The Bishop Gallery, in collaboration with Incite Institute at Columbia University, is pleased to announce the opening of “I See My Light Shining,” an evocative exhibition inspired by Jacqueline Woodson’s oral history initiative of the same name. The exhibit opens on August 24th and will run through August 31st. “I See My Light […]
Tag: African Americans
Event Tomorrow (3/18) 4pm – African American Response to HIV/AIDS
Join the Lehman Center for American History for a conversation with historian Dan Royles about his new book To Make the Wounded Whole: African American Responses to HIV/AIDS. Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021 Time: 4 – 5:30pm Register for this Online Event Here […]
Puzzling and amazing pieces that fit in Dance Theatre of Harlem exhibition
A centerpiece of our exhibition, Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Trailblazer, is a dazzling, eight foot long puzzle. Handcrafted and painted from wood, the puzzle details the DTH’s history, Mitchell’s influence, luminaries who’ve supported the company, landmark performances and homages to ballet casts. As puzzle maker Frank Bara notes in a video tour of the puzzle, shot […]
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin on the class conscious roots of SNCC
Since the 1990s, with social historians looking back on how we’ve told the history of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin has come to the fore as a central leader in the movement. Specifically, for decades, he was the unsung hero behind the conceptualization of the 1963 March on Washington. But more than that, this […]
ONLINE EXHIBIT– “The Unwritten History”: Alexander Gumby’s African America
This online exhibit explores the efforts of Alexander Gumby to create a documentary history of African-American achievement in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. An influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance, Gumby compiled a scrapbook collection of approximately 300 volumes in support of his project, filled with news clippings, photographs, pamphlets, handbills, original artwork, manuscripts, and […]