QBR/ THE BLACK BOOK REVIEW/HARLEM BOOK FAIR AUTHOR TALKS

QBR/THE BLACK BOOK REVIEW/HARLEM BOOK FAIR AUTHOR TALKS

AT THE SCHOMBURG CENTER - SATURDAY, JULY 20

Presented by Columbia University School of the Arts, T-Mobile, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

THE ROAD TO DISCOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH E.R. SHIPP and CARL HART

Location: Schomburg Center, Hughes Auditorium

Time: 1:30p – 2:45p

Introduction by Patrick Oliver, Founder, Say It Loud!

Participants: Carl Hart, High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society; E.R. Shipp, Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax

A recent brief on medicaldaily.com states that Europe is now the world’s leading drug market, with 280 new and dangerous “legal” highs replacing traditional drug use. A conversation between Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, E.R. Shipp, and neuroscientist, Carl Hart, aims to shift the scientific and judicial communities’ focus away from tidy, racialized characterizations of drug abuse and illegality to more comprehensive approaches that address both the material conditions of marginalized Americans and mainstreamed “functional” users.

WELCOME: Max Rodriguez, Director, Harlem Book Fair; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Marcia Sells, Associate VP, Program Development and Initiatives, and Associate Dean, Office of Community Outreach and Education, School of the Arts, Columbia University

Time: 11:50a – 12:00p

MYTHOLOGIES OF RACE, SCIENCE, AND HEALTH

Location: Schomburg Center, Hughes Auditorium

Time: 12:00p – 1:15p

Introduction by Max Rodriguez, Founder & Publisher, QBR/The Black Book Review & Harlem Book Fair

Moderator: Sheldon Krimsky, Genetic Justice: DNA Databanking, Criminal Investigations and Civil Liberties

Panelists: Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease; Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination; Samuel K. Roberts, Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation; and Harriet Washington, Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future.

From the long history of medical experimentation on African Americans, the complex connection between race and DNA, to racial health disparities that present a national crisis, the panelists gathered for this discussion will trace how racial thinking and bias have been woven into our national dialogue on science and health.

FIFTY YEARS LATER: BLACKS AND THE 21ST CENTURY CITY

Location: Schomburg Center, Hughes Auditorium

Time: 3:00p – 4:15p

Introduction by Troy Johnson, Founder & Publisher, AALBC.com

Moderator: Tina Campt, Other Germans: Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender and Memory in the Third Reich

Panelists: Farah Griffin, Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War I; Kendall Thomas, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement; Peniel Joseph, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama

Fifty years after the March On Washington how much progress have blacks made in American society? A half century after racial violence in Birmingham, Alabama elevated Dr. King to new heights of leadership and inspired President John F. Kennedy to deliver a historic televised "race speech" in support of civil rights, racial equality remains a contested notion in American society. That blacks have made progress in political participation but endure alarming rates of income inequity is profoundly disconcerting. But this is not a new history. What historical and contemporary factors drive these persistent issues and what new knowledge can be harnessed to address the specific demands of the new century?

CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM: CELEBRATING THE LEGACIES OF ROSA PARKS AND ESLANDA ROBESON

Location: Schomburg Center, Hughes Auditorium

Time: 4:30p – 5:45p

Introduction by Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati, Founder, The Literary

Participants: Mary Frances Berry, the former Chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Power in Words: The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House, will join Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, and Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, to honor these two freedom fighters and discuss their new books.

February 4, 2013 marks the centennial of the birth of Rosa Parks. Two decades before Parks' historic arrival, Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson was born on December 15, 1895 in Washington DC. Both women were indomitable activists and long distance runners “hidden in plain sight” in the Black Freedom Struggle: Rosa Parks played a foundational role laying the groundwork, galvanizing and maintaining the Montgomery movement and subsequently advising Civil Rights and Black Power organizations in Detroit; Eslanda Robeson — chemist, author, actress and journalist—as a leader in the Progressive Party and the anti-colonial Council on African Affairs.

THE NEW JERUSALEM: BLACK LIFE, THE CHURCH, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

Location: Schomburg Center, Hughes Auditorium

Time: 6:00p – 7:15p

Introduction by Valerie Gay, Executive Director, Art Sanctuary

Moderator: Josef Sorett, Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

Panelists: Anthea Butler, Women in the Church of God in Christ, Making A Sanctified World; Rev. James Forbes, Who's Gospel: A Concise Guide to Progressive Protestantism; Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America; Obery Hendricks, The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings

The fact that religious belief, religious institutions, and religious people came to be seen as essential to social freedom remains the central paradox in African American life and political history. This discussion examines the overlapping challenges of creating a basis for black collective political activism, building independent black institutions, and determining the place of men, women, politics and religion in leadership.