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Festival Albertine: How Do We Get People to Care
Albertine Books 972 5th Avenue, New YorkArtists and activists will be called upon to discuss how to change people’s minds and amplify the call to action. Literature, music, drama—these are key resources for societies trying to come to grips with new realities. In recent years we’ve seen them begin to grapple with climate change, but that engagement must now grow. The […]
Cornel West Matters: Book Talk with Mahamadou Lamine Sagna and Cornel West
The Africa Center 1280 Fifth Ave., New YorkJoin The Africa Center and Teranga as we present a conversation between Mahamadou Lamine Sagna and Cornel West about “Cornel West Matters”. The book Cornel West Matters is a review of the titular philosopher’s seminal texts by Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, who has long been interested in the way West analyses politics, democracy, religion and race, and […]
Lincoln Center White Light Conversation: Let’s Talk About Religion
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New YorkGod was declared dead in 1966, no longer relevant to an increasingly secular society. Today, people around the world ardently seek religious and faith-based experiences, at times with an intolerant fervor. How did we vacillate between such extremes in the span of only half a century? In modern society, few topics are as subject to […]