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Deeply Rooted:
Deeply Rooted:
Filmmaker Shantrelle P. Lewis in Conversation with Dr. Kokavah Zauditu-Selassie Replay Event - Click Here
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The Price of Home:
The Price of Home:
A Reading of Lisa B. Thompson's Underground Replay Event - Click Here Lisa B. Thompson’s Underground (winner of the Austin Critics Table David Mark Cohen New Play Award) reunites Kyle and Mason, a pair of old college friends who have gone from radicals in their youth to successful professionals approaching middle age. The two have a chance to catch-up, reminisce and engage one another in a battle of intellects over the best road to Black liberation. As their argument becomes increasingly passionate and more personal, news reports reveal a police search for the leader of a Black radical political movement focused on reparations. From flashbacks to their first meeting to the final game of chess that could change their lives forever, Mason and Kyle each pose to one another the central question of Underground: how far would you go to protect your people? This event is part of our year-long exploration on...
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Black Portraiture[s] VII: Play & Performance
Rutgers University-Newark brings the global Black Portraiture conference to Newark, NJ for the first time. In this moment of profound uncertainty, reconnection, and newfound creativity, the organizers of the Black Portraiture conferences invite the submission of abstracts summarizing a paper, panel, or performance related to the role of “play” in past and contemporary African Diasporic art, performance, liberation struggles, and cultural work. Play is a capacious term. It connotes leisure, desire, and jouit, or indicates musical or athletic virtuosity. Play can be liberatory as in racial masquerades or gender mimicry. But, it can also be oppressive as well. Pantomimes and minstrelsy have a racist history; while physical sites of play and public recreation have also been places of segregation and discrimination. More subversive types of play engage the absurd, the excessive, or the spectacular; and the term “play” itself can signify sexual power relations. At the same time, play, as in the...
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Home Displaced:
Home Displaced:
Dr. Amanda Boston, Dr. Brandi Thompson-Summers, and Maya Kearney on Gentrification in Historically Black areas Replay Event - Click Here Join us for a discussion about shifting meanings of home for Black communities andneighborhoods facing gentrification. Drawing on their experiences as residents andresearchers in Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California, scholarsBrandi Thompson Summers, Amanda Boston, and Maya Kearney will share insights aboutchallenges Black urban dwellers face in the context of exclusionary redevelopment. Theywill also discuss practices of joy, creativity, connection, and resistance that Blackcommunities use to assert their humanity and their right to the city.This event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of "Home, What does it looklike now?" How can we reconsider home in the 21st century as we cross states and bordersseeking comfort, safety and identity? Against the backdrop of a global pandemic and statesanctioned violence against black bodies, the Center for Black Visual Culture...