Wednesday, May 6, 2015 – from 6:30pm to 8:30pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd Harlem Marcus Rediker, author of... Read More
April 22, 2015—May 31, 2015 New York Theatre Workshop 79 East 4th Street Manhattan Dael Orlandersmith (Yellowman, Monster, The Gimmick) returns to the Workshop with an uplifting... Read More
Thursday, May 7, 2015, 3:30-5:30pm PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, NYC The Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx With Billy Kahora... Read More
Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 7:00pm PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, NYC Nuyorican Poets Cafe 236 East 3rd Street Manhattan Baba Wagué Diakité, Marilyn Nelson, Nnedi... Read More
Monday, May 4, 2015 from 6:30pm to 8pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Blvd Manhattan Michelle Obama: A Life by... Read More
In President Barack Obama’s children’s book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters, which profiles thirteen Americans who helped shape present-day America, the President describes singer as a woman with her “own song.” Indeed, Lady Day is one of the most distinctly recognizable voices of the 20th century.... Read More
When Black Americans adopted the insignia African American, nowhere in the instruction manual was it written that knowledge of Africa would be magically conferred. Thus... Read More