Arturo Schomburg at Fisk University: Vanessa Valdés
Highlights from Dr. Vanessa Valdés' talk as part of the John Hope Franklin Center's weekly Wednesdays at the Center series.
While the Schomburg Library for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York is a renowned archive in which one can find any number of objects testifying to Black excellence, many are unaware that Arturo Schomburg, a Black Puerto Rican Virgin Islander who personal collection was the foundation for what would become that library, also established a significant Africana collection in the Jim Crow South, at Fisk University, in the early 1930s. In this presentation, Dr. Valdés highlights that history, arguing that in doing so, Schomburg amply demonstrated not only the liberatory potential of the archive, but also the necessity for broadening definitions of Blackness to extend beyond the boundaries of this country.
The talk ended with a brief conversation between Dr. Valdes and Dr. Mark Anthony Neal.
Vanessa K. Valdés is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The City College of New York. She is the author of “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2017) and “Oshun’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas” (SUNY Press, 2014).
Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African & African American Studies and the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University.
This event is presented by the John Hope Franklin Center and the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship (CADCE) at Duke University.
Remarks by the First Lady Michelle Obama during the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Servi
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White House * 11:00 AM ET – First Lady Michelle Obama presented the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Service during a ceremony in the East Room. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community. Representatives from ten institutions exemplifying the nation’s great diversity of libraries and museums will attend this ceremony.
The 2015 winners of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service are:
• Amazement Square (Lynchburg, VA)
• Cecil County Public Library (Cecil County, MD)
• Craig Public Library (Craig, AK)
• Embudo Valley Library and Community Center (Dixon, NM)
• Los Angeles Public Library (Los Angeles, CA)
• Louisiana Children’s Museum (New Orleans, LA)
• Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff, AZ)
• New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY)
• The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, CA)
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture receiving the 2015 National Medal for Museum and
Matthew 7:7 Press Latest Update
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The White House * 11:00 AM ET – First Lady Michelle Obama presented the 2015 National Medal for Museum and Library Service during a ceremony in the East Room. The National Medal is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to the community. Representatives from ten institutions exemplifying the nation’s great diversity of libraries and museums will attend this ceremony.
The 2015 winners of the National Medal for Museum and Library Service are:
• Amazement Square (Lynchburg, VA)
• Cecil County Public Library (Cecil County, MD)
• Craig Public Library (Craig, AK)
• Embudo Valley Library and Community Center (Dixon, NM)
• Los Angeles Public Library (Los Angeles, CA)
• Louisiana Children’s Museum (New Orleans, LA)
• Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff, AZ)
• New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY)
• The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY)
• The Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose, CA)
National Medal for Museum and Library,First Lady, Michelle Obama, Tim Ritchie, Director, Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Steven Fullwood
September 12, 2013 - The African Diaspora: Integrating Culture, Genomics and History
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Islam in America, 18th-21st Century
A symposium on the impact of Islamic religion and culture in America.
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President Barack Obama: The First Year
Howard Dodson, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, introduces their latest exhibition, President Barack Obama: The First Year. The series features photographs by Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer, which capture intimate moments such as President Obama marveling at the pyramids in Egypt, Sasha mischievously spying on her father from behind a sofa in the Oval Office and the First Lady helping Sasha and Malia sled down a snowy hill on the South Lawn.
The exhibit is on display through April 18th at the Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The Equity Series: Truth and Reconciliation – Bryan Stevenson with Khalil G. Muhammad | MoMA LIVE
Bryan Stevenson joins Khalil G. Muhammad, director of the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for a conversation on the relationship between U.S. racial history and contemporary social justice issues; the EJI's Lynching Project; and the roles that cultural institutions can play by acknowledging, discussing, and commemorating historical events.
