Join us for an unforgettable evening of art and celebration at the Ida y Vuelta Exhibition Closing Party! As we bid farewell to this captivating journey, we invite you to be part of the culminating festivities. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of artistic narratives that have graced our gallery walls over these past months. […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick. In this urgent historical analysis, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist sounds the alarm on what she sees as a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional […]
Roberto Clemente was a trailblazer whose skill on the baseball diamond was matched only by his unwavering commitment to humanitarian causes. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in the world of Roberto Clemente – a celebration of a sports icon, a humanitarian, and a complex figure who left an indelible mark on history. Join […]
Please join us as Roosevelt House celebrates the artistry of the great Billie Holiday and the publication of Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year by Hunter College Professor of English and Symposium Director Paul Alexander. To mark the occasion, The Billie Holiday Symposium at Hunter College will bring together prominent singers, musicians, scholars, and authors, […]
Porochista Khakpour was born in Tehran and raised in the Greater Los Angeles area. She is the critically acclaimed author of two novels, a memoir, and a collection of essays. Khakpour's most widely-read book, Sick was a Best Book of 2018 according to TIME, Real Simple, Entropy, Mental Floss, Bitch Media, Autostraddle, The Paris Reivew, […]
Rebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, Yellowface, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar, she […]
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 […]
