—Thursday, February 15th, 2018—

The Long Arc of Justice: Revisiting the Civil Rights Movement
128 Pierrepont Street at Brooklyn Historical Society
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Price: $5; FREE for members
Award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis debunks contemporary imaginings of the civil rights movement in her forthcoming book, A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. By showing how the movement was unpopular, disruptive, and courageously persevering in its time, Theoharis challenges exceptionalist narratives of American democracy and calls attention to the crucial work that remains to be done. Founding editor of The Intercept Jeremy Scahill joins her in conversation.

Where Goes the Neighborhood? A Panel on Gentrification in NYC
260 Eastern Pkwy at St Francis De Sales School For The Deaf
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
FREE
Skyrocketing rents, increased homelessness, and displaced communities of color are some of the most dire problems facing New York City today. DSA AfroSocialist Caucus cofounder Jazz Hooks will moderate a discussion on the housing crisis as a systemic failure of capitalism, and how a socialist society is its only remedy.

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Conversations in the Gallery with Jamel Shabazz
408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard at Richard Beavers Gallery
Time: 6:30pm- 9:30pm
FREE
In this intimate conversation, Brooklyn-born documentarian photographer, Jamel Shabazz will share his journey, while offer a visual testimony of how American culture always did and always will begin with the people… in the street.

Brooklyn Talks: A Tribute to Basquiat
200 Eastern Parkway at the Brooklyn Museum
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Price: $20 – $25
Contemporary artists and collaborators pay homage to the resounding legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat in Brooklyn and beyond. In celebration of the ways in which art shapes lives, each participant discusses a work of art in Basquiat’s oeuvre that has inspired them and their practice. Participants include Cey Adams, graffiti artist and former creative director of Def Jam, and photographer Maripol.

Gwendolyn Brooks Centenary Tribute
10 Grand Army Plz at Brooklyn Public Library
Time: 7:30pm – 9pm
FREE w/ rsvp
A panel of poets, critics, and writers — including Cornelius Eady, Rashidah Ismaili, D. Nurkse, Camille Rankine and Safiya Sinclair — celebrates the centenary of one of America’s greatest poets. Co-sponsored by Poetry Society of America.

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