This conversation is the first in our Equity Series, public conversations that address the meaning of equity in contemporary culture and society, and the steps required for progress. The series is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Learn more:
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In advance of the conversation, MoMA curator Leah Dickerman shares a few helpful references on Bryan Stevenson's work and the Equal Justice Initiative:
1. Bryan Stevenson at TED 2012: 'We need to talk about an injustice' :
2. Bryan Stevenson: America's Mandela, The Guardian:
3. New York Times Book Review of 'Just Mercy,' by Bryan Stevenson:
4. EJI's Lynching Project:
5. Slavery to Mass Incarceration, an animated short film by artist Molly Crabapple:
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Hidden Figures: Augusta Savage #BlackHERstoryMonth 18/28
Augusta Savage was a Black American sculptor and teacher who worked for equal rights for Black Americans in the arts. Born Augusta Fells in Green Cove Springs, Florida on February 29, 1892, Augusta began making figures as a child, mostly small animals out of the natural red clay of her hometown. In 1915, she married James Savage; she kept the name of Savage throughout her life.
Savage continued to model clay, and in 1919 was granted a booth at the Palm Beach County Fair where she was awarded a $25 prize and ribbon for most original exhibit. Following this success, she sought commissions for work in Jacksonville, Florida, before departing for New York City in 1921. She was admitted to the Cooper Union in New York City in October 1921, selected before 142 other men on the waiting list. She completed the four-year degree course in three years.
After completing studies at Cooper Union, Savage worked in Manhattan steam laundries to support herself and her family. During this time she obtained her first commission for a bust of W. E. B. Du Bois for the Harlem Library. Her outstanding sculpture brought more commissions. Knowledge of her talent and financial struggles became widespread in the Black American community; fundraising parties were held in Harlem and Greenwich Village, and Black American women's groups and teachers all sent her money for studies abroad. In 1929, Savage enrolled and attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, a leading Paris art school. She exhibited and won awards in two Paris Salons and one Exposition. She toured France, Belgium, and Germany, researching sculpture in cathedrals and museums.
Savage returned to the United States in 1931, but the Great Depression had almost stopped art sales. She pushed on, and in 1934 became the first Black American artist to be elected to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She then launched the Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, located in a basement on West 143rd Street in Harlem. Her many young students included the future nationally-known artists Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, and Gwendolyn Knight. Her school evolved into the Harlem Community Art Center.
Savage opened two galleries whose shows were well attended and well reviewed, but few sales resulted and the galleries closed. Deeply depressed by the financial struggle, in the 1940s Savage moved to a farmhouse in rural upstate New York. While there, she taught art to children and wrote children's stories, cultivated a garden, and sold pigeons, chickens, and eggs.
Savage died of cancer on March 26, 1962, in New York City. In 2001 her home and studio in New York were listed on the New York State and National Register of Historic Places. In 2008 she was inducted to the Florida Artist Hall of Fame. The papers of Augusta Savage are available at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at New York Public Library.
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Queer Directions Symposium: Trans/Formations
Queer Directions is an annual symposium addressing the most pressing issues in queer and sexuality studies and related communities that is free to the public. It has an additional experimental classroom component available to graduate students by application. The theme for 2018-19 was Trans/Formations.
Panellists:
Riley Snorton (he/him)
Riley Snorton is a Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He specializes in queer and transgender theory and history, critical race studies, performance studies, and popular culture studies. He is the author of Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Lowand Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, the American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction, the American History Association John Boswell Prize and the Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize. The book draws together an archive ranging from early sexological studies to fugitive slave narratives and twentieth-century journalist accounts of Black trans people to make a compelling case for the ways that blackness and transness co-constituted one another in their historical construction. Snorton has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Pomona College, and two fellowships at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Aren Aizura (he/him)
Aren Aizura is Assistant Professor in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he specializes in queer theory, transgender studies, transnationality and immigration, political economy and labour. Aizura’s research looks at how queer and transgender bodies shape and are shaped by technologies of race, gender, transnationality, medicalization, and political economy. His book, Mobile Subjects: Travel, Transnationality, and Transgender Lives (Duke University Press 2018) examines how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the ideal transgender subject as an implicitly white, global citizen. In so doing, he shows how understandings of travel and mobility depend on the historical architectures of colonialism and contemporary patterns of global consumption and labour.
