LANDMARK WEST! celebrates the following events honoring Black History on the Upper West Side. For city-wide Black History Month events, see NYCgo.com. 

February 2nd Saturday: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Broadway, between 61st & 62nd Streets) the Harlem Gospel Choir will perform in honor of the beginning of Black  

History Month.

February 15th Friday: Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery opens at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA).  

The exhibit explores the biblical aesthetic developed by the African Diaspora.

February 19th Tuesday: The New York Historical Society hosts panel discussion: "Lincoln, Douglass and the Colored Troops in Action." Outside, view the two leaders: civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass and 16th President Abraham Lincoln's statues stand tall in the city they made history in. Their relationship--though complicated in the beginning--is memorialized in bronze on the museum's steps.

February 28th Thursday: The Folk Art Museum hosts a Black History Month Illustrated Talk.  

Lee Kogan, curator of Ashe to Amen will speak about the self-taught artists featured in the exhibit at the MOBIA (see above).