The Spanish Club is celebrating the end of the year with Fiesta Latina, an event full of Latin music, food and friendship. The event will run from 7 – 11 p.m. Friday, April 17, in the Brown Ballroom of the Bone Student Center. Tickets are available.
Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton, co-authors of the New York Times best-selling book Picking Cotton, will be the keynote speakers for Illinois State University’s Science and Technology Week, April 6 to 10. Science and Technology Week events are sponsored by the College of Applied Science and Technology (CAST).
The annual Commitment to Diversity Awards will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 12, in the Old Main Room of the Bone Student Center.
The Black and Latino Male Summit will return to campus Saturday, April 11, to the theme Men of Steel.
A staged reading of the play Beebo Brinker Comes to Town will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, in the Center for the Visual Arts, room 151. Admission is free.
The 22nd annual Lois Lenski Children’s Literature Lecture will explore diversity in youth literature at 7 p.m. Monday, March 30, in Stevenson Hall, room 101.
Duane Boutté, an assistant professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, is developing a play based loosely on his own family history and identity.
In light of recent national concerns, on Wednesday, March 25, at 6:30 p.m. the Interfraternity Council will be joined by the Fraternity and Sorority Life community in a solidarity walk starting in Milner Plaza and continuing through the Quad.
A free screening of the film Speaking in Tongues will be Monday, April 6, at the Normal Theater on North Street, followed by a Q and A.
Touré Reed, an associate professor of U.S. and African American history, has received the 2013 David Strand Diversity Achievement Award.
