The Battle for the Black Mind
A lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center examining African American intellectual history, the politics of education, and contemporary battles over culture.
Why we picked this
The struggle over who gets to define Black intellectual life — and what gets taught, published, and preserved — is one of the defining cultural battles of this moment.
The CUNY Graduate Center hosts a lecture examining the long history of contests over African American intellectual life — who controls the narratives, the institutions, and the terms of debate. The talk connects historical struggles over Black education and cultural production to contemporary battles over curriculum, publishing, and representation.
This is a subject with deep roots and urgent contemporary stakes, and the Graduate Center’s public programming consistently brings scholarly rigor to questions that matter beyond the academy. The event is free and available both in person and virtually.