Emmy Award winner Beverly Lindsay-Johnson It is no secret: from the continent of Africa, to the Mississippi Delta and back up to the Cotton Club, pan-African people have danced and danced, throughout every era.... Read More
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Inspirational video recommendations I would like to share some of the inspiring and educational videos I have, recently, had the opportunity to view: MALCOLM GLADWELL's discussion of the foundations for success in "Outliers" has helped me to understand the processes leading to achievement. SELWYN COLLINS HOST OF CWS INTERVIEW WITH TERRANCE MCKNIGHT, MUSICALOGIST* presents two modern voices that many of us don't often enough get a chance to hear.... Read More
BAM – Shining Star: A Tribute to Maurice White Seven-time Grammy Award winner Maurice White was the mastermind behind multi-platinum funk band Earth, Wind & Fire. BAMcinématek pays tribute to the late bandleader with two phenomenal vintage shows from the height of their powers: a live-in-the-studio performance on January 1973 on Channel 13's black variety show Soul!... Read More
Films at the Schomburg Research Center: Sembene! 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
World Premiere of “The Messiah Complex” May 20, 21, 25 and 26 at 8pm BRIC House 647 Fulton Street Brooklyn (866)811-4111 The Messiah Complex is a love story. Or many. It... Read More
Malcolm X/Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Celebration Thursday, May 19, 2016, 6pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium Register Here The annual celebration of the birthday of Malcolm X/Al-Hajj... Read More
Dwyer Cultural Center’s Film Screening of Death Of A Prophet Thursday, May 19, 2016, 6:30pm 258 Saint Nicholas Avenue (Entrance on 123rd street) Harlem Website: www.dwyercc.org, (212) 222-3060 Starring Morgan Freeman as MALCOLM X and Directed by: Woodie King, Jr. By... Read More
“Identities: Real & Imagined” Exhibition Reception: May 18, 2016, 6-8pm May 19 – June 19, 2016 Gallery at BRIC House 647 Fulton Street (Enter on Rockwell Place) Brooklyn BRIC present... Read More