2024 SPRING
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Feb 01
Before Brown
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Matt Delmont
Dartmouth College -
Margaret Burnham
Northeastern University -
Cookie Woolner
University of Memphis -
Dylan Penningroth
University of California - Berkeley
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Mar 07
Black Women, Freedom Making, and the Long 1960s
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Anastasia Curwood
University of Kentucky -
Suzanne Cope
New York University -
Christina Greene
University of Wisconsin
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Apr 04
Food, Life, and Leisure
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Blair LM Kelley
University of North Carolina -
Theresa Runstedtler
American University -
Bobby J. Smith II
University of Illinois -
Ava Purkiss
University of Michigan
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May 02
Educational Injustice and the Struggle for Liberatory Education
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Leslie Alexander
Rutgers University -
Zebulon Vance Miletsky
Stony Brook University -
Keith Mayes
University of Minnesota -
Conor Tomas Reed
Shape of Cities to Come Institute
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2023 FALL
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Oct 05
Screening and discussion of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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Yoruba Richen
CUNY Newmark School of Journalism -
Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College CUNY -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY
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Nov 02
The Politics of Political Repression
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Charisse Burden-Stelly
Wayne State University -
Lerone Martin
Stanford University -
Adam Elliott-Cooper
Queen Mary, University of London
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Dec 07
Financing Freedom: Black Women and Economic Self-Determination
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Tanisha Ford
CUNY Graduate Center -
Shennette Garrett Scott
Tulane University -
Crystal Moten
American University
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Jan 04
New Perspectives on the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King
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Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
University of Florida -
Brandon Terry
Harvard University -
Traci Parker
UC Davis
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2023 SPRING
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Mar 02
Ten Years of Conversations in Black Freedom Studies
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Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY -
Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College CUNY -
Komozi Woodard
Sarah Lawrence College -
Brian Jones
New York Public Library
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Apr 06
Writing Black Activist Lives
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Shana Redmond
Columbia University -
Dan Berger
University of Washington Bothell -
Shanna Greene Benjamin
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Patricia Romney
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May 04
The politics of religion and the role of Black faith
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Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
University of Michigan -
Melissa Ford
Slippery Rock University -
Todne Thomas
Harvard University
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2022 FALL
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Sep 01
Surviving Racial Terror: Lessons from Black Women's Lives
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Keisha N. Blain
Brown University -
Treva Lindsey
The Ohio State University -
Erica R. Edwards
Yale University
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Oct 06
From CPS to Dobbs to the Carceral System–What History Shows Us for Challenging Systems of Oppression Today
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Anne Gray Fischer
University of Texas at Dallas -
Dorothy Roberts
University of Pennsylvania -
Loretta Ross
Smith College
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Nov 03
Towards Justice and Holistic Health
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Zakiya Luna
Washington University in St. Louis -
Steven William Thrasher
Northwestern University -
Dana-Ain Davis
CUNY Graduate Center
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Dec 01
Education for Liberation
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Brian Jones
New York Public Library -
Michael Hines
Stanford University -
Kabria Baumgartner
Northeastern University -
Christopher Bonastia
Lehman College
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2022 SPRING
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Feb 03
Black New York
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Tammy L. Brown
Miami University -
Christopher Hayes
Rutgers University -
Ariella R. Rotramel
Connecticut College -
Paula Marie Seniors
Virginia Tech University
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Mar 03
Black Power Revisited
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Robin Hayes
Author and Filmaker -
D'Weston Haywood
Hunter College, CUNY -
Edward Onaci
Ursinus College -
Monica White
University of Wisconsin
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Apr 07
Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire
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Justene Edwards
University of Virginia -
Adom Getachew
The University of Chicago -
Peter James Hudson
University of California, Los Angeles -
Daniel Immerwahr
Northwestern University
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May 05
Racism and Resistance in the Post Civil Rights Era
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Carol Anderson
Emory University -
Elizabeth Hinton
Yale University -
Emily Hobson
University of Nevada, Reno -
Daniel Lucks
Independent Scholar
