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 […]
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 […]
(Mural By:Hattie Carthan community) Replay Event – Click Here Food justice, feminist activist, Executive Director and Founder of the Black Feminist Project, Tanya Fields, and urban farmer and food justice instructor, Yonnette Fleming, will discuss the work they do to empower their communities to have agency over their health and combat food insecurity. The Black […]
Replay Event – Click Here Join us for a discussion about shifting meanings of home for Black communities and neighborhoods facing gentrification. Drawing on their experiences as residents and researchers in Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California, scholars Brandi Thompson Summers, Amanda Boston, and Maya Kearney will share insights about challenges Black urban […]
Rutgers University-Newark brings the global Black Portraiture[s] conference to Newark, NJ for the first time on February 17-19th 2022 In this moment of profound uncertainty, reconnection, and newfound creativity, the organizers of the Black Portraiture[s] conferences invite the submission of abstracts summarizing a paper, panel, or performance related to the role of “play” in past […]
Replay Event – Click Here Lisa B. Thompson’s Underground (winner of the Austin Critics Table David Mark Cohen New Play Award) reunites Kyle and Mason, a pair of old college friends who have gone from radicals in their youth to successful professionals approaching middle age. The two have a chance to catch-up, reminisce and engage […]
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama, American lawyer and politician Julián Castro weighs in on the American housing crisis. More than seven million Americans are behind on rent, according to the latest Census survey, and, despite tens of billions of dollars in rental assistance approved by Congress, much of it has […]
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