PHSC to Host Month Long Celebrations for Black History Month

From Pasco-Hernando State College’s: Pasco-Hernando State College’s Black History Month Celebration will feature presentations from authors Rosemary Yvonne Borel and Andrew Skerritt and two showings of the documentary, The Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolutionary, a film that examines the rise of the party in the 1960s.

Six presentations are scheduled in the month of February:

Wednesday, February 8

The Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolutionary documentary

2 p.m. –North Campus in Brooksville, 11415 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Brooksville, B104

Thriving in the Care of Many Mothers, Rosemary Yvonne Borel reads from her memoir

6 p.m. –East Campus in Dade City, 36727 Blanton Road, A240

Thursday, February 9

Reading, Writing and the Making of Black History presentation by Andrew J. Skerritt

9:45 a.m. –West Campus, New Port Richey, 10230 Ridge Road, Performing Arts Center

2 p.m. –Spring Hill Campus, 450 Beverly Court, Conference Center

6 p.m. –Porter Campus at Wiregrass Ranch, Wesley Chapel, 2727 Mansfield Blvd., B303 Tuesday, February 21

The Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolutionary documentary

10 a.m. –Spring Hill Campus, 450 Beverly Court, Conference Center

“Black History Month has expanded our nations will to celebrate not only our differences, but our shared history as well,” said Imani Asukile, PHSC’s director of global and multicultural awareness and special assistant to the president.

Author Rosemary Yvonne Borel is a graduate of the University of Leeds in England and a Carnegie Fellow who served at the Jamaican Mission to the United Nations. She presents her first memoir, Thriving in the Care of Many Mothers, a vivid description of a young woman’s adventurous journey that takes her from her native Jamaica, to England, New York, Trinidad, and eventually Florida.

Andrew J. Skerritt, author of Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South, is a graduate of Howard University. He received his MLA from Winthrop University and MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Tampa. Skerritt’s essays and articles regarding exile, displacement and the search for home have been published widely in publications such as the Root.com, Tampa Bay Times, Caribbean Quarterly, and Miami Herald.

PHSC’s Black History Month events are free and open to the public and PHSC students, faculty, and staff. School and community groups are welcome. For more information call 1.855.NOW.PHSC, or visit www.phsc.edu/calendar.

Photo Courtesy of Pasco-Hernando State College