Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture 50th Anniversary Celebration

October 17, 2019

IAAA Directors

In 1969, ROSCOE C. In 1946, Dr. Brown was employed as a social investigator BROWN JR. (1922–2016) with the NYC Department of Welfare and as a physical was named founding director education instructor at West Virginia State College until of the Institute of African 1948. Brown attended New York University, where he American Affairs (IAAA) and earned his master’s degree in 1949 and his PhD in served in that position for education in 1951, and became a professor at New York eight years before leaving to University for twenty-seven years. become the president of Bronx Community College in EARL S. DAVIS had a fifty- 1977. During his time at the year career, which began and IAAA, Dr. Brown hosted Soul ended with New York of Reason (SOR), a popular University. He received an radio series produced by MSW in 1957 from the WNYU and WNYC from Graduate School of Public 1971 to 1986. SOR aired on Administration and Social commercial radio station Service, and practiced social Roscoe Brown, Founding Director, WNBC and later on NYU's work in the field until 1972, 1969 – 1977 station WNYU and featured when he joined the Silver interviewees ranging from politicians to professional School of Social Work athletes to medical professionals to contemporary artists. (SSSW) staff as the assistant Dr. Brown focused on building a platform for dean for admissions, financial contemporary academics, thinkers, authors, and aid and student affairs. Davis community leaders who spoke directly to students, faculty, directed NYU’s IAAA from staff, and community members about issues impacting 1979 until 1994, and returned Earl S. Davis, 1979 – 1994 black communities in the United States and abroad. to the SSSW part time from 1995 to 2008 as a special recruiter with the mission of Prior to his tenure at NYU and IAAA, Dr. Brown had a attracting black students. distinguished military career as a famed Tuskegee Airmen. Dr. Brown was the former commander of the famous During his time as director, the Institute initially functioned 332nd Fighter Group, a celebrated group of African as an orienting and coordinating body for black student American pilots who fought in World War II. The Group's organizations, supporting projects and presentations of 100th squadron flew the P-51 Mustang painted with red student groups along with sensitizing the university and tails. Dr. Brown famously downed one of the German the black community at large on issues of general interest Messerschmitt Me-262 jets. He flew sixty-eight combat andconcern, including housing trends and education. missions by the war's end. He was awarded the Conferences during Davis' time as the director included Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Eight Oak the “Black Male Conference” (1982), “Black Theatre Leaf Clusters, and the Presidential Unit Citation. In 2007, Conference” (1982), and the “Future Impact of Minority Dr. Brown was among the 200 last surviving Tuskegee Politics in NYC” (1986). Airmen collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award, by former President George W. Bush at the U.S. Capitol rotunda.

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MANTHIA DIAWARAis black concerns. He serves on the advisory board of a writer, filmmaker, October, and is also on the editorial collective of Public cultural theorist, scholar, Culture. In 2003, Dr. Diawara releasedWe Won’t Budge: and art historian. Dr. An African Exile in the World, the title of which is a tribute Diawara holds the title of to Salif Keita’s anthemic protest song Nou Pas Bouger. University Professor at New York University, DEBORAH WILLISwas where he was the former named the director of the director of the Institute of IAAA in 2018. Dr. Willis, African American Affairs University Professor and Manthia Diawara, 1994 – 2018 from 1992 to 2018. Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Dr. Diawara was born in Bamako, Mali, and received his the Tisch School of the Arts, early education in France. He later received a PhD from assumed directorship of Indiana University in 1985. Prior to teaching at NYU, Dr. IAAA on September 1, 2018. Diawara taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the A noted photographer and University of California at Santa Barbara. Much of his historian of African American research has been in the field of black cultural studies, photography and culture, Dr. though his work has differed from the traditional approach Willis teaches courses in formulated in Britain in the early 1980s. Along with other Tisch and the College of Arts notable recent scholars, Dr. Diawara has sought to Deborah Willis, 2018 to present and Science on photography incorporate consideration of the material conditions of and imaging, iconicity, and African Americans to provide a broader context for the cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and study of African diasporic culture. An aspect of this gender. She is a recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. formulation has been the privileging of “Blackness” in all its MacArthur Fellowship and a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in possible forms rather than as relevant to a single, perhaps African and African American Art at Harvard University’s monolithic definition of black culture. Hutchins Center. She is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and an Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. Fellow. Concurrent to her Dr. Diawara has contributed significantly to the study of assuming this role, Dr. Willis also founded the Center for black film. In 1992, Indiana University Press published his Black Visual Culture, a space for scholarly and artistic African Cinema: Politics & Culture and in 1993, Routledge inquiry into the understanding and exploration of images published a volume he edited titled Black American focusing on black people globally, with critical evaluation Cinema. A filmmaker himself, Dr. Diawara has written and of images in multiple realms of culture, including how directed a number of films, including An Opera of the representations are constructed in various archives and World (2018), a documentary based on the African opera visual technologies. Her books includeBlack Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal Photographers, 1840–1940: An Illustrated Bio- migration drama. Bibliography(1985) , The Black Female Body: A Photographic History (with Carla Williams) (2002), and His 1998 book In Search of Africa is an account of his Posing Beauty: African American Images From the 1890s return to his childhood home of Guinea and was published to the Present (2009), among many others. by Harvard University Press. Dr. Diawara is a founding editor ofBlack Renaissance Noire, a journal of arts, culture, and politics dedicated to work that engages contemporary

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Thursday, October 17, 2019, 6pm

Helen & Martin Kimmel Center For University Life New York University 60 Washington Square, South Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor New York, New York 10012

Black Portraitures V / IAAA 50th Anniversary Welcome

Dr. Cheryl Finley introducesAnna Maria Horsford, Host

Welcome: Dean Allyson Green, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dr. Lisa Coleman andFirst Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence “One Shot” dance performance

IAAA remarks fromEarl S. Davis, MSW, Dr. Manthia Diawara,andDr. Deborah Willis

Black Feminist Histories:Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin in conversation withDr. Angela Davis andDr. Gina Dent

Jazz vocalistCandice Hoyes accompanied by pianistJonathan Thomas

Performance byJoyce Jones

followed by party withDJ April Hunt in E&L, 4th Floor

Good night and thank you!

