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“The voice of intelligence… is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
– Dr. Karl A. Menninger
2025/2026 Global Advisory Board
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Los Angeles, CA
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Chicago, IL/ Los Angeles, CA
Dwight White, MFA
Contemporary Artist
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Paris, France
Monique Y. Wells, VMD, MS
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Harlem, New York City, NY
Contemporary Multimedia Artist, Adjunct Instructor of Photography, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
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London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
Oliver St. Clair Franklin CBE
Honorary Consul, British Consulate
Read more about Oliver St. Clair Franklin
London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
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London, UK and Los Angeles, CA
Colman Domingo
Internationally acclaimed actor, director, writer, and producer
Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award–nominated
Instagram:@kingofbingo
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Professor Tommy Curry, PhD
Personal Chair in Africana , Philosophy and Black Male Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Miami, FL
Marlon Johnson
Emmy Award-Winning Film Director and Producer
Marlon Johnson is a twelve-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director and a valued member of The Brothers’ Network Global Advisory Board. A Miami native, he holds dual degrees in Anthropology and Communications (with a Motion Pictures focus) from the University of Miami. His acclaimed documentary work explores music, culture, and social justice — including Coconut Grove: A Sense of Place (on gentrification), Breaking the Silence (on HIV in the Black American South), and Sunday’s Best (on Black women’s church fashion).
Marlon has served as Head of Production for Plum TV, where he earned his first Emmy. He later co-directed Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, a festival favorite and PBS feature, and Symphony in D, an award-winning look at Detroit through music. In 2016, he received the top South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual Media, recognizing his excellence in visual storytelling.
The Brothers’ Network October 2025 Book Selection: Baldwin: A Love Story
Written by Nicholas Boggs
Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals how profoundly the writer’s personal relationships shaped his life and work. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material and original research and interviews, this spellbinding book tells the overlapping stories of Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate and artistic relationships: with his mentor, the Black American painter Beauford Delaney; with his lover and muse, the Swiss painter Lucien Happersberger; and with his collaborators, the famed Turkish actor Engin Cezzar and the iconoclastic French artist Yoran Cazac, whose long-overlooked significance as Baldwin’s last great love is explored in these pages for the first time.
Nicholas Boggs shows how Baldwin drew on all the complex forces within these relationships—geographical, cultural, political, artistic, and erotic— and alchemized them into novels, essays, and plays that speak truth to power and had an indelible impact on the civil rights movement and on Black and queer literary history. Richly immersive, Baldwin: A Love Story follows the writer’s creative journey between Harlem, Paris, Switzerland, the southern United States, Istanbul, Africa, the South of France, and beyond. In so doing, it magnifies our understanding of the public and private lives of one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, whose contributions only continue to grow in influence.
The Gay Harlem Renaissance
Now - March 8, 2026
New York Historical Society
170 Central Park West, Manhattan, NY 10024.
The exhibition is curated by lead curator Allison Robinson
with Anne Lessy, assistant curator of history exhibitions and academic engagement; with Rebecca Klassen, curator of material culture and decorative arts, contributing; and with George Chauncey, author of Gay New York and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, as chief historian.
To mark the centennial of The New Negro—the groundbreaking 1925 anthology of poetry, essays, and art edited by Alain Locke—The Gay Harlem Renaissance invites visitors to immerse themselves in the richness of Black LGBTQ+ life in the 1920s and 1930s.
This exhibition recognizes that Locke and many of the best-known writers and artists he championed were gay or bisexual, and it explores the queer mentorship and gay-inclusive salons and friendship circles that helped sustain the Harlem Renaissance. It takes visitors to Harlem’s posh segregated nightclubs, where LGBTQ+ singers and dancers lit up the stages for white downtowners—and to its modest rent parties and cellar speakeasies, where lesbian, bisexual and transmasculine blues queens sang for gay and straight working-class Harlemites partying together. Throughout, it provides a sweeping portrait of Harlem after the First World War, when the Great Migration of Black Southerners, Caribbean migrants, activists, writers, painters, and performers transformed the neighborhood into the dynamic new capital of Black America.
Uniting painting, sculpture, artifacts, documents, photographs, and music from collections across the country, The Gay Harlem Renaissance celebrates the creativity, innovation, and resilience of Black LGBTQ+ Harlemites in the face of racist pressures and homophobic laws.
The exhibition is curated by lead curator Allison Robinson, associate curator of history exhibitions; with Anne Lessy, assistant curator of history exhibitions and academic engagement; with Rebecca Klassen, curator of material culture and decorative arts, contributing; and with George Chauncey, author of Gay New York and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, as chief historian.
Lead support for The Gay Harlem Renaissance is provided by the Mellon Foundation. Important support is provided by Pamela and David Hornik.
Anthony McGill,
Randall Goosby,
Joshua Mhoon,
Tuesday, December 09, 2025 - 7:30 pm
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center!
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Isidore Quartet
Friday, March 06, 2026 - 7:30 PM
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
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Imani Winds
Tuesday, April 07, 2026 - 7:30 PM
American Philosophical Society
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Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and art. He was also a creative and systematic philosopher who developed theories of value, pluralism and cultural relativism that informed and were reinforced by his work on aesthetics.
