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Brooklyn Museum: IN OPEN CONTEMPT with Irvin Weathersby Jr. and Robert Jones, Jr.

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

How do we reckon with ongoing anti-Black racism in the United States, as represented by monuments, street signs, and schools named after slaveowners, segregationists, and white supremacists? In this debut book, cultural commentator Irvin Weathersby Jr. engages curators, city planners, and artists—including Brooklyn Museum collection artists Titus Kaphar and Kara Walker—whose work considers the specter...

The Evidence of Things Unseen: Baldwin, Faith, and Fiction

The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue , Brooklyn

Join us in welcoming Yahdon Israel, founder of The Literaryswag Book Club and Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster, and Robert Jones, Jr. (formerly known as “Son of Baldwin”), the New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets, for a dynamic conversation about James Baldwin’s fiction. The pair will discuss the powerful link between Baldwin’s...

An Evening with Baldwin

BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance 2474 Westchester Avenue, Bronx

Thursday, October 24 @ 6PM | FREE Celebrate the 100th birthday of the iconic James Baldwin with a screening of the doc I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck, followed by a panel of distinguished artists and scholars discussing Baldwin's enduring impact. Curated by Alicia Anabel Santos. Dinner and birthday cake included. Thursday,...