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Awam Amkpa Isolde Brielmaier Michael D. Dinwiddie Howard Dodson Melvin Edwards Cheryl Finley Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Paula Giddings Danny Glover Farah Jasmine Griffin Rujeko Hockley Kellie Jones Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Mia Mask Louis Massiah Jennifer L. Morgan Pamela Newkirk Eric Robertson Clyde Taylor Susan L. Taylor Hank Willis Thomas Ellyn M. Toscano Michele Wallace Carrie Mae Weems Kevin Young

9 Earl S. Davis &BROWNSTONE …37Years Ago:

What would you consider your legacy at IAAA? What pathways were you able to forge at IAAA? I don’t think about things like that. I just did the best that I Hopefully, individually and collectively, we strove to could via the IAAA to benefit the university and the black inform, sensitize, and energize the university and the black community through our expansive and all-inclusive community about salient issues that impact people of programming and presentations—always focusing on the color, e.g. “Health Issues in the Black Community,” 1986; African Diasporic scope and content of the black “Caribbean Empowerment,” 1987; “Celebrating African experience and culture, wherever it existed. Literature,” 1987; “Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage,” 1989; “Castro, Blacks and Africa,” 1990; and “Race, Can you talk about the things you wish you had Gender and Representation,” 1991. We also offered accomplished as director? guidance and support to many student organizations of Aside from expanding the minority-focused library we color—to approach and enter heretofore were developing for students and staff, we attempted “unapproachable” careers, professions, and pathways. In to establish a student-requested exchange program all, over 150 programs and projects were presented. with HBCU and African universities, which never reached fruition.

10 Looking back, what would you say was IAAA’s Images from the article, “Earl Davis: Institute of Afro-American Affairs” biggest accomplishment? (November 1982).Brownstone was a student-run journal founded in 1982. Mr. Brown was interviewed by Michael D. Dinwiddie who is I’m happy to say that aside from offering meaningful currently an associate professor in the The Gallatin School of programs dealing with the black diaspora, we held NYU to Individualized Study. its motto: “A Private University in the Public Service” and connected NYU to the Black Community—and vice versa.

Earl S. Davis andBrownstone 37 Years Later: Interview with Steven G. Fullwood, September 2019.

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RONALD K. BROWN LISA M. COLEMAN is New (Founder/Artistic Director) York University’s (NYU) founded Evidence, A Dance inaugural Senior VP for Company in 1985. He has Global Inclusion and worked with Mary Anthony Strategic Innovation. Dance Theater, Jennifer Reporting to the President, Muller/The Works, and other Dr. Coleman works with choreographers and artists. Senior Leaders, internal Brown has set works on Alvin stakeholders, external Ailey American Dance partners, and constituents to advance, promote, and build Theater, Ailey II, Cleo Parker capacity for strategic global inclusion, diversity, equity, Robinson Ensemble, Dayton belonging, and innovation initiatives across NYU globally, Contemporary Dance which includes New York, Shanghai, Abu Dhabi, and Company, Jennifer Muller/The NYU’s other thirteen sites and numerous global centers. Works, Jeune Ballet d’Afrique Prior to NYU, Dr. Coleman served as the first Chief Noire, Ko-Thi Dance Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the President at Company, Philadanco, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, Harvard University, 2010 to 2017, and during her tenure, Ballet Hispanico, TU Dance and MalPaso. she and her team developed some of the first initiatives focused on the intersections of technology and disability. He won an AUDELCO Award for his choreography in Regina Taylor’s award-winning play Crowns, two Black Dr. Coleman’s scholarly work was sparked by early Theater Alliance Awards, and a Fred & Adele Astaire professional and research work with the Association of Award for Outstanding Choreography in the Tony Award American Medical Colleges and Merrill Lynch Inc., in winning Broadway and national touring production of addition to working as an independent computer The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess, adapted by Suzan-Lori consultant with various for-profit organizations. Dr. Parks, arrangement by Diedre Murray, and directed by Coleman has spent over 20 years working with numerous Diane Paulus. colleges and universities, as well as for-profit and non- profit organizations on leadership, global inclusion and Brown was named Def Dance Jam Workshop 2000 diversity, innovation, and technology. Prior to NYU and Mentor of the Year and has received the Doris Duke Artist Harvard, she directed the Africana program at Tufts Award, NYC City Center Fellowship, Scripps/ADF Award, University, and was later appointed to serve as that John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, National institution’s first senior inclusion executive reporting to Endowment for the Arts Choreographers Fellowship, the President. New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, a New York Dance and She continues to advise and consult with C-Suite leaders Performance “Bessie” Award, and The Ailey Apex Award. globally. She sits on various national and international Brown is a member of the Stage Directors and boards and her current work focuses on the inter- and Choreographers Society. transdisciplinary intersections of innovation and inclusion within and across cultures globally. Dr. Coleman is the recipient of numerous awards, recognitions, and honors for excellence in teaching and leadership, and for her work on diversity, inclusion, belonging, equity, and innovation globally.

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Dr. Coleman earned her doctorate in Social and Cultural Frederick Douglass, and a collection of essays entitledThe Analysis, American Studies from NYU and three master’s Meaning of Freedom. Her most recent book of essays, degrees from Ohio State University in African American Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and and African Studies; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality the Foundations of a Movement was published in Studies; and Communication Studies. Her undergraduate February 2016. foci included sociology/anthropology and computer science. Dr. Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a Through her activism national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the and scholarship over prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated many decades,ANGELA with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in DAVIS has been deeply Queensland, Australia, that works in solidarity with involved in movements women in prison. for social justice around the world. Dr. Davis’s Like many educators, Professor Davis is especially work as an educator— concerned with the general tendency to devote more both at the university resources and attention to the prison system than to level and in the larger public sphere—has always educational institutions. Having helped to popularize the emphasized the importance of building communities of notion of a “prison industrial complex,” she now urges her struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. Professor audiences to think seriously about the future possibility of Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco a world without prisons and to help forge a 21st century State University, Mills College, and UC Berkeley. She also abolitionist movement. has taught at UCLA, Vassar, Syracuse University, the Claremont Colleges, and Stanford University. Most GINADENT is Associate recently she spent fifteen years at the University of Professor of Feminist Studies, California, Santa Cruz, where she is now Distinguished History of Consciousness, and Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness—an Legal Studies at University of interdisciplinary PhD program—and of Feminist Studies. California, Santa Cruz, where she recently received the 2018- Dr. Davis is the author of ten books and has lectured 19 Dizikes Faculty Teaching throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Award in the Humanities. Dr. Asia, Australia, and South America. In recent years a Dent previously held positions persistent theme of her work has been the range of social at Princeton University and problems associated with incarceration and the Columbia University and was generalized criminalization of those communities that are Director of the Institute for most affected by poverty and racial discrimination. She Advanced Feminist Research at draws upon her own experiences in the early seventies as UCSC, as well as Principal Investigator for the UC a person who spent eighteen months in jail and on trial, Multicampus Research Group on Transnationalizing after being placed on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” List. Justice. She is the editor ofBlack Popular Culture ([1993] She also has conducted extensive research on numerous New York: The New Press, 1998) and author of articles issues related to race, gender, and imprisonment. Her on race, feminism, popular culture, and visual art. Her recent books includeAbolition Democracy andAre forthcoming book,Anchored to the Real: Black Literature Prisons Obsolete? about the abolition of the prison in the Wake of Anthropology (Duke University Press), is a industrial complex, a new edition ofNarrative of the Life of study of the consequences—both disabling and

