Step inside the legendary Village Gate with author Soyica Diggs Colbert, whose latest work, Freedom’s Gate, brings to life a powerful creative collective at the heart of the Civil Rights era.

Through rich cultural history and immersive storytelling, Colbert reveals how Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone forged artistic brilliance and political resolve in an underground New York nightclub that became a beacon for Black liberation.

Discover the friendships, performances, and radical imagination that reshaped American art and activism.