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Sporting fashionable durags and bonnets, Payton Santinalles, Deja Thomas, Leroy Guyo and Rukudzu Tambo of Eastern New Mexico University's African American Affairs organization discuss speakers featured during ENMU's Black History Month.
PORTALES - Eastern New Mexico University's series of Black History Month observances have been based on a theme of "Black Health and Wellness," and the state of Black History Month is healthy, according to Rukudzo Tambo, who heads ENMU's student-run African American Affairs organization.
Tambo said turnout for lectures and events during the month has been "great" and responses have been positive from Black and non-Black attendees.
So far, Tambo said, the best attended event has been Lassiter Speller's lecture on "Navigating Black Psychology," which Speller, a Ph.D, described in a flyer for the event as "describing and distilling current research in Black psychology and how we can find practical ways we can use that information as we live our lives."
Speller teaches psychology at ENMU.
On Tuesday, Student Government Vice President Tamia Smith lectured on "Black Women in Sports, and on Thursday, two African students, Isaac Yeboah of Ghana and Olyainka Sodunke of Nigeria will give a talk on "Perceptions of Americans on Africa," the final Black History event on campus. The lecture will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Sandia Room of the Campus Union Building.
Fridays have been "Durag and Bonnet" days on which Black students have worn currently fashionable durag and bonnet headgear. Tambo said the wearing of the headgear emphasizes the beauty of Black fashions.