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Jun 02
Films of Black Struggle
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Cynthia Gordy Giwa
Filmaker -
Tayo Giwa
Filmaker -
Emma Francis Snyder
Filmaker
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2021 FALL
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Sep 02
Black Health: Medical Racism, Resistance, and Wellness
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George Aumoithe
Stony Brook University -
Deirdre Cooper Owens
University of Nebraska, Lincoln -
Stephanie Y. Evans
Georgia State University -
Martin Summers
Boston College
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Oct 07
Understanding Policing and Surveillance in America
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Daniel S. Chard
Western Washington University -
Victoria Law
Freelance journalist and writer -
Marisol LeBrón
University of California, Santa Cruz -
Stuart Schrader
Johns Hopkins University
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Nov 04
Education as a Practice of Freedom
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Davarian Baldwin
Trinity College -
Jarvis Givens
Harvard University -
Jesse Hagopian
Teacher, Author, Editor, Activist -
Elizabeth Todd-Breland
University of Illinois, Chicago
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Dec 02
Radical Black, LGBTQ+ Feminist Lives
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Moya Bailey
Northwestern University -
Laura Lovett
University of Pittsburgh -
Barbara Smith
Author, Editor, Activist, Teacher -
Emily Thuma
University of Washington, Tacoma
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2021 SPRING
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Feb 04
Civil Rights Legacies: Martin, Malcolm, Gwen, and Julian
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Ashley Farmer
University of Texas at Austin -
Pam Horowitz
Southern Poverty Law Center -
Peniel Joseph
University of Texas at Austin
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Mar 04
Black Women in History and Struggle
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Daina Ramey Berry
University of Texas at Austin -
Kali Nicole Gross
Emory University -
Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College CUNY
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Apr 01
Black and Red: Black Liberation and Socialism
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Charisse Burden-Stelly
Wayne State University -
Robin D. G. Kelley
University of California, Los Angeles -
Barbara Smith
Author, Editor, Activist, Teacher
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May 06
Sounds of Freedom: The Music of Black Liberation
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Hanif Abdurraqib
Author, Poet, Critic -
Shana Redmond
Columbia University -
Rickey Vincent
University of California, Berkeley
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2020 FALL
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Sep 03
How Did We Get Here?: The Long Struggle for Educational Justice in New York
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Ujju Aggarwal
The New School for Social Research -
Ernest Morrell
University of Notre Dame -
Terrenda White
University of Colorado, Boulder
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Oct 01
Fighting for the Franchise: A Century of Struggle for Voting Rights
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Carol Anderson
Emory University -
Ari Berman
Type Media Center -
Martha Jones
Johns Hopkins University -
Reverend Liz Theoharis
Poor People's Campaign
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Nov 05
Histories of Multiracial Solidarity and Struggle
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
California State University, Hayward -
Johanna Fernandez
Baruch College CUNY -
Paul Ortiz
University of Florida
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Dec 03
Resisting Carceral Cities: Prisons, Police, and Punishment in Historical Perspective
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Garrett Felber
University of Mississippi -
Kelly Lytle Hernandez
University of California, Los Angeles -
Carl Suddler
Emory University
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2020 SPRING
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Feb 06
Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and the Case for Reparations
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Nathan Connolly
Johns Hopkins University -
Beryl Satter
Rutgers University, Newark -
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Princeton University
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Mar 05
The Long Struggle Against Educational Injustice
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Rachel Devlin
Rutgers University, New Brunswick -
Devin Fergus
University of Missouri -
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
Western Carolina University
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Apr 02
Radical Black Queer and Feminist Lives (Cancelled due to Covid Crisis)
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Saidiya Hartman
Columbia University -
Imani Perry
Princeton University -
Barbara Smith
Author, Editor, Activist, Teacher
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May 07
The Poor People's Campaign, the Young Lords, and Black, Brown, Yellow, White, and Red Organizing (Cancelled due to Covid Crisis)
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Johanna Fernandez
Baruch College CUNY -
Paul Ortiz
University of Florida -
Reverend Liz Theoharis
Poor People's Campaign
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2019 FALL
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Sep 05
Stop Killer Cops: Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and the Liberal Establishment
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Max Felker-Kantor
Ball State University -
LaShawn Harris
Michigan State University -
Naomi Murakawa
Princeton University
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Oct 03
Rap Brown, Police Repression, and the Torture Machine
