A discussion with Vivian Vazquez Irizarry ‘s and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal Location: Virtual In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by city government, nearly a halfmillion people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble. While insidious government policies caused the devastation, Black and Puerto Rican residents bore the blame. In Decade of Fire, Bronxborn Vivian Vázquez Irizarry exposes the truth about the borough’s untold history and reveals how her embattled and maligned community chose to resist, remain and rebuild their HOME. Vázquez Irizarry will be joined by Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, fellow South Bronx native and James B. Duke Professor of African & African-American Studies and Professor of English, at Duke University. This event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of “Home, What does it look like now?” How can we reconsider home in the 21st century as we cross...

The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature - A Book Talk with Farah Jasmine Griffin Replay Event - Click Here

‘This Place I Call Home’ Jamila Woods: In Conversation with Joan Morgan Location: In Person This event is open to all current NYU Students with a RSVP

My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement. A Book Talk with Tarana Burke Replay Event - Click Here Location: Virtual

Location: Toronto, Canada “To live in the Black Diaspora is I think to live as a fiction — a creation of empires, and also self-creation. It is to be a being living inside and outside of herself. It is to apprehend the sign one makes yet to be unable to escape it except in radiant moments of ordinariness made like art.” — Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return (18-19) Host: Agnes Etherington Art Centre – Queen’s UniversityPresented by Wedge Curatorial Projects Please note, due to COVID-19, this will be a virtual conference. Registration now open! BLACK PORTRAITURE: Absent/ed Presence, 2021, will be the first of the Black Portraiture series to take place in Canada. This year, we will explore Blackness as absent/ed presence in art, art history, performance, archives, museums, cultural production, and technology.  This year’s conference will be a little different than previous incarnations of the Black Portraiture series. Due to travel restrictions and the COVID-19 pandemic,...

Gentrification and an African American Lucumí Community. A Talk with Dr. Akissi Britton and Dr. Kim D. Butler Location: Virtual Where Brooklyn At? Gentrification and an African American Lucumí Community: a talk with Dr. Akissi Britton and Dr. Kim D. Butler This talk will explore both the impact of gentrification and the added pressures of the pandemic on a diasporic religious community in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the concept of home in diaspora when "home" is always a moving target. The event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of "Home, What does it look like now?" How can we reconsider home in the 21st century as we cross states and borders seeking comfort, safety and identity? Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, state sanctioned violence against black bodies coupled with enhancing diverse and inclusive curricula, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) will explore the significant ways black visual narratives...

Location: Virtual Home is a place of memory and belonging, but it is also a place of migration and instability.  Each of these artists’ practices illuminate the reimagining of historical narratives as a means of interrogating colonial landscapes, family history, repression, and resistance, whether it be in an effort to understand or expand possibilities, or explore a new aesthetic of Blackness. We are so excited to have these three artists join us, first by presenting their work and then in conversation to explore the ways in which the very notion of seeking home is problematized. There will also be time for audience Q&A. This event is part of our year-long exploration on the theme of “Home, What does it look like now?” Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, state sanctioned violence against black bodies, the CBVC will explore the significant ways black visual narratives respond to the dynamic cultural, political, social, economic and intimate changes...

With Author Travis Atria joined by James Briggs Murray and Barbara Pierrat-Briggs  Location: Virtual Arthur Briggs is the most important name in jazz history you’ve probably never heard. Known as “The Louis Armstrong of France,” Briggs was among the most important musicians to bring jazz to Europe. Indeed, he had an uncanny ability to be where history was happening: from Harlem during the renaissance, to Paris during the Jazz Age, to a Nazi prison camp during WWII. He interacted with, and influenced, everyone from Django Reinhardt to the Prince of Wales. But Briggs’s life was about so much more than just music. His unbending sense of dignity led him to heroic acts during his imprisonment in the Nazi stalag at St. Denis, and his lifelong pursuit of racial justice make him a beacon for our age. In Better Days Will Come Again, this incredible story is told for the first time. Join...