MENASA Dabke
MENASA performs at the International Dance Festival on the 23rd of February! Join MENASA in performing Dabke, a traditional Levantive Folk Dance. Not sure how Dabke is done? NO PROBLEM! Sign up using this link to receive word on our rehearsal schedule (I promise Dabke is easy).
Spanish Conversation at Gallery 40
Gallery 40 40 Cannon Street, Poughkeepsie, NYMovie Meet Up with the Race Unity Circle
Roosevelt CinemasEveryone - please join us for a Race Amity engagement, as we go to the movies together to see the Bob Marley biopic. We're meeting at Roosevelt Cinemas for the 1:45 showing, and after the movie heading over to Eveready Diner where we have space reserved. If you arrive a little bit early, we can …
Black History Mens Wellness Panel
The Trolley Barn 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NYBlack History Wellness Panel In honor of Black History Month, The Brain and Body Coalition is holding a Men's wellness panel at the Trolley Barn which is located at 489 Main Street in Poughkeepsie. This will take place from 4-7pm on February 24th. The Topic is : Black History, Our History and His Story. Come join …
Black Solidarity Dinner
Villard RoomBeyond 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 …
Dutchess County Public Transit Open Meeeting
Beacon City Hall 1 Municipal Plaza, Beacon, NYDutchess County Public Transit (DCPT) will continue to discuss and educate riders and the public about upcoming service improvements and changes at an information meeting to be held on Wednesday, February 28th starting at 5:30pm at the Beacon City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza in the City of Beacon. At the meeting, Transit staff …
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 …