In June of this year, on the eve of the annual NYC Pride March, Governor Kathy Hochul signed new, nation-leading legislation designed to affirm and protect the LGBTQ+ community in New York State. Among other initiatives, the legislation prohibits a number of state agencies from removing children whose parents or guardians allow them to receive […]
CENTRO has celebrated 50 years of activism, community, and the preservation of Puerto Rican studies all of 2023. Our 50th anniversary has been an opportunity for us to reflect on our history with nuestra comunidad by our side, and we want to continue to grow with you! Join us on Thursday, September 21st, for the […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back by Shannon McKenna Schmidt. In this captivating, action-packed history, Schmidt delivers the first full account of Eleanor Roosevelt’s unprecedented and courageous trip to the Pacific Theater during World War II. […]
Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States (2023), edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican authors publishing throughout the Unites States and whose works have reached national and international reading audiences. The writers examine how history, traditions, geographic dispersal, cultural/national identity, and linguistic merging […]
Join us for an immersive experience and the premiere of the award-winning film Preschool to Prison, which exposes how children from black and brown communities, are unfairly labeled and funneled from school to prison for minor infractions. Trauma affects the whole collective, but so does Healing. Systemic change begins as an inside-out process. We will tend to […]
Mary Gaitskill is the author of three novels, three books of short stories, and an essay collection. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To. Veronica was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and that same […]
Join us for un Cafecito con… Dr. Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, and Historian Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, both of the the National Portrait Gallery, to discuss their exhibition, 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions, currently on display until February 25, 2023. This conversation will be moderated by CENTRO Research Associate, […]
India and the United States will each next year hold what could be the most significant election in generations. This event aims to facilitate an in-depth conversation about what’s at stake. The program features prominent panelists: Ali Velshi, Naresh Fernandes, Mitra Kalita, and Suketu Mehta. The panel will be moderated by Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan. Panelist Bios: Naresh Fernandes is the Editor […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by veteran Times reporter Adam Nagourney. In this sweeping and immersive chronicle of the last four, sometimes turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” Nagourney takes readers behind the scenes as the Times navigates world-changing events, […]
Join Quintín Rivera Toro and José Ortiz Pagán as they explores their pieces on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. Rivera Toro's The Grass was Greener (2017) and Untitled, from the series Ahi vamos (2007) and Ortiz Pagán's […]
