{"title": "A Burns Chair Conversation – Backtalk at the Ballot Box: A Post-Election Analysis", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "CUNY School of Law", "address": "Court Square 2, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/elections"], "description": "A Burns Chair Conversation – Backtalk at the Ballot Box: A Post-Election Analysis is a public conversation offering an analysis after the election. It is hosted by the W. Haywood Burns Chair in Human & Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law and features Janai Nelson, the school's 2026 Burns Chair in Human and Civil Rights, together with Kimberelé Crenshaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Backtalker. Food will be served, and the first 150 registrants receive a free signed copy of Backtalker. 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The talk takes up the 1963 letter of white clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, who urged Black demonstrators to wait, and Martin Luther King's response from jail. 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The CLUE event is co-sponsored by the CSI Student Pre-Law Club, the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. 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The event is for ages 21 and up, with an RSVP required and entry on a first-come, first-served basis subject to capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/durations-triple-canopy-presents-civic-crash-course-with-chl-55045/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49a1d8102a6472ddc081628a6acc42e26e96023605163ec2584529c6b7a85692-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rally Reading Series: Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading evening of the Rally Reading Series with writers Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza. The series is themed \"Overtly Political Literature\" and gives a platform to underrepresented voices. After live readings, writers talk with the audience, who can ask questions and share thoughts. Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.webp"}, {"title": "L.E.A.P. Awards Ceremony featuring Kevin Powell", "start": "2026-11-06T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "Medgar Evers College", "address": "1637 Bedford Ave, 1st Floor Room S122, Brooklyn, NY 11225", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/education"], "description": "The L.E.A.P. Awards Ceremony is a celebration of the achievements of the Learning & Educational Assistance Program (LEAP) Fall 2026 cohort, honoring its outstanding students. Medgar Evers College hosts the ceremony, welcoming special guest Kevin Powell, a GRAMMY-nominated poet, human and civil rights activist, and celebrated author. Attendees can hear an inspiring message on leadership, activism, and community growth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/leap-awards-ceremony-featuring-kevin-powell-53896/", "official_url": "https://www.mec.cuny.edu/event/l-e-a-p-awards-ceremony-featuring-kevin-powell/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/66e5e8b6bc85ac1c99b52df203ec340132da3680052cb2c0642d8e21a330014c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book Talk with Journalist and Author Trymaine Lee", "start": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "CUNY Graduate School of Journalism", "address": "West 40th Street 219, 10018 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/racism", "literature"], "description": "A book talk for “A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life In America” by Trymaine Lee. NABJ hosts the conversation about his journalism work, its impact on people of color, and how those experiences can become a book. NABJ also organizes pre-orders of the book, picked up at the event, supporting the small black book business “Tuma’s Books.”", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee-52247/", "official_url": "https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/book-talk-with-journalist-and-author-trymaine-lee/", "image": ""}, {"title": "In Conversation: Derek Fordjour and Katy Siegel", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "The FLAG Art Foundation", "address": "West 25th Street 545, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The artist Derek Fordjour sits down for a public conversation with Katy Siegel, a professor and curator at Stony Brook University. The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Constitution Conversations with The NY County Lawyers Association: Freedom of Speech", "start": "2026-11-17T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/law"], "description": "Constitution Conversations with The NY County Lawyers Association: Freedom of Speech is a public workshop and discussion held in the Whitridge Room of the New York Society Library, free of charge with registration required. It was developed by the New York County Lawyers Association, founded in 1908, and is presented by the Library in cooperation with that association as part of its Collective Witness season marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Two experienced lawyers will introduce recent events and offer nonpartisan background on the constitutional points and lawsuits involved, then facilitate conversation among participants. This session addresses freedom of speech and the right to assemble under the First Amendment, including the constitutionality of the Secretary of State's revocations of green cards and visas and threatened deportations of lawfully resident non-citizens who expressed disfavored views or joined demonstrations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/constitution-conversations-with-the-ny-county-lawyers-associ-79670/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/constitution-conversations-freedom-speech", "image": ""}]}