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Black History Month Continues! Youth with Sickle Cell Disease and Thurgood Marshall: Before the Robe, Feb. 12
NSU’s celebration of Black History Month 2013 continues with the following events this week:
Tuesday, February 12
Youth with Sickle Cell Disease: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Care and Collaboration, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
NSU’s Center for Psychological Studies’ will host a discussion on the intricacies of caring for children with Sickle Cell Anemia with facilitators Jessica Valenzuela, Ph.D., Cynthia Fletcher, Ph.D., and Carolyn Berger, Ph.D. Location: Maltz Building, room 2045. For additional information, please contact Jessica Valenzuela at jv637@nova.edu.
Thurgood Marshall: Before the Robe, 6:00 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall is widely known as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. Before becoming a judge, Marshall was a lawyer who was known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and most notably for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than anyone else in history. Farquhar College of Arts & Sciences and the Shepard Broad Law Center present a lecture by Professor Charles Zelden (author of Thurgood Marshall: Race, Rights and the Struggle for a More Perfect Union) on Justice Marshall’s life prior to joining the Supreme Court. Location: Shepard Broad Law Center. The event is free but space is limited. For more information, please contact Anneke Greenaway, 954-262-6120, anneke@nova.edu.
For a complete listing of events, visit www.nova.edu/blackhistory.