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A panel of scholars discussed the tenure and impact of Kenneth Gibson, elected in 1970 as Newark’s first Black mayor and the first Black mayor of any major Northeastern city. The examined th…

2018 is the 50th anniversary of the 1968 “Poor People’s Campaign” envisioned by Martin Luther King Jr. to shift the focus of the civil rights movement to economic issues. Reverend King was a…

Authors Kenneth Janken, The Wilmington Ten, Rhonda Williams, Concrete Demands, and Erik McDuffie, Sojourning for Freedom, participated in a discussion on the Black Power movement.

Panelists talked about the importance of historical narratives and how they affect our understanding of the common narrative. The panelists suggested common historical narratives have margin…

Authors Mary Frances Berry, Barbara Ransby, and Jeanne Theoharis talked about their books and about civil rights figures Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson. “Conversations in Black Freedom: Cele…

Jeffrey Perry talked about Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918. In the book Mr. Perry recounts the life of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927), a public intellectual, activist…