Black History/Black Futures
Celebrate Black History Month All Year Black History/Black Futures: The Art of Resistance features Hampton Roads’ own award-winning playwright, performer, filmmaker, and professor of Theatre at Old Dominion University, Brittney S. Harris, in conversation with Grammy-nominated, multi-award winning young composer, violinist and professor at The Juilliard School in NYC, Curtis Stewart. Renowned Historian and Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, will moderate this discussion, exploring each guest’s artistic genre. Together, they uncover stories of resistance through music and theatre in the past and present. What does resistance look like or sound like in an artistic medium? How can art affect lasting change? How do their genres intersect to tell the past story of resistance and represent the ongoing resistance to racism in the artistic field? What does the future of composing and playwrighting look like? How does their work now shape the future of African Americans in the arts?
Episodes
This discussion covers stories of the enslaved. Professors Cassandra Newby Alexander and Stephanie Richmond in conjunction with The City of Virginia Beach Cultural Arts Department bring you researchers, guest speakers and subject matter experts who help trace the stories of those who were "Sold Down River." Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/GaYx-wm76Hg
This discussion covers stories of the enslaved. Professors Cassandra Newby Alexander and Stephanie Richmond in conjunction with The City of Virginia Beach Cultural Arts Department bring you researchers, guest speakers and subject matter experts who help trace the stories of those who were "Sold Down River." Watch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/yGXHp8vJ5Qo
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Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander discusses the ever changing landscape in the job-marketplace as African Americans navigate labor challenges Facing in the Anti-DEI Phase with special guests VA Delegate Cliff Hayes, YWCA CEO Michelle Ellis Young and NSU Career Services Director Saranette Williams. Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/kXju5E8KUjM
This discussion between Drs. Stephanie Richmond and Cassandra Newby-Alexander of Norfolk State University, Mrs. Hillary Plate of Virginia Beach Cultural Affairs and our special guests Ms. Kyra Sims and Nastassja Swift.
Holding presence in the past was challenging for Black people. Art ignored the existence of the Black being unless relegated to subservient and dismissive roles. An investigation of that presence of the past and the impact Black art will have on holding presence in the future is discussed in detail by Ms. Judine Somerville and Mr. Clayton Singleton.
The Art of Resistance features Hampton Roads’ own award-winning playwright, performer, filmmaker, and professor of Theatre at Old Dominion University, Brittney S. Harris, in conversation with Grammy-nominated, multi-award winning young composer, violinist and professor at The Juilliard School in NYC, Curtis Stewart. Renowned Historian and Endowed Professor of Virginia Black History and Culture, Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexande...
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