{"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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Mona Chalabi: Ten Lives w/ Jia Tolentino", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "11 USD", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://allevents.in/org/books-are-magic/22525923", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality", "literature"], "description": "An evening book event, an offsite presentation of 'Ten Lives' with a conversation between its author and a writer. It is by Mona Chalabi, a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist, joined by Jia Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker. 'Ten Lives' explores money and the lack of it in America through the lives of ten individuals, whom Chalabi followed for five years, asking how much wealth it takes to be safe in the United States. Tickets start at 11 USD, with a bundled option including a signed copy of the book.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mona-chalabi-ten-lives-w-jia-tolentino-71058/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17362d750570dbbcceb49bb96a90ca9da5bcf07e5e4121d3cbf8f55e84a44660-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Photobook Talk: Andrew Lichtenstein — This Short Life", "start": "2026-11-06T18:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bronx Documentary Center", "address": "Courtlandt Avenue 614", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "society/activism"], "description": "The Bronx Documentary Center hosts a photobook talk in which documentary photographer Andrew Lichtenstein presents his book This Short Life. The book combines photographs with oral histories to profile 12 Americans working toward a more just and equitable society during a period of political and social upheaval, exploring activism, community and imagined futures. Lichtenstein's third book in a trilogy about America, it shares stories of struggle, sacrifice and redemption through intimate portraits and first-person testimony. The talk covers the people and stories in the book and his collaborative approach, and is followed by an audience Q&A, with books available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photobook-talk-andrew-lichtenstein-this-short-life-51499/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7669a18a43b98154fe0217ca8bed7028d52841c3d14c209f72c2f04e696c6ac6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beryl Satter, Prof. of History, Rutgers University – “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods”", "start": "2026-11-09T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "A talk titled “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods.” Beryl Satter, Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, will discuss her new book, Cash on the Block, published by Harvard University Press (2026); she is also the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, which won several prestigious awards. 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. It takes place at the College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, in the Williamson Theatre, building 1P.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beryl-satter-prof-of-history-rutgers-university-cash-on-the-52048/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/beryl-satter-prof-history-rutgers-university-cash-block-broken-promise-reinvestment-black-urban-neighborhoods", "image": ""}, {"title": "DPI Presents: Another View Book Launch and Signing Featuring Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and Awol Erizku (Phaidon)", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "literature"], "description": "A panel and book launch with signing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging, held in Riese Lounge on the 1st floor and with limited seating. Editor Dr. Isolde Brielmaier and photographer Awol Erizku present \"Another View: The Vibrant World of Contemporary Black Artists\" (Phaidon). The book explores the studios, living spaces, and creative processes of twenty notable Black artists through 150 never-before-published photographs by Erizku, with profiles based on interviews by Brielmaier and an introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A government-issued photo ID is required for entry, and guests under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dpi-presents-another-view-book-launch-and-signing-featuring-53240/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/photo/events/dpi-presents--dpi-professor-isolde-s-book-signing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0cc6fc700a494b95fd85d0c9b2f56c6dd16ddf448a0d0f3bca12c35f284dd46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Forgotten Law Enforcement: Behind the Gates with Correctional Staff at Rikers Island Jail", "start": "2026-11-12T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/blue-power-how-police-organized-protect-serve-themselves", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A book talk on 'Forgotten Law Enforcement: Behind the Gates with Correctional Staff at Rikers Island Jail', held in the Moot Court at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It is hosted by John Jay College's Future of Public Safety Initiative as part of a fall series of events on public safety. Dr. Simone Martin-Howard, an Associate Professor at John Jay, discusses her book, based on in-depth interviews with correctional staff at Rikers Island, focusing on the experiences of Black and Caribbean men and women working inside the jail system. Correction officers Karl Chin and Jeri Henderson serve as discussants, with moderator Erica Bond, Vice President of Justice Initiatives at John Jay.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-the-gates-with-correctional-53323/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/forgotten-law-enforcement-behind-gates-correctional-staff-rikers-island-jail", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a0964b6743ac289ae339022fe251bc8c4e5468ec8e35e93f4f2c3576b4514d7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Practical Ethics: A Time to Be Born and a Time to Die", "start": "2026-11-09T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Society for Ethical Culture Hall", "address": "West 64th Street 2, New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/short-story", "society/ethics"], "description": "Practical Ethics is a discussion series that explores everyday moral dilemmas, such as white lies and tough choices about loyalty, honesty, and fairness, through lively conversations about short stories. It is facilitated by Ethical Culture Leader Richard Koral and takes place both in person and online on Zoom. This month's topic is 'A time to be born and a time to die…', based on the story 'The Blight' by Emma Cline, which participants are invited to read beforehand. Attendees can join the engaging conversation to challenge their thinking and sharpen their approach to ethical living.