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13January Wednesday
Virtual Program | The Authoritarian’s Playbook: A Conversation between Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Adam Gopnik
“Strongmen” author Ruth Ben-Ghiat and The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik discuss the rise of the new authoritarian state.
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07January Thursday
Virtual Program | When Women Win, We All Win: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Feminist Legacy
Join CBH and a panel of experts as we explore RBG’s impact and feminist legal vision, and discuss the unfinished work that is yet to be done.
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06January Wednesday
Virtual Program | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Join Ijeoma Oluo, author of the NYTimes bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, and Jay Smooth, the pioneering hip hop radio host, in a conversation about white male power in America.
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14December Monday
Virtual Program | White Purity, Black Sexuality, and Their Roles in America’s History of Racism
Historians Jane Dailey and Nell Painter discuss how the fear of Black sexuality has undergirded white supremacy from the start.
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07December Monday
Virtual Program | Pro-Slavery NYC: Kidnappings and Greed in the Antebellum North
Historian Jonathan Daniel Wells exposes the vast power network of New York City judges, lawyers, police officers, and bankers who furtively kept the slave trade alive.
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18November Wednesday
Virtual Program | From Pizzagate to the Presidency: QAnon's Infiltration of Our Democracy
How did a fringe conspiracy theory combining child sex-trafficking, shadow governments, racist tropes, and fantastical circumstances take hold in our political discourse?
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10November Tuesday
Virtual Program | Listening to WW II: Voices from the Brooklyn Navy Yard
On the eve of Veteran’s Day, join us as we explore Brooklyn’s homefront during WW II through oral histories that share the experiences of those who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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29October Thursday
Virtual Program | Creativity Behind Bars: Self-Expression and Transformation Inside
Join us for an evening of first-hand experiences from members of two organizations dedicated to creative expression behind bars: Rehabilitation Through The Arts (RTA) and The Kite.
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27October Tuesday
Virtual Program | Lincoln’s Lie: Lessons from the Civil War on Fake News and its Consequences
What can an instance of fake news over 150 years ago tell us about misinformation and politics today?
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