HIGH POINT, N.C., Feb. 24, 2017 – High Point University students are hosting the fourth annual Black Heritage Service at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 26 in honor of Black History Month. The event will be held in Hayworth Chapel on HPU’s campus and is free and open to the public.
Presented by the HPU Black Cultural Awareness Club, this year’s event takes up the topic, “Lessons, Legacy and Love.” The service will include music, dance and spoken word, all heavily rooted in African American culture.
The program will feature guest speakers Mary Lou Blakeney, Phyllis Bridges and Beau Williams, as well as remarks from the Rev. Preston Davis, Anita Williams and Keilah Bruce-Tagoe. The HPU Genesis Gospel Choir will provide music for the service. Otesha Dance Ensemble will also perform.
“Black History is an integral part of the American story and it needs to be told again and again from as many perspectives as possible until the American experience is improved and love reigns,” says Aria Real, co-president of the HPU Black Cultural Awareness Club.