# WANTED: The Black Wild West – A Conversation on Race, Resistance & Rewriting History

WANTED: The Black Wild West – A Conversation on Race, Resistance & Rewriting History at Hunter College, Thursday 5 November 2026, 15:30.

- Venue: Hunter College, Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York
- With: Kennedy Jopson, Alexa Smith, Kaja Dunn, Kimberly Henderson
- Go to page: https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/event/wanted-the-black-wild-west-a-conversation-on-race-resistance-rewriting-history/

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A panel conversation inspired by the new Broadway musical WANTED: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke, exploring the Black Wild West and the roles society assigns us and we perform, and our power to rewrite them. It is presented by the Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation and Hunter College Office of the Arts, led and moderated by Kennedy Jopson, KDF's Dramaturgy and Engagement Fellow. The panel features Alexa Smith (The Public Theater), Kaja Dunn (Carnegie Mellon University), and Kimberly Henderson (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture). Artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners discuss the contested meanings of freedom and the stories we inherit, challenge, and reclaim.

## Dates

- Thursday 5 November 15:30 — Hunter College

Written by a model, sources: [hunter.cuny.edu](https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/event/wanted-the-black-wild-west-a-conversation-on-race-resistance-rewriting-history/)

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