Black Studies Department at CCNY
@blackccny.bsky.social
Established in 1969, we are the oldest Black Studies Department in the CUNY system; organizers of The annual Langston Hughes Festival at CCNY https://linktr.ee/blackstudiesccny
Thank you to everyone who supported the College Language Association on our FIRST Giving Tuesday as a 501(c)(3). YOUR donation strengthens our mission to advance scholarship, community, & opportunity. 💙 We’re grateful for your partnership. ✨ #CLA #GivingTuesday2025 #CLAscholars www.clascholars.org
It will be FUN Work — like #GoodTrouble — come join us!!
Black Studies Department at CCNY@blackccny.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe Black Studies Department is BACK, & the Black Studies Ambassadors invite you to volunteer & help build OUR community with a KIKI! BLACK STUDIES DEPARTMENT KIKI 🗓 Date: December 5th 2025 ⏰ Time: 1 PM-5 PM 📍 Location: The Lookout Shepard Room 278
The Black Studies Department is BACK, & the Black Studies Ambassadors invite you to volunteer & help build OUR community with a KIKI! BLACK STUDIES DEPARTMENT KIKI 🗓 Date: December 5th 2025 ⏰ Time: 1 PM-5 PM 📍 Location: The Lookout Shepard Room 278
Join The CCNY Black Studies Department and the Zahn Innovation Center for a Side Hustle Workshop, Thursday, November 6th, from 4pm - 5pm, in The Lookout, Shepard 278. Workshop Benefits include Q&A, networking opportunities, and snacks! You don't want to miss this event -- RSVP TODAY!
Looking for a Black Studies Course to complete your #Fall2025 schedule? Check out these courses on food and literature, queer Caribbean writing, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Poetry, Colonial Latin America, and Black Women’s Resistance at CCNY.
Thanks, everyone who came to “Choreographies of Survival!" In cased you missed it, you can now watch the video recording of Tao Leigh Goffe and Emily Raboteau on our website. centerforthehumanities.org/event/choreo... @blackccny.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Emmanuel Lachaud of CCNY’s Black Studies Department @blackccny.bsky.social describes the enslaved hair dresser on the path to sainthood. That’s hair! Listen: personplacething.org
Join me, The Five Demands Film Director Andrea Weiss, & 1969 Student Activist James Small for a Film Screening & Discussion hosted by the @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social — TOMORROW, Tuesday, March 11, 4-6pm at the Univ of Maryland — come hear the past, present, & future of @blackccny.bsky.social!
Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth with Us! “Choreographies of Survival: A Black Feminist Climate Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe & Emily Raboteau” Wed March 19, 2025 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Skylight Room CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave NYC FREE and Open to ALL — Registration Required — Link in Bio
THIS WEEK in the Black Studies Department at CCNY — join us for ALL THREE of these events co-sponsored by @blackccny.bsky.social — registration and more information are available on the BLST website — www.ccny.cuny.edu/blackstudies — Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! #AddToAcademicSky
We need @blackccny.bsky.social more than ever. This February 14th Fundraiser is a perfect time to support them.
Jervette R. Ward, Ph.D.@jervette.bsky.social · 2y agoThe @blackccny.bsky.social Annual Langston Hughes Festival is honored to award the 2025 medal to @roxanegay.bsky.social, Thur, Feb 13 at 6pm — the medal ceremony & reading includes a Conversation with Edwidge Danticat in Aaron Davis Hall— Free & Open to the Public www.eventbrite.com/e/langston-h...
Join the CCNY Black Studies Department Feb 13 & 14 for the 2025 Langston Hughes Festival honoring @roxanegay.bsky.social, celebrating the Centennial of the Harlem Renaissance & the reestablishment of @blackccny.bsky.social — Check out the Festival & Department Promo Video youtu.be/0D2ZMtC41EE?...
2025 Langston Hughes Festival & CCNY Black Studies Department Promo
YouTube video by Black Studies Department CCNY
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And we need YOU — Thanks for the support! We hope to see ALL Y’ALL next week for the Langston Hughes Festival Student Symposium, Evening Medal Ceremony, and the Valentine’s Day Fundraising Breakfast!!
Tricia Matthew@triciamatthew.bsky.social · 2y agoWe need @blackccny.bsky.social more than ever. This February 14th Fundraiser is a perfect time to support them.
The @blackccny.bsky.social Annual Langston Hughes Festival is honored to award the 2025 medal to @roxanegay.bsky.social, Thur, Feb 13 at 6pm — the medal ceremony & reading includes a Conversation with Edwidge Danticat in Aaron Davis Hall— Free & Open to the Public www.eventbrite.com/e/langston-h...
Highlighting #s428 at #MLA25, A screening of the documentary The Five Demands, about the 1969 strike by black and Puerto Rican students at CCNY. Take a break from sessions to see a film! @jervette.bsky.social
A Screening of <em>The Five Demands</em>
The Five Demands presents a riveting story about the student strike that changed the face of higher education. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City Colleg...
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Looking forward to viewing & discussing The Five Demands Film, which helped establish @blackccny.bsky.social — join us at Session 428 during #MLA25 in #NOLA — also looking forward to connecting with my #CLAscholars — be sure to check out all the @clascholars.bsky.social Panels and Sessions!
Paula Krebs@paulakrebs.bsky.social · 2y agoHighlighting #s428 at #MLA25, A screening of the documentary The Five Demands, about the 1969 strike by black and Puerto Rican students at CCNY. Take a break from sessions to see a film! @jervette.bsky.social
In 1925, a literary, musical, artistic, cultural & unapologetically BLACK movement solidified in Harlem — Celebrate 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance, Feb 13-14, 2025, as we bestow the Annual Langston Hughes Festival Medal upon @roxanegay.bsky.social #AddToBlackSky #BlackSky
In 1925, a literary, musical, artistic, cultural & unapologetically BLACK movement solidified in Harlem — Celebrate 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance, Feb 13-14, 2025 as @blackccny.bsky.social bestows the Annual Langston Hughes Festival Medal upon @roxanegay.bsky.social #AddToBlackSky #BlackSky
