A series of lectures and films is planned at Colby College in Waterville for an extended celebration of Black History Month during the spring semester. Documentary filmmakers Orlando Bagwell and Wallace "Macky" Alston, several visiting professors, a woman who is a member of Zimbabwe's parliament, and the grandson of Ida B. Wells Barnett will all appear at Colby in free programs that are open to the public.

Black History Month grew out of "Negro History Week," begun in 1926 by historian Carter G Woodson and tied to the birthday of Frederick Douglass. This year's celebration at Colby has the theme "Issues and Images of Memory: Biographies, Communities, and Histories." Lectures begin with Professor Hazel Carby of Yale University on "What is this ŚBlack' in Irish Popular Culture?" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, in Lovejoy 100.

Events at Colby celebrating black history include:

Monday, February 8, at 7:30 p.m., Lovejoy 100
"Glory" Film, with introduction by Professor David Lubin

Thursday, February 11, at 4:30 p.m., Lovejoy 100
Professor Hazel Carby, Chair, Yale University African & African American Studies
What Is This 'Black' in Irish Popular Culture

Monday, February 15, at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Lovejoy 100
Wallace "Macky" Alston and his film
Buried Family Roots and Well-Kept Secrets: History and Memory Through Film

Monday, February 22, at 7:30 p.m., Lovejoy 100
"Do the Right Thing." Film, with introduction by Professor David Lubin

Thursday, February 25, at 4:30 p.m., Lovejoy 100
Professor Ronald Bailey, Northeastern University
African Americans and the Wealth of Nations: The Slave(ry) Trade in World & U.S. History

Thursday, February 25, at 7:30 p.m., Olin 01
Margaret Dongo, Independent Member of Parliament, Zimbabwe
Women in the Front Lines: Revolution in Zimbabwe

March: Time, Date, and Location to be Announced
Orlando Bagwell, Producer, "Africans in America" and other documentary films
ŚMalcolm X: Making It Plain,' Film Excerpts and Lecture

Monday, March 1, at 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., Olin 01
"Beloved." Film, with introduction by Professor Cedric Bryant (7:30 p.m. only).

Monday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m., Lovejoy 215
"Daughters of the Dust." Film, with introduction by Prof. Cheryl Townsend Gilkes.

Monday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. (Refreshments at 4 p.m.), Lovejoy 100
Professor Dianne M. Stewart, College of the Holy Cross
Collective Memory and Caribbean Religions: Obeah and Other Experiences in Jamaica

Thursday, April 22, at 8 p.m., Robins Room, Roberts
Professor Troy Duster, Department of Sociology, University of California, SantaCruz
(Grandson of journalist Ida B. Wells Barnett)
Annual Kingsley Birge Sociology Lecture