Get ready for an all-new season of programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture! Find out what’s happening in-person and virtually from September through December.

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September

Virtual Conversation: Black Health, Medical Racism, Resistance, and Wellness
Thursday, September 2 | 6:30 PM | Online
Watch on Livestream.

Showing Out: Fashion in Harlem
Thursday, September 9 | 6:30 PM | Schomburg Center
Watch on Livestream.

Performing Arts Talks: Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Opera in Three Acts
Featuring Terence Blanchard, Charles M. Blow, James Robinson, and more.
Presented in partnership with The Metropolitan Opera.
Tuesday, September 28 | 7 PM | Online 
Watch on Livestream.

October

Between the Lines: New-Generation African Poets (NANE) with Kwame Dawes & Chris Abani
Tuesday, October 5 | 6:30 PM | Online
Watch on Livestream.

Pandemic Legacies: Health, Healing, and Medicine in the Age of Slavery and Beyond
Wednesday, October 6–Friday, October 8 | Online
Watch on Livestream.

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Policing/Surveillance
Featuring Victoria Law, Marisol LeBrón, Stuart Schrader, and Daniel Chard
Thursday, October 7 | 6:30 PM | Online
Watch on YouTube

Schomburg Courtyard Salons
Join us for a weekly book signing reception and reading with select authors who have published books during quarantine.
Thursday, October 14, | 6 PM | Schomburg Center |Robert Jones, Jr, (The Prophets)
Thursday, October 21 | 6 PM | Schomburg Center | Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal & Nev)
Thursday, October 28 | 6 PM |Scohmburg Center | Farrah Jasmine Griffin (Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature)

Films at the Schomburg: Summer of Soul
Tuesday, October 26 |  6:30 PM | Schomburg Center
Watch the talk back on Livestream
 

November

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Education as a Practice of Freedom
Davarian Baldwin, Jarvis Givens, Jesse Hagopian, Elizabeth Todd-Breland,
Thursday, November 4 |  6:30 PM | Online
Watch on Livestream

Between the Lines | Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
Featuring Patsy Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, and Dr. Nicole Fleetwood.
Tuesday, November 9 | 6:30 PM | Schomburg Center
Watch on YouTube

Schomburg Open House: Memory and Memorabilia
Saturday, November 13 | Schomburg Center
11 AM—Somewhere Listening for My Name: Melvin Dixon (Postponed)
12:30 PM—Genealogy 101 Workshop
1:30 PM—Activating Houston Conwill's Rivers Cosmogram
2 PM—Ethics of Care: Tarana Burke. Watch on Livestream
3:30 PM—Screening: Black Rodeo. Watch on Livestream

Between the Lines: Race Against Time by Keith Boykin
Featuring Keith Boykin and Rashad Robinson
Tuesday, November 18 | 6:30 PM | Online
Watch on YouTube

Between the Lines: Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. Du Bois
Featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Eric Foner in conversation with moderator Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
In partnership with Library of America and NYPL Center for Educators and Schools.
Thursday, November 18 | 6:30 PM | Online
Watch on Livestream

Workshops: Black Reconstruction In America Revisited |Online
Nov 6: Teaching Reconstruction - Facilitator: Adam Sanchez
Nov 13: Reading Black Reconstruction - Facilitator: Dr. Brian Jones
Nov 20: Abolition Now, Reconstruction Now - Facilitator: Mariame Kaba
 

December

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Radical Black, LGBTQ+, Feminist Lives
Barbara Smith, Moya Bailey, Laura Lovett, Emily Thuma
Watch on YouTube

Theater Talks: Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage and Salamishah Tillet
Watch on Livestream

 

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Additional support provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation. 
 

Originally Published: August 2021
Updated: December 13, 2021

 

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