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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a forum held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. CBFS aims to be a resource to fill that need.

We meet on the first Thursday of each month at 6:30pm. Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is a monthly roundtable discussion at the Schomburg Center with authors and experts in Black history. Held on the first Thursday of every month from 6:30-8 pm, these conversations focus on a theme --from the Jim Crow North to the Black Panther Party, from educational inequality to the Black Arts Movement.

They are geared for New York City teachers, parents, students, scholars, activists, and policy-makers. Black Freedom Studies has introduced a new paradigm for research and scholarship on the long Black revolt, challenging older conceptions of geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology to deepen popular understandings of the scope of the Black freedom struggle. With the closing of a number of black bookstores, there are fewer spaces where a diversity of people can gather to hear and discuss new scholarship in African American history.

06/03/2022

Thanks to all who joined last night for our final CBFS of the season. It was so fun talking about films of Black struggle and watching clips from great documentaries. We'll have the video up on our website soon, but in the meantime we've just added April's conversation for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!

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06/02/2022

Join us tonight as we screen clips from "Films of the Black Freedom Struggle" including Takeover, Takeover. Check out the trailer here and join the director tonight at 6:30pm EDT for the conversation at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

WATCH NOW on New York Times Op-Docs: https://youtu.be/aK_ALMA1NMkTakeover explores the twelve historic hours on July 14, 1970, in which fifty members of the ...

06/01/2022

Our final conversation of the season will be on "Films of Black Struggle" and you don't want to miss this discussion of The Sun Rises in The East! Watch the official trailer here and join the filmmakers who will be sharing clips tomorrow at 6:30 EDT.

In 1970s Brooklyn, a pan-African collective called The East creates more than a dozen self-sufficient businesses and institutions — essentially building an i...

05/23/2022

We're thrilled to be welcoming three filmmakers to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
June 2 for our first conversation on documentaries of the Black freedom struggle. We'll be joined by Cynthia Gordy Giwa and Tayo Giwa of Black-Owned Brooklyn, the film-making team behind "The Sun Rises in the East." They'll be in conversation with Emma Francis-Snyder, the director of "Takeover." Read our interview with the filmmakers for more on the films, and join us June 2nd for clips of the films and a full discussion about "Films of the Black Freedom Struggle."

Today, Black Perspectives features "Black History, Film, and Community: A CBFS Interview"

"People have been fighting for their right to equitable treatment in the United States since its inception, and those most impacted by the conditions of capitalism know the issues they face intimately. If empowered, they can provide solutions that have the potential to create real structural equitable change. Ultimately the fight for Black lives benefits us all as a society. The patient bill of rights was created as a result of the work the Young Lords (and many other organizations) did at the time. We as an entire nation (including white people) benefited from this work. That is one of the many reasons why it would behoove us as a nation to act toward the true equality of Black lives."

https://www.aaihs.org/black-history-film-and-community-a-cbfs-interview/

05/04/2022

Come on out tomorrow and join Emily Hobson and Daniel Lucks, interviewed here about their important new books "Remaking Radicalism" and "Reconsidering Reagan." They'll be joined by Carol Anderson and Elizabeth Hinton at 6:30 EST.

Conversations in BlackFreedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn Spencer with Komozi Woodard, the series was established as a space to discuss the latest scholarship in Black freedom studies,

05/03/2022

Covering the history of Black rebellion, Elizabeth Hinton was interviewed on The Intercept podcast, Intercepted, about her new book, America on Fire. We're so excited to welcome her to Conversations this Thursday to talk about "Racism and Resistance in the Post Civil Rights Era."

Historian Elizabeth Hinton discusses her new book, “America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s.”

05/02/2022

We're so excited to welcome Professor Carol Anderson back to Conversations this Thursday to talk about "Racism and Resistance in the Post Civil Rights Era." Here she is interviewed on the "anti-Blackness" coded into the Second Amendment

Behind the Second Amendment's ambiguous language, Anderson says, is a white terror that endures to this day

04/29/2022

Join us next Thursday, May 5th for "Racism and Resistance in the Post Civil Rights Era" with Carol Anderson, Elizabeth Hinton, Emily Hobson, and Daniel Lucks.

Conversation with incredible thinkers exploring activism and the history of racism and resistance after the civil rights movement

04/13/2022

We spoke with Emily Hobson and Daniel Lucks about radical histories after the 1960s, the topic of our May conversation at CBFS. It was a great start to an important conversation we can't wait to have with fellow guests Elizabeth Hinton and Carol Anderson https://www.aaihs.org/radical-histories-after-the-1960s-a-cbfs-interview/

Today Black Perspectives features "Radical Histories After the 1960s: A CBFS Interview" with Emily Hobeson and Daniel S. Lucks. https://aaihs.org/radical-histories-after-the-1960s-a-cbfs-interview/

04/06/2022

We spoke with Justene Edwards, author of Unfree Markets, and Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire. They join us tomorrow, April 7, for a discussion of "Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire." You can read more about their work in our interview in Black Perspectives from the African American Intellectual History Society

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated by Jeanne Theoharis and Robyn Spencer with Komozi Woodard, the series was established as a space to discuss the latest scholarship in Black freedom studies

04/05/2022

Here, Adom Getachew talks about her book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Join her this Thursday at 6:30 Eastern for our latest CBFS discussion on "Capitalism, Slavery, and Empire."

The anti-colonial struggle of the twentieth century wasn’t just about winning political independence — it was about shattering the global hierarchies that subjugated the Global South and winning an egalitarian world for all.

03/27/2022

April 7th we’ll be joined by Justene Edwards, Getachew, Peter Hudson, and Daniel Immerwahr for our latest conversation "Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire" register here.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slavery-capitalism-and-empire-cbfs-registration-272232413477?fbclid=IwAR3JnRGO6-dpnJBbzAljKSqB8tx2rYSMZ9OzPIdonxiDDKwP7x3w4v2Fun8

Conversation with incredible thinkers exploring activism and scholarship on Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire

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The Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture, NYPL, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY
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http://blackfreedomstudies.org/

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