Art and Black Power: Mapping Malcolm at the Apollo

Reading by Najha Zigbi-Johnson
Conversation with Kamilah Forbes and Sade Lythcott
Music by Samora Pinderhughes/The Healing Project
and DJ Bridge
Visuals courtesy of the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project
Books by Sister's Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center
Evening program curated by Najha Zigbi-Johnson.
Organized by the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University in partnership with Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and Institute for Research in African-American Studies/Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.

This event is free and open to all. We look forward to welcoming you! Kindly note that reservations do not guarantee entry so please arrive early to ensure you can be seated. Doors open at 7:30.

*Art and Black Power is the culminating event of the Center for the Study of Social Difference's series Countering the Carceral State. Rooted in Malcolm X’s political awakening related to the deep study that he undertook while he was in Pr*son, the series has explored the crises of disciplinary enforcement central to American power at home and abroad.

Design by Ayem.

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233 W 125th St, 233 West 125th Street, New York, United States

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