Asnuntuck Community College extends an invite to the QVCC and local community to participate in their Breaking Chains Speaker Series. On Wednesday, February 23 from 5:00-6:00pm, join Rev. Maurice S. Porter for a discussion on Social Injustice.

Join the conversation on 2/23 beginning around 5:00pm at https://ctedu.webex.com/ctedu/j.php?MTID=m9ad90f16db29f614b812b33fc408b254

About Rev. Maurice S. Porter:
Born the heir of an opulent preaching legacy, Rev. Maurice S. Porter represents the fifth generation of Christian ministers in his family. Vastly becoming respected as an international hope agent, he is a husband, father, preacher, pastor, and friend to many. He is known for his oratorical excellence and practical approach to both biblical and societal matters consistently merging his spiritual convictions with his personal knowledge and experiences. He is formally educated in the best of universities and thoroughly experienced in the most diverse of contexts. Most notably, Maurice Porter is the Founder and Pastor of Impact Church located in Hartford, CT.

The Cultural Programming Commitee is hosting a showing of the film “Toni Morrison – The Pieces I Am” in celebration of Black History Month.

Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers and critics on an exploration of the powerful themes she confronted throughout her literary career in this artful and intimate meditation that examines the life and work of the legendary storyteller.

Please join us on Monday, February 28th from 12:30 – 2:30pm in the QVCC Danielson Campus Auditorium followed by group discussion.

For more information, contact Jess Porzuczek or Jon Andersen.

Black History Month in Film

In honor of Black History Month, QVCC is excited to announce Black History Month in Film! During the week of February 24 – February 28, we invite you to join us for a celebration of black history through film, featuring fourteen screenings of six critically-acclaimed films and documentaries. All screenings will be held in the Robert E. Miller Auditorium.

Screenings:

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Mon., February 24 @ 3:00pm
Tue., February 25 @ 1:15pm & 4:00pm

There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues
Mon., February 24 @ 1:45pm
Tue., February 25 @ 12:00pm
Thurs., February 27 @ 2:30pm

Through the Flak: War Stories of the Tuskegee Airmen
Mon., February 24 @ 12:30pm
Thurs., February 27 @ 1:15pm & 4:00pm

Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith
Tue., February 25 @ 3:30pm
Fri., February 28 @ 1:15pm

Pitching Man: Satchel Paige – Defying Time
Thurs., February 27 @ 12:00pm
Fri., February 28 @ 12:00pm

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Fri., February 28 @ 3:15pm *ONE SHOW ONLY*

QVCC Celebrates Black History Month

2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to vote after the Civil War.

Join us as we welcome back Dr. Stacey Close, Associate Provost/Vice President for Equity & Diversity at Eastern Connecticut State University, for a presentation on “African Americans and the Vote.” The presentation will take place on February 12, 2020 from 10am-2pm in the Robert E. Miller Auditorium.

2020 Theme – African Americans and the Vote

The year 2020 marks the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment and the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement.  The year 2020 also marks the sesquicentennial of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the right of black men to the ballot after the Civil War. The theme speaks, therefore, to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women for the right to vote. This theme has a rich and long history, which begins at the turn of the nineteenth century, i.e., in the era of the Early Republic, with the states’ passage of laws that democratized the vote for white men while disfranchising free black men. Thus, even before the Civil War, black men petitioned their legislatures and the US Congress, seeking to be recognized as voters. Tensions between abolitionists and women’s suffragists first surfaced in the aftermath of the Civil War, while black disfranchisement laws in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries undermined the guarantees in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments for the great majority of southern blacks until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The important contribution of black suffragists occurred not only within the larger women’s movement, but within the larger black voting rights movement. Through voting-rights campaigns and legal suits from the turn of the twentieth century to the mid-1960s, African Americans made their voices heard as to the importance of the vote. Indeed the fight for black voting rights continues in the courts today. The theme of the vote should also include the rise of black elected and appointed officials at the local and national levels, campaigns for equal rights legislation, as well as the role of blacks in traditional and alternative political parties.