This event was hosted by Provost Renée T. White and moderated by Professor Brittnay Proctor-Habil, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Media in the School of Media Studies. We are delighted to bring together contributors from the collection and members of our New School community, including: Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Co-Editor and Full Professor of Communication and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Connecticut State University; Dolita Dannêt Cathcart, Associate Professor of History at Wheaton College; dann j. Broyld, Associate Professor of African American history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell; Mikal J. Gaines, Assistant Professor of English at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University; and JAZSALYN, founder and curator of black beyond, Parsons Design and Technology ‘21.