How do Black people take care in a climate of anti-Blackness? What does rest look like for Black people when enduring the longue durée of Black suffering? What are the subtle, sustainable, powerful ways to run on, without burning out emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually?  By observing the interiority and quietude of Black people, despite […]

In concert with WNYC’s The Greene Space and in celebration of the books’ release, the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at the Institute of African American Affairs at NYU presents Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party and In a Time of Panthers: Early Photographs, a book talk and signing featuring former Black […]

Amid a global racial reckoning, Esther Armah’s book, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing, offers a much-needed language for racial healing and repair. Armah is the creator of Emotional Justice, a framework for racial healing shaped by her time as a journalist in South Africa, Ghana, London and New York. In her new book, […]

Conversation with The Nap Ministry’s Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance, and Dr. Joan Morgan What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? is a question Tricia Hersey, founder of the Nap Ministry, confronts in her debut publication Rest as Resistance: A Manifesto. Join us as Tricia Hersey invites readers to reimagine the foundations […]

In concert with YoungArts and in celebration of the exhibition, Home: Reimagining Interiority (on view until December 19, 2022 at the Tisch Gallery, New York, NY), we are pleased to present a reception and panel featuring artists and curators from the exhibition as they interrogate the very concept of home as an interior space of […]

DATE: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 TIME: 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. EST LOCATION: Virtual Deputy Director of the New Museum and Guest Curator at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC, author of the recently released I am Sparking: N.V. Parekh and His Portrait Studio Clients: Mombasa, Kenya, 1940-1980 (Damiani, 2022), Isolde Brielmaier brings […]

Replay Event – Click Here Two artists whose work engages in current community with abundant echoes of the United States’ long historical arch in order to suggest where we’ll find ourselves in the years to come: in celebration of Accra Shepp’s first monograph, Radical Justice: Lifting Every Voice, we are pleased to have him in […]

Register for Event – Click Here Home is about inside. Healing is about inside worlds – our emotional, spiritual insides where lockdown triggered triggers and home was restless and bubbling traumas and trouble for millions. It was an undoing we didn’t see coming, and we didn’t know how not to be undone. This is an […]

Replay Event – Click Here Join us for a panel discussion on the unapologetically fierce hip hop feminist work of Sesali Bowen, Dr. Brittney Cooper, Dr. Susana Morris, and CBVC’s own, Dr. Joan Morgan. For the first time ever, Sesali Bowen will give an academic talk on her trap feminist framework including its origins, inspirations, […]

  Replay Event – Click Here Disproportionate violence at home, at school, on the job, in their neighborhood as well as institutionalized racism, racial profiling and police brutality, and incarceration rates far exceeding their share of the population: these are the experiences of Black women in this country. A 2017 report by the Institute for […]