Carleton Service Commemorates Black History Month
Carleton College will celebrate Black History Month with a commemorative chapel service on Sunday, February 22 at 5 p.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, co-sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain and Carleton’s Black Student Alliance (BSA). A soup supper will follow the service. The event is free and open to the public.
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mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">The Reverend Denise Dunbar-Perkins will deliver the sermon, entitled “A Change for the Better?” Dr. Dunbar-Perkins currently serves as Staff Chaplain in Oncology at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. One of the original founders of Kwanzaa Community Church PC(USA) in North Minneapolis (the only African American Presbyterian Church in Minnesota), Dunbar-Perkin is a member of the Allina Clinical Pastoral Education Advisory Board and the Vice-Chair to the board of the Sickle Cell Disease Advocates of Minnesota SCDAM). In addition to Dunbar-Perkins, student members of Carleton’s BSA will participate in the service and provide musical accompaniment.
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mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">For more information and disability accommodations, please contact the Office of the Chaplain at (507) 222-5730.
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