Fri, April 26
@ 11 AM | Artwork: Blossom Blair
The 2024 Black Comic Book Festival marks 12 years of bringing together animators, Blerds, bloggers, cosplay lovers, fans, families, illustrators, independent publishers, and writers to celebrate Black comic books and graphic novels and provides a platform to get the works directly to readers. This annual event features panel discussions, workshops, and cosplay showcases, and highlights the work of creators from across the country.
The 12th annual festival… | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Adults,
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Sat, April 27
@ 10:30 AM | The 2024 Black Comic Book Festival marks 12 years of bringing together animators, Blerds, bloggers, cosplay lovers, fans, families, illustrators, independent publishers, and writers to celebrate Black comic books and graphic novels and provides a platform to get the works directly to readers. This annual event features panel discussions, workshops, and cosplay showcases, and highlights the work of creators from across the country.
The 12th annual festival from April 26—27, 2024, will include… | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Adults,
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Thu, May 2
@ 6:30 PM | Conversations in Black Freedom Studies About this event
VIRTUAL
Don’t miss the final discussion of the season for our Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. Discover the history of the struggle for liberatory education and the unjust structures it seeks to dismantle. Join the virtual discussion with scholars Leslie M. Alexander (Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism), Zebulon Vance Miletsky (Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle), Keith A. Mayes (The Unteachables:… | Online | Adults,
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Fri, May 3
@ 8:30 AM | About This Event:
The Schomburg Center hosts the first day of a two-day conference that extends the call for increased historical research on slavery in the Atlantic World. It will convene academic scholars, researchers, public historians, archivists, and librarians from the Netherlands and the U.S. Together, they will weigh the history and legacy of slavery, the slave trade, and colonialism in New Netherland, the Netherlands, and the Americas.
Produced by the Lapidus Center for the Historical… | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Adults,
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Tue, May 21
@ 6 PM | This photo is contemporaneous with the date of the Lemmon Slave Case. Portrait of Seated Young Woman in Plaid Dress with Hands Clasped, c. 1860, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Ambrotype Collection.
IN-PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAM
Join us for the world premiere of the 30-minute audio drama, How Emeline Got Free. It tells the story of the landmark Lemmon Slave Case from the perspective of Emeline Thompson, the eld… | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Adults,
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