A friend and colleague sent me the New York Times Opinion Piece “The End of Black Harlem” and I’m trying to process how to suppress... Read More
Month: May 2016
I hope you find artists Jeffrey Gibson, Ethnographic’s Collections Researcher and Mickalene Thomas, Painter, Photographer, Filmmaker, perspectives enlightening. Over the next several weeks to come, I... Read More
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies 3 min read
This month’s program marks 50 years since Stokely Carmichael galvanized the Black Power generation in June 1966; and it suggests the long road to the... Read More
First Fridays: LGBTQ Black Pride Edition 1 min read
A celebration of inspiring LGBTQ pioneers and the rich history housed in The Life Archive collection at the second annual First Fridays: Black LGBTQ Pride Edition. Groove to... Read More
Sembene! tells the story of the self-taught novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who fought–against enormous odds – a 50-year battle to give Africans the power to tell their... Read More
In his memoir Writing My Wrongs, Shaka Senghor chronicles child abuse, violence, depression, and life in the streets as a drug dealer, which led him to... Read More
SummerStage – The Legends Honor McCoy Tyner 1 min read
June 4, 2016, 5-10pm SummerStage, Central Park Rumsey Playfield Manhattan... Read More
The Bronx Museum – Boogie on the Boulevard 1 min read
Get ready for Boogie on the Boulevard! On 16th, the center lanes of the Grand Concourse from 161st Street to 167th Street will be closed... Read More