Join us for the Racial Unity Leadership Summit as we meet in Charleston, South Carolina, a city that has a rich history and a powerful legacy of endurance! Scholars and thinkers from around the nation will share insightful presentations regardingRead more
It’s 1959, and Billie Holiday, “Lady Day” is about to deliver one of her last live performances ever. At the seedy Emerson’s Bar and Grill on Philadelphia’s south side, an audience sits waiting, not knowing that they are about toRead more
Prints in Clay is a day-long multimedia artistic and educational exploration into the many significant contributions of African-Americans to the history and culture of the community. The four-part program consists of a historical tour, a visual exhibit, a curated dinner,Read more
Charleston journalist and author Jason Ryan will join us to discuss his book in which he chronicles the 1927 Dole Air Derby and the first flights across the Pacific in the 1920s.
Dive into the vibrant Latin American culture for a day at the annual Latin American Festival, Sunday, Oct. 14 at North Charleston Wannamaker County Park! This popular event lasts from 12 – 6 p.m. and will feature Latin American music,Read more
Join Adam Parker and Cleveland Sellers, Jr. for the launch of Parker's biography on Sellers, Outside Agitator. Additional guests will discuss the history of the freedom movement, the seminal 1968 Orangeburg Massacre, and current challenges facing activists today. Parker's incisive biography detailsRead more
Regina Marler, editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, and Sarah Milroy, curator of the recent Vanessa Bell exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery London, discuss the modernist painter, a pivotal figure in 20th century British art - as innovative as her sister Virginia WoolfRead more
David Hare was recently described by the Washington Post as "the premier political dramatist writing in English." His stage plays include the Tony Award nominated Plenty, Racing Demon, and Skylight, and his screenplays include Damage, The Hours, The Reader, and Denial. His memoir, The Blue Touch Paper, is a frank account ofRead more
Scripted by David Hare, who will give a short introduction, Denial, starring Rachel Weisz, is based on Deborah Lipstadt's History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier.
Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, it describes the contradictions of her comparatively privileged upbringing among Chicago's upper-class Black community. She is alsoRead more