Morgan M. Page (she/her)
Morgan M. Page is a trans writer and artist in London, England. She is the creator and host of One From the Vaults, the first and only trans history podcast, the founder of TWAT Fest (Trans Women’s Arts Toronto), and author of numerous articles and chapters on trans culture, including “Brazen: The Trans Women’s Safer Sex Guide.” Her video work includes “Love Positive Women,” “Last Words At The Fall Of The Transsexual Empire,” and “Treat You Like a Lady.” One From the Vaults has been running since January 2016 and seeks to make trans histories accessible beyond the archive and the academy. As Page puts it, One From the Vaults “bring[s] you all the dirt, gossip, and glamour from trans history!”
Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them)
Alok Vaid-Menon is a gender non-conforming performance artist, writer, educator, activist, and style icon. They use their poetry, performance, and eclectic fashion to challenge the gender binary and celebrate gender non-conformity. In 2015, with Janani Balasubramanian, they created DarkMatter, a spoken word performance duo. They have performed and been invited to speak around the world. In their 2017 poetry chapbook, Femme in Public, on social media, and in numerous online articles and interviews they embrace radical vulnerability and celebrate a complex vision of transfemininity that disobeys conventional notions of gender performance and embodiment.
Trish Salah (she/her)
Trish Salah is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Queen’s University. Her work focuses on transnational studies in gender, sexuality, race, and minority cultural production. Her current SSHRC funded research project, Towards a Trans Minor Literature, examines the aesthetic and political projects of trans, transsexual, genderqueer, and two-spirit writers. She was co-organizer of the Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and Criticism and Decolonizing and Decriminalizing Trans Genres conferences, and is the author of two books of poetry, Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1. and Wanting in Arabic, for which she won a Lambda Literary Award. She was a finalist for the 2018 Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers nd recently co-edited a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly on Trans Cultural Production.
Unbought and Unbossed with Shola Lynch | Black America
Shola Lynch is arguably one of the most groundbreaking Black female filmmakers in recent history. She is best known for profiling Angela Davis for her documentary, Free Angela and all Political Prisoners, and Shirley Chisholm for her Peabody award winning film Chisholm '72: Unbought and Unbossed. In 2014 Lynch was named Curator for the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.
Lynch recently sat with Carol Jenkins to discuss her work at the Schomburg, what inspired her to tell the stories of two powerful black women, and the female character she's working to create for her first narrative film.
Taped: 10/11/17
Black America is an in-depth conversation that explores what it means to be Black in America. The show profiles Black activists, academics, business leaders, sports figures, elected officials, artists and writers to gauge this experience in a time of both turbulence and breakthroughs.
Black America is hosted by Carol Jenkins, Emmy award winning New York City journalist, and founding president of The Women's Media Center
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44. Marilyn Nance
44. Marilyn Nance
Visual artist Marilyn Nance has produced exceptional photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the United States and the African Diaspora, and possesses an archive of images of late 20th century African American life.
A two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography for her body of work on African American spiritual culture in America, Nance has photographed the Black Indians of New Orleans, an African village in South Carolina, churches in Brooklyn, and the first Black church in America. She is recognized by the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklore Programs & Cultural Studies as a community folklore scholar, an individual who has shown a significant contribution to the collection, preservation and presentation of traditional culture in a community or region. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Library of Congress.
Nance's photographs have been published in The World History of Photography, History of Women in Photography, and The Black Photographers Annual. Her writing, which often accompanies her photographs, has been published by Aperture, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Friends of Photography. She is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Photography (2000 and 1989), Nonfiction Literature (1993), and the New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artists Grant (1987).
