CIT.I.ZEN.SHIP: REFLECTIONS ON RIGHTS
Department of Photography 721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New YorkOctober 4, 2018 - January 18, 2019 Department of Photography & Imaging Galleries NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway Lobby & 8th floor Lorie Novak and Deborah Willis, Ph.D., curators Riana Gideon, assistant curator To accept one’s past — one’s history is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is […]
Enforced Disappearances in an Age of Emboldened Repression
Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street, New YorkGovernments are disappearing people at an alarming rate, often in conjunction with policies carried out in the name of repressing terrorism, organized crime, or plain political dissent. Reports of undercover extraterritorial abductions of people in foreign countries are on the rise. The widely-reported case of disappeared Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is only one example of […]
Making All Black Lives Matter with Barbara Ransby
The People's Forum 320 W 37th, New YorkJoin author, historian and activist Barbara Ransby as she discusses her new book “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century.” Ransby will be in conversation with Movement for black lives activist and Blackbird co-founder, Thenjiwe McHarris. About the book In Making All Black Lives Matter, award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the […]