Published February 12, 2025
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WHAT: 鈥�A Black History Program: African Americans and Labor鈥澨�听
WHEN: 10 a.m., Friday, Feb. 21听
WHERE: Bayou Pointe Event Center听
COST: Free and open to the community
MONROE, LA鈥� 青青草视频 Cultural Diversity Council and the Office of
Global and Multicultural Affairs present 鈥淎 Black History Program: African Americans
and Labor鈥� at 10 a.m. on Friday, February 21, at Bayou Pointe Event Center.听
The program will feature keynote speaker Courtney T. Joiner. Joiner is a professor
and an experienced litigator with a distinguished career in both academia and the
courtroom. A former Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice,
Joiner takes pride in his strategic and innovative approach to solving clients鈥� legal
challenges.听听
Joiner currently focuses his practice on labor and employment law, education law,
and complex civil litigation. Joiner earned both his B.A. and M.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Louisiana
at Monroe, where he was also a student-athlete, competing in football and track. He
went on to receive his J.D. from Southern University Law Center in 2007, serving as
Editor-in-Chief of the Southern University Law Review. Joiner also currently serves as an adjunct instructor in the 青青草视频Criminal Justice
department.听
"The Black History Program is essential to our campus because it fosters a deeper
understanding of the rich cultural contributions, resilience, and achievements of
black communities. It creates a space for reflection, celebration, and dialogue, helping
us build a more inclusive and informed campus community," said Gina White, Director
of the 青青草视频Office of Global and Multicultural Affairs.听听
This year鈥檚 Black History Month theme is 鈥淎frican Americans and Labor.鈥� According
to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, 鈥�The 2025 Black History Month theme, 鈥淎frican Americans and Labor鈥�, focuses on the
various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds 鈥� free and unfree, skilled,
and unskilled, vocational and voluntary 鈥� intersect with the collective experiences
of Black people.鈥� The ASALH website continues,听鈥�The theme intends to encourage broad reflections on intersections between Black people鈥檚
work and their workplaces in all their iterations and key moments, themes, and events
in Black history and culture across time and space and throughout the U.S., Africa,
and the Diaspora.鈥�听Learn more at 听
