The Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) wraps up its last session of “Black Space,” a series of intimate and candid conversations exploring the experiences of a diverse group of black artists in the world today. The talks are led by Ashley Nicole Baptiste, JCTC’s Associate Artistic Director. “I want to create an intentional safe space where black artists from around the world can come together and have a human-to-human exchange about art, race and life,” says Baptiste, an actor and a veteran youth theatre educator with the JCTC Youth Theatre and the Stories of Greenville initiative, working with high school students in the Greenville neighborhood. “This series is about expansion, and pushing past preconceived notions of blackness.”