Saturday September 7th 2019
4th Annual Sugar Hill Music Festival Sugar Hill Luminaries Lawn
Edgecombe Avenue and 155th St. Harlem, NY
Sugar Hill Quartet with Special Guest
Firey String Sistas! | Soul Understatedfeaturing Mavis Swan Poole
Sheila Anderson of WBGO, Emcee
Saturday September 7th 2019
An Interview and Book Signing with
Author Lashawn Harris | Novella Ford
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Number Runners:
Black Women In New York’s Underground Economy
Harris is an expert on the legendary Madam Stephanie
St. Clair, numbers banker and activist
Saturday October 13th 2019
Dessert with Donald Bogle Interview with Craigh Barboza
and Book Signing
Grinnell Community Room 800 Riverside Drive | New York, NY
$40 Includes a Signed Book and Unlimited Desserts
Hollywood Black
With a foreword by John Singleton
"No one knows more (or has written more extensively) about the history of African-Americans' contributions to cinema than Donald Bogle." Leonard Maitlin
Donald Bogle is the foremost scholar of African American cinema, whose groundbreaking publication Toms, Coons, Mulattos, Mammies, and Bucks, is the gold standard for Black film history.
Tuesday October 22nd 2019
In the Face of What We Remember: Oral Histories of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue
The definitive narrative of two of Harlem’s most noted addresses
Produced by While We Are Still Here, Jamal Joseph, and Michael Tyner
Directed by Karen D. Taylor
Aaron Davis Hall, Theatre B, Convent Avenue and 135th Street, Harlem, NY