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Women's Jazz Festival 2014  Mondays, March 10, 17, 24 & 31 at 7 p.m.    March is Women's History Month and at the Schomburg we mark this occasion with our Women's Jazz Festival. Now in its 21st year, Women's Jazz is our signature performance series. Singer, composer, producer, and activist Toshi Reagon returns to curate three of the four concerts. This year's lineup includes: The Blues ProjectSpelman Jazz EnsembleMeshell Ndegeocello and Mem NahadrCarolyn Malachi and THESatisfaction Get Your Tickets NOW Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m. Voices of Crisis: The Crisis Continues Join Harry Belafonte, actor, longtime activist, and New School alumnus; Phillip Agnew, Director of the Dream Defenders; Raquel Cepeda, journalist and filmmaker; and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for a discussion on whether activists from the Civil Rights Era passed the torch to those fighting for justice and equality today.  All events are co-curated by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library; and The New School. Free! Register Saturday, March 1, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ellison at 100: Reading Invisible Man The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are pleased to announce a major collaboration celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest writers, Ralph Ellison. On Saturday, March 1, 2014—a century after Ellison’s birth in Oklahoma City—Ellison at 100: Reading Invisible Man will kick off a year of programs and initiatives celebrating the Ellison Centennial. Ellison at 100: Reading Invisible Man is organized by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and The Studio Museum in Harlem with the generous support of the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust. Free! Register Wednesday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. Talks at the Schomburg: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem Join historians Davarian Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, editors of Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem, as they discuss their new book. This conversation will be moderated by Schomburg Director Khalil Gibran Muhammad.  Free! Register Friday, March 7 at 6 p.m. First Fridays Join us as we bring Carnaval to the Schomburg with samba music and dancing, plus Brazilian fare from Brooklyn's Miss Favela. It will be a First Fridays you won't want to miss. Wear colors of the Brazilian flag and bring your dancing shoes!    Free! Register  Saturday, March 8 at 4 p.m. Between the Lines: Jacob S. Dorman Join us for a talk and book signing of Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions with author Jacob S. Dorman, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Department of American Studies at the University of Kansas. Dorman will be in conversation with Josef Sorett, Assistant Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Columbia University and interdisciplinary historian of religion in America, with a particular focus on black communities and cultures in the United States. Free!  Register *New Date!* Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. Between the Lines: Sylviane Diouf Award-winning historian and Curator of Digital Collections at the Schomburg Center, Sylviane Diouf delivers an in-depth look at who the maroons were in the larger context of resistance during American slavery in her book,  Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. Diouf will be in conversation with Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize winner and DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. A book signing will follow the event. Free! Register Thursday, March 6 at 6 p.m. Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Schomburg Education presents this dynamic adult education series with a full line up of provocative scholars and community members committed to engaging dialogue about black freedom studies. Sisters in the Struggle: Sustaining Black Women's Emancipation from Racism, Sexism and Violence with Robyn Spencer, Lehman College; Mary Phillips, Lehman College; Sherie Randolph, University of Michigan; and Emilye Crosby, SUNY-Geneseo.    The Spring 2014 semester is curated by professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College). Free! Register Motown: The Truth Is a Hit On view through  July 26, 2014 This exhibition explores Berry Gordy's conception of the truth by tracing black music from its African roots through slavery, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, urban America, the Civil Rights and antiwar movements, up to the present. Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution On view through June 14, 2014 Funky Turns 40 , from the Museum of Uncut Funk, explores black animated characters and the impact they had on a generation of young people.   The Deep South-Then & Now On view through May 31, 2014 This exhibition showcases 25 contemporary images taken by photographer Kenneth B. Goldberg when he visited some of the landmark places of the Civil Rights Movement. A Lighthouse in New York On view through March 15, 2014 This exhibit commemorates 80 years since the founding of the Antigua and Barbuda Progressive Society.  Schomburg Center programs and exhibitions are supported in part by the City of New York; the State of New York; the New York City Council Black, Latino and Asian Caucus; the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus; the Rockefeller Foundation Endowment for the Performing Arts; and the Annie E. and Sarah L. Delany Charitable Trusts.

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