Featured Speaker
The Town Hall: Celebrating James Baldwin’s Centennial and the 60th Anniversary of the Baldwin/Buckley Debate with
A Return to Civic Discourse:
REVISITING THE “AMERICAN DREAM”
60 YEARS LATER
Featured Speakers
Edwidge Danticat, Dr. Brenda M. Greene, Dr. Frank Leon Roberts,
Dr. Matt Brim, Dr. Nicholas Buccola
The Town Hall | February 18, 2025
Adelphi University's Center for African,
Black and Caribbean Studies
James Baldwin Distinguished Lecture
on Literary and Social Criticism:
“The Fire This Time: Creating a Space
for Good Trouble.”
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
The Illusion of Inclusion: Collaborative Solutions
for Performative Diversity,
Shaping the Future of Black,
Race and Ethnic Studies
Teach-In, ‘Til Victory Is Won: 400 Years of Making
Revolution and Inventing Utopia’
Brooklyn Public Library, October 26, 2019
In Praise of Toni Morrison’s Enduring Legacy
The Center for Fiction, August, 2019
Stakeholders of Black Literacy
Juneteenth Festival
Library of Congress, June 2015
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Castillo Theatre, June, 2015
Martin, Malcolm and Medgar,
WNYC Martin Luther King Celebration
Brooklyn Museum, January, 2013
Creating Culturally Courageous Leaders
Institute for Black World Conference
November, 2012