A graduate of New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts), Nance is an African American digital pioneer; she created her Soulsista website in 1994, was one of the Internet's first radio disc jockeys in 1996, and in 1998 produced an interactive web site based on an African divination system. Nance served as the Curator of Photography for the Digital Schomburg Web Project, selecting for Internet publication, over 500 images of 19th century African Americans, from collections of the research libraries of the New York Public Library. Additionally, Nance holds a B.F.A. in Communications Graphic Design from Pratt Institute, and an M.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Nance is a technology evangelist who encourages people of all ages to see themselves as designers, producers, and owners of information. She is currently sharing her experiences with other artists, organizing and protecting her archive, and exploring digital assets management. She is part of the intergenerational, interdisciplinary art collective, The Santana Group that creates and exhibits lenticular images from Nance's archive.
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Howard University,
Dr. Tony McEachern
Dr. Floyd Coleman, Founder of JAPC,
Dr. David C. Driskell, The David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland,
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Brian Purnell: People of African Descent in New York City Since the 1500s
Struggle and Progress: People of African Descent in New York City Since the 1500s, is the working title of Brian Purnell's book project, which tells the diverse stories and complicated histories of Black people in Gotham over the course of nearly four centuries. While set in the New York metropolis, this book is very much a history of the United States, and indeed the modern world. The book, and this lecture, offer a new way to think about the histories of African Americans, our nation, and the modern world: not as a story that unfolds along a straight line of progress, but rather as an ever-changing dialectical process of struggle and progress. As the long history of Black people in New York City shows us, sometimes political and social struggles against racism and discrimination yield progress; sometimes they produce frustration and regression. But they always create new social terrain, on which people wage new struggles to improve their lives, their city, their nation, their world.
As the nineteenth century abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass said, If there is no struggle, there is no progress. This lecture, and Purnell's book, use roughly four hundred years of history of Black people in New York City to explore this theme and reflect on its meaning today for our cities, our nation and our world.
Brian Purnell's research and teachings focus on urban history, African American history, oral history, public history, the history of New York City, and the history of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. He is the author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn (Kentucky, 2013), which received the 2012 Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize for the best unpublished manuscript on New York history by the New York State Historical Association. Purnell has served on the board of directors for the Urban History Association and for the past ten years has served as a consultant and lecturer for numerous public history and teacher education initiatives with the Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Public Library, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Columbia University's Institute for Research in African American Studies, and the University of South Carolina.
Purnell earned his bachelor's degree at Fordham University, and both his master's and PhD at New York University. He is currently associate professor of Africana studies and history at Bowdoin. He spoke at Bowdoin for the April 1, 2016, Common Hour.
An Afternoon With Nkumu Katalay (Part 1)
Nkumu Katalay was born in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo where he spent one half of his life before moving to New York City in1996. Music became Nkumu’s path to navigate the world. Music has become Nkumu’s corner stone, which holds fragments of his identity together.
Music is Nkumu’’s passion. The study of musical notes or beats, especially their movements, patterns, and how they are parallel to human cultures, remains his lifelong fascination. To Nkumu, “musical notes or beats are pieces of cultures residing within the realm of sound, and the ensemble of their interactions makes music.” Similar to notes, human cultures are fragments of historical formation, which gather under a specific civilization, and like notes, cultures are continuously seeking for alternative manifestations. So, artistically, he discovered one tool after the other. Nkumu’s musical concept was cultivated via the “Mbonda” or “Ngoma” (drum) and movements (dance).
The cultural and social dynamics that exist in New York City and Kinshasa helped his quest for translating his idea of sound and movements. Both places are very diverse and rich in culture. These two cities introduced Isaac to the world, and they also poured in him a deep appreciation of humanity. While he mainly represents Congolese music and culture, his style is a hybrid of various genres reflecting global culture. Through dance, movements, songs, folklores, drumming, games, devotions, music, and more importantly, through sound, he is able to tap into the dialectic space of humanity. In turn this dialect enables him to express the three forms of human struggles, which he refers to as justice: the cultural justice, the social justice and global justice.
