Creatively Speaking and BDC Announces Celebrity Guest for August 30th Screenings! "Black Women in Medicine" by Crystal R. Emery

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Just added to our August 30th Presentation of 

"Black Women in Medicine" by Crystal R. Emery

 on Tuesday, August 30^th at 7pm or 9:15pm at Cinema Village, 22 E. 12^th Street

Q&A with Dr. Rachele Yarborough and Guest celebrity -- actor Lamman Rucker (Greenleaf, Meet the Browns), 

Hope to see you there! And PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

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Bro/Sis Presents the 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea 12/5/15

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol Presents  The 10th Annual  Women's Holiday Tea

Please join us at our 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea taking place on Saturday, December 5th from 2:00PM to 5:30PM.  (Doors open at 1:30PM.  Program begins at 2:00PM).  This event will benefit programming for The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive and long-term support services to youth of New York City. The Women's Holiday Tea is hosted by Gwynne Wilcox, a Co-Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol.  It is a time to network with other professional women and celebrate the work we do. We look forward to seeing you there! Click Here to Purchase Tickets! For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at  fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

Pictures from last year's Women's Holiday Tea. Photo credit: MalbroughPhotos  Click Here to purchase tickets.  For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at   fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

11/17/15 Awakening Our Democracy: Policing Bodies, Borders, and Rights at Columbia University, School of Law

The African American Policy Forum

Join November 17, 2015 at Columbia Law School to see #BlackLivesMatter's DeRay Mckesson, Barbara Arnwine, Kimberle Crenshaw and More on the Future of Our Democracy! RSVP - bit.ly/awakeningourdemocracy

Tweet your thoughts throughout the event to ‪#‎AwakeningOurDemocracy‬

FEATURING:
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

MODERATED BY:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series 11/17/15

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Nov. 16, 2015 Shirley Chisholm '46 (center) announced her groundbreaking presidential candidacy, supported by celebrities like actor Ossie Davis (right). "What would it mean if President Obama or Hillary Clinton evoked Shirley Chisholm's name?" asks Zinga A. Fraser Ph.D., the new director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, "because, in many ways, she not only paves the way for them, she provides a trajectory and strategy on how to create political coalitions that cross boundaries." Fraser, a former endowed post-doctoral fellow in women's and gender studies and recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2014 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award, has organized this year's Shirley Chisholm Day talk, held on Nov. 17 in the Penthouse of the Brooklyn College Student Center. The keynote address will be delivered by Robin Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California-Los Angeles. The annual event celebrates the legacy of Shirley Chisholm '46, who became the first major-party black candidate for president of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.  "She provides what Professor Kelley identifies as ‘the freedom dream'—that is, how we can reimagine and understand freedom, despite the outcome," adds Fraser. Chisholm's memoir Unbought and Unbossed details her grassroots, community-building efforts among a wide variety of constituencies, including blacks, whites, Latinos, lower-income and middle-class families, women across demographics, and the LGBT community. Her work with the last group, Fraser says, was ahead of its time and often overlooked by scholars. It also illustrates how difficult forging these alliances can be, even in a place like Brooklyn, which, according to Fraser, has one of the highest numbers of black women elected to public office in the country.   Chief among her responsibilities, Zinga A. Fraser, Ph.D., the new director of the Brooklyn College Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, is looking forward to promoting Chisholm's continued importance to Brooklyn and beyond. "Chisholm also tells us a great deal about the possibility and importance of learning from political failures," says Fraser. "As much as her story is about the aspirational, groundbreaking work that she did, it's also about the constraints in coalition building. In the end, it wasn't her ability to connect these groups, but the inability of these groups to work together for a common cause. But even in her failure to get various coalitions to work collectively, she provides us with some of the playbook that would later be utilized by our current president." This semester is Fraser's first as director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, whose archive, housed at the Brooklyn College Library, is the world's largest for Chisholm-related artifacts. Fraser took over the role from Barbara Winslow and is very excited about the efforts to raise Chisholm's profile as a central and influential figure in the contemporary political landscape. "The goal is to connect Chisholm's legacy to present-day conversations around race, gender, politics and social and economic inequality. Moreover, I hope to place Chisholm and her legacy in context with current issues that impact the Brooklyn communities she supported," says Fraser. "That is why we have had a wide array of speakers both national and local. So part of her legacy is the political empowerment of marginalized communities, as well as providing a model for political accountability. She advocated for those considered invisible by politicians and the media." Fraser is currently writing a book that is a comparative study of Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, as well as other black women political figures, in the context of examining their political genius, the different strategies they used to affect change, and how they negotiated the intersections of racism, misogyny, and sexism. Fraser also hopes to raise awareness and funds to accomplish things like bolstering the archive, creating paid internships that will allow students to work on Chisholm-related projects and conferences and perhaps even financing scholarships in Chisholm's name. To learn more about Shirley Chisholm and the work of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, please visit the project's website. See the Brooklyn College calendar for details about the Shirley Chisholm Day event. Source: Brooklyn College

