A conversation with award-winning film director Radha Blank and award-winning actress Anna Maria Horsford Location: Virtual A conversation with award-winning film director Radha Blank and award-winning actress Anna Maria Horsford as they discuss the creative process, ideas and themes in the film The Forty-Year-Old Version, where a desperate for a breakthrough as she nears the big 4-0, struggling New York City playwright Radha finds inspiration by reinventing herself as a rapper.

A book talk with editor Isolde Brielmaier and artists Renee Cox, andDuron Jackson Location: Virtual Culture As Catalyst is a collection of dialogues and new writings by artists, scholars, activists, and influential thinkers on urgent issues of our time.

Screening and talk with film director Loira Limbal and Salamishah Tillet Location: Virtual Through the Night is an intimate cinema verité portrait of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a 24-hour daycare center. Special Link to screen the film will be sent only to registrants prior to event date.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum shares new works by artists Vuyo Sotashe, Kayla Farrish and Daniel J. Watts Location: Virtual Created while in quarantine, joined by Jake Goldbas, Artistic Director of Programs of the museum.

A book talk with Sarah Lewis, Matthew Fox-Amato and Deborah Willis Location: Virtual

An Online Kick-off Event for his Spring 2021 Artist Residency at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute Location: Virtual Co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs and the Center for Black Visual Culture Join us for a special online launch event celebrating Devonté Hynes’s Spring 2021 Artist residency at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music. Hynes will talk with Institute Chair Jason King and take questions from Recorded Music students in a freewheeling conversation and Q&A about his artistry, vision and music-making philosophies. One of the most influential voices in music today, Devonté Hynes is a producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and vocalist. Raised in England, Hynes started out as a teenage punk in the UK band Test Icicles before releasing two orchestral acoustic pop records as Lightspeed Champion. In 2011, he released Coastal Grooves, the first of four solo albums under the moniker Blood Orange. His 2016 album, Freetown Sound,...

Esther Armah, Executive Director, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice invites us to reckon with existing grief definitions, and expand them to engage the lived experience of global Black women. Location: Virtual

Shifting the Lens on Race Location: Virtual A book talk with author, scholar-activist Dr. Yaba Blay and photographer Noelle Flores ThéardOne Drop explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness. Join Dr. Yaba Blay and Noelle Flores Théard as they discuss their collaborative processes, the decision to take a visual approach to their scholarly research, and their publishing journey.