This is an Online Event: Monday, February 7, 6:30 p.m. EST = Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 10:00am ADL time

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Join the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the first of a series of conversations about the gaze of Black photographers who explore and celebrate Black life. In Zora J Murff’s latest monograph, True Colors (or, Affirmations in a Crisis), he addresses the act of remembering and the politics of self which Murff identifies as “the duality of Black patriotism and the challenges of finding belonging in places not made for me—of creating an affirmation in a moment of crisis as I learn to remake myself in my own image.”

“I am sending up this collection of photographs as affirmations for us, Black people, during this crisis of white guilt; my self-portrait of now serves as a reminder that we have always possessed the legitimacy to determine our own successes. What many institutions have failed—and continue to fail—to realize is that we will always excel despite exclusion. If change requires reckoning with hard truths, can institutions learn how to subvert themselves to create a truly just future?” —Zora J Murff in the New York Times