Thursday, October 24th Independent Booksellers at City Point 445 Albee Square West 7-8:30pm FREE Join in an evening of books and bubbly, celebrating this year’s celebrating this year’s crop of nominees, including: Fiction & Poetry Finalists – Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin; N.K. Jemisin, How Long ’til Black Future Month? […]Read More

Sunday, October 20th The Riverside Church 490 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, 6pm FREEThe Public is invited to join Union Theological Seminary, The Riverside Church, and 400 Years of Inequality for this multi-faith service to solemnly observe the 400th anniversary of the first Africans to be sold into bondage in the U.S. The Rev. Dr. William J. […]Read More

Saturday, October 19th (Downtown Brooklyn location sent to reservations made before capacity is filled.) 12-5pm $10-$20 suggested donation. Talented author, poet and educator Kimberly A. Collins, visiting from Washington, D.C. will facilitate a collaborative and interactive workshop, give a featured author reading and respond in a Q & A session. Copies of her new book, […]Read More

Friday, October 18th Weeksville Heritage Center 158 Buffalo Ave., 7:30pm $15. Enjoy the fruits of a collaboration celebrating Jazz’s African American roots in one of America’s first free Black communities. This is one of a series of weekend performances in October placing a spotlight on jazz and improvised music in Crown Heights, a neighborhood key […]Read More

Wednesday, October 16th Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St., 7pm $15. A panel of experts discuss the systematically racist banking practice of denying loans to people of color in post-WWII urban neighborhoods, in a conversation moderated by Kai Wright, host of WNYC podcast “The Stakes.”Read More

Tuesday, October 15th Cloister Lounge Gallery 490 Riverside Drive and 91 Claremont Ave., Manhattan FREE. This exhibition by artist Laura James combines the use of surrealist painting and postcolonial theory to address issues of gender, work, and motherhood in the lives of domestic workers living in New York City. Painter Laura James, and her sister/collaborator, […]Read More

Friday, October 11th  The Crown Heights Film Festival FiveMyles 558 St. John’s Place 7pm FREE. Short films screened this evening are: Late; The Pastry; Smoke and Mirrors; Margarita of the River, Exposure; Sparrow; Sonata and The Sun Shines at Night. Free popcorn and water, and a free after-party. Visit crownheightsfilmfestival.com for info. Read More