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productive—of social science’s role in translating black HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. writers into American literature. Her current project is the Alphonse Fletcher grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights University Professor and and prison abolition—Prison as a Border and Other Director of the Hutchins Essays, on popular culture and the conditions of Center for African & African knowledge. She has offered courses in critical race American Research at studies, critical theory and postcolonialism, and black Harvard University. Emmy feminisms in Brazil (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Award-winning filmmaker, Salvador and Universidade Federal Recôcavo da Bahia, literary scholar, journalist, Cachoeira), Colombia (Universidad Nacional de cultural critic, and institution Colombia), and Sweden (Linköping University), as well as builder, Professor Gates has at the European Graduate School, and lectures widely on authored or co-authored these and other subjects. twenty-four books and created twenty-one CHERYL FINLEY is the documentary films, including Inaugural Director of the Atlanta Wonders of the African University Center Collective for World, African American the Study of Art History and Lives, Faces of America, Black in Latin America, Black Curatorial Studies and an America since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa’s Great Associate Professor of Art Civilizations,and Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking History. She holds a PhD in genealogy series now in its sixth season on PBS. His six- African American Studies and part PBS documentary series,The African Americans: History of Art from Yale Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive University. With nearly twenty produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for years of award-winning Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form, as well as research on historic and contemporary images of the the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University transatlantic slave trade, her seminal study,Committed to Award, and NAACP Image Award. Professor Gates’s Memory: the Art of the Slave Ship Icon, is now available latest project is the history series,Reconstruction: America from Princeton University. This monograph is the first in- after the Civil War(PBS, 2019), and the related books, depth study of the most famous image associated with Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim the memory of slavery, a schematic engraving of a packed Crow, with Tonya Bolden (Scholastic, 2019), andStony slave ship hold, and the art, architecture, poetry, and film it the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise has inspired since its creation in Britain in 1788. Another of Jim Crow(Penguin Random House, 2019). of Dr. Finley’s works,My Soul Has Grown Deep: Black Art from the American South (Yale University Press, 2018), Having written for such leading publications as The New accompanied the exhibitionHistory Refused to Die: Yorker, The New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation at the serves as chairman of TheRoot.com, a daily online Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. magazine he co-founded in 2008, and chair of the Creative Board of FUSION TV. He oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field, and has received grant funding to develop a Finding Your Roots curriculum to teach students science through genetics and genealogy. In 2012,

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The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of his DEAN ALLYSON GREEN isa writings edited by Abby Wolf, was published. choreographer, visual artist, curator, and arts educator. The recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous Integrating artistic creative prizes, Professor Gates was a member of the first class development and education, awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in advocacy for the arts, and 1981, and in 1998, he became the first African American service to the local and scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He international community have was named toTime’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in been the mission of her 1997, toEbony’s Power 150 list in 2009, and toEbony’s multifaceted career. Her Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012. He earned his B.A. in creative research has been English Language and Literature,summa cum laude,from particularly influenced by two Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English decades of residencies in East Literature from Clare College at the University of and Central Europe, South Cambridge in 1979. In 2018, he was one of 15 alumni of America, and Mexico; African descent honored in the exhibition,Black Cantabs: community projects for arts engagement; and ongoing History Makers,at the Cambridge University Library. site-specific collaborations with visual artist Peter Professor Gates has directed the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute Terezakis that explore the intersection of art and for African and African American Research—now the technology and environmental issues. Dean Green is a full Hutchins Center—since arriving at Harvard in 1991, and professor in the Tisch School of the Arts Department of during his first fifteen years on campus, he chaired the Art and Public Policy, with an affiliation in the Department Department of Afro-American Studies as it expanded into of Dance, and will continue to teach in both areas. From the Department of African and African American Studies 2012 to 2014, she was the Associate Dean of the Tisch with a full-fledged doctoral program. He is a member of School of the Arts Institute of Performing Arts. Previously, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on Dean Green served as the Chair of the Department of a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Diego, in partnership with the La Jolla Playhouse. Institute, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and the Brookings Additionally, she served as the Artistic Director of Sushi Institution. In 2017, the Organization of American States Performance and Visual Art, a contemporary named Gates a Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of interdisciplinary arts center in San Diego from 2003 to People of African Descent in the Americas. His portait, by 2005. Based in NYC from 1986 to 2001, Dean Green Yuqi Wang, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in established a distinguished career as a performer, Washington, D.C.. choreographer, and graphic designer. As a choreographer, she has created over 100 dance theatre works that have been presented in 18 countries and throughout the United States since 1993. Her company, Allyson Green Dance, has been supported by the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. In addition to her work in the performing arts,

