Portales, NM – January 28, 2025 –Eastern New Mexico University African American Affairs Office announced today their events to celebrate Black History Month.

Black History Month is an annual observance in the United States. The event was first celebrated during a week in February 1926. The celebration was expanded to a month in 1976, the nation’s bicentennial. Carter G. Woodson selected February to encompass the birthdays of two great Americans who played a prominent role in shaping Black history, namely Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, whose birthdays are the 12th and the 14th, respectively.

“Our team is very excited to be putting on these events for ENMU, and we would love for the Greyhound community to come out and experience something new,” said Jha ‘Niah Johnson, head of the Office of African American Affairs.

To celebrate Black History Month, the Office of African American Affairs has planned the following events on the ENMU campus.

  • Monday, February 3 at 11:30 a.m. – Black History Month Kickoff Tabling at the Campus Union Building
  • Tuesday, February 4 at 6 p.m. – Success: Comedy Performance by Trey Mack at the Greyhound Lounge, lower level, Campus Union Building
  • Wednesday, February 5 at 6 p.m. – Paint Black American Heroes at the Multicultural Center, Lower Level of the Campus Union Building
  • Thursday, February 6 at 7 p.m. – Dribble a slice with free pizza at the Greyhound Basketball game at Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena
  • Monday, February 10 at 2 p.m. – History through Poetry at the Sandia Room in the Campus Union Building
  • Tuesday, February 11 at 6 p.m. – Screening of “King Richard” at the Multicultural Center, Lower Level of the Campus Union Building
  • Thursday, February 13 at 2 p.m. – Hair Braiding Workshop at the Sandia Room in the Campus Union Building
  • Wednesday, February 19 at 2 p.m. – Jamaican Culture Presentation in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building
  • Friday, February 24 at 11 a.m. – Soul Food Night at the Sandia Room, in the Campus Union Building
  • Wednesday, February 26 at 2 p.m. – Sufism, a mystical Islamic Belief, in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building
  • Thursday, February 27 at 6 p.m. –Wassa Wassa Dance & Drum Performance in the Campus Union Ballroom.

For more information on the events planned to celebrate Black History Month, visit www.enmu.edu/Events.

For more information on ENMU’s Office of African American Affairs, visit www.enmu.edu/AfricanAmericanAffairs.