November 6, 2025 | Rukshana Jalil From the Museum of the City of New York: Coming up this Wednesday, November 12th is The Robert A. And Elizabeth Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History: Brooklynites, a talk with Prithi Kanakamedala (Bronx Community College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) about her book, Brooklynites, which explores the history of Brooklyn’s free Black communities. Prithi will be in conversation with Peggy King Jorde, as they discuss why Public History is critical to our city’s future. Wednesday, November 12 6:30pm-8pm Museum of the City of New York MCNY are offering CUNY students $10 tickets — use Code: JEFFE10 Related This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.