As we enter the second week of Black History Month, New York City is offering a host of activities to participate in. There are lectures, concerts, films, art shows and performances galore, with many retrospectives on Jazz greats and iconoclasts.
Here, we've collected a sampling of the events you can check out around the city.
| The Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival |
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Marlen Suyapa Bodden: Violence and the Threat of Violence: The Slave Owner's Age-Old Tools
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Lessons From Black History: To Make Change, We Must Raise Our Voices
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First Posted: 04/12/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:25 PM ET