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Book Launch for Seven Sisters and a Brother—Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New YorkUntold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s: Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo and Marilyn Holifield with Brent Staples Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has called Seven Sisters and a Brother “compelling portraits of the lives of the young people who risked their futures to make a difference.” Four of the eight authors […]
Gentrification 2.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Blurry
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St, BrooklynFrom Sunset Park to East New York, barely a neighborhood in Brooklyn isn’t ensconced in its own version of the gentrification debate. Beyond the posturing and the rhetoric is a nuanced history and present day reality that’s neither all good, nor all bad. Join Matthew Schuerman, author of Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents; Kay Hymowitz, Fellow at the […]
The Art of Real New York: Through the Eyes of NYC’s Most Rebellious Artists
Church of Sweden 5 East 48th Street, New YorkIf you were a mainstream artist or photographer living in New York within the last 200 years, chances are you wanted to showcase the best the city had to offer — the elite, the beautiful gardens, the fabulous hustle and bustle. But within each generation of creatives, a handful of artists rebelled, and insisted on […]