"The glass box that has placed limits on my productivity has not been the last word in my life. But imagine the world we might have, the energy we would liberate, if we stopped boxing some people in and forcing others to live in a delusion?"

This Women's History Month, we start our newsletter with a quote from author Mindy Thompson Fullilove reflecting on the "glass box," her term for the barriers women of color face. Read her full blog post here.

Thursday, March 4, 2021 6 PM EST

Dr. Fullilove will participate in a panel discussion with Roland Slade and Adam Trott, moderated by Liz Allen and Ken Donyo.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12 PM EST

The Congress on New Urbanism presents Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All. Interviewer Kennedy Smith will be in conversation with Dr. Fullilove, discussing New Urbanism and strategies to enhance the sustainability.

Read Mary Newsom’s review of Main Street, “Can a Street Help Heal America’s Fractures?” published by UNC Charlotte’s Urban Institute.

“Even as she analyzes the physical attributes of Main Streets, at heart the book is a philosophical meditation on the importance of connections—which she believes can help heal a wounded society—and how physical spaces help or hinder connection.” — Mary Newsom

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00–5:00 PM EST

Join the second program in the Jane Jacobs Lecture Series presented by the Center for the Living City. Dr. Fullilove will participate in a panel discussion exploring the role of Main Streets in our cities. Panelists will also include Molly Rose Kaufman, Jacqueline Castaneda, and Aditi Nair. Moderated by Nupur Chaudhury.

Save the Date –Tuesday, May 4, 2021 6:30 PM EST

Glenna Lang’s Jane Jacobs lecture will launch her forthcoming book, Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania, an investigation of how Jane Jacobs’s ideas about the life and economy of great cities grew from Scranton, Pennsylvania. The event will be both virtual and live in Scranton. AIA Continuing Education Credits.

“A cornucopia of discoveries, one excavation after another about how and what Jane came to know about the connection between cities and the people who live in them.” — Max Allen, editor of Ideas That Matter: The Worlds of Jane Jacobs

Pre-order the book, and follow Jane Jacobs’s First City on Twitter and on Facebook.

New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz kicked off the 2021 Jane Jacobs Lecture Series. Watch the recording to hear them explore the outlook of post-COVID cities.

James Odato, journalism professor at the University at Albany, interviewed disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina, author of Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride, on her life and work.

Watch the full interview hosted by the NYS Writers’ Institute.

Arlene Goldbard, author of New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development, discussed the role of culture in forging equitable futures in our communities.

On the second episode of their new podcast, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso joined community muralists Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez to talk about the importance and challenges of portraying Indigenous themes in public art, creating during the pandemic, and sustaining community arts work within the U.S.

Sharon Danks, author of Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation and founder of Green Schoolyards America, was recently featured in a Vox article, “The Case for Outdoor Schooling.”

Lais Fleury, member of the International School Grounds Alliance co-founded by Sharon Danks, recently wrote “The Case for Outdoor Learning in a Post-Pandemic World” for the Child Rights International Network.

Learn about Robert Shetterly's decade-long project painting portraits of courageous American citizens in this 6-minute story aired on NBC. It includes footage from Richard Kane's feature documentary on Shetterly's project, Truth Tellers, which will launch this September along with Shetterly's forthcoming book, Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth.

Pauli Murray, the pioneering African American legal scholar and organizer for racial and gender equality, was celebrated last month at the annual Sundance Film Festival with the premiere of the new documentary My Name is Pauli Murray.

Look for Murray in Robert Shetterly’s forthcoming book, Portraits of Racial Justice.

Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander led “Storytelling for Justice: How Libraries and Archives Hold History to Account,” a conversation on how these spaces can empower underrepresented communities and advocate for increased representation of marginalized stories in our country’s historical record.

Friday, March 12, 2021 9:30 – 11:45 AM EST

Register to join 400 Years of Inequality's 2021 Spring Symposium. Observers will reflect on how the project catalyzed collective recovery. They will also share strategies for making a just future in this time of overlapping crises: racism, climate change, economic inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Speakers include Robert E. Fullilove, Havana Fisher, Ricky Tucker, and more.

Check out our Black History Month mini-series, featuring seven New Village titles and spotlighting affiliated organizations. Follow us this month for author updates and our March mini-series.

Check out these featured women’s history titles from New Village Press

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