A happening on the UCLA campus today:

As part of Black History Month, the Black Graduate Students Association will be putting on a dramatic lynching re-enactment today in Bruin Plaza, followed by an art display and panel discussion.

The lynching re-enactment will start outside Powell Library, where a "death march" will also be re-enacted. A student playing the role of the victim will act as if they are being dragged by a mob to their "lynching," which will take place in Bruin Plaza...

[O]rganizers wanted to illustrate the suffering of blacks throughout American history ... "People tend to overlook how much of an oppression African Americans faced in our country."

I wonder what kind of "dramatic re-enactment" we can look forward to in honor of Women's Health Month, which shares February.

15 Feb 06