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Black Girl Movement Conference at the Institute for Research in African American Studies of Columbia University

BLACK GIRL MOVEMENT CONFERENCE

 

DATE & TIME: 

THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016 5:00PM

***SAVE THE DATE***

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                                                                                                                                                        Photo by Lorenshay Hamilton age 16

April 7- 9, 2016

“Black Girl Movement: A National Conference” is a three-day gathering at Columbia University in New York City to focus on Black girls, cis, queer, and trans girls, in the United States.   Bringing together artists, activists, educators, policymakers, and black girls leaders themselves, this first national conference on Black girls seeks to address the disadvantages that Black girls in the United States face, while creating the political will to publicly acknowledge their achievements, contributions, and leadership.

Black girls are among the most significant cultural producers, community connectors, and trendsetters, rarely are their contributions recognized or appreciated. At best, they remain invisible in our public discourse or people assume that all Black girls are doing fine and are “resilient” enough to overcome any structural obstacles put in their way. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Black girls in the United States are in crisis. They face significant barriers to educational achievement, economic and political equality, and are the recipients of deeply embedded racial and gender biases in the media, public policy, philanthropy, and research. 

As a result, the planning of this conference has been done by an intergenerational and cross-institution coalition because the most innovative work being done on and with black girls often are in silos and without the full benefits of a collaboration, funding, and public visibility.  "Black Girl Movement" is an opportunity change that reality through raising public consciousness, advancing research, policy, and community programming, and developing a resource sharing platform.  Most importantly, this conference will highlight Black girls’ agency and ingenuity in order to elevate their voices and solutions toward improving the life outcomes of Black girls in the United States.

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Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus

The Black Girl Movement is proud to have the following organizations as Co-Sponsors.

Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Columbia University Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Columbia University Office of the President
Dean for Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Fordham University African and African American Studies
A Long Walk Home
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Girls for Gender Equity

Source: IRAAS.com

Save the Date October 14, 2015 - The City Our Girls Deserve presented by The Brotherhood SisterSol

Save the Date October 14, 2015

The City Our Girls Deserve 

http://brotherhood-sistersol.org/events/the-city-our-girls-deserve

Deborah Willis, Ph.D."Re-imagining Gender, Place and Race in the Making of Gone with the Wind" Zora Neale Hurston Lecture

Monday March 23rd , 2015

6:00pm- 8:00pm

Columbia University School of Journalism  

3rd Floor Lecture Hall - 2950 Broadway

"Re-imagining Gender, Place and Race in the Making of Gone with the Wind"

Deborah Willis

University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging

at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

2015 marks the 75th anniversary of the making of the film Gone With the Wind. New York University professor, Deborah Willis will consider a comparative perspective of the historic film and the role photography and art played in re-membering and restaging events from the Civil War and American Slavery before and after Emancipation. Taking cues from the recent 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, this talk also examines the public's memory of Slavery through photographs and how images influenced the making of the film. Professor Willis will present overlapping historical narratives from popular culture to literary text making visible the complexities of the film.

This lecture will weave a narrative on the history of American photography during its early years with iconic moments in the film looking closely at the role black American history played in making this film both controversial and celebratory. Willis will include Civil War images and 20th century video clips of scenes from the film, clips of Hattie McDaniel and Carol Burnett's skit, Went with the Wind.

New York University professor Deborah Willis will weave together a narrative of the early years of American photography and film with a reading of iconic moments in Gone With the Wind. In rendering visible the complexities of the film, Professor Willis will also examine the role history played in producing such a controversial and celebrated cultural phenomenon.

http://debwillisphoto.com/home.html

 FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 

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Girls of Color Face Disproportionately Harsh Discipline at School #BlackGirlsMatter

New Report from Columbia Law School's Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies Recommends Including Girls of Color in Policies to End School-to-Prison Pipeline

Media Contact: Public Affairs, 212-854-2650 or publicaffairs@law.columbia.edu

New York, February 4, 2015—Girls of color face much harsher school discipline than their white peers but are excluded from current efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline, according to a new report issued today by Columbia Law School’s Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American Policy Forum.  

The report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, is based on a new review of national data and personal interviews with young women in Boston and New York. 

“As public concern mounts for the needs of men and boys of color through initiatives like the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper, we must challenge the assumption that the lives of girls and women—who are often left out of the national conversation—are not also at risk,” said Columbia Law School Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, the report’s lead author and the director of the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies.

Crenshaw, a leading authority in how law and society are shaped by race and gender, argues that an intersectional approach encompassing how related identity categories such as race, gender, and class overlap to create inequality on multiple levels is necessary to address the issue of school discipline and the school-to-prison pipeline.

#BlackGirlsMatter

Read more online at Columbia University or African American Policy Forum, Inc.