Location: Virtual The kitchen is the hearth of the home; a convening space laden with memories that spring beyond the physical location, because the smells and flavors created there can themselves come to symbolize home. For Von Diaz, migration from the Caribbean coupled with family instability led to a life in transition; many homes, many kitchens; shifting tectonic plates of adaptation where meaning and identity were formed. In this talk, she’ll explore the 28 kitchens she’s had in her life—how tools, recipes, and techniques are archives of culture, and how kitchens are liminal spaces that enable us to bring home with us wherever we go. 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 states and borders seeking comfort, safety and identity? Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, state...

Presented by Center for Brooklyn History and NYU Location: Virtual Weaving together highlights from the Center for Brooklyn History’s collection, including documents from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), we examine Brooklyn’s civil rights and social justice movements of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Textiles, landscape, and photographs function as repositories of lived experiences and technologies of history, focusing on the civil rights and social justice movements of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Jami Floyd, Senior Editor for Race & Justice Unit at New York Public Radio and the Legal Editor in the WNYC Newsroom, moderates this conversation with distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College Jeanne Theoharis, historian Brian Purnell, and New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. Participants  Jami Floyd is well-known as the former local host of All Things Considered and Legal Editor in the WNYC Newsroom. She now also leads WNYC’s Race & Justice unit that covers news through the prism of race, class, and social...

Location: Virtual La Cigüapa’s unboundedness—her strange embodiment with backward-facing feet, her connection to the forest, and her refusal to be enclosed in the domestic space—is a framework for transnational AfroDominican women’s experiences of geographical movement, as well as the fluidity of their identities and their constant transformation to the point that it is at times illegible, unattainable, and untraceable. Based on the framework for Omaris Z. Zamora's first book project, Ciguapa Unbound: AfroLatina Feminist Epistemologies of Tranceformation, author and poet Elizabeth Acevedo, artist Firelei Báez, performance artist Josefina Báez, and Ginetta Candelario, Professor of Sociology and of Latin American & Latino/a Studies at Smith College, will join her in collective dialogue of the critical fabulations of La Ciguapa’s story and the ways it allows them to grapple with the erasure of Blackness, through indigenista mestizaje in the Dominican context as well as the transnational geographies she inhabits. La cigüapa’s story is one...

Location: Virtual NYU Center for Media, Culture and History presents a screening of shorts by filmmakers from the New Negress Film Society, "a collective of Black women and non-binary filmmakers who create community, spaces, and films that reimagine cultural productions that have traditionally exploited our communities". Post-screening discussion by New Negress Film Society members Faren Humes, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Stefani Saintonge, and Yvonne Michelle Shirley. Moderated by Mia Mask (Professor of Film, Vassar). A screening of short films from the New Negress Film Society, “a collective of Black women and non-binary filmmakers who create community, spaces, and films that reimagine cultural productions that have traditionally exploited our communities”. Post-screening discussion by New Negress Film Society filmmakers Faren Humes, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Stefani Saintonge, and Yvonne Michelle Shirley. Moderated by Mia Mask (Professor of Film, Vassar). 195 Lewis, Episode 1 (2017, 15 mins, Director: Chanelle Aponte Pearson). 195 Lewis is a dramatic comedy series about a group of friends navigating the realities of being, black,...

Michelle Lanier, Syreeta Gates and Djali Alessandra Brown-Cepeda Location: Virtual

Location: Virtual A Virtual Screening and Discussion with Jeffrey Wolf (Director), Daphne McWilliams (Producer) Greg Tate, Leslie Umberger, moderated by Leslie King-Hammond, PhD A screening and discussion on the documentary film exploring  the life of Bill Traylor, a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography.

A talk with interdisciplinary artist and scholar Dr. Fahamu Pecou Location: Virtual

A cross-disciplinary collaborative conversation about Black Womxn’s identity, imagination and image through the culture of hair. Location: Virtual Featuring: Meshell Ndegeocello, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Dr. Tiffany M. Gill and other special guests. Moderated by NYU student Marvelous Maeze & hosted by: Michaela angela Davis, writer + creator of Hair Tales