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Dean Green maintained a visual arts career as a painter talent. An Emmy-Nominated actress and member of the and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous Director’s Guild of America, Horsford is best known for arts organizations and PBS television. Dean Green also her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcomAmen ,Dee has extensive training in music, and creates original sound Baxter on the WB sitcomThe Wayans Bros., and as scores, set, costume, and projection designs for her dance Vivienne Avant in the CBS soap operaThe Bold and the theater works. Beautiful. Prior to coming to Hollywood, Horsford had a solid list of accomplishments in on and off Broadway FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN is performances, includingFor Colored Girls Who Have inaugural Chair of the African Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Various American and African Diaspora guest spots include some of TV’s highest-rated programs, Department at Columbia such asGrey’s Anatomy, Entourage, Cold Case, University. Dr. Griffin is also the Everybody Hates Chris, and others. Movies include roles in William B. Ransford Professor theFriday series with Chris Tucker,Tyler Perry’s A Madea of English and Comparative Christmas, Our Family Wedding, Gridiron Gang, Minority Literature and African Report, Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Set It Off, St. American Studies. Elmo’s Fireand others. Horsford has taught drama therapy at the College of New Rochelle, NY. She In addition to editing several conducted an acting workshop for the City Volunteer Corp collections of letters and essays, in Upstate New York. In addition, Horsford assisted her she is the author ofWho Set mentor, Ellis Haizlip, at a creative writing workshop at You Flowin’: The African Rikers Island through Hospital Audiences, Inc. and also American Migration Narrative, If You Can’t Be Free, Be a hosted stand-up comedy festivals at several New Jersey Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday, andClawing at the prisons. Horsford has been honored for many awards, Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever. She is also the editor of Department of Black Studies at the University of Nebraska Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Addie at Omaha and the Salute to Women in Leadership 2015 Brown and Rebecca Primus,andHarlem Nocturne: Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Urban Women Artists and Progressive Politics in New York League of Metropolitan St. Louis. During World War II. Soulful, lyrical, and Dr. Griffin received her B.A. from Harvard and PhD from classically trained, Yale. Professor Griffin’s major fields of interest are CANDICE HOYES isa American and African American literature, music, history, storyteller who dares to and politics. draw from sources rarely combined. Following her ANNA MARIA critically-acclaimed 2015 HORSFORD has album debut,Ona provided an infinite Turquoise Cloud, Hoyes has amount to society performed worldwide, and her community including appearances in through her service, Paris, Bucharest, New York, her diverse Los Angeles, and more. In early 2018, she curated a capabilities, and her Minnie Riperton show at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater

16 Biographies and "Lena Horne at 100" at Harlem Stage. Her music was DJ APRIL HUNT featured at New York Fashion Week and in the BET/TV5 Presenting a musical palette Monde film USA,La Recette Caribéenne du Success. that weaves through various Hoyes is currently writing and recording her second genres and periods from the album, which is set for a 2019 release. She is an endorsed 1970s to now, Hunt mixes for artist by Earthworks High Definition Microphones. Hoyes cultural happenings at large. began formal vocal study as an undergraduate at Harvard Hunt is not only a DJ who has University, soon gracing the international stages of played at art parties organized Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as an award-winning by artists Derrick Adams, classical soloist. In 2015, she toured and recorded with Rashaad Newsome, Mickalene the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra under artistic director Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, the Wynton Marsalis, before releasing her debut. Hoyes has Public Art Fund, and the High performed with Marsalis, Ray Angry of The Roots, Philip Line, but she also is the founder Glass, Deepak Chopra, and Wycliffe Gordon. In 2017, and CEO of sparkplugPR, a communications agency with Hoyes delivered a TED Talk performance and created and an emphasis on amplifying inclusive projects and led a new performance lecture series for Jazz at Lincoln underrepresented voices within the art world. Center and City University of New York. Recent sets include: Aspen Art Museum Anniversary As a public speaker and educator, Hoyes has written for (Aspen, CO); Tumblr afterparty for Derrick Adams (NY, such publications as the Los Angeles Review of Books, NY); Cartier Mansion reception for Swizz Beatz + Alicia Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, and Blavity.Asa Keys (NY,NY); Trevor LIVE Gala at Cipriani’s (NY, NY); public speaker, Hoyes is honored to have delivered a 2017 Armory Show Party at the Museum of Modern Art, (NY, TED Salon Talk, which included a live performance, and NY); Rashaad Newsome at Henrik Springmann (Berlin, has spoken on international platforms, including Music Germany); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (São Paulo, @Google, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Brazil); Uptown Triennial (NY, NY); Storm King Gala at Culture, Dropbox Artist Spotlight (for which she was the the Rainbow Room (NY, NY); Derrick Adams: Future first), LinkedIn Artist Spotlight, Left of Black, Lawyers People Opening (Chicago, IL); Studio Museum’s Uptown Committee for Civil Rights in Law, The Wing, and the Fridays (NY, NY). Harvard Alumni Association. She created and leads a series for Jazz at Lincoln Center for the City University of JOYCE JONES is the creator, New York, and has taught across the United States, host, and executive including such institutions as UC Berkeley, Duke University, producer ofSuga in My and the United Nations School, as well as numerous Bowl on WBAI Radio. Jones museums, cultural centers, and public schools for all ages. has also created and She is the first music curator at The Abbey in Princeton, produced several radio New Jersey, which launched her first series in spring 2018. documentary specials. She Hoyes is an honors graduate of Harvard University. is also a graphic designer, percussionist, and photographer who has had her pictures published in Black Renaissance Noir.

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As First Lady of New York With his musical roots firmly City,CHIRLANE MCCRAY planted in his gospel has redefined the role of First upbringing, jazz pianist Lady, managing a robust JONATHAN THOMAS portfolio to advance an brings a soulful and ambitious agenda in support meaningful intent to every of all New Yorkers. note he plays. Thomas earned a BFA on a full Nationally recognized as a scholarship at The New powerful champion for mental School for Jazz and health reform and dubbed one Contemporary Music in of TIME Magazine's 50 Most 2015 and began his study at Influential People in Health The Juilliard School in 2017 Care for 2018, Ms. McCray for a Masters in Music. He created ThriveNYC, the most has been a student to comprehensive mental health pianists Aaron Goldberg, Dan Nimmer, Aaron Parks, and plan of any city or state in the nation. She also spearheads Taylor Eigsti. In 2012 he was awarded The ASCAP the Cities Thrive Coalition, with more than 200 mayors, Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award. county officials and thought leaders from all 50 states, Deemed stunningly good by theNew York Times, Thomas advocating for a more integrated and better-funded has played in jazz festivals around the world, opened for behavioral health system. Benny Golson, and performed with Charles Toliver, Bruce Williams, Richie Goods, Jazzmeia Horn, and the Cleveland A lifelong activist and writer, First Lady McCray continues Jazz Orchestra, among many others. He can be found at to fight for gender equity and LGBTQ rights, support his bi-weekly residency at Smalls Jazz Club which he has survivors of gender-based violence and create a more hosted since 2015. inclusive NYC. She brings her deeply-held commitment to the mental health and well-being of people and communities to everything she does.

