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Three-time Oscar nominee and Golden Globe-winning actress Viola Davis will lend her voice to California State University, Northridge’s Black History Month celebration this year.
Davis, whose role in the 2016 film “Fences” earned her the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and her third Academy Award nomination — the most ever for an African-American actress — will speak to CSUN students, faculty and staff at CSUN’s Associated Students Productions Big Lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the Valley Performing Arts Center.
CSUN’s Black History Month festivities will officially begin on Wednesday, Feb. 1, with a reading and discussion led by Cedric Hackett, a professor in CSUN’s Africana Studies department, at 11 a.m. in the University Student Union (USU) Flintridge Room. The lecture will be followed by a dance performance at 12:30 p.m. at the USU Plaza del Sol. The performance will feature dance instructor Jeffrey Larosa-Adams, Africana studies chair Theresa White, and the dancers with the Black Diaspora student team. Also on Feb. 1, there will be a meet-and-greet with various CSUN black student organizations at 5 p.m. in the USU Lake View Terrace Room.
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