Samford to hold events for Black History Month, Civil Rights focus

Lift Every Voice and Sing: Connecting the Past with the Future” programs will be in Reid Chapel at 10 a.m. unless otherwise noted. The speakers will include:

• Feb. 7 — Timotheus Miller, senior, Wenonah High School, Birmingham. 
• Feb. 12 — Raphael Warnock, senior pastor, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta.
• Feb. 18 — Andrew Gerow Hodges Lectures in Ethics and Leadership, panel discussion, “‘God’s Institution’ or Gross Injustice: Slavery Before the Civil War,” Bolding Studio, 6 p.m. 
• Feb. 19 — Andrew Gerow Hodges Lectures in Ethics and Leadership, and Richard Carwardine, “Abraham Lincoln and the Challenge of Emancipation.” 
• Feb. 21 — Mayor William Bell, City of Birmingham.  
• Feb. 26 — Elizabeth Sloan-Ragland, director, WJAB Public Radio, Huntsville.  
• Feb. 28 — Cedric Sparks, executive director, Division of Youth Services, City of Birmingham. Thurgood Marshall Symposium, Cumberland School of Law, “Confronting Modern Barriers to Civil Rights Advocacy in America,” Fordham Robinson Hall, 11 a.m. 
  (Samford)