Center for Black Visual Culture CBVC welcomes Dr. Guthrie Ramsey and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal for our first Book Talk of 2024! Please join Dr. Guthrie Ramsey, and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal in conversation on Dr. Ramsey's book, Who Hears Here? Followed by a book signing. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, and the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. A widely-published writer, he’s the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (2003), and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History and the Challenge of Bebop (2013). Dr. Ramsey is co-author beside Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., with Melanie Zeck of The Transformation of Black Music: The Rhythms, the Songs and the Ships of the African Diaspora (2017) and editor of Rae Linda Brown, The Heart...

  Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture Please join Eric Hart Jr., and Emil Wilbekin in conversation on Hart's book When I Think About Power, followed by a book signing. Get ready for our second event in February! Please join the Center for Black Visual Culture, Eric Hart Jr. (@erichartjr), and Emil Wilbekin (@emilwilbekin) for a discussion of Hart’s book “When I think About Power”. The evening will feature a discussion of "When I think About Power" followed by a book signing with Hart, where the book will be available for purchase. Date:  Wed, February 12th, 2024 Time:  6:30pm EST Location: 20 Cooper SQ, FL 3, NY 10003  

Center for Black Visual Culture Please join the Center for Black Visual Culture and Dr. Bettina Love for a discussion and signing of her book Punished For Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal. In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan’s presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. Dr. Love lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans and offers a road map for repair, with transformation for all children at its core. Punished for Dreaming is a NY Times Bestseller and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Dr. Bettina L. Love holds the prestigious William F. Russell Professorship at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller "Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal." In 2022, the...

  Register for Event   Center for Black Visual Culture Please join the Center for Black Visual Culture and Dr. Tanisha Ford for a discussion and signing of Dr. Ford's book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement. An engrossing social history of Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban Leage Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire, Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates the highly significant and long overlooked powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the civil rights movement. Our Secret Society is nominated for an NAACP Award for Autobiography. Tanisha C. Ford is a foremost voice speaking on the intersection of politics, economics, and culture. She makes connections between the past and the present in ways that shed new light on today's most pressing social issues. She is Professor of History and Biography and Memoir at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Tanisha has written four...