November 18th, 12:30pm EST/5:30pm GMT On November 18th, Brian Dooley will share his reflections on his, now twenty-year old book, Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America (Pluto Press). Click to register Find out more about our research initiatives in this vein here: https://as.nyu.edu/irelandhouse/academic-initiatives/black--brown-and-green-voices.html This is an event is in collaboration with NYU's Office of…
General: $10 ($7 for seniors) The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were…
Raoul Peck, 2017, 93 minutes To RSVP, please click here. Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters).…