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What Matters Now?

Social and political movements of the past have given passage to crucial gains in the call for civil rights, justice, and equality. But might there be a need for inspired individualism and grassroots organizing, that reinforces a sustained level of activism? What Matters Now? asks us to consider the forms of transformative activism necessary in the present that engage daily life, the wellbeing of humanity, the environment, and a democratic society.
Women Writers of Color
Founded at the Graduate Center by Vilna Bashi Treitler, WWOC created a space which gave women agency to create narratives as seen through their own lens.
Tuesday, March 23 at 7 pm ET

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CUNY
Teaches Living History
CUNY faculty respond to the pandemic
by creating a curriculum around the effects Covid_19 and teaching it in their current courses.
Wednesday, April 21 at 4 pm ET

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African American Political Thought
edited volume by Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner with contributor Farah Jasmine Griffin

While African American political thought is inextricable from the historical movement of American political thought, this volume stresses the individuality of Black thinkers, the transnational and diasporic consciousness, and how individual speakers and writers draw on various traditions simultaneously to broaden our conception of African American political ideas. This landmark volume gives us the opportunity to tap into the myriad and nuanced political theories central to Black life. In doing so, African American Political Thought: A Collected History transforms how we understand the past and future of political thinking in the West.
Friday, April 30 at 12 pm ET

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Hip Hop Activism
Chronicling Stankonia:
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

Author Regina N. Bradley presents her latest book which pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. Dr. Bradley will be joined in conversation with Jill Richardson, faculty member at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Wednesday, May 5 at 12 pm ET

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