Thursday, November 11, Harlem Speaks resumed with a talk featuring literature professor and the director of Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies, Robert O'Meally. He's author and editor of several books about jazz, including Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, and most recently, Uptown Conversation: New Jazz Studies. Professor O'Meally discussed his life-long love of jazz and Harlem; his scholarship on Ralph Ellison, one of the best writers on jazz of the last century; the Center's recent symposium on the artist Romare Bearden, in collaboration with the Whitney Museum, and more.