IMA student Francesca Coppola’s short film, Jonny Come Lately, premieres online Filmmaker Magazine.
Professor Karen Hunter speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson about her memoir on growing up in an upper middle class black family in Chicago, a place she calls “Negroland.” Jefferson delves into pressures on the black elite in the 1950s to look, speak, and act in a way that would be acceptable to whites.
Listen to the podcast here.
Prof. Shanti Thakur is part of a panel discussion on Diaspora and “transgenerational trauma,” at the Politics, Policy, and the Arts.
Roosevelt House
Hunter College
Nov. 23 at 5:30pm