Black Educational Events in New York, NY

Expanding Conversations on Environmental Justice, Popular Culture, Resilience, and Peace. A community gathering for the writer and reader. Black writers have long transformed lived struggle into powerful art—illuminating truth, inspiring action, and imagining new futures. The 18th National Black Writers Conference brings together voices from across the African diaspora whose words challenge boundaries and empower change. Their stories, poems, scholarship, screenplays, and plays explore the struggle for civil and human rights, confronting injustice while inspiring hope, strength, and transformation. Join us as we celebrate the writers who use literature to spark dialogue, deepen understanding, and sustain us through challenging times.

Wednesday, 25, 18.00 - Saturday, 28, 20.00 Brooklyn, NY _$25

Hands On History: Read Black History

Welcome back to King Manor! We kick off 2026 with a collaboration to celebrate Black History Month. Stop by to learn more about Black figures in American history and revolutions around the world. This event will have reading circles, access to our learning library, and create art inspired by the work of Alma Thomas. Admission is free for all ages! Tickets are not required but lets our staff prepare for your arrival! Part of King Manor's Hands On History series This program is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Saturday, 07, 19.56 - Saturday, 07, 19.56 Jamaica, NY _$25

Hands On History: Read Black History

Welcome back to King Manor! We kick off 2026 with a collaboration to celebrate Black History Month. Stop by to learn more about Black figures in American history and revolutions around the world. This event will have reading circles, access to our learning library, and create art inspired by the work of Alma Thomas. Admission is free for all ages! Tickets are not required but lets our staff prepare for your arrival! Part of King Manor's Hands On History series This program is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Saturday, 07, 19.56 - Saturday, 07, 19.56 Jamaica, NY _$25

Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance

This Black History Month, please join us on February 5th for an event on Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance. Brittany Friedman will present on a critical new text Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Aaron G. Fountain will discuss High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America, connecting struggles over policing and education. Joshua Clark Davis will share research from Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, expanding our understanding of repression beyond COINTELPRO. Finally, LaShawn Harris will teach about the life of Eleanor Bumpurs, which she powerfully illuminates in Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City. This will be an in-person event at the Schomburg Center and live-streamed on youtube. Teachers can earn 2 CTLE credits. ABOUT CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIES The founding curators of this series, Professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College), introduced a new paradigm that challenged the older geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology of Civil Rights historiography. Jeanne Theoharis continues in her role and is joined by Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University) ) as co-curator. Komozi Woodard continues to advise the series from an emeritus position. Discussions take place on the first Thursday of each month. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY | Live captioning is available for streaming programs. ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing [email protected]. PRESS | Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at [email protected]. Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent. Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Additional support provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation.

Thursday, 05, 18.30 - Thursday, 05, 20.00 New York, NY _$25

Van Jones’ Black-Jewish Helix of Hope

For generations, the Black-Jewish alliance served as the backbone of American progress toward becoming a more perfect union. Black American dedication to justice for all coupled with Jewish commitment to tikkun olam sparked the formation of the NAACP, won critical courtroom victories, energized the civil rights movement and forged what Van Jones calls “the double helix of hope.” The fraying of that alliance has jeopardized the efforts of both communities, as well as the entire nation, animating Jones to imagine a renewed covenant between Black leaders, Jewish leaders and leaders who are both Black and Jewish. As we mark Black History Month, we are proud that the CNN host, political analyst and world-class activist joins our Friday night service to discuss what we have built together, the importance of partnership in these perilous times and his work as founder of the EXODUS Leadership Forum.

Friday, 20, 18.00 - Friday, 20, 19.45 New York, NY _$25

Black Women in Diplomacy & United Nations Headquarters Black History Tour

PRESIDENTS DAY HOLIDAY CAMP | Celebrate Black History Month 2026 with us at United Nations Headquarters! Black Women in Diplomacy & United Nations Headquarters Black History Tour is a one-day program that begins with a classroom lesson that celebrates the contributions of black women in U. S. diplomacy. Students will then visit the United Nations for a UN briefing and the United Nations' Black History Tour. The following is a description of the United Nations Black History Tour. This is a day-program with parents being responsible for accommodations and transportation of those traveling to NYC to participate; no financial assistance or promo code is available for this event. Ticketing options for ages 9-11 and 12-17. Each age group is strictly limited to 18 students. The Black History-themed Tour of the United Nations will grant students a unique look at the Ark of Return, a permanent memorial in honor of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, located on the United Nations Visitors Plaza. The special tour will also include access to the Security Council Chamber, the Trusteeship Council Chamber and the General Assembly Hall (meetings permitting). You will learn about the contribution of people of African descent to the work of the United Nations in fields such as peace and security and human rights, with a special emphasis on decolonization.

Monday, 16, 08.40 - Monday, 16, 16.30 New York, NY _$25

Archival Imaginaries of Black Life

J. Yolande Daniels NA & Alexandra Bell in conversation on collective memory & the archival imaginaries of Black life moderated by Gee Wesley Join us for a conversation between artists J. Yolande Daniels NA and Alexandra Bell, moderated by Gee Wesley, on public memory, collective history, and the archival imaginaries of Black life. In Bell’s “Counternarratives” series, the artist inserts corrections and redactions into the "official record” of reports from The New York Times, highlighting how news media can influence the way Black life is commemorated, misrepresented, or entirely erased. Similarly, J. Yolande Daniels’s work Calle Block employs architectural research and sociological data to uncover racial discrimination in Western spatial designs, institutions, and laws, and to illustrate how African Americans have created freedom and community by shaping their surrounding spaces. In this discussion, Daniels and Bell will explain how their projects craft counternarratives of Black life informed by journalism, sociological data, or historical documents. Together, the artists will discuss how they engage with and challenge these archival records to expose biases and bear witness to the past.

Thursday, 04, 18.00 - Thursday, 04, 20.00 New York, NY _$25

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