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The Trolley Barn 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NYWest Africa in Tumultuous Times: Light from Its Golden Age
Taylor Hall 102 Main Campus Dr, Arlington, NYBrew & Groove
Vassar College Main 121 Vassar CollegeIf Only You Knew…
ZoomUnderstanding and Building Your Credit
Liz Anaya, Community Manager with Chase Bank will provide participants with financial wellness tips centered on understanding and building one’s credit. The workshop will be divided across four key points: understanding your credit score, checking your credit score, getting started with credit and protecting your credit. All are welcome to attend. RSVP using the link included to confirm your attendance.
Beyond the Burden of Elegy
Rockefeller Hall 200Lawrence Jackson Poster Lawrence Jackson is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and History at Johns Hopkins University. He has recently published Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland Baltimore (Gray Wolf Press, 2023), a memoir about his search for housing in the city of Baltimore as a single Black male parent. He will deliver a …
Unmapping the Gaza Strip
Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NYNew York State Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2024
FDR Library 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde ParkJoin us Thursday, February 29th at 6pm at the FDR Library & Museum for a panel discussion and viewing of the inspiring film "New York State Celebrates the Life and Legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." Our Commission on Human Rights is hosting this free event in partnership with the NYS Division of Human Rights …
Memory, Resistance and Colonial Hierarchies of Belonging Across the Atlantic
Bard College 30 Campus Rd, Annandale-On-Hudson, NYThis one-day hybrid symposium will explore how various groups have politically and historically advocated for justice by drawing parallels of remembrance against forgetting across different cultures, spaces, languages, bodies and times. By realizing parallels across multiple geopolitical histories of trans and cis migrant activists, feminists, workers, Europeans of color, Sinti and Roma populations and refugees we want …
Books and Brews Book Club
Juan Murphy's 796 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NYJoin them at Juan Murphy's, 796 Main Street, to discuss this month's book, I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov. Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.