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Project News

Nov 3
CBBG will present at the 2nd Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference - FREE and open to the public
 
Oct 4
Let’s talk about race, ethnicity, and identity. Panelists will start the conversation and we hope you’ll join in.
 
Oct 17
Visual artists, historians, and community activists discuss Puerto Rican communities in 1970s New York.
 
Aug 26
Presented by The Audre Lorde Project's SAFE OUTside the System, an anti-violence program
 
Jun 9
Celebrate Loving v. Virginia ~ Free ~ Multicultural ~ Family Friendly ~ Waterfront
 
Jul 9
"Sometimes you substitute 'Black' for 'lower class' and they're not the same.
 
May 5
"It's not so much me and Richard, it's the principle, it's the law - I don't think it's right." - Mildred Loving
 
Apr 14
"What makes you Black?" - Question Bridge
 
Apr 4
"Pen to the page, we checkin' all the boxes now!"
 
Mar 11
"You think of yourself as a colored man, I think of myself as a man." - John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
 
Feb 1
"They probably think I'm some misogynist homophobic guido." - Vin Diesel
 
Jan 26
“Where are the brothers?” - from Something New
 
Dec 8
Join a discussion about what it means to be Hapa. Once a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for “half,” Hapa has since been embraced as a term of pride by many whose mixed racial heritage includes Asian or Pacific Island descent.
 
Nov 15
Watch Spike Lee’s iconic 1991 movie about mixed-heritage relationships, Jungle Fever, and hear how three panelists respond to the movie 20 years later.
 
Oct 23
Listen as historians and community members respond to oral history interviews with Crown Heights residents recorded in the 1990s and 2010. What’s changed? What’s stayed the same?
 
Sep 26
Participate in this discussion about mixed heritage co-sponsored by Loving Day, a global network fighting racial prejudice through education and building multicultural community.
 

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