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

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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

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Anti-Violence Panel Discussion | Tue 9.15.15 | The New School - More Than A Protest Novel: Connecting the Dots

RSVP at https://morethanaprotestsept15.eventbrite.com

Please join us for the upcoming event, “More Than a Protest Novel: Connecting the Dots - 1.5 Million Black (Wo)Men Missing,” a thought-provoking anti-violence panel.

Co-hosted by Black Ivy Events; the Harlem Alphas of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.; and New Black School (student group), it will take place on Tuesday, September 15, 2015 from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. at The New School’s Lang Center: 55 West 13th Street, off Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue).

This FREE event will take a look at personal experiences with violence; the current anti-violence space; real stats on homicide rates; and policy initiatives and new/innovative solutions to address the violence (including prayer).

It will also examine public policy and connect the dots with recent events like the deaths of Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland, and the Charleston Massacre.

More information regarding the book and author at hamnovels.com.

Book signing to follow.

Panelists include:

• A.T. Mitchell, founder of Man Up! Inc. in East New York, Brooklyn

• Marlon Peterson, founder of The Precedential Group—who was also featured in the internationally acclaimed blog, Humans of New York

• Iesha Sekou, founder of Street Corner Resources, Harlem

• Kathleen Horan, Former WNYC public radio reporter who did the series “In Harm’s Way, ” which—in 2013—memorialized the individual lives of New York City' kids killed by gunfire; and creator of the upcoming podcast, “Mortal City”

• Oresa Williams, Founder and CEO of Not Another Child

• Justyn Richardson, a recent alum of The New School's Milano Urban Policy graduate program, and a policy analyst for the NYC Department of Investigation

• Petra E. Lewis, author of the trilogy, The Sons and Daughters of Ham

From moderator, Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, to featured panelists, the event will showcase some of New York City’s top minds when it comes to effectively addressing (gun) violence—and do so in a “novel” way. The framework for the panel is the first book in novelist Petra E. Lewis’ trilogy, The Sons and Daughters of Ham, Book I: A Requiem, which examines a family in the aftermath of violence.

RSVP at https://morethanaprotestsept15.eventbrite.com

Become a Pre-Professional at the Schomburg! BNY Mellon Pre-Professional Development Program

Become a Pre-Professional at the Schomburg!

Calling all college and graduate students! Apply to be a Pre-Professional in the BNY Mellon Pre-Professional Development Program at the Schomburg Center. 

This fall, up to eight college and graduate students will be selected to participate in the BNY Mellon Pre-Professional Development Program, which offers workforce training, mentorship and a competitive compensation that prepares students for full-time positions at a broad range of institutions and businesses.

We are currently looking to fill a number of Pre-Professional positions that reflect the breadth of resources and services here at the Schomburg:

ŸCollections Pre-Professional
Communications and Social Media Pre-Professional
Education Pre-Professional
Executive Pre-Professional
Library Pre-Professional
Public Programming Pre-Professional
Special Events Programming Pre-Professional

For more information and to apply, click here.

Source: Schomburg Connection Newsletter

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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Bro/Sis Announces Annual Voices Gala May 14, 2015

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) is proud to announce that we will host our eleventh annual Voices event on Thursday, May 14, 2015 at Gotham Hall located at 1365 Broadway. Our honorees are Michele Roberts, the Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association, and Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright.  This event will celebrate 20 years of Bro/Sis providing transformative youth service - 1995-2015! Voices is our signature annual benefit highlighting our youth and life changing programming. The event provides and extraordinary opportunity for our dynamic supporters to celebrate Bro/Sis' commitment to helping youth develop into critical thinkers, community leaders and social change makers.   Information about our signature annual benefit is here.  http://brotherhood-sistersol.org/events/voices-11 Tickets and sponsorship can be purchased here.  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-11-annual-benefit-tickets-16045357095 You can contact fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org with any sponsorship questions. CLICK HERE to purchase tickets. Founded in 1995, Bro/Sis provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two.  We offer wrap around evidence-based programming, four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training, college preparation, employment opportunities, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America. Bro/Sis is locally based, with a national reach, as we publish assorted curricula and collections of our members' writings; trains educators from throughout the nation on our approach; and our leadership is invited to speak and present at educational and policy convenings and conferences across the country.  Please come out on May 14th and support our young people and this vision.  You will be treated to a unique and wonderful experience. All the best, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol's Board of Directors and Voices Benefit Committee

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol | 512 West 143rd Street | New York | NY | 10031 http://brotherhood-sistersol.org/events/voices-11

Join Brotherhood SisterSol & New York University at our Educational Panel

Click Here to register for this event. www.brotherhood-sistersol.org See what's happening on our social sites

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol | 512 West 143rd Street | New York | NY | 10031

Two-week Summer Teacher's and Scholar's Institute (STSI) Application Due April 15, 2015

Columbia University, Institute for Research in African American Studies 

Two-week Summer Teacher's and Scholar's Institute (STSI) Application Due April 15, 2015

CLICK HERE TO APPLY NOW (APPLICATION OPEN UNTIL APRIL 15, 2015

GENERAL INFORMATION

Between 13 and 24 July, 2015, the Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies (#IRAAS) will convene a two-week Summer Teacher's and Scholar's Institute (STSI), focusing particularly on the history, cultures, and institutions of African-descended peoples in New York City. New York, home to Harlem and numerous other historic black enclaves, historically and today is one of the capitals of Black America, and even the Black World. 

