Oberlin College & Conservatory Celebrates Black History Month
March 12, 2024
Communications Staff
![Watercolor shapes on cream background under text that reads "Ode to Home," 2024 Oberlin College Black History Month](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_760/public/content/news/image/bhm_2024_campus_screen.png?itok=qYuW61PI)
Throughout February 2024 (and a little into March), Oberlin commemorated Black History Month around the theme Ode to Home, which explored ideas and experiences related to people of African descent creating and maintaining a physical home or a sense of home as a group and as individuals.
Students organized the annual Black History Month Fashion Show in Hales Gym and the ABUSUA Ball in the Hotel at Oberlin. Tenor Joshua Blue '16 returned to campus to perform with Oberlin Sinfonietta. Academic and residential life programming, like the library's Frederick Douglass Transcribathon, and A-House's Mardi Gras feast and Alumni Soul Session, gave the Oberlin community opportunities to learn, relax, and connect.
![Joshua Blue performing with Oberlin Sinfonietta in Warner Concert Hall.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_1160/public/content/figure/rs184564_20240229_sinfonietta_nathaniel_29_lpr.jpg?itok=RVH6Gr8q)
Joshua Blue '16 singing with Oberlin Sinfonietta.
![Students in Afrikana House common area during Soul Session.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_1160/public/content/figure/rs183046_20240209_soulsession_nathaniel_52_lpr.jpg?itok=22Z2UZir)
Alumni Soul Session at A-House.
![Musicians posing on the stage of Kulas Recital Hall after their concert.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_1160/public/content/figure/rs183324_mjc1159_copy_lpr.jpg?itok=Rpf0LBhX)
Linking Legacies concert with (from left to right) Chris Jenkins, viola; John McLaughlin Williams, violin; Theresa May, trumpet; Khari Joyner, cello; Diana White-Gould '84, piano; and Cornelius Johnson, tenor.
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