Heritage & Health Series Program
Black History Month 2025
Roots & Routes Around the Globe: Black Joy as Resistance
Please join us in community, celebration and love for our BHM events in February. Check the campus events calendar for all upcoming events.
Monday, Feb. 3
Soft Opening Village Space
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Umoja Village (4223)
Join us for a Village space open house with board games and music. Mix, mingle, and enjoy the space.
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Black History Month Opening Ceremony
Noon –1 p.m. in Library Quad
We'll open Black Heritage Month with joy and celebration of the African diaspora, along with food, drinks, and dancers.
Monday, Feb. 10
Open Village Space (Sisterhood)
All Day in Umoja Village (4223)
Inviting women identifying for networking and fellowship in the Village, coming together in sisterhood.
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Virtual Artist Talk with Malcolm Ryder: Alt-Oakland, A Vernacular Landscape
12 p.m.– 1 p.m. Join via ZOOM
In his talk, titled "Alt-Oakland", Malcolm will discuss his photography as a way to infuse documentary, street photography, and creative image making based in camerawork (not in printmaking, collage, or AI). This fusion results in a kind of extended portraiture of the landscape, a reinvention of the environment that he sees was generated by a "vernacular" creativity of its inhabitants. That creativity is an important dimension of the social politics of his current preferred locale, West Oakland, where legacy culture and present self-identity are routinely confronting forces antagonistic to the community -- including media stigma, inherited damage to habitat, and gentrification. Meanwhile the work critiques notions of non-fiction versus fiction in the medium.
Learn more about Malcolm Ryder
Thursday, Feb. 13
Ethic of Love/ Black Joy
Time TBD in Umoja Village (4223)
More event details coming soon. Please check back.
Tuesday, Feb. 18
Black Panther Museum Walk
11:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. in Dining Hall
Did you know the Black Panther Party was started by community college students? Come learn more interesting facts about the party.
The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California in 1966 by two California community college students. Join the Umoja Learning Community as we learn about the Black Panther Party’s list of 10 Demands, Community Service Initiatives, and the Women behind the movement.
Wednesday, Feb. 19
The Fundamentals of Finance and Wealth Building
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. in Appreciation Hall (1501)
Join us for a financial literacy workshop lead by a Foothill College Business faculty.
Monday, Feb. 24
Open Village Space (Brotherhood)
All Day in Umoja Village (4223)
Inviting women identifying for networking and fellowship in the Village, coming together in brotherhood.
Wednesday, Feb. 26
BHM Closing Ceremony
Noon–1 p.m. in Dining Hall
We'll close out Black Heritage Month as we started, with joyful music and movement.
Complimentary food and beverage will be provided.
Questions? Please contact Victoria Strelnikova at strelnikovavictoria@fhda.edu.
BHM Planning Committee Members
Thank you to all our students, faculty and staff who helped plan our BHM events this month.
- Dokesha Meacham, Chair
- Dr. Tiffany Rideaux
- April Henderson
- Kamara Tramble
- Samuel White
- Nyla Byers
- Jailah Mitchell
- Zara Ainge
- Shahana Shaik
- Molara Mabogunje
- Daphne Small
- Victoria Strelnikova, Advisor
