Event

NYU Liberal Studies Presents the Black Millennial Panel

NYU Liberal Studies will launch their inaugural Black History Month with the Black Millennial Panel. The Feb 5th panelists include Dayo Adiatu, Reniqua Allen, R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Ari Melenciano and Afrodesia McCannon. 

“The American dream, the idea that anyone can succeed through hard work, is one of the most enduring myths in this country,” writes author and journalist Reniqua Allen in a January 5, 2019, New York Times article referencing her book, It Was All a Dream: How A New Generation is Navigating the Broken Promise of America. She emphasizes that the illusion to be upwardly mobile in the United States is especially not true for black millennials. Taking this idea, the Black Millennial Panel with Allen and Ari Melenciano, a research resident in the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch and founder and producer of the New Media Arts, Culture and Technology Festival, Afrotectopia, will discuss the challenges of Black millennials and how this generation works to redefine their status and pushes back.

**Free and open to the public. RSVP here.**