Nkumu created a musical style he calls, RumbiaFunk or RumbiaF. Rumba Funk is a combination of african aesthetics, music and thought processes which exemplify how Congo influences every music style throughout the African Diaspora. RumbiaF consist of gospel, funk, Afro Cuban, traditional Congolese and contemporary. Rumba Funk is influenced by Fela Kuti, and the Afro Beat movement, only difference it's via a Congolese prospective.
Before his new journey, Isaac had the opportunity to accomplish tremendous things as a young artist. He got to perform at renowned art venues throughout the United States and has had the privilege to work with the best artists Congo sends out to the world. He performed alongside artists Richard Bona, Red Cardell, the afro groove collective, Kanda Bongo Man, Shiko Mawatu, Lokassa ya Mbongo and Nguma Lokito (Soukous Stars Band), Shimita El Diego, Wawali Bonane (Yoka Nzenze Band), Diblo Dibala, Samba Mapangala, Bouro Mpela, Eli Kihonia, Babyy “Black” Ndombe, Felix Wazekwa, King Kester Emeneya, Malage Delugendo, Mbuta Masamba, including Congolese gospel artists such as Reno Mvumbi, Olivie Kalabasi, Joel Mbuyi, Kashi Kashala and recently with Congo pop artist Fally Ipupa.
Nkumu has presented at the Apollo Theater, Manhattan Center, Prospect Park, Summer Stage, St. Nick’s Pub, the Schomburg Center for Black Research, Dickson’s place, and recently at The Explorers Club, Lincoln Center, and Afro Jam Music Conference in Harlem Mist. In addition to various prestigious Universities throughout the United States such as, Columbia University, John Jay College, Baruch College, Harvard University, Georgia Tech, University of Virginia, and University of Chicago.
His devotion to humanitarian causes sends him leaning towards various directions. While art remains his main instrument for positive outlets, he devotes a significant amount of his spare time to community leadership and development. He is currently, the technical director of a musical group in the Living Church of God’s Divine provision under the leadership of Dr. Alex M. Levry. Isaac has served as president for the African Student Associations at John Jay College of criminal justice and for the past eight years, he retains a strong leadership involvement throughout CUNY Universities. Isaac also has strong interest in intellectual initiatives, which promote on going debates for the future of Africa as the center of human culture.
Visually Speaking: LGBTQ Cultures in Photography
Visually Speaking: LGBTQ Cultures in Photography
A discussion arises from a celebration of LGBTQ culture through the images of photographers Gerard H. Gaskin and Samantha Box. Gaskin's new book, Legendary, documents the black and Latino gay ballroom scene over the course of 20 years. His work has inspired others such as photographer Samantha Box, whose intimate moving portrayal of the visual culture of the upcoming LGBTQ generation transcends what is communicated in today's media. The Schomburg Center's own Steven Fullwood, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, will put in perspective the rise of the culture and its influence on American sensibilities, and Aisha Diori, Special Events Manager and industry insider, serve as guest moderator.
Samantha Box: Since 2005, Samantha Box has dedicated herself to documenting New York City’s community of LGBTQ youth of color. Her on-going, multi-chapter project, INVISIBLE, has been widely recognized, most notably by EN FOCO, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. It has been repeatedly exhibited, including in 2010 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY, in 2011 as part of the Open Society Foundation’s “Moving Walls #18” exhibition, and in 2013 as part of The Leslie Lohman Museum’s “Queers In Exile” exhibition. Images from INVISIBLE are part of the permanent collections of the Open Society Foundation, EN FOCO, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
Gerard H. Gaskin: Gerard H. Gaskin, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, now based in Syracuse, NY, earned a B.A. from Hunter College in 1994 and is now a freelance photographer based in the greater New York City area. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Newsday, Black Enterprise, OneWorld, Teen People, Caribbean Beat, and DownBeat. Among his other clients are the record companies Island, Sony, Def Jam, and Mercury. Gaskin’s photographs have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad, and his work is held in the collections of such institutions as the Museum of the City of New York and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gaskin has been awarded The New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship for Photography and was part of the Gordon Parks’ 90, the bringing together of 90 black photographers from all over the United States to celebrate his 90th birthday. His work is also featured in the books Inside the L.A. Riots (1992), New York: A State of Mind (2000), and Committed To The Image: Contemporary Black Photographers (2001).
