Poet Kim Hunter offered readings from his poems – drawn from his experiences as a factory worker, security guard, middle school teacher and street-level outreach worker in Detroit – to help Macomb Community College recognize Black History Month. On Feb. 10, the Marygrove College Dance Department will offer a presentation on African dance and drumming traditions at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts. On Feb. 16, representatives from the Detroit Institute of Arts will be at the South Campus Library to offer a presentation on the works of African-American artists that are part of the DIA collection. Both of the events are free.

Treashure Banks attended Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Detroit before graduating from George Whyth High School in Richmond, Va. Between the two, she began formulating ideas that would result in her founding of the Black Student Union at South Campus last year. “Macomb needed an organization that concentrates on African Americans. One that helps us work on our strengths and address our weaknesses so that we can become better leaders,” says Banks, the club’s president, student activities staffer and business major who plans to earn an MBA from Walsh. “(South) campus has been very welcoming. I’ve made a lot of friends.”