News
Season announcements, schedules and updates from the series
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Announcing the Spring 2027 Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Season!
Please join us for the Spring 2027 season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies! All the events in the series are free and open to the public and take place on the first Thursday of the month at…
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Announcing the Fall 2026 Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Season!
Please join us for the Fall 2026 season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies! All the events in the series are free and open to the public. The events will take place online on the first…
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Malcolm X at 100 Interview and Event Recording
Please read our interview on The Abusable Past with three speakers from our September event on Malcolm X at 100, and watch the recording of the fabulous event with Erik McDuffie, author of The Second…
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Announcing the Fall 2025 CBFS Season!
Please join us for the Fall 2025 season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies! All the events in the series are free and open to the public. The events will take place online on the first…
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Announcing the Spring 2025 Season!
Please join us for our Spring 2025 season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies! All the events in the series are free and open to the public. The events will take place on the first Thursday of…
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Announcing the Fall 2024 Season!
Please join us for our fall 2024 season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies! All the events in the series are free and open to the public. The events will take place on the first Thursday of…
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Announcing the Spring 2024 Season!
We invite everyone to join us for a series of free public programs on histories of Black freedom struggles. We will begin the season on Thursday, February 1st at 6:30 PM Eastern Time with an online…
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Announcing our fall 2023 season!
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is back with an exciting season of events! We will begin the season on Thursday October 5th at 6 PM with an in person screening of The Rebellious Life of Mrs…
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A decade of books on Black Freedom Studies
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is celebrating its ten year anniversary! We invite you to look through the amazing list of books that have been featured in the series over the years, and…
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Announcing Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Spring 2022 Season
We're thrilled to launch our tenth season, starting in February 2022! And to celebrate, we're adding a special June session where we'll try something new, exploring the work of two new documentaries…
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Updated Fall 2021 CBFS Schedule
We've got some exciting updates to the season. We've added Marisol LeBrón to our October discussion on policing and surveillance. In addition Laura Lovett will be joining us in December along with…
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Announcing Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Fall 2021 Season
We're looking forward to welcoming all of our guests and our online audience to an exciting fall season. And we're thrilled to welcome Robyn Spencer to the team as co-curator of the series. Mark your…
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Announcing Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Spring 2021 Season
February 4th Civil Rights Legacies: Martin, Malcolm, Gwen, and Julian New scholarship is deepening our understanding of both well-known and lesser-known activists in the Civil Rights Movement. In…
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Announcing the Fall 2020 CBFS Season
CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES will be going virtual for the 2020-2021 season. We're excited to announce our fall season now, with the spring schedule to follow soon. SEPTEMBER 3: How Did We…
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Announcing Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Spring 2020 Schedule
We're so excited to announce our Spring 2020 schedule, welcoming back some previous guests including Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Smith, Johanna Fernandez, and Liz Theoharis. And we're thrilled…
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Announcing the Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Fall 2019 Schedule
Join us this fall for these exciting and urgent conversations. CBFS is held from 6:30-8:30 on the first Thursday of each month at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Check back later…
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Announcing Conversations in Black Freedom Studies Spring 2019 Schedule
February 7 - Rethinking Black Women Freedom Fighters Gloria Richardson, Louise Thompson Patterson and the Women of the Nation of Islam This conversation takes three giant steps beyond the leading-man…
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Announcing our Fall 2018 Schedule
September 6: The Long Struggle against Medical Apartheid: Black Health and Community Activism Featuring Dr. Julius Garvey, Gabriel Mendes, and Alondra Nelson Medical Apartheid and racial exclusion…
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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance
In anticipation of our planned discussion on Abolitionism and Slave Resistance, scheduled for May 3rd, we interviewed two of our guests, Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner. Our friends at the African…
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Spring 2018 Schedule
We're excited to announce our spring 2018 schedule for Conversations in Black Freedom Studies. From Abolition to Black Lives Matter, our conversations will be take up the question of how we organize…
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3 Questions for our Authors
We will welcome Keona Ervin, Nishani Frazier, and Patrick Jones to the Schomburg on Thursday December 7th for our 43rd installment of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies. In anticipation of our…
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Schedule for the Fall 2017 Season
Join us this fall for these exciting and urgent conversations! CBFS is held from 6-8 on the first Thursday of each month at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Check back later in the…
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Schedule for the Spring 2017 Season
This spring Conversations in Black Freedom Studies will bring together a host of experts to address several burning issues: Decades of movements to stop killer cops and police brutality; the legacy…
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Schedule for the Fall 2016 Season
This fall semester, the Conversations in Black Freedom Studies will feature experts to address four critical issues: 1) the menace of white terror and criminal injustice against the Black community…
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Schedule for the Spring 2016 Season
The Spring 2016 Season of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies will begin on February 4th! This is the next in our series at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Our events are held…
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Schedule for the Fall 2015 season
The Fall 2015 Season will begin on September 3rd! This is the next in our series of conversations at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Our events are held the first Thursday of the…
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Schedule for the Spring 2015 season
Our next season is shaping out to be another excellent series of conversations at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Our events are held the first Thursday of the month from 6-8 pm…
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Fall 2014 season starts September 4th
CBFS is set to kick off the Fall 2014 season this Thursday September 4th with a timely conversation on the urban crisis and the Black Revolt. The time is ripe to revisit the unfinished agenda of the…
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NEH Summer 2015 Seminar
Rethinking Black Freedom Studies in the Jim Crow North Deadline: March 2, 2015 Dates: June 15-June 26 (2 weeks) Project Directors: Komozi Woodard, Sarah Lawrence College, and Jeanne Theoharis…