YOU BETTA WERK celebrates the convergence of two seminal liberation movements that emerged out of Harlem; The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the House and Ballroom Scene. These distinct liberation movements can be understood as aftershocks of the powerful Migration,where massive population shifts of black Americans from the rural south to urban centers transformed political and creative cultures and provoked recent ways of organizing. Guests include Davarian Baldwin + Alicia Garza + Uri McMillan + Kevin Omni Burrus + niv Acosta.
YOU BETTA WERK is organized by historian Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of the critically acclaimed Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America and the illustrated children’s story Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, and A Young Artist in Harlem.
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