S. State Department. As a Â鶹¹û¶³ student in the 1990s, the Montgomery native was the school's first black student body president.
Feb. 13---Samford history professor Dr. Jonathan Bass will lecture on Letter from Birmingham Jail. Bass is the author the book, Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders and the Letter from Birmingham Jail.'
Feb. 15---Video presentation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Feb. 20---Dru Harris Ealons, development director, Pathways, and board of directors chair, Leading Edge Institute, will speak on race relations.
Feb. 22---Samford graduate Robbie Steele Martin, a local attorney, will speak on diversity.
Feb. 27---Rev. Quinton Hammonds, pastor, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, Pratt City, will speak.
Other events include a Feb. 22 "Soul Sessions" time of feast, fellowship and worship sponsored by Â鶹¹û¶³'s International Club and Black Heritage Association. The 7 p.m. event will be in Harry's coffeehouse in Beeson University Center.