Special Introductory Remarks by the son of Constance Baker Motley, Chairman Emeritus of Human Rights Watch and Longtime Roosevelt House Advisory Board Member Joel Motley. Roosevelt House is proud to present a discussion—presented on Zoom—of the new book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin. With this monumental and timely new […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion—presented on Zoom—of One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America by Hunter College Professor Nancy Foner. In this important new study, Foner provides an eye-opening, in-depth examination of the many ways immigration has fundamentally redefined modern America. The author will be in conversation with the Director of […]
Pamela Nadell in conversation with Leah Garrett. In the days when the City College of New York was all male and Hunter College was all female, Jewish women, mostly the daughters of immigrants from Russia and Poland, knew that a Hunter education was the springboard to a teaching career. Other Hunter Jewish subway scholars took different paths. […]
Tom Sleigh is the author of eleven books of poetry, including his most recent, The King's Touch, available from Graywolf Press in February 2022. Other works include Army Cats, winner of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Space Walk which won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award. In addition, Far Side of the Earth won […]
Join us virtually or in-person for a special event featuring Xochitl Gonzales, New York Times best-selling author of Olga Dies Dreaming in conversation with Yarimar Bonilla, Political Anthropologist and the Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College This event will be held in person at Roosevelt House and online via Zoom. Proof […]
Roosevelt House and The Pulitzer Center are pleased to present a discussion—presented in person and on Zoom—with leading immigration journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Anna-Catherine Brigida. Examining U.S. border policies and their wide-ranging impact on migrant communities, the event will be moderated by the Director of the Hunter College Journalism Program Sissel McCarthy. From Central America to […]
Vievee Francis is the author of The Shared World, forthcoming soon; Forest Primeval, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly. Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including Poetry, Best American Poetry 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019, and Angles of […]
Please join us in the Roosevelt House Auditorium as we bring together our Hunter community with human rights and public policy experts for an open forum to discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Moderated by Jessica Neuwirth, Director of the Human Rights Program and Dr. Basil Smikle Jr., Director of Public Policy Program. This event will […]
Hallway Exhibition - Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist While the term Afrofuturism dates only to the 1990s, musicians, writers, playwrights, and painters have been radically reimagining a Black future in outer and other spaces for far longer. Ademola Olugebefola has been at work picturing those spaces, and mapping an African passage from the deep past into deep […]
Max Lewkowicz, Producer/Director and Patti Kenner, Executive Producer In association with Hunter College of City University of New York and the Museum of Jewish Heritage cordially invite you to a special screening of: FIDDLER, A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES To benefit programs for food, shelter & medical needs for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. All Funds are […]