18 Artists and Scholars-in-Residence

Walter Mosley Derek Walcott ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 1996) SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 2003)

Anna Deavere Smith Hugh Masekela ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 1996) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (2005)

Amiri Baraka William Greaves ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (1997-1998) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2007

Danny Glover John Akomfrah ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 1998) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2011)

Wole Soyinka Meklit Hadero DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 1999) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2011)

David Levering Lewis Linton Kwesi Johnson DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (2000) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 2014)

Jayne Cortez Angela Davis ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2000) SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2014)

Salif Keita Wole Soyinka ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (2000) SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 2016)

August Wilson Cheikh Lô ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2001) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2016)

Habib Koité Orlando Patterson ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 2001) SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE (SPRING 2017)

The Mitchell & Ruff Duo Rokia Traoré ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (2002) ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (FALL 2018)

Randy Weston ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE (2003)

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Top row from left: Walter Mosley; Anna Deavere Smith; Amiri Baraka; Danny Glover; Wole Soyinka; David Levering Lewis; Jayne Cortez; Salif Keita; Second row from left: August Wilson; Habib Koité; The Mitchell & Ruff Duo; Randy Weston; Derek Walcott; Hugh Masekela; William Greaves; John Akomfrah; Bottom row from left: Meklit Hadero; Linton Kwesi Johnson; Angela Davis; Wole Soyinka; Cheikh Lô, Orlando Patterson; Rokia Traoré. IAAA History, 1969–2019: A Brief Look

2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the IAAA. Since its directorship of the Institute. In 1979, Professor Earl S. establishment in 1969, the Institute’s mission has been to Davis, a graduate of NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, research, document, and celebrate the cultural and was named director. During his first year, he presided intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the over the Institute’s tenth-year anniversary celebration, Atlantic world and beyond, with a commitment to the and commemorated the occasion with the creation of a study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in special monograph series. Under his leadership, the Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. Institute continued its Community Lecture series, co- sponsored conferences, supported events organized by In 1969, the New York University Senate created the faculty and students, assisted and supported black Institute of Afro-American Affairs to coordinate the student organizations, and provided a focal point for the university-wide academic and service activities focusing activities of the Association of Black Faculty and on cultural programs for NYU’s black students, faculty, Administrators while supporting seminars and events for staff, and larger New York community. Dr. Roscoe C. community organizations. Brown, a NYU PhD professor in the School of Education for twenty years and a World War II former pilot with the In 1993, Dr. Manthia Diawara, who had been hired the famed Tuskegee Airmen, became the founding director of previous year as director of the African Studies Program, the Institute. Under his directorship, the Institute took a became acting director of the Institute. After Mr. Davis leadership role in the design and coordination of a core of resigned in January 1994, Dr. Diawara assumed the title undergraduate interdisciplinary offerings in African of Director of the Institute in September 1994. A graduate American studies, and established outreach and support of the University of Indiana, and renowned specialist of services for Black Studies. It inauguratedBlack Creation African and Black American cinema, Dr. Diawara was magazine and the Black Scholars Lecture series, hired from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was conducted numerous forums and conferences exploring Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Black scholarly topics, and organized one of the first national Literature and Culture. Under his leadership, the Institute conferences of Black Studies in the United States. Dr. organized and co-sponsored several major scholarly Brown also hostedSoul of Reason (SoR), a half-hour radio conferences: “The Black Public Sphere” (1993), “Black show that aired from 1971 to 1986 as a collaboration Cinema” (with the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch between the commercial radio station WNBC and New School of the Arts, 1994), and the “Tenth Triennial York University's station WNYU. Symposium on African Art” (co-sponsored with the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, 1995). In The Institute also founded the first statewide 1993, the Institute created its high profile lecture series organization of scholars in the field (The New York State “Black Thought in Progress,” which had featured among Black Studies Conference) and played a pivotal role in the others, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Angela Davis, Manning creation of the NYU Association of Black Faculty and Marable, Ali Mazrui, and Terry McMillan. Administrators. In 1970, Dr. Brown and Dr. Lionel Barrow, Dean of Howard University School of In January 1995, Dr. François Manchuelle, a historian Communications, created the Association for Education in specializing in the history of French-speaking Africa, was Journalism Summer Internship Program for Minorities. hired from Bowdoin College to become Associate Director of both the Africana Studies Program and Institute of During the two years following Dr. Brown’s resignation in Afro-American Affairs, and soon after was changed to the 1977 to become the President of Bronx Community Institute of African American Affairs. College of CUNY, Dr. Edward Carroll, professor of Mathematics Education at NYU, assumed the acting

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In 1995 to 1996, the Institute and the Africana Studies directorship of IAAA on September 1, 2018. Dr. Willis Program hosted or co-sponsored several conferences: also founded the Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC), a “Contemporary Africana Diaspora Cinema” (December space for scholarly and artistic inquiry into the 1995; in collaboration with ArtMartin Productions), the understanding and exploration of images focusing on National Black Writers’ Conference (March 1996), and the black people globally, with critical evaluation of images in New York African Studies Association (April 1996). The multiple realms of culture, including how representations Institute launched an artist-in-residence program (Spring are constructed in various archives and visual 1996) and collaborated with the Africana Studies Program technologies. In her inaugural year as director of the IAAA in the production of a new Pan-African journal, Black and CBVC, Dr. Willis oversaw a suite of programs, film Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, now in its 23rd year. screenings, book launches, conversations, exhibitions, lectures, and performances under the theme, “Activism: Over the next quarter of a century, Dr. Diawara oversaw The Artist/Scholar & Social Practice.” several important series, programs, and events such as the Artists in Society, Black Genius series, Black Filmmakers, artists, athletes, authors, curators, musicians, Renaissance Film Society, France in Africa/Africa in photographers, professionals, scholars, and songwriters France, and Pass the Torch. Featured scholars, artists, featured included phillip agnew, Mary Schmidt Campbell, musicians, and writers included Amiri Baraka, Farai Myriam J. A. Chancy, Sandrine Colard, Brittney Cooper, Chideya, Jayne Cortez, Stanley Crouch, Thulani Davis, Renee Cox, Angela Davis, Melvin Edwards, Cheryl Finley, Sylviane Diouf, Katherine Dunham, Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Nicole Fleetwood, Ifeona Fulani, Amandine Gay, Paula Danny Glover, William Greaves, Stuart Hall, Phillip Brian Giddings, Doug Glanville, Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Elliott J. Harper, bell hooks, Ted Joans, Salif Keita, Robin D. G. Gorn, Louise Greaves, Melissa Haizlip, Anna Maria Kelley, Spike Lee, David Levering Lewis, Julius Lester, Haki Horsford, Richard Hunt, Kellie Jones, Nikole Hannah Jones, Madhubuti, Julianne Malveaux, Walter Mosley, Ishmael Sylvie Kandé, Melvina Lathan, Felipe Luciano, Shola Lynch, Reed, Melvin Van Peebles, Sapphire, Jeffrey Sammons, Blair McClendon, Pellom McDaniels III, Louis Massiah, Anna Deavere Smith, Wole Soyinka, and Randy Weston, Maaza Mengiste, Kevin Merida, Aja Monet, Jason Moran, among others. Major conferences convened or co- Jennifer L. Morgan, Joan Morgan, Zanele Muholi, Pamela sponsored by the Institute included “Yari Yari: Black Newkirk, Clovis Nicolas, Ben Okri, Vanessa Pérez Rosario, Women Writers and the Future: An International Samora Pinderhughes, Samuel D. Pollard, Millery Polyné, Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent Somi, Rokia Traoré, Michael E. Veal, Gayle Wald, (1997, 2004, and 2013),” co-sponsored with Jayne Cortez Clemantine Wamariya, and Mark Whitfield, Jr. and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa On September 19, 2018, IAAA and CBVC honored Dr. (OWWA) and UNESCO, and “Slave Routes: The Long Diawara for his years of dedicated service and vision for Memory Conference” (1999), an international symposium the IAAA and screened his latest film,An Opera for the focusing on the transatlantic slave trade. Co-sponsors of World, based on the African operaBintou Were, a Sahel the Slave Routes event included NYU’s Africana Studies Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. Program, UNESCO, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, OWWA, and The Anacostia Museum and This year, IAAA and CBVC’s theme,Archives: Memory Center for African-American History and Culture— Work, focuses on how the archive—in its many Smithsonian Institution. IAAA also co-sponsored the first iterations—impacts the work we do as an institute for the Black Portraiture[s] conference in 2013 in Paris. celebration and dissemination of ideas created by and about people of African descent. Join us as we re-examine In May 2018, Dr. Deborah Willis was named the director the archive by collaborating with scholars, writers, of the Institute of African American Affairs and assumed filmmakers, artists, photographers, activists, and the

