Film Screening: Into the Lion's Den - The Hayden Fry and Jerry LeVias Story
Join us for "Into the Lion's Den" a documentary by former Iowa Hawkeye Quinn Early about coach Hayden Fry and Jerry LeVias, the first Black scholarship football player in the Southwest Conference. It follows how in 1965 Fry, a Marine-turned-coach known for building character and winning traditions, took the courageous step of recruiting LeVias, a Black high school star, to SMU, and together they helped desegregate college football in the South.
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Date:
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom
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Ask Your Advocate! Meet Your Ombuddy! Meet Sinclair College Ombuds, Amy Hartman
If you're familiar with Sinclair's Ombuds Office, you may know Sinclair College's "Ombuddy" Amy Hartman. Join Amy for an interactive session to learn what an Ombuds does, how they can help you navigate challenges, and why this resource is valuable. We will explore real-life situations, engage in dsicussion, and participate in a fun, interactive activity. This event is open to faculty and staff too - learn how the Ombuds Office supports our students.
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Date:
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom
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Article Club Discussion: "Remembering the Rosenwald Schools," by Marion Wright Edelman - Zoom Only
Marion Wright Edelman, founder and President emerita of the Children's Defense Fund, shares the history of philanthropist Julius Rosenwald (President of Sears, Roebuck) who partnered with Tuskegee Institute's Booker T. Washington to fund the construction of nearly 5,000 schools for Black children across 15 Southern states, requiring local communities to raise matching funds and labor.
By 1928, one in three rural Black schoolchildren in the South attended a Rosenwald school, and the article traces how these buildings — once central community hubs — were largely abandoned after school integration, and are now being reclaimed and preserved as historic landmarks.
Read the article in advance and join Michael Carter for a review of the article and discussion.
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Date:
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom - A link and a copy of the article will be forwarded to you prior to the event date.
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World Peace Day
Tom Roberts, Sinclair College Ohio Fellows Advisor leads Sinclair's observance of World Peace Day. The Carter Center invites the Sinclair and Dayton community to join us for a Peace Circle. For just fifteen minuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXtpFZzuBQ0tes, we'll pause together and reflect on this year’s theme: Invest in Peace – For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and cease-fire.
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Date:
Monday, September 21, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom
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Video & Discussion: "Confronting America's Legacy of Slavery," with Bryan Stephenson
Join us for a discussion of the video clip: "Confronting America's Legacy of Slavery" - A Reveal podcast episode, released in 2026. The episode connects Stephenson's original legal work (exonerating wrongly convicted prisoners, challenging harsh sentencing) to what he now describes as advocacy for the millions of enslaved people whose stories are at risk of being erased from public memory.
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Date:
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Time: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom
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Article Club Discussion: "Rethinking Monuments," by Carolina Miranda - Zoom
This article, from the April 14, 2026 edition of The Atlantic Magazine, and written by Carolina Miranda, asks a question - "Amid the wave of Confederate statue removals in the summer of 2020, what should come down, and what should go up in their place?"
Read the article in advance and join Michael Carter for a review of the article and discussion.
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Date:
Monday, September 21, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Location: Zoom - A link and a copy of the article will be forwarded to you prior to the event date.
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Video & Discussion: "When Every Word Doesn't Belong to Everyone," with Ta'Nehisi Coates - Hybrid
Complimentary LUNCH included!
This clip is from a 2017 stop on Coates's We Were Eight Years in Power book tour, at a Family Action Network event hosted at Evanston Township High School in Illinois. During the Q& A, a woman in the audience — a Northwestern student — referenced an email sent to students ahead of a Lil Uzi Vert concert at Northwestern, stating that white students didn't have the right to say the n-word during the show, even though the artist uses it frequently in his lyrics. She said she agreed with the policy "100 percent," but asked Coates how to explain that to white peers who feel entitled to say the word when it comes up in the music.
Please register by September 21, 2026, if you plan to join us for lunch.
The video clip is brief - 5 minutes - please watch it in advance and join Michael Carter for the discussion to follow.
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Date:
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom OR Zoom (a link will be sent to you prior to the event date)
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Book Read: Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg - In-person and Zoom
Sponsored by the SAGE Committee & the Office of College and Community Connections
Join the SAGE committee for the Book Read and discussion of: Stone Butch Blues, by Leslie Feinberg. From the website, "Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg’s 1993 first novel, is widely considered in and outside the U.S. to be a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender.
Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, Stone Butch Blues has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with hir earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women). The novel was winner of the 1994 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award and a 1994 Lambda Literary Award."
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In Person Date:
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Zoom Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
Time for both: 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 11, Room 324. Our American Journey Classroom OR Zoom (a link will be sent to you prior to the event date)
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Special Event! Visiting Author: "An Evening with Charlotte Watson Sherman"
Join us this fall for a special campus visit with author Charlotte Watson Sherman, whose latest book, Learn, Baby, Learn: The Shindana Toy Factory's Legacy of Black Pride, tells the story of the first Black-owned toy company in America and the community that built it after the Watts uprising. Sherman is also the author of Brown Sugar Babe, Mermaid Kenzie, and This Opening Sky, and her work has appeared in Essence, Ms., and The Seattle Times. Come hear her story and get your questions answered in person.
A selection of the author's books will be available for purchase.
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Date:
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Sinclair College, Dayton Campus, Building 12, Smith Auditorium.
Parking: Free parking in Lot C, located under Building 12
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