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Simon Balto
The University of Iowa -
Arun Kundnani
New York University -
Flint Taylor
People's Law Office
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Nov 07
The Black Revolution on Campus
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John Bracey, Jr.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst -
Stefan Bradley
Loyola Marymount University -
Shirletta Kinchen
University of Louisville
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Dec 05
The Black Athlete in the Freedom Struggle
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Louis Moore
Grand Valley State University -
Wyomia Tyus
Olympic Athlete -
Dave Zirin
Sports Editor, The Nation
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2019 SPRING
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Feb 07
Rethinking Black Women Freedom Fighters Gloria Richardson, Louise Thompson Patterson, and the Women of the Nation of Islam
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Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Cabrini University -
Keith Gilyard
Pennsylvania State University -
Ula Taylor
University of California, Berkeley
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Mar 07
Radical Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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Barbara Ransby
University of Illinois, Chicago -
Barbara Smith
Author, Editor, Activist, Teacher -
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Princeton University
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Apr 04
Black Women's Internationalism
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Keisha N. Blain
Brown University -
Ashley Farmer
University of Texas at Austin -
John Portlock
University of Rochester
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May 02
The Struggle Against Police Brutality, Mass Incarceration, and Educational Discrimination in the Jim Crow North
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Kristopher Burrell
Hostos Community College, CUNY -
James Forman
Yale Law School -
Clarence Taylor
Baruch College CUNY
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2018 FALL
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Sep 06
Black Health and Community Activism
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Dr. Julius Garvey
Queens Hospital Center -
Gabriel Mendes
Bard Prison Initiative -
Alondra Nelson
Columbia University
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Oct 04
Rethinking H. Rap Brown and Black Power
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Arun Kundnani
New York University -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY -
Akinyele Umoja
Georgia State University
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Nov 01
The Struggle for Voting Rights and the Poor People's Campaign
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Reverend William Barber
Poor People's Campaign -
Gloria Browne-Marshall
John Jay College, CUNY -
Reverend Liz Theoharis
Poor People's Campaign
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Dec 06
Black Politics and the Struggle for Justice in Sports
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Howard Bryant
ESPN -
Amira Rose Davis
Pennsylvania State University -
Randy Roberts
Purdue University -
Toni Smith-Thompson
Activist Athlete, New York Civil Liberties Union
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2018 SPRING
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Feb 01
Black Resistance to Trump Tyranny
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Haki Madhubuti
Third World Press Foundation -
Noliwe Rooks
Cornell University -
Michael Simanga
Georgia State University
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Mar 01
Revisiting the Uprisings of the 1960s
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Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin
City College of San Francisco -
Laura Hill
Bloomfield College -
Peter Levy
York College of Pennsylvania -
Rosie Uyola
Rutgers University
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Apr 05
50 Years After the Assassination of Martin Luther King
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Mary Frances Berry
University of Pennsylvania -
Thomas Jackson
University of North Carolina, Greensboro -
David Stein
University of California, Los Angeles -
Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College CUNY
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May 03
Abolitionism and Slave Resistance
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Sowande' Mustakeem
Washington University, St. Louis -
Manisha Sinha
University of Connecticut -
Sasha Turner
Quinnipiac University
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2017 FALL
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Sep 07
Fifty Years After the Newark and Detroit Uprisings
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Say Burgin
Dickinson College -
Mark Krasovic
Rutgers University -
Junius Williams
Rutgers University
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Oct 05
The Fannie Lou Hamer Centennial and Black Women's Organizing Traditions
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Katherine Charron
North Carolina State University -
Ashley Farmer
University of Texas at Austin -
Charles Payne
University of Chicago -
Gloria Richardson
SNCC and former leader of the Cambridge movement
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Nov 02
The Black Freedom Struggle and the Strange Career of Jim Crow New York
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Tahir Butt
CUNY Graduate Center -
Brian Purnell
Bowdoin College -
Christopher Tinson
Hampshire College
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Dec 07
The Black Freedom Struggle and the Strange Career of Jim Crow in the Midwest
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Keona Ervin
University of Missouri -
Nishani Frazier
Miami University -
Patrick Jones
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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2017 SPRING
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Feb 02
