Join us on Saturday, March 18th at 2pm for an afternoon of solidarity with political prisoners. We will learn together about individuals and movements whose stories are repressed by the state and liberal media, and write letters to incarcerated comrades from the Stop Cop City movement and beyond.

A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black Power

A discussion of the past and future of multiracial alliances for revolutionary change.

How Black public-sector workers and their unions fought for racial and economic justice in Baltimore.

Hang out, eat food, get drinks, and play games!

Traversing the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art music, and jazz to hip-hop.

An exploration of the rich, important, and controversial history of Baltimore's first non-denominational African American cemetery.

Told with great intimacy and compassion, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion uncovers a long-buried history of resistance and resilience among depression-era miners in Pennsylvania, who sank their own mines on company grounds and fought police, bankers, coal companies, and courts to form a union that would not only safeguard their livelihoods but also protect their collective autonomy as citizens and workers for decades.

In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago.

For several decades, author and curator Tavia Nyong'o (Yale University) and academic and musician Drew Daniel (JHU, Matmos, The Soft Pink Truth) have been both friends and mutual influences on each other's writing and musical production. This is their first public conversation. Join these two polymaths from adjacent disciplines as they discuss queerness, race, art, anarchy, "wildness" and how to weave between theory and practice, writing and performance.

The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I—and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers.

A conversation around literature, political theory, and Middle Eastern identities.

Have you ever wondered what your purpose in life is? Have you been guided by curiosity or forced by circumstances to face your deepest fears, reexamine who you are, what you want out of life and how to advocate for change?

How do we take care of each other? Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides a place to sleep when we need one? We often rely on family for the care we all need. Yet even at their best families cannot carry the impossible demands placed on them, and for many the family is a place of private horror, of coercion and personal domination.