Office Of Civil Rights' Black History Month Activities February 2002, February 21

A gospel extravaganza is planned for Thursday, February 21, 2002, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the Department of State’s Harry S. Truman Building, from 11:00 a.m. to Noon. The two featured choirs will be Phillip Freeman and the Victorious Praise Singers and Alvin Williams and Great Change; both enjoy a large following in the Washington, D.C. area. The guest Master of Ceremonies for the program is Mr. Patrick Ellis of WHUR-FM. His program "Washington’s Sunday Best in Gospel" is the #1 Sunday morning radio show in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The program is being co-sponsored by the Department’s Office of Civil Rights, the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, the Thursday, Luncheon Group, and the Foreign Affairs, USAID, and the Carl T. Rowan Chapters of Blacks in Government.

In an effort to recognize the diversity in the Department of State, and to promote equal employment opportunity among all employees, several special emphasis programs are planned throughout the year. They are:

January	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Holiday
February	National Black History Month
March	Women’s History Month
May	Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May 2	Holocaust Remembrance Day
June	Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
August 26	Women’s Equality Day
September 15-October 15	National Hispanic Heritage Month
October	National Disability Awareness Month
October 30	National Disability Mentoring Day
November	Native American Heritage Month