TONIGHT! Fri, November 20 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST
An evening with visual artist Odili Donald Odita and curator Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in celebration of Odita’s forthcoming Oral History interview. To Register |
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Art, Storytelling and
Starting Young
Monday, November 23
5:00 – 6:00 PM (EST)
With NYU students Maya Aristimuño, Ashley Pena, Denise Stephanie and Sophia Wilson discussing what it means to “make it”, how they discovered their creative paths, and what it’s like as young female entrepreneurs to have “free time.” To Register |
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Evidence of Things Seen: A Conversation About the Archives with
Christopher Stahling
and Steven G. Fullwood
Monday, December 7
6:00 - 7:00 PM (EST)
Who authorizes the storyteller? Who offers our communities spaces to be archived and to be heard? How is Black joy archived? What sustains the builders of archives? To Register |
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There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother
In the Haitian Creole language, “Gwo Fanm” means “Big Woman,” a woman who shoulders more than their fair share of burdens in this life.
By Naomieh Jovin and Magnum Foundation
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MLK/FBI is an essential expose of the surveillance and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (labeled by the FBI as the "most dangerous" Black person in America), undertaken by J. Edgar Hoover and the U.S. government.
Opens January 15 (https://www.mlkfbi.com/). Directed by Sam Pollard, an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director, producer and professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. To view trailer |
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Tsitsi Dangarembga’s “Nervous Conditions”, “The Book of Not” acquired by Faber
Nervous Conditions (1988), The Book of Not (2006), and This Mournable Body (2018) are a trilogy that follow the story of Tambudzai, a protagonist that lives through Zimbabwean independence to today’s tribulations.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the Women’s Prize for Literature “Winner of Winners.”
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating & honouring fiction written by women.
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California Is Named for a Griffin-Riding Black Warrior Queen
The story of Calafia reveals the surprising complexity of medieval attitudes about race. BY REBECCA JOHNSON
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The Art Angle Podcast: The Tragic Love Story of the Poet and the Painting Chef
Acclaimed poet Elizabeth Alexander joins the podcast to share her extraordinary life with the late painter Ficre Ghebreyesus. Artnet News
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