Diana Event Oval, 3009 Broadway, New York, New York
Sep 25, 2017 | 6:00PM

‘Song in a Weary Throat’: Pauli Murray’s Life and Legacy

Rosalind Rosenberg, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) & Monica L. Miller

Until recently Pauli Murray was an unsung figure in the Civil Rights and feminist movements. A poet, writer, activist, labor organizer, legal theorist, and Episcopal priest, Murray took on the key social and economic justice issues of her day. The subject of a new biography, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, by emerita professor […]

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Africana Studies, gender nonconforming, Pauli Murray, trans
Event Oval, The Diana Center, 3009 Broadway New York, New York
Sep 14, 2017 | 6:00PM

Listening to Images: A Salon in Honor of Tina Campt

Tina Campt, Nicole Fleetwood, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, and Deborah Thomas

What happens when we shift our way of engaging with photography? When we go beyond looking at images and, instead, listen to them? Tina Campt, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, delves into lost archives of historically dismissed photographs to deepen our understanding of the lives of black subjects throughout the black […]

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Africana Studies, Black diaspora, colonialism, resistance, Tina Campt