![]() ![]() Each Saturday in February at 3:30pm, people of all ages and experience levels are encouraged to join in-studio at the Joan Weill Center for Dance or online to learn the history of legendary Black dance artists such as Katherine Dunham and Alvin Ailey and dance techniques that originated in Black communities such as hip-hop, and Afro-Cuban: In the book, Hall travels from New York to Detroit to New Orleans using the former Green Book-the guide that helped Black people travel safely on the nation’s highways and roadways-as a guide, and collects the memories of the last living witnesses who struggled under segregation and for whom the Green Book meant survival.Ĭelebrate Black History Month with Ailey Extension with its month-long, four-workshop Black History Dance Series. Hall will discuss his Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, with Jelani Cobb. Co-directors Erika Alexander and Whitney Dow will lead the audience in a community discussion directly after the screening. The Center will be screening The Big Payback, a documentary that follows Alderman Robin Rue Simmons' fight to pass the first government-funded reparations program for Black Americans in Evanston, Illinois, alongside Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee as she leads a national movement. ![]() When Alice arrives in New Jessup, a thriving, self-sufficient Black community where people are skeptical of those lobbying for integration, she falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge the town’s longstanding status quo. Minnicks and Robert Jones Jr. will discuss her debut, Moonrise Over New Jessup, which won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Garth Greenwell will talk with him about the novel and its themes of shame, race, homophobia, money, and the reckoning required to heal a fractured community. ![]() Set in the same fictional town as his award-winning debut, West Mills, this propulsive mystery centers around a triple homicide and the secrets they reveal in the segregated town. ![]() Winslow is the winner of The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize. The Center for Fiction is honoring Black History Month with author events all month: ![]()
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