# Event Details - **Event Name**: Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: CBFS: Scholars discuss the history and effects of American policing as it relates to Blackness. An in-person event.About this EventThis Black History Month, please join us on February 5th for an event on Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance. Brittany Friedman will present on a critical new text Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons. Aaron G. Fountain will discuss High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America, connecting struggles over policing and education. Joshua Clark Davis will share research from Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, expanding our understanding of repression beyond COINTELPRO. Finally, LaShawn Harris will teach about the life of Eleanor Bumpurs, which she powerfully illuminates in Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City. This will be an in-person event at the Schomburg Center and live-streamed on youtube.ABOUT CONVERSATIONS IN BLACK FREEDOM STUDIESThe founding curators of this series, Professors Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College/CUNY) and Komozi Woodard (Sarah Lawrence College), introduced a new paradigm that challenged the older geography, leadership, ideology, culture and chronology of Civil Rights historiography. Jeanne Theoharis continues in her role and is joined by Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine (Wayne State University) ) as co-curator. Komozi Woodard continues to advise the series from an emeritus position. Discussions take place on the first Thursday of each month.Learn more: http://www.blackfreedomstudies.orgFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLICACCESSIBILITY | Live captioning is available for streaming programs. ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.PRESS | Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc) at least 24-hours before the day of the program to Leah Drayton at leahdrayton@nypl.org. Please note that professional video recordings are prohibited without expressed consent.Conversations in Black Freedom Studies is supported by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Additional support provided by Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/5aca1690-eb06-11f0-9378-b744a3edee10-rimg-w1200-h675-dc000000-gmir.png - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/policing-blackness-resisting-repression-police-violence-and-surveillance/100001977028240688 - **Event Categories**: black-history-month, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - **lat**: 40.8145294 - **long**: -73.94086759999999 - **full address**: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/22611b207d6b322514014920fc6f99bec0a8b085ede78cb4aca3455ae7c53551-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1767711885 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance being held? - **A:** Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance takes place on Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance? - **A:** Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance is organized by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Policing Blackness: Resisting Repression, Police Violence, and Surveillance", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/22611b207d6b322514014920fc6f99bec0a8b085ede78cb4aca3455ae7c53551-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1767711885", "startDate": "2026-02-05", "endDate": "2026-02-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/policing-blackness-resisting-repression-police-violence-and-surveillance/100001977028240688", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "515 Malcolm X Blvd", "postalCode": "10030", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.8145294", "longitude": "-73.94086759999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "CBFS: Scholars discuss the history and effects of American policing as it relates to Blackness. 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