This event. It is an hour and 15 minutes. Lauren i am Lauren Rosenberg associates. Nian it is my pleasure to welcome you to this program. Those of you joining us for the first time, a warm welcome, an invitation to explore the here. Ange of programs before we begin, now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. Of 2016, a New York Times staffer discovered dozens of unpublished photos in the papers archives. Published in a multimedia series, unpublished black history. The series garnered 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments. Welcome twoled to of the authors involved with creating the book in speier to uy their discovery, unseen unpublished black history from the New York Times archives, which is available for purchase following the program. Darcy is an editor at the New York Times. Rachel is a journalist and author who writes about race and Race Relations and is a contribute author for the
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To tonights program. To our members, it is your support that makes nice like this possible. To the many of you joining us for the first time, a warm welcome. Before we begin, now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Of newuary, 2016, a team york times staffers discovered dozens of photographs in the New York Times archives. The monthlong series explore the history behind the photos, garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments. We are thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors who were involved in creating the unpublished black history from the New York Times archives. Is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and the creator and editor of a times blog. Rachel swarns is an author who writes about race and race relations. She is the author of american tapestry, the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. Moderating the conversation this evening is the curator of
It positioned a black family is traditional. They brought you inside a Nuclear Black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in American Literature and Popular Culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. Continuing the tour. This is a kind of interesting story. Currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. Aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. Come check it out. This was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for 125 still on the back of this panel. Whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. This series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. New york. All 60 panels come together. Jacob lawrence himself heres the thing, not only do we have an
AfricanAmerican History is how bad it is. So the history piece is one thing, but also even in this moment. Thats how i started off right . In this moment its all a about how we are diagnose, right . Slow death dying right . At what point do i have any agency to do anything you know, theres a distinction in the world between optimists and pessimists. Turns out that optimists get things done. Optimists succeed. It turns out that pessimists are right about the world. Right. [laughter] right right right right. And i just want to, i want to introduce a term. This is not an academic term, but its a term that i got from some of the black women that i worked with in detroit who were around 16 years old. And they said theres a difference between a struggle, the struggle and struggley with an ly, and they say a struggle is what we go through as human beings on this planet. The struggle they define as specific to the africanamerican experience in this country. And they said but struggley is when