Schomburg Center Public Programs

ONLINE EVENT Join us for this online event as scholars Noliwe Rooks (A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune), Ashley Robertson Preston (Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State), Sonya Y. Ramsey (Bertha Maxwell-Roddey), and Marcia Walker-McWilliams (Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality) discuss the growing number of biographies focusing on the Freedom Movement from a woman’s pers…

IN-PERSON Join us for a screening of the documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project in collaboration with The Kitchen and its first traveling exhibition, Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art. In a moment where technology mediates and has transformed all parts of a visual culture, Code Switch provokes reconsiderations about what “Internet art” is altogether. ABOUT THE FILM Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a mystery in the form of a time capsule. It’s about…

IN-PERSON Join us for a screening of the documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon in collaboration with The Kitchen and its first traveling exhibition, Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art. In a moment where technology mediates and has transformed all parts of a visual culture, Code Switch provokes reconsiderations about what “Internet art” is altogether. Seeking Mavis Beacon centers the most recognizable woman in technology who lives in our collective imagination. Mavis Bea…

IN-PERSON Marcus J. Moore, author of High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul will be in conversation with Dr. Christoper Emdin, alumni fellow at the Hip-hop Archive and Hutchins Center at Harvard University and Professor of Science Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Formed in 1988, De La Soul is one of the groundbreaking groups in hip hop and are perhaps best known for their multi-platinum debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. This year marks the 35th anniversary of its release.…

About this event IN-PERSON Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in partnership with Carnegie Hall Citywide presents the Danielle Ponder. Don’t miss her Carnegie Hall Citywide debut in this free concert! Danielle Ponder has taken the music world by storm over the past couple years with a soulful blend of R&B and rock, pop, blues, trip-hop, and more. Since releasing her debut album in 2022, Ponder has enjoyed major television appearances and sold-out concerts across North America…