The Department of History’s Annual Black History Month Lecture will be presented by associate professor Shannon C. Eaves, the author of Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South and the College of Charleston’s 2025 Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award Recipient, an honor bestowed upon her by the Black History Intercollegiate Consortium. This event on Feb. 19th at 5pm in the School of Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering Building, Room 129, is free and open to the public. Following the event, there will be a reception in the SSMB atrium.