The Black Cultural Programming Committee (BCPC) hosted “Our Young Black Men are Dying and Nobody Seems to Care” on Monday at the UC Auditorium.

Christopher Dillard, sophomore in political science and team leader and treasurer of BCPC, worked on planning.

“What we do is basically the behind the scenes stuff like contacting people, getting vehicles reserved, and getting speakers here and that sort of thing,” Dillard said.

“Our Young Black Men are Dying and Nobody Seems to Care” was Dillard’s first event as a team leader, and he was pleased with the result.

“We’ve had a good turnout,” Dillard said.

Kellie Wilson, sophomore communications pre-major, was also on the BCPC team that hosted the event.

“The Black Cultural Programming Committee’s mission is to bring cultural awareness to campus through events such as plays, orchestra and that sort of thing,” Wilson said.

The event was performed by the Flow Theater, an act based out of New York.

“They tour throughout the country and they perform scenes that depict black men in America,” Dillard said.

According to the BCPC website, “The play is a series of vignettes addressing issues facing young black men in America. The topics are as relevant as today’s headlines and as real as walking through any inner-city neighborhood.”

The Off-Broadway show aimed to be humorous, but still highlighted some important issues facing black men.

“It’s based around the social issues of the black male and making it a little funny, but not too much where you can’t notice it’s a problem,” Wilson said.

“This Off-Broadway hit is full of history, passion, and sheer drama that established the prominence of Chapmyn Spoken Word,” the BCPC stated. “This classic choreopoem is redesigned with music and staged in simple elegance. The content is as current as the evening and as disturbing as the issues it addresses.”

The free event aimed to be a non-confrontational look at many current issues that face black men in America.

Wilson was also very pleased with the result of the event.

“We’re happy with the turnout because we didn’t know if we’d get that big of a turnout with a name like ‘people are dying,’” Wilson said.

She also mentioned that the BCPC will be hosting more events in the future.

“We have the Frederick Douglas Museum which is going on beginning the first of February and it’s an exhibit at the Black Cultural Center.”