Great Migrations: "A People On The Move" + Panel Discussion

Join us for a powerful evening of conversation and reflection as we screen the brand new PBS documentary series Great Migrations: A People on the Move, Episode 4: “Coming to America”!

Moderated by Kimberly Williams, our panel features Documentary producer and Director Naliah Ife Sims and Scholar and Author of A Home Away from Home, Dr. Tyseha Maddox, who will share their insights.

GREAT MIGRATIONS: A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, is a new four-part docuseries from Emmy-nominated executive producer, host, and writer Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., and series producers and directors Julia Marchesi and Nailah Ife Sims. The series is currently available on PBS, on the PBS app, and YouTube channel.

The film examines the powerful influence of Black migration over the 20th and 21st Centuries, on American culture and society, from the waves of Black Americans to the North, and back to the South, as well as African and Caribbean immigration.

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Info: Nailah Ife Sims is a documentary producer and director with over a decade and a half of experience in non-fiction TV and documentary film. Her latest project, Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a 4-part Dr. Henry Louis Gates helmed documentary series, premiered in January 2025 on PBS. She’s most known for her work as one of the producers of the Emmy- nominated six-part Netflix/ Fusion docuseries Who Killed Malcolm X? which helped exonerate two wrongly convicted men in 2021. Over the years, she’s helped produce and develop dozens of acclaimed nonfiction films, series, and programs for Netflix, Hulu, HBO, History, CNN, AMC, Discovery, FX, FUSE, and more, including daytime talk shows The Oprah Winfrey Show and Anderson Live (with Anderson Cooper). She’s based in Brooklyn, hails from Chicago, and holds pride in her African American and Haitian American roots.

Info: Dr. Maddox is a Historian of the African Diaspora. She received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016. Before joining the faculty at Fordham University, she was the 2015-2016 African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College and a 2015-2016 Kate B. & Hall J. Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. In 2018, she was a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Research Library in NYC as a Ford Foundation/Mellon Foundation Fellow. She was the 2019-2020 Race and Gender Post-Doctoral Associate at Rutgers University. She received a BA in History and Africana Studies and a MPS in Africana Studies both from Cornell University. Her Master’s thesis comparatively examined Caribbean American and African American social, cultural, and political interactions pre and post-World War II. Her research and teaching interests include the African Diaspora, Caribbean, Black Atlantic, Women and Gender, African American History, Race, Transnational Commu

Info: Kimberly Denise Williams is a Corporate Affairs Manager in the Regional and Community Affairs Department of Con Edison. Additionally, Kimberly writes for digital and print publications covering arts, culture, and popular events with a focus on history. A Flatbush native of Jamaican descent, Kimberly learned to embrace the importance of community from a young age. This love for community has followed her into adulthood where she remains active and involved with neighborhood organizations.
Kimberly has a Bachelors of Arts in History and African and African American Studies from Harvard College, and a Masters of Science in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

caribBEING, 1399 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, United States