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    Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers

    Sports writers William Rhoden and Peter Golenbock and historian Joseph Dorinson discussed Jackie Robinson’s integration of major league baseball in April 1947 utilizing items in the Center f…

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    History of Lenape Forced Removals

    Native people, educators, and activists discussed the Lenape people, the native inhabitants of what is now New York City, and their forced removal from the area. This virtual program was hos…

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    The Fifties

    TIME Magazine former managing editor James Gaines profiled social and political activists of the 1950s, who he argued upends the notion that the decade was synonymous with conformity. This w…

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    The Kaepernick Effect

    Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin explored how former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s 2016 on-field political protests created a conversation on race and policing as well as the re…

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    Walk With Me

    Biographer Kate Clifford Larson recounted the life of the late civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hammer. This was a virtual event hosted by the Center for Brooklyn History in New York.

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