Schedule of Events: 5:30pm: Reception co-hosted by The History Channel 6:00pm: Screening 761st Tank Battalion (1hr 26min) 7:30pm: Post-screening discussion Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the History Channel documentary 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers. From executive producer Morgan Freeman, the film explores the powerful story of the heroic first black armored unit to […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House presents Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed, a solo show from writer-actor Ingrid Griffith about the iconic political leader who became the first African American woman in Congress, and the first woman and African American to seek a major party nomination for president. Some called her “the Black Joan of Arc,” but the […]
The Dedalus Foundation and Hunter College Department of Art and Art History present “Mattering: Life, Art, and Materiality” at the Roosevelt House. Celebrated art historian and 2018 Robert Motherwell Book Award recipient Julia Bryan-Wilson has selected three recent Dedalus MFA Fellows for a free-ranging discussion of process and materiality. Artists Jessi Ali Lin (2020, University of Pennsylvania), Luis Emilio Romero (2023, CUNY, […]
On March 1, 1954, Lolita Lebrón led a group of four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in an armed attack on the U.S. Congress, to dramatize the ongoing colonial nature of the territorial relationship, in the wake of the “Commonwealth” constitution of 1952. Seventy years later, while perspectives on the preferred solution may […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America Presented by: Sandra Fox, Goldstein-Goren Visiting Assistant Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, and director of the Archive of the American Jewish Left in the Digital Age In this lecture, Sandra Fox explains how a […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a lecture by legal scholar and president of the National Constitution Center Jeffrey Rosen on his new book The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. In this philosophical exploration of early American political thought, Rosen examines what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner and the Petrie Foundation Invite you to the Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Featuring: John Mogulescu author of The Dean of New Things: Bringing Change to CUNY and New York City in conversation with Dara N. Byrne Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College. Reception and […]
Join curator, Carla Acevedo Yakes, and CENTRO Directora, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez, for a cafecito as they journey through entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico. Together, they’ll explore the intersection of art and activism, and unpack the myriad ways in which creative expression can shape narratives, challenge norms, and build bridges between communities. […]
We live in a vibrant and multi-cultural city where hundreds of languages are spoken in homes and in the streets besides English. The New York Circle of Translators, in partnership with MATI, TISH, The Languages of New York Project, and The State Office of Language Access, invites you to an evening of presentations, interactive activities, […]
On Tuesday, March 19, from 2:30-3:30pm, we will be joined by former New York City Councilmember Robert E. Cornegy Jr. who will be discussing social and economic equity in the cannabis industry and the rollout of cannabis legislation in New York state. This live podcast will be moderated by Public Policy Program Director Dr. Basil A. Smikle Jr.