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general public in ongoing conversations and wide-ranging presentations about how archives and memory impact and liberate us all.

As the Institute of African American Affairs celebrates its 50th anniversary, we are excited to report that our archival records are being preserved by the University Archives division at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University. In this moment, we are grateful that future generations will access and understand IAAA’s origins—our aims, our goals, and the hundreds of scholars, writers, artists, and intellectuals who unveiled, read and screened work that engaged and delighted thousands of students and the public for half a century. We also lament the histories that were lost when black institutions of the past did not or could not archive their work. We extend our platform to inspire and welcome all who endeavor to preserve their personal and professional histories.

24 James McNaughton Hester, President (1962 to 1975)

John C. Sawhill, President (1975 to 1980)

Ivan Loveridge Bennett, (acting) President (1980 to 1981)

Black Scholars Lecture Series: “Criminal Justice System” by Thomas S. Jacobs;Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman The Institute of Afro-American by Michele Wallace. Affairs is founded by 1981 Dr. Roscoe C. Brown. 1969 Earl S. Davis is named new director of IAAA. Black Scholars Lecture Series: Amiri Baraka, Judge W. 1979 Booth, Ode Coombs, Chester Higgins, Jr., Melba Tolliver. 1976 Broadcast.Soul of Reason, produced by WNBC and WNYU. Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, host.

1971–1986 1982

1978 1972 Black Scholars Lecture Series: Lennox Hinds, Community Lecture Series: Book reception, My House Benjamin Hooks, Dr. Inez 1970 by Nikki Giovanni. Earl Graves, Randall Robinson, Smith Reid, Ntozake Rev. Daughtry, Dr. Yosef Ben- Shange, and John A. Jochannan, Hon. Robert Davis, Williams. Alice Childress, Paula Giddings, Dr. Delores Cross, Tom Saunders, Dr. Carlos Moore, Judge Bruce Wright, and Paule Marshall.

Published. Black Creation, a review of black arts and letters, 25 is produced by IAAA. John Brademas, President (1981 to 1991) Screening:Passin’ It Lecture.Black Indians: A On, a documentary Hidden Heritage by Prof. film featuring Dhoruba William Loren Katz. Bin Wahad and the Black Panther Party.

Black Thought in Progress Series. Featured speakers: Patricia Hill Collins, Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., March 29, 1989 Paul Gilroy, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Stuart Hall, and December 5, 1992 George Lipsitz. Welcome Reception. Dr. Manthia Diawara, director of Africana Studies. Discussion. Miles: A Biography of Miles September 28, 1992 Davis by Quincy Troupe. February 21, 1990

1995–1999

1988 Malumbo Ntshilontshilo, speaking engagement, "Stop the Executions of the South African Youth Tour," cosponsored by the Young Socialist Alliance Student Organization at NYU.

November 6, 1992

February 8, 1990

March 26, 1991 Lecture. "Race, Gender and Representation" by bell hooks.

Celebration Concert. “The Herencia Latina,” featuring Willie Colon and His Legal Alien Band. Reading.Blacks in Science by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima. L. Jay Oliva, President (1991 to 2002) David W. McLaughlin, Provost (2002 to 2016)

Reading and reception.Invisible Screenings. The Films of Woman: Growing Souleymane Cissé: Conference. “Slave Routes: Up Black in Yeelen, November 9; The Long Memory.” Germany by Ika Finyé (The Wind), Hügel-Marshall. Inaugural launch. Black November 10; and Reading. Tales Renaissance/Renaissance Noir. Baara (The Work). From the Heart: Screenings. Black Fall 1996 True Stories From Renaissance Film My Childhood by Society: I Like It Like Maryse Condé. That, Chief!, The Draughtsmen Clash, A Luta Continua, O Povo Organizado,and October 5–9, 1999 Welcome to the Terrordome.

