By Keir Bristol

Students of all colors gathered to celebrate Black History Month with the legendary Last Poets at afterHOURS Thursday.

The Black Engineering Student Society (BESS) sponsored the show, which featured Sol Melodiq, a Boston-based jazz/soul band, and the Last Poets, a group of socially-conscious poets and musicians that have been around since the 1960s.

Nahomie Louis, BESS treasurer and a senior engineering major, said the group chose The Last Poets and Sol Melodiq to perform because the poetry and music together would create an unusual combination, not typical of most shows at Northeastern.

Sol Melodiq formed at Berklee College of Music. Although the group writes some of its own songs, Sol Melodiq also covered a number of songs, including “The Light,” originally by rapper Common, and “Ribbon in the Sky,” originally performed by Stevie Wonder.

Because of miscommunication, Sol Melodiq nearly missed the show, but was able to pull through in time.

“It was kinda rough, because we almost didn’t play