Membership Events

5 events found.

Date/TimeTitle/DescriptionLocationAudience
Today
@ 6:30 PM
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies
About this event IN PERSON Join us in person at the Schomburg Center and online as scholars Ujju Aggarwal (Unsettling Choice: Race Relations, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education), Say Burgin (Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit), Laura Hill (Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York 1940-1970), and Shannon King (The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York) discuss the histories…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Fri, October 4
@ 10 AM
IN PERSON As we celebrate the centennial birth of James “Jimmy” Baldwin, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is excited to host a two-day convening in collaboration with the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. A stellar group of scholars and creatives, including Prentis Hemphill, Bettina Love, PhD, Derrais Carter, PhD, Darnell Moore, Marsha Jean-Charles, PhD, Dante Stewart, Farah J…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers,

Businesspeople
Sat, October 5
@ 10 AM
IN PERSON As we celebrate the centennial birth of James “Jimmy” Baldwin, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is excited to host a two-day convening in collaboration with the Institute for Research in African American Studies and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University. A stellar group of scholars and creatives, including Prentis Hemphill, Bettina Love, PhD, Derrais Carter, PhD, Darnell Moore, Marsha Jean-Charles, PhD, Dante Stewart, Farah Ja…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Tue, October 15
@ 6 PM
IN-PERSON EVENT Join us at the opening and reception for a new collaboration with The Kitchen and its first traveling exhibition, Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art. In a moment where technology mediates and has transformed all parts of a visual culture, Code Switch provokes reconsiderations about what “Internet art” is altogether. Legacy Russell, exhibition organizer, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen will bring remarks. About the Exhibition D…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers
Thu, October 17
@ 5:30 PM
IN-PERSON EVENT Do you have your voting plan mapped out? In the lead-up to national and local elections, the National Black Theatre and the Schomburg Center invite you to join us on October 17 for Unbought & Unbossed: Empowering Our Voice & Choice. This will be a multi-layered event with a Civic Activation Fair, an engaging panel discussion and dialogue, and voter registration, as we chart our communities paths to securing the vote. This event will feature key voices who are dedica…
Schomburg Center for Research in Black CultureAdults,

50+,

Book Lovers