This Summer Institute offers what few others are able: the opportunity to study African-American history, culture, politics, and life through the lens of New York, and in New York. 

The Summer Teacher's and Scholar's Institute (STSI) will be open to high school and college/university instructors, independent scholars and researchers, public historians, biographers, journalists, and graduate students, and will explore various historical and contemporary themes, including: Slavery, Freedom, Abolitionism, and Emancipation; the New Negro Movement and the Harlem Renaissance; Educating Harlem (and Beyond): Histories of Black Education in New York City; Civil Rights, 1940-the present; Black Women Intellectuals; "Beyond Harlem: Brooklyn and the Bronx"; Race, Policing and Criminal Justice, 1880-present; Black Immigration since 1965; Health/Medical Rights and Politics: From Tuberculosis to HIV; and Black Politics from the Margins to Mainstream.

ELIGIBILITY
The Summer Teacher's and Scholar's Institute (STSI) will be open to high school and college/university instructors, independent scholars and researchers, public historians, biographers, journalists, and graduate students.

Source: http://stsi.iraas.columbia.edu

IRAAS Conversations Lecture – Thursday 3/5/15 at 6:00PM Prof Cheryl D. Hick

Thurs 3/5@6pm Talk W/ You Like A Woman:African American Women,Justice&Reform in New York, 1890-1935" Cheryl D. Hicks pic.twitter.com/oe60MhALEj
— IRAASColumbia U (@IRAASColumbiaU) March 2, 2015

TOPIC: “Talk With You Like A Woman: African American Women, Justice and Reform in New York,1890-1935″ with Prof. Cheryl D. Hick

Location :Columbia Journalism School -3rd Floor Lecture Hall;
2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Free & Open to the Public

Cheryl D. Hicks is an associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she is a faculty affiliate in Africana Studies and an adjunct faculty member in Women and Gender Studies. She holds a B.A. in American History from the University of Virginia and a M.A. as well as Ph.D. in American History from Princeton University.

Her research addresses the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the law. She has published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and the Journal of the History of Sexuality. She is the recipient of several awards including the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral fellowship and a Scholar-in-Residence fellowship from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Her first book, Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) received the 2011 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians and honorable mentions from the 2011 John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association and the 2011 Darlene Clark Hine Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Her new book project, “The Case of Hannah Elias: Interracial Intimacy and Civil Rights in Turn-of-the-Century New York,” interrogates the trajectory of a covert, consensual interracial relationship that ultimately precipitated murder, scandal, and civil rights protest.

http://iraas.com

Providence, RI 2/27/15 Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America

Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America

Friday, February 27, 2015
Pembroke Hall, Room 305
172 Meeting Street
8am-6pm
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

This day-long symposium brings a group of the nation’s most respected intellectuals on race, racial theory and racial inequality together to consider the troubling state of black life in America today.

What are the broader structural factors that shape race today? How do these factors work on the ground and institutionally and what are the consequences? What are the ideas about race, and racial identities that enable the normalcy of stark racial differences today? In particular, what role do key ideas such as “colorblindness” and “post race” play in shaping perception and outcomes? What can be done to challenge ideological and structural impediments to a racially egalitarian society?

Presented by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA). Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of Institutional Diversity.

Full Schedule:
Come to one, some, or all of the presentations!

Source: Brown University

http://brown.edu/initiatives/slavery-and-justice/race-today-symposium-race-america

New York City Half Marathon For Brotherhood SisterSol

Hello Friends and Family,

BENEFITING: THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC

ORGANIZER: RAHSAN-RAHSAN

EVENT DATE: MAR 15, 2015

You are a Team Member

THE STORY:

Rahsan-Rahsan Lindsay wrote -

In 3 weeks, I will once again be running the NYC Half marathon. While I see it as a personal challenge, I also use it as an opportunity to do some good. The purpose of this fundraiser is to bring much needed support to an organization I hold near and dear, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. BHSS is a NYC based comprehensive youth development organization that is a model for programs like it across the country.

In this, its 20th year, BHSS is endeavoring to serve more young people than ever before. With programs that include environmental study, summer leadership, summer camp, creative writing, study abroad and youth organizing among other programs, Bro-Sis is widely recognized as one of the best organizations in the country for youth development and education.

I'm asking people to either pledge a flat amount of an amount per mile. As a reminder, half marathon's are 13.1 miles! :-) In addition, I am hoping you will pass this link on to others whom you believe would support an organization like The Brotherhood/Sister Sol.

To donate, please go to: https://www.crowdrise.com/nychalfforbhss20th/fundraiser/rahsanrahsanlindsay

Peace & blessings,

Rahsan 

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