March 15, 2002 November 9-11, 2001

Fall 1997 May 30, 2002

2000

Inaugural conference. “Yari Yari: Black April 12, 2002 Women Writers and October 6–November 27, 2000 April 28, 2000 the Future.” February 1–March 1, 2002 Screening and conversation. Ralph Ellison: An American October 18, 1996 Journey directed by Avon Kirkland. With Horace A. Porter Screenings. Black and Stanley Crouch. Renaissance Film Society Presents: Traveling Miles, Ganja and Hess, Losing Reading.Soldier: A Ground, Bamboozled Poet’s Childhood by Opening Reception and (panel), Nightjohn and June Jordan. Book Signing. The Black Classified X. Female Body: A Photographic History. Black Genius series: With authors Carla Spike Lee. Co-sponsored Williams and Deborah with the Africana Studies Willis. Program. Panel. “A Celebration of Professor Screening and discussion. The Clyde Taylor.” Eleanor Traylor, Murder of Emmett Till directed keynote. Featuring John by Stanley Nelson. With Mrs. “An Evening with Akomfrah, Pearl Bowser, Jayne Mamie Till Mobley. Quincy Troupe." Cortez, Terri Francis, Jane Gaines, November 16, 2003 Herman Gray, Ed Guerrero, Arthur Jafa, Jacquie Jones, Tommy Film Festival. “Haïti on Screen: Lott, Walter Mosley, Charles Commemorating the Haitian Reading and reception. Musser, Robert O’Meally, Ishmael Revolution and the Bicentennial Golokwati 2000 by Reed, Kalamu ya Salaam, Greg of Haïti ’s Independence.” Kamau Brathwaite. Tate, Deborah Willis, and others. February 9, 2007 September 19, 2008 Screening and panel discussion.“Shades of Difference: Reading. “Celebrating Coloring Ethnicities.” A Question Gloria Naylor.” With of Color, directed by Kathe Meena Alexander, Sandler. Panelists include Kathe Louise Meriwether, Sandler, Tanya Hernandez, and Rashidah Ismaili and Darrick Hamilton. Clyde Taylor. April 11, 2006

December 11, 2002 March 31 - Reading and April 4, 2004 discussion. Fanon by John Edgar Wideman. With Édouard Glissant. December 16, 2005 April 29, 2008

February 25, 2010

November 5, 7, 8, and 13; December 4–6, 2003 January 31, 2008 October 8, 2003 Reading and panel discussion. September 20, 2008 Savoring the Salt: The Legacy of Toni Cade Bambara edited by Linda Janet Holmes and Reading.Yellow Black: Cheryl A. Wall. The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life by Haki Madhubuti.

Memorial. IAAA Celebrates the Life and Screening and discussion. Work of Ted Joans. L.A. Rebellion, Black Aesthetic and Beyond and Writer Series. Haiti Bicentennial Clyde and Cultural Critique. Project: 2003-2004. Fall Writers With Walter Mosley. Series: Exodux and Genesis: Haitian Writers in North America. John Sexton, President (2003 to 2015) David W. McLaughlin, Provost (2002 to 2016) Exhibition. “Nomads with No Cause – Refugees with No Tomorrow.” (Darfur, Screening and Conference. “A Is for South Sudan). Photographs conversation. Anansi, Literature for by Deborah Terry. Indochina, Traces Children of African of a Mother by Descent.” director Idrissou Mora-Kpai.

February 23 – March 23, 2011 Screening ofMen of Bronze: The Black 2013 Black Portraiture[s] I (Paris) American Heroes of World War Idirected by William Miles. A roundtable discussion October 8, 2010 featuring Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow, Jr. (University of Georgia) co- authors of Harlem’s Rattlers and the Great February 27, 2014 War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality.

November 9-10, 2014

October 31, 2011 Inaugural lecture. “Critical Voices: Women Writing the World” by Angela Davis.

February 4, 2014

November 1, 2013

November 2, 2015 Screening. Neither Allah, Nor Master! October 27, 2010 directed by Nadia El Memorial. “An Evening with Poets Fani. Part of the Honoring the Lives of Jayne Cortez series, “Women Screening. Mère-Bi, La and Amiri Baraka.” With Sandra Filmmakers in the Mère (Mother). Esteves, Linton Kwesi Johnson, African Diasporic Directed by Ousmane Felipe Luciano, Haki Madhubuti, World” series. William Mbaye. Arthur Pfister, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Quincy Troupe, Ted Wilson Conversations. Édouard and Marvin X. Hosted by Rashidah Glissant: One World in Relation. Ismaili and Walter Mosley. Andrew D. Hamilton, President (2016 to present)

Katherine Elizabeth Fleming, Provost (September 1, 2016 to present) Reading and discussion. African Dominion: A Screening and discussion. Ayiti New History of Empire Panel discussion. “(JUST) Mon Amour directed by Guetty in Early and Medieval #SAYHERNAME. Race Felin. With Michelle Materre. West Africa by Michael And Gender In Social A. Gomez. Practice.”

Presentation. “Migration, Modernity and the Caribbean Imagination” December 13, 2017 by Caryl Phillips. With J. Michael Dash. February 29th, 2016 December 12, 2015 February 1, 2018

September 20, 2017

October 28, 2016

September 13, 2018 2016 Reading and discussion. Augustown by Kei Miller. In conversation with Tiphanie Yanique.

Black Portraiture[s] III (Johannesburg) 2015 Reading and reception. Black Renaissance Noire, Fall 2016 Issue, Volume 16, Issue 2. Book launch. Featuring Eva Freeman, Hakim Committed to Hasan, Deneka Peniston, Memory: The Art of Roddey Reid, Jack Whitten. the Slave Ship Icon by Cheryl Finley. In conversation with Black Portraiture[s] II (Florence) Jennifer L. Morgan. Performance. “Art, Community, Justice & Healing: An Evening with Aja Monet, phillip agnew and Samora Pinderhughes.”

2018 Black Portraiture[s] IV (Harvard) Screening and conversation. Speak Up Screening and panel discussion. (Ouvrir La Voix) directed Mr. Soul! directed by Samuel D. by Amandine Gay. With Pollard and Melissa Haizlip. With Sandrine Colard and April 23, 2019 Anna Maria Horsford, Felipe Sylvie Kandé. Luciano, Blair McClendon, and Gayle Wald. Screening and discussion. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. With Farah Jasmine Griffin and Avery Willis Hoffman. Black Portraiture[s] V (New York) 2019

February 26, 2019

December 13, 2018

September 14, 2019

February 6, 2019 April 1, 2019 September 27, 2018 September 19, 2019

Presentation and conversation. “War, Modernity and Aspirations: Exploring 20th Century Imperial Ethiopia through Witnesses’ Words and Images” by Yemane Demissie. With Manthia Diawara.

