Hill Theater presentation Wednesday, Feb. 22, from noon to 1 p.m.
Clockwise from top: Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm; Sally Hemings
In lieu of this week’s What’s Up Wednesday, join your fellow students and faculty in the Hill Theater for the Black History Month event, “Unbought,” Unbought is a musical theater piece presenting the dramatic stories of three African-American women: Ida B. Wells, a journalist and women’s suffrage activist; Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American in the U.S. Congress and the first African-American woman to run for president; and Sally Hemings, the slave with whom Thomas Jefferson fathered six children. The music is drawn from classical, jazz, and popular works by African-American composers. Noon to 1 p.m., Hill Theater.