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A yellow poster for the play The Front Page. A man in brown pants and suspenders sits on a desk speaking into a candlestick telephone.

Aug 27, 2026

Story Pitches & Advertising Pitches: Selling Newspapers

Rating: PG-13

B.A. Van Sise

A yellow poster for the play The Front Page. A man in brown pants and suspenders sits on a desk speaking into a candlestick telephone.

Aug 27, 2026

Story Pitches & Advertising Pitches: Selling Newspapers

Rating: PG-13

An orange poster for the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner with black-and-white photographs on it. The largest photograph is of a couple—the man is Black and the woman is white. There are two small portraits at the bottom of the poster: one is of an older white man and the other is of an older white woman.

Aug 13, 2026

After Act Black: Film Posters for a New Generation

Rating: PG-13

Vintage image of a woman looking down at a woman lying down on a bed.

Jul 28, 2026

A Career Deferred: Fredi Washington and Hollywood’s Color Line

Rating: G

Jul 16, 2026

Rating: G

A poster of an illustrated woman smoking in front of a green and yellow night skyline with a Black man's face smiling down.

Jul 2, 2026

Act Black: An Interview with Curator Es-pranza Humphrey

Rating: G

A poster of three yellow cartoon figures with a pink x on their torsos on an orange background.

Jun 18, 2026

AIDS & Its Meanings

Rating: PG-13

Poster of a woman in a yellow outfit in front of a tiled wall with colorful paint text on it.

Jun 4, 2026

Blackface / Boldface / Typeface: The Black Image & the Word

Rating: G

vintage poster advertising the film The Flying Ace

May 20, 2026

Detroit Design Week: Posters and Black History

Rating: G

A poster of a man in uniform sitting down and reading a book on top of a green rectangle.

May 6, 2026

Reading in Wartime?

Rating: G

Poster of two men standing without shirts on, holding the US flag and a condom on the other.

Apr 23, 2026

What Makes a Good AIDS Poster?

Rating: R

Poster of a pink triangle on a black background.

Apr 9, 2026

Love & Fury: The Fashion & Creative Industries Fight AIDS

Rating: R

Poster of a black illustration of a yellow cylindrical ancestor of the eel on a yellow background.

Mar 26, 2026

From the Collection: Double Entendres & Dinosaurs

Rating: G

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