Membership Events

IN PERSON Join us for program 3, Movement Leaders and Everyday People, as part of our October and November Black on Screen series, guest-curated by writer and film programmer, Yasmina Price. The screening includes Raoul Peck’s Lumumba: La Mort du Prophète and Safi Faye's 1982 Selbé et tant d’autres (Selbè: One Among Many). The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Price and Maliyamungu Muhande is a Congolese artist and filmmaker. Movement Leaders and Everyday People is a record of free…

IN PERSON Join photographer Anthony Artis for an afternoon of creative exploration during this Harlem Photo Walk. This immersive workshop draws on Artis's deep experience in street-level filmmaking, guerrilla documentary production, and ethical storytelling. The session will focus on capturing real-time moments of dignity, resilience, and everyday delight within Black communities, highlighting a belief that powerful stories are all around us if we’re willing to look, listen, and engage with res…

IN PERSON Join us for program 4, Debt, Dependency, and City Stories, as part of our October and November Black on Screen series, guest-curated by writer and film programmer, Yasmina Price. The screening includes Le Franc (1994), directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty and Sara Gómez’s De cierta manera (One Way or Another) 1974/1977. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Price and Dr. Nzingha Kendall, Assistant Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Pace University. Enslavement and coloni…

IN PERSON Black on Screen: A Century of Radical Visual Culture continues with “100 Years of Black Music on Camera.” From Jazz, to Funk, to Hip-Hop, this season celebrates the sonic archive of Black life as seen and heard on film. Join us for a screening of Gordon Parks Jr.’s 1972 classic, Super Fly. The thrilling blaxploitation era drama stars Ron O’Neal as Youngblood Priest, a smooth New York City drug pin plotting to retire from life in the fast lane. But hoping to cash in for the last time,…

ONLINE PROGRAM This virtual event will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Charles M. Payne's groundbreaking history of the Mississippi movement, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Payne will be joined in conversation by SNCC veteran Charlie Cobb, radical teacher Tess Raser, and historians of the Black freedom movement Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Emilye Crosby. Thirty years after it was first published, this history remai…