Lecture.Let the Reading and conversation. Looking People See: The Story for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Book launch. Zanele Muholi: of Emmett Till by Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Elliott J. Gorn, Perry. With Michael D. Dinwiddie. Dark Lioness by Zanele Muholi. IAAA ARCHIVE ABOUT IAAA AND CBVC

For more information about the IAAA: The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) and Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York Records of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs, 1965- University are both interdisciplinary spaces for students, 1991. faculty, post-doc fellows, artists, scholars, and the general RG.9.8. 35 linear feet (35 boxes). public. Founded in 1969, IAAA’s mission continues to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and New York University Archives intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library Atlantic world and beyond with a commitment to the 70 Washington Square South study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in 10th Floor Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies. The CBVC, New York, NY 10012 expanding on that mission, is a space for scholarly and (212) 998-2641 artistic inquiry (framing and reframing) into the [email protected] understanding and exploration of images focusing on Black people globally with critical evaluation of images in Abstract:The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) multiple realms of culture, including how various archives at New York University was founded in 1969 to research, and the development of visual technologies affect the document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual construction of representations. production of Africa and its diaspora. Today, IAAA remains committed to the study of Blacks in modernity The goals of IAAA and CBVC converge to promote and through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black encourage collaborative research projects, experimental Urban Studies. The Records of the Institute of African learning, and open spaces to the larger community for American Affairs date from 1965 to the early 1990s. broad and thematic discussions through various, diverse, Included is correspondence from the late 1980s and early and dynamic public programming and initiatives by way of 1990s from Earl S. Davis, one of IAAA's directors, as well conferences, lectures, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, as conference and event materials, and information about readings, performances, visiting scholars, artist the Association of Education in Journalism internships. residencies, and publications. The collection also contains 266 recordings dating from 1971 to 1986 ofThe Soul of Reason, a radio talk show For more information: that aired on commercial radio station WNBC and NYU's nyuiaaa.org/about-iaaa-and-cbvc station WNYU.

Note:The Soul of Reason recordings are located at the University Archives. The rest of the collection is located in offsite storage, and you must contact the repository for access. Link to the online finding aid: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/archives/iaaa/index.html

32 THANK YOU Current and Past IAAA & CBVC Staff On Behalf of IAAA and CBVC, we thank... Tamu Al-Islam, Zalika Azim, Wyletta Barbee, Carolyn M. Bell, Patricia Blanchet, Rich Blint, Rosemary Bray, Bentley We would like to extend our very special thanks to Brown, Irisha Brown, Marlon Burgess, Patricia M. Carey, Andrew D. Hamilton, President; Katherine E. Fleming, Iris Cofield, Clare Davies, Fred Ford, Laneeka French, Provost; Yanoula Athanassakis, Associate Vice Provost for Steven G. Fullwood, Cyd Fulton, John Fitzgerald Gates, Academic Affairs;Office of the Dean - Tisch School of the Mary Gibson-Taylor, Megan Goins-Diouf, Steven Gregory, Arts - New York University; the Office of the Provost - Lisa Gay Hamilton, Joan Harris, Robert Hinton, Debra New York University; the Office of the President, Global James, Adelbert H. Jenkins, Terrence Jennings, Sylvie Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation - New York Kandé, Robin D. G. Kelley, Erika Kennedy, Rosamond S. University; the Department of Photography & Imaging - King, Ramona Knepp, Spike Lee, Fatima Legrand, Barbara New York University; the NYU Africa House;Office of Lewis, Marcia L. McNair, Mkhululi Mabija, François University Development and Alumni Relations/Black Manchuelle, Rabeika Messina, Linda Morgan, Glenda Alumni Network;and Robert Holmes, Esq. Noel-Ney, Sobukwe Odinga, Ed Parada, Evelynne R. Patterson, Jaïra Placide, Laura Rice, Barbara Watson Riley, Tricia Rose, Jeffrey T. Sammons, Ted Sammons, Eve Sandler, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Clyde Taylor, Lizette Terry, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Quincy Troupe, Zenobia Tucker, Laura Waddick, Sidique Wai, Dorothy Williams, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Janet Bunde,Center for the Christopher Winks and to the many, many other staff, Study of Africa and the African Diaspora, Angela Davis, board members, professors, students, interns, volunteers, Gina Dent, Allyson Green, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Anna and supporters who have contributed to the success of Maria Horsford, Candice Hoyes, Joyce Jones, Chirlane IAAA since its inception, we thank you! McCray, Frances Pollitt Sarver, Ian Sarver, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Jonathan Thomas, April Hunt and Paola Zanzo of sparkplugPR

33 CREDITS Anna Deavere Smith: Kwaku Alston/HBO Designed, researched and written by Steven G. Fullwood. Wole Soyinka: courtesy of the author/IAAA Jonathan Thomas: Christopher Baliwas Film loop Rokia Traoré: Danny Willems Solomon Sir Jones Films. Yale Collection of Western Derek Walcott: courtesy of the author/IAAA Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Randy Weston: Carole Friedman “A Study of Negro Artists” (1935). 51 minutes (silent, no Deborah Willis: Alice Proujansky music). Sponsor/production Co.: Division of Visual August Wilson: photographer unknown Experiment, Harmon Foundation. Directors/Writers: Graphic Design by Frances Pollitt Sarver Evelyn S. Brown, Jules V.D. Bucher. Camera/Editor: Jules V.D. Bucher. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 1-inch video transfer of a 16 mm print held by the Library of Congress.

Image Credits John Akomfrah:Jaïra Placide/NYU-IAAA&CBVC Amiri Baraka: Amun Ankhra Ronald K. Brown:Julieta Cervantes Roscoe C. Brown: courtesy of Bronx Community College Jayne Cortez: courtesy of the author/IAAA Angela Davis: courtesy of the author/IAAA Earl S. Davis: New York University Manthia Diawara: Mansita Walu Diawara Gina Dent: courtesy of author Cheryl Finley: Gediyon Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: courtesy of author Danny Glover: courtesy of the author/IAAA William Greaves: courtesy of Louise Greaves Dean Allyson Green: New York University Farah Jasmine Griffin: Anu Prestonia Meklit Hadero: Rus Anson Anna Maria Horsford: courtesy of the author/IAAA Candice Hoyes: Stephanie Severance DJ April Hunt: Caroline Tompkins Linton Kwesi Johnson: Danny da Costa Joyce Jones: Wayne Moreland Salif Keita: Coumba Makalou Habib Koité: Michel De Bock David Levering Lewis: courtesy of the author/IAAA Cheikh Lô: courtesy of the author/IAAA Hugh Masekela: Gallo Images/ Bongiwe Gumede The Mitchell & Ruff Duo: Vincent Oneppo Walter Mosley: Marcia Wilson Orlando Patterson: Stu Rosner for Harvard Magazine

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