Black Power at 50
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Jamala Rogers
Organizer, Author -
Mark Speltz
Author, Historian -
Stephen Ward
University of Michigan -
Komozi Woodard
Sarah Lawrence College
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Mar 02
Intersectional Black Panther History Project
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Angela LeBlanc-Ernest
Independent Scholar -
Tracye Matthews
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture -
Mary Phillips
Lehman College CUNY -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY
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Apr 06
Black Athletes and the Freedom Struggle
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Jennifer H. Lansbury
Independent Scholar -
Johnny Smith
Georgia Institute of Technology
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May 04
The Long Fight Against New York's Police Brutality
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Michael Flamm
Ohio Wesleyan University -
Christopher Hayes
Rutgers University -
Cathy Schneider
American University -
Clarence Taylor
Baruch College CUNY
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2016 FALL
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Sep 01
Black Women and the Criminal Justice System
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Keisha N. Blain
Brown University -
Sarah Haley
UCLA -
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Princeton University
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Oct 06
Northern Organizing and Cultural Renaissance
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Deborah Cullen-Morales
Columbia University -
Erik Gellman
Roosevelt University -
Anne Knupfer
Purdue University -
Yasmin Ramirez
Hunter College CUNY
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Nov 03
The War on Poverty at 50
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Elizabeth Hinton
Yale University -
Alejandra Marchevsky
California State University, Los Angeles -
Crystal Sanders
Pennsylvania State University
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Dec 01
Honoring the Legacy of Black Women Radicals Gloria Richardson and Mae Mallory
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Ashley Farmer
University of Texas at Austin -
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Cabrini University -
Gloria Richardson
SNCC and former leader of the Cambridge movement
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2016 SPRING
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Feb 04
Black Power and Political Repression
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Kenneth Janken
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
Erik McDuffie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Rhonda Williams
Case Western Reserve University
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Mar 03
Women in the Black Panther Party
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Ericka Huggins
Former Black Panther Party leader; Laney College -
Mary Phillips
Lehman College CUNY -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY
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Apr 07
The Church and the Struggle
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Kevin McGruder
Antioch College -
Genna Rae McNeil
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -
Jennifer Scanlon
Bowdoin College
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May 05
Educational Injustice and Organizing
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Matt Delmont
Dartmouth College -
Ansley T. Erickson
Teachers College, Columbia University -
Carla Shedd
Columbia University
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Jun 02
The Struggle against Racism and Repression
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Aram Goudsouzian
University of Memphis -
Aldon Morris
Northwestern University -
Caleb Smith
Yale University
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2015 FALL
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Sep 03
Fallen Freedom Fighters: An Evening commemorating the lives of Maya Angelou, Chokwe Lumumba, General Baker, Thelma Dale and Amiri Baraka
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Dayo Gore
University of California, San Diego -
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Columbia University -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY -
Akinyele Umoja
Georgia State University -
Komozi Woodard
Sarah Lawrence College
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Oct 01
The Young Lords Party, Part I
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Johanna Fernandez
Baruch College CUNY -
Jose Cha-Cha Jimenez
Founder, Young Lords -
Felipe Luciano
Co-founder, New York Young Lords -
Wilson Valentín-Escobar
Hampshire College
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Nov 05
Protest, Women and Performance
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Ruth Feldstein
Rutgers University, Newark -
Tanisha Ford
CUNY Graduate Center -
Sherie Randolph
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Dec 03
Problems with History of Racial Policing in NYC
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Mary Frances Berry
University of Pennsylvania -
LaShawn Harris
Michigan State University -
Shannon King
The College of Wooster
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2015 SPRING
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Feb 05
50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X: Malcolm X and Black Radical Women
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Rosemari Mealy
City College of New York Center for Worker Education -
Gloria Richardson
SNCC and former leader of the Cambridge movement -
Komozi Woodard
Sarah Lawrence College
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Mar 05
Race and the Criminal Justice System: Political Prisoners, Resistance, and Mass Incarceration Part I
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Dan Berger
University of Washington Bothell -
Victoria Law
Freelance journalist and writer -
Bryan Stevenson