Date of Talk: June 9, 2014
Chiraag Bains on “The Federal Government’s Perspective on Cash Bail”
From Resetting Bail—the Price of Justice in New York City
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York City is taking a hard look at our bail system at a time when there is new energy for reform: in the last year, bail has been taken up in late-night comedy sketches from John Oliver*, impassioned speeches by Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a dedicated reality TV show on bail bondsmen in New York City, and in-depth investigative reporting by the news and other media.
Join the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and the Vera Institute of Justice in an engaging discussion about the way our City’s bail system works, strategies for making it more fair and effective, and the pioneering practices already in place to inspire enduring change.
The Vera Institute of Justice is a nonprofit that has worked for more than five decades to transform justice systems. Vera produces ideas, analysis and research that inspire change in the systems people rely upon for safety and justice, and works in close partnership with government and civic leaders to implement it.
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Frank Leon Roberts @ The 2016 Afro Latino Festival (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)
Speaker Frank Leon Roberts at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Part of the 2016 New York City AfroLatino Festival.
#BlackLivesMatter Beyond Borders: Race, Space & Consciousness in Latin America
The hashtag-turned-social justice movement, #BlackLivesMatter, emerged approximately threeyears ago in protest of high-profile murders of African American youth at the hands of police and self-appointed vigilantes. In 2014, the Jovem Negro Vivo (Black Youth Alive) campaign was launched inBrazil to protest extreme youth homicide rates which disproportionately affect men and boys of African descent. Other examples include Afro-Colombian resistance to land grabs of the nation’s coastlands, Afro-Panamanians pushing for an end to racial profiling and hostilities towards the black/brown youth who occupied São Paulo malls last summer. This talk aims to bring together a reinvigorated black activism in Latin America with a reinvigorated U.S.-based #BlackLivesMatter movement. We will examine parallels and differences between the experiences of Afrodescendants in Latin America, African-Americans, and Afro-Latinos in the U.S. as the basis for transnational coalition-building. The panel will highlight issues of Police/state abuses, Displacement/Gentrification/Land Rights Matters, Urban Spatial Segregation & Internet Activism.
Panelists:
Janvieve Comrie Williams., Race and Human Rights Strategist and Professor at the New School
Frank Leon Roberts writer, lecturer-professor, and community organizer, faculty at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he teaches the course “Black Lives Matter: Race, Resistance, and Popular Protest”.
Kleaver Cruz, an Uptown, NY native, is a writer, dreamer and lover of travel. Cruz is also one half of the poetic duo, The Delta, creator of The Black Joy Project on Instagram
Yvette Modestin, Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribenas, y del Caribe and founder, Encuentro Diaspora Afro and host of Soulful Afro radio show, Boston, MA
Larnies Bowen, NYU MA Candidate
Moderator: Dr. Arlene Davila, Professor NYU Anthropology, Author of El Mall The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
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Barack Hussein Obama II (Listeni/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961), is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008.
A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.
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The Strength of Queen Mother Moore
Queen Mother Moore, whose government name was Audley Moore, was a hero to many residents of Harlem, where she worked with Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born black nationalist leader, and his Back-to-Africa movement. She was also an advocate of reparations for slavery, tenants' rights and education for the poor.
Howard Dodson, the head of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in Harlem, said in 1995 that her career constituted ''a link between the best elements of the nationalist and radical left political traditions in Harlem over the past five, six decades.''
Miss Moore came to be called Queen Mother during a trip to Africa years ago, when a tribe in Ghana awarded her the honorary title. In Africa, as she once put it, ''I felt the lash on the backs of my people.''
Her outrage over the suffering of blacks in America led to years of political action. ''They not only called us Negroes, they made us Negroes,'' she once said, ''things that don't know where they came from and don't even care that they don't know. Negro is a state of mind, and they massacred our minds.''
