In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth and #WomenofBlackHistory the Women's Studies Program and the Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center present a film screening of Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, Feb. 17, Human Science 111, 6:30PM.
Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Professor Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. They told her they were walking long distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their fields, and their children were suffering from malnutrition.
Taking Root captures a world-view in which nothing is perceived as impossible and presents an awe-inspiring profile of Maathai's thirty-year journey of courage to protect the integrally connected issues of the environment, human rights, and democracy.
This event is supported by Texas Tech University student organizations such as; Tech FMLA (Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance) and Texas Tech Black Student Association.
CONTACT: Tricia Earl, unit coordinator, the Women's Studies Program, T (806) 742-4335
