Giving Life - LGBTQ & Black Excellence

Please join us this Sunday from 3:00 to 5:00 for Giving Life - LGBTQ & Black Excellence. See below for more details about the event.

Best,
Jamie

Hi All,

I’m writing to let you know we are so excited to be welcoming our friends from The Tenth Zine (“Black, Gay and Unbothered”) to present this Sunday at 3 pm at Giving Life - LGBTQ & Black Excellence at the Center. Taking its name from a W.E.B DuBois essay titled “The Talented Tenth,” The Tenth is a biannual publication that champions black LGTBQ voices via photographic essays, in-depth interviews, prose, and events. Since the magazine’s first edition was released in 2015, it has received widespread acclaim for its presentation of counternarratives of black gay and bisexual lives, and for its ability to push boundaries and offer stunning visual imagery of and by black LGBTQ artists.

Khary Septh, the Editor in Chief, will be joined by two of the magazine’s creative directors to speak about the intricacies of the black gay experience and creative responses in the face of complex challenges—from digital engagement to classism—and examples of modern day trailblazers of Black Queer cultural resistance.

We hope to see you there!

Jake Salt I Director, Programs & Services
300 Wall Street I Kingston, NY 12401
845.331.5300

Dutchess County Jail: one of the worst in NY

State report on Dutchess County Jail shows reforms are needed now

Rebecca Edwards, Valley Views Published 1:39 p.m. ET Feb. 19, 2018

Dutchess County Jail one of the worst in the state. 

Few of us check the news nowadays without a sense of dread. The Poughkeepsie Journal’s Feb. 14 headline hit particularly hard: “Report says Dutchess County Jail one of the worst in the state.” Yes, the state Corrections Department identifies our jail as one of the five worst in New York.

Full article:
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/opinion/valley-views/2018/02/19/dutchess-county-jail-reform/350659002/

Whose Streets? to show at Vassar College

Screening of Whose Streets?, a film that seeks to capture the narratives of Ferguson, MO residents in response to the murder of Michael Brown in 2014. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for several awards. Following the screening, there will be a discussion with the director, Sabaah Folayan.

What: Screening and Discussion with Sabaah Folayan, director of Whose Streets?

When: Monday, February 26, from 5:30-8:00 pm

Where: Rockefeller Hall, Room 200, at Vassar College

The screening and discussion is open to the public.

Free Ahed Tamimi and Black Lives Matter in New Paltz

Michelle Alexander at Marist

Michelle Alexander -- highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, social justice advocate, and legal scholar -- will discuss the topic of her acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, at the Marist College Student Center on Thursday, March 1 at 7:00 PM. In the book, Alexander peels back the curtain on systemic racism in the American prison system to reveal how mass incarceration has come to replace segregation. Alexander's talk, which will be moderated by Marist faculty members Tia Gaynor and Jocelyn Smith Lee, will explore the myths surrounding our criminal justice system from a racial and ethical standpoint, and offer solutions for combating this epidemic.  

Seating in the Theatre will be by ticket only, and only Marist students and staff can obtain tickets. Seating with live-feed viewing will be available in SC 3101, SC3102-05, and the Cabaret. No tickets are required for live-feed viewing, and the public is invited to attend.

First Presbyterian Church of Beacon

MOVIES THAT MATTER BEACON Fri., Feb. 23, 2018 Doors open at 7pm, film at 7:30pm This powerful film explores the history of racism in the United States through Baldwin's reminiscences of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, as well as his personal observations of American history. First Presbyterian Church of Beacon,   McKinley Hall, 50 Liberty St., Beacon, NY 12508 Free Admission www.moviesthatmatterbeacon.org Info: 845 838-2415

SUNY New Paltz

Doris Butterfield

Secretary 

Department of Black Studies 

Scholar's Mentorship Program 

Phone: (845) 257-2760

Email: butterfd@newpaltz.edu