Rendering black, queer, and elder populations visible – a lecture by Nadege Green, Distinguished Writer/Community Activist-in-Residence, Fall 2022 Location: 20 Cooper Square, Second Floor New York, NY 10003 Register for Event - Click Here CBVC Distinguished Writer/Community Activist-in-Residence, Nadege Green’s work centers the lived experiences of Black people in South Florida and is deeply rooted in history and first-person narratives. Her work aligns strongly with CBVC’s continued support of cultural and artistic missions that center restorative justice and healing for black people across the diaspora.  Green will present her research for her emerging history and storytelling platform Black Miami-Dade, which uses a combination of ethnographic interviews and archival practices to herald the rich, and often ignored, history of Black Miami, especially rendering the lives of Miami’s Black queer populations visible in an upcoming exhibit in 2023. Reclaiming archives and insisting that Black narratives are visible and not erased is critical to CBVC/IAAA’s ongoing mission...

A double book talk + signing Location: WNYC's The GreeneSpace 44 Charlton Street New York, NY 10014 Register for Event - Click Here In concert with WNYC’s The Greene Space and in celebration of the books’ release, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs at NYU presents Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party and In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs, a book talk and signing featuring former Black Panther Party member Ericka Huggins and Regina Jennings, and photographers Stephen Shames and Jeffrey Henson Scales. The talk will be moderated by CBVC Director, University Professor, and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Dr. Deborah Willis. Few photographers had the insider access Oakland native Jeffrey Henson Scales did around the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Capturing rare and intimate portraits of the movement’s leaders...

A book talk with author and CEO of the Armah Institute for Emotional Justice, Esther Armah + Dramatized reading Location: Kimmel Center, Room 405/406 at 60 Washington Square South, NYC, with livestream option for virtual attendees Register for Event - Click Here Amid a global racial reckoning, Esther Armah’s book, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing, offers a much-needed language for racial healing and repair. Armah is the creator of Emotional Justice, a framework for racial healing shaped by her time as a journalist in South Africa, Ghana, London and New York. In her new book, Armah explains our historical racial healing model centers whiteness and therefore cannot serve our humanity. Armah introduces a new model that identifies our emotional work and requires we unlearn and dismantle the language of whiteness. Armah explains, dismantling the language of whiteness requires different work from different people. The book looks at key terms—Intimate Reckoning, Intimate Revolution,...