#IWonderU40 Prince Symposium Join us on April 17–19, 2026 (Friday–Sunday) for #IWonderU40, a *HYBRID* Prince symposium. This is a very special one this year, commemorating two landmark anniversaries: ten years since Prince's passing and forty years since his visionary 1986 releases, the Parade album and his second narrative film Under the Cherry Moon. Save the dates and pre-register now at https://iwonderu40.substack.com. The speaker and schedule at a glance are on the symposium website,  https://iwonderu.polishedsolid.com. This will be our first hybrid symposium, designed to support both our international and local community. Friday • Fully virtual on Zoom Events + YouTube to accommodate our global audience. Saturday and Sunday • In person at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn at 370 Jay St., where we previously celebrated #EroticCity40. The in-person sessions will be livestreamed and posted later on YouTube and/or Vimeo. MASSIVE THANKS to our wonderful sponsors, NYU Integrated Design & Media (IDM), Princesyllabus.org, NYU Tandon...

TCB – the Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing Film Screening Join the Center for Black Visual Culture as welcome filmmaker Louis Massiah for a screening a conversation on TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing. This program is co-sponsored by Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora and NYU Arts & Science Department of English.TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025, 105 minutes) is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995) was a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist whose groundbreaking works, including The Black Woman (1970), Gorilla, My Love (1972), and The Salt Eaters (1980),...