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.

Following the event, there will be a reception in the SSMB atrium. This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the College of Charleston's Department of History, Department of African American Studies, Avery Research Center, Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program, Center for Public Choice and Market Process, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, Civility Initiative, Department of Political Science, Office of Institutional Diversity, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program.