Equal Justice Initiative
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Apr 02
Race and the Criminal Justice System: Political Prisoners, Resistance, and Mass Incarceration Part II
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore
CUNY Graduate Center -
Arun Kundnani
New York University -
Laura Whitehorn
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May 07
Black and Brown Coalitions
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Johanna Fernandez
Baruch College CUNY -
Sonia Lee
Washington University in St. Louis -
Alejandra Marchevsky
California State University, Los Angeles -
Fred Opie
Babson College
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2014 FALL
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Sep 04
The Urban Crisis: An Unfinished Agenda
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Robert Curvin
Rutgers University -
Clarence Taylor
Baruch College CUNY -
Junius Williams
Rutgers University
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Oct 02
Education for Liberation and Freedom Schooling
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Ujju Aggarwal
The New School for Social Research -
Nicole Burrowes
University of Virginia and CUNY Graduate Center -
Charles Payne
University of Chicago -
Brian Purnell
Bowdoin College
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Nov 06
The Political Life and Legacy of Shirley Chisholm
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Zinga Fraser
Brooklyn College CUNY -
Barbara Winslow
Brooklyn College CUNY
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Dec 04
Building Cooperative Economics and Movement Community Institutions
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Laura Hill
Bloomfield College -
Alondra Nelson
Columbia University -
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
John Jay College CUNY
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2014 SPRING
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Feb 06
Slavery, White Supremacy, and Struggle in American Education
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Ansley T. Erickson
Teachers College, Columbia University -
Jonna Perrillo
The University of Texas at El Paso -
Craig Steven Wilder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mar 06
Sisters in the Struggle: Sustaining Black Women’ Emancipation from Racism, Sexism and Violence
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Emilye Crosby
SUNY Geneseo -
Mary Phillips
Lehman College CUNY -
Sherie Randolph
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY
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Apr 03
The Jim Crow North and the Global History of Segregated Cities
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Karen Miller
Laguardia Community College CUNY -
Carl Nightingale
University of Buffalo
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May 01
The Biography of Global Black Power Politics: Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney
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Peniel Joseph
University of Texas at Austin -
Gloria Richardson
SNCC and former leader of the Cambridge movement -
Michael West
Binghamton University SUNY
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Jun 05
Education for Liberation: How Parents, Teachers, and Students Organize for Self-Emancipation
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Ujju Aggarwal
The New School for Social Research -
Stefan Bradley
St. Louis University -
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Ohio State University
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2013 FALL
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Sep 05
The Roots of Harlem Radicalism and Garveyism
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Jeffrey Perry
Independent Scholar -
Mary Rolinson
Georgia State University -
William Seraile
Lehman College CUNY (Emeritus)
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Oct 03
The Blues People 50 Years Later
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Amiri Baraka
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Ingrid Monson
Harvard University -
John Szwed
Columbia University
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Nov 07
The War on Poverty and The Struggle for Welfare Rights
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Susan Youngblood Ashmore
Emory University -
Premilla Nadasen
Barnard College -
Annelise Orleck
Dartmouth College
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Dec 05
Black Power TV
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Madeline Anderson
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Devorah Heitner
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2013 SPRING
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Mar 07
The Black Panther Party: Oakland and Chicago
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Donna Murch
Rutgers University New Brunswick -
Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY -
Jakobi Williams
Indiana University
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Apr 04
The Economics of Black Power
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David Goldberg
Wayne State University -
Laura Hill
Bloomfield College -
Julia Rabig
Dartmouth College
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May 02
Freedom North: The Black Freedom Struggle in New York
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Brian Purnell
Bowdoin College -
Clarence Taylor
Baruch College CUNY
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Jun 06
Black Radical Internationalism
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Robyn C. Spencer-Antoine
Lehman College CUNY -
Akinyele Umoja
Georgia State University -
Michael West
Binghamton University SUNY
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Jul 19
Honoring the Legacies of Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson
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Mary Frances Berry
University of Pennsylvania -
Barbara Ransby
University of Illinois, Chicago -
Jeanne Theoharis
Brooklyn College CUNY
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