Audley Eloise Moore was born in New Iberia, La., a town west of New Orleans. Her family's past reflected the racism she fought: one of her grandfathers was lynched, and one of her grandmothers, a slave, was raped by a white man.
Miss Moore's parents died when she was young, and she dropped out of school, becoming a hairdresser. Largely self-educated, she was inspired by the writings of Frederick Douglass and by Garvey's oratory, which she first heard in New Orleans. She was also fond of Nelson Mandela's dictum, ''The struggle is my life.''
Stirred by Garvey's pride in blacks' African heritage, Miss Moore and her two sisters went to Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. There, she married Frank Warner.
In Harlem, Miss Moore became prominent in the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the organization Garvey founded in 1914.
Beginning in the 1960's, Miss Moore was among black leaders demanding reparations from the United States Government for the sufferings of blacks under slavery. In 1994, she addressed a conference in Detroit of the the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, where she declared, in a voice gone soft and husky with age: ''Reparations. Reparations. Keep on. Keep on. We've got to win.''
In 1966, Miss Moore was among parents and civil rights workers who staged a sit-in in the Board of Education's meeting hall in Brooklyn, where the protesters accused board members of neglecting the needs of schools in poor neighborhoods.
Miss Moore said of the district superintendents: ''Run them out. They're perpetuating idiot factories among us.''
In 1989, Miss Moore and more than 40 other prominent black women were honored at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, where ''I Dream a World,'' an exhibition of photographs of them by Brian Lanker, was on display.
''These women are bound by their grit and unquenchable spirit,'' Marion Wright Edelman, a civil rights lawyer and the executive director of the Children's Defense fund, said at the show. ''They lifted the veil of impossibility despite the barriers of race and sex.'
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Barack Obama, Rev. Wright, and the Post-Civil Rights Movemen
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Biblical scholar Obrey Hendricks and historian Barbara Savage argue that Senator Barack Obama and Reverend Jeremiah Wright are parallel figures of the post-Civil Rights movement.
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What is the past and continuing influence of African-American churches on U.S. politics?
Biblical scholar Obery Hendricks, historian Barbara Savage, and theologian Yolanda Pierce discuss religion and power in America.
Obery Hendricks is a Professor of Biblical Interpretation at the New York Theological Seminary. He earned his M.Div. at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was later a visiting scholar, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has served as a professor at Drew University and as president of Payne Theological Seminary. He is an Ordained Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the author of The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted and Living Water, a novel.
Barbara Dianne Savage is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1995. Her research and her teaching center on twentieth century African American political and religious history and the historical relationship between race, media, and politics. She is the author, most recently, of Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion. In addition, she served as the co-editor (along with R. Marie Griffith, Princeton University) of Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance. She is the author of the award-winning Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948, as well as articles on African American religion and politics. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Schomburg Center for the Study of Black Culture, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton, and the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to receiving her graduate degree from Yale University, she was the Director of Federal Relations, Office of the General Counsel, Yale University; she also has served on the staff for the United States Congress and the Children's Defense Fund.
Slavery: Throughout the Ages
A mini-documentary on slavery throughout human history, created for school.
Volume may need to be adjusted throughout.
Works Cited
Author Struggles to Stay Removed from Slave Trade. NPR : National Public Radio : News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts. National Public Radio, 11 Mar. 2008. Web. 05 Dec. 2011.
Human Trafficking: the Facts. UN Global Compact. United Nations: Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. PDF.
Monaghan, Tom. The Slave Trade. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2003. Print.
Not for Sale Human Trafficking Statistics. YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Not For Sale. Web. 05 Dec. 2011.
Skinner, E. Benjamin. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face With Modern-Day Slavery. New York: Free, 2008. Print.
Timeline - The Abolition of The Slave Trade. Home - The Abolition of The Slave Trade. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: The New York Public Library. Web. 04 Dec. 2011
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. United States of America. Department of State. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. U.S. Department of State, 28 Oct. 2000. Web. 01 Dec. 2011.
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