Author David Pratt ’80 will read from his work Bob the Book on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 4:15 p.m, in the Days-Massolo Center. The reading is free and open to the public.

To commemorate Black History Month, the Days-Massolo Center will screen the comedy documentary Good Hair on Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 4:15 p.m., in the Center on College Hill Road. The screening is free and open to the public.

"Hip-hop saved my life. It has saved many lives. It kept me focused and driven to move beyond my circumstances," said Don C. Sawyer III, the director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, instructor at Syracuse University, and this year's Black History Month keynote speaker.

To commemorate Black History Month, the Days-Massolo Center will screen the documentary Brother Outsider: Life of Bayard Rustin, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 4:15 p.m., at the Center on College Hill Road. The screening is free and open to the public.

Don Sawyer, director of Syracuse University’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, will give the Black History Month keynote speech at Hamilton College.  His lecture, titled “Hip-Hop Culture, Perceived Anti-Intellectualism, and Young Black Males,” will take place on Monday, Feb. 6, at 4:15 p.m., in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Bradford Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Hamilton will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday with several campus and community events in January.

Amit Taneja, director of the Days-Massolo Center, has been honored with a Peace Studies award from The Central New York Peace Studies Board and Peace Studies Conference Committee.  He received the award at the organization’s 23rd annual conference on Nov. 12 in Syracuse.

Minnie Bruce Pratt, professor of women’s & gender studies and writing & rhetoric at Syracuse University, will read from her book Inside the Money Machine, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 4 p.m., in the Red Pit, KJ. The reading is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.

“Race is not a thing that we have or we are, but rather race is an action that we do.  It is a system of processes that all of us are involved in on a daily basis,” explained Professor Paula Moya of Stanford University on Nov. 10.  Moya’s  Eight Conversations About Race lecture was sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and the Diversity & Social Justice Project.

Cynthia Mondesir '75, a pediatrician in Bethel, Alaska, returned to the Hill on Oct. 24 to describe the life journey that took her from Brooklyn to Haiti to Hamilton and finally Alaska.