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/practical-ethics-a-time-to-be-born-and-a-time-to-die-54364/", "official_url": "https://ethical.nyc/events/practical-ethics-a-time-to-be-born-and-a-time-to-die/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f3fc29bd57464f04292e7cf422a64cc1a65820fe516f8692df27da81925ee992-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mitchell-Linden Book Club: Lon...", "start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Queens Public Library", "address": "14th Road 151-10, 11357 Whitestone", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/programs-activities/older-adults/mail-book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/book-club", "history"], "description": "A book club meeting for adults at the Mitchell-Linden library, where participants discuss a book together in person. The group discusses \"London Falling\" by Patrick Radden Keefe; check with the library for available copies, and all are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mitchell-linden-book-club-lon-71728/", "official_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/calendar/mitchelllinden-book-club-london-falling-by-patrick-radden-keefe/004876-0926", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b3f2dfc6a9b237daf3d4784c813e256989d8c690c8efc634b3c033bd9b963e9-600.webp"}, {"title": "\"Every Story is a Love Story\" Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Judson Memorial Church", "address": "Thompson Street 239", "price": "", "price_from": "29.00", "price_to": "29.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.judson.org/calendar?tag=book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A book launch for \"Every Story is a Love Story,\" the new book by Imbolo Mbue, held in the Judson Meeting Room. The conversation will be moderated by Pamela Paul, a writer at large for The Wall Street Journal and former longtime editor of the New York Times Book Review, author of 10 books including the picture book \"The Path.\" RSVP to Rachel Parker at rparker@penguinrandomhouse.com.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/every-story-is-a-love-story-book-launch-53338/", "official_url": "https://www.judson.org/calendar/every-story-is-a-love-story-book-launch-11-2-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/729d002e3c37ebdc4735bac5aa150cc8fb9d0edb9023dc292141951430768513-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss Crossing the Red Line & Seasons of Fury", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the bookstore Books Are Magic on Smith Street in Brooklyn. Journalists Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Rozina Ali discuss the books Crossing the Red Line and Seasons of Fury. The talk takes place at the shop's Brooklyn location.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/akbar-shahid-ahmed-and-rozina-ali-discuss-crossing-the-red-l-51405/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Naima Ramos-Chapman: In Place of Monuments", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006519DF8B9C86", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "society/racism"], "description": "A staged reading of the one-act play \"In Place of Monuments\", part of the Apollo Works in Process Series, presented by the Apollo. The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "Fifth Avenue Reading Circle: American Hagwon", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church", "address": "West 55th Street 7, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "religion/christian"], "description": "The Fifth Avenue Reading Circle meets on Zoom to read and discuss a book each month. This session is about \"American Hagwon\" by Min Jin Lee, a congregant of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The circle reads fiction and non-fiction that stretch faith and imagination, inform, and entertain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fifth-avenue-reading-circle-american-hagwon-52546/", "official_url": "https://www.fapc.org/event/fifth-avenue-reading-circle-american-hagwon", "image": ""}, {"title": "Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://chrysler.org/visit/museum-shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "society/black-culture"], "description": "\"Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death\" is an acclaimed seven-and-a-half-minute video work shown as an exhibition. It was made by visual artist, cinematographer, and film director Arthur Jafa, an American born in 1960. The video condenses the history and lived experience of Black life in the United States into a rapid, emotionally charged montage set to Kanye West's gospel-inflected track \"Ultralight Beam.\" Combining found footage from films, news broadcasts, viral videos, and historical archives with Jafa's own material, it juxtaposes joy, creativity, and Black cultural achievement with documentation of violence and oppression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death-66508/", "official_url": "https://chrysler.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/adc8aac1e039ca1193b1dfdfc35799dec0ac7f0e1ca80dc526b96dcacc040c7f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening with Gaël Faye and Peter Godwin", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Albertine", "address": "5th Avenue 972, 10075", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "A talk at Albertine Books, a bookstore that is a project of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, where Gaël Faye discusses his new book Jacaranda with Peter Godwin. Faye is a Rwandan-French novelist, songwriter, and hip-hop artist whose new novel follows Milan, a boy in France whose family ties to Rwanda draw him back repeatedly to uncover family secrets and confront the past. Godwin is a Zimbabwe-born journalist and author of six non-fiction books, including Mukiwa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. The event is in English and free with an RSVP.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-with-gael-faye-and-peter-godwin-50902/", "official_url": "https://www.albertine.com/events/an-evening-with-gael-faye-and-peter-godwin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49e3d2a40433723308e9d5df29def4f2ef6874a76feb9978622fb06f9fc76988-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Let’s Make an Anthology with BlackMass Publishing", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "address": "Malcolm X Boulevard 505, 10037 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage", "diy/zines"], "description": "A hands-on zine publishing workshop in which participants craft a collective zine and produce their own knowledge, culminating in a limited edition collective anthology printed for pickup at the Schomburg Center after the program. It is facilitated by BlackMass Publishing, a Black independent press and archive founded by artist and publisher Yusuf Hassan, whose practice examines publishing as a means of documenting, preserving, and circulating knowledge through printed matter. The workshop is inspired by the Schomburg Center's centennial exhibition To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg's Library, which displays the 4600-book, pamphlet, art, and manuscript 'seed collection' purchased by the New York Public Library in 1926. Collaging tools are provided; participants should bring magazine clippings, photographs, and other ephemera they wish to incorporate into their zines.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-55715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3d1e95e84d5e5941741fa6326fd822adf118a01b33f6d9dd9e1d8fae7edebe9-2000.webp"}]}