Join us at Flatbush Library this fall for our three-part lecture series on Caribbean history. We are hosting a range of scholars and authors from across the Caribbean diaspora to share their research and insights as part of this exciting free lecture series. In our first lecture of the series, Dr. Tyesha Maddox will talk about the longstanding importance of mutual aid and community care among Caribbean immigrants in New York City from the 1800s onward.

Tyesha Maddox is an Associate Professor at Fordham University in the Department of African & African American Studies. She received her PhD in History from New York University in 2016. She received a BA in History and Africana Studies and an MPS in Africana Studies, both from Cornell University in 2006 and 2008. Her book, A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (Penn Press, 2024), examines the significance of early twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean immigrant mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in New York City. In 2020, she co-edited a comprehensive resource guide and website titled “This is Not a Riot!” to help contextualize the Black Lives Matter Uprisings of 2020 and place them in the historical radical tradition of Black protest in the US. She also serves as a key organizer for Mutual Aid NYC’s Organizing Archive and Library, as well as their Public History and Political Education Committee.

Time: 2:30 pm EDT

Free!

Registration