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Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones explored the efforts by Black women to win their right to vote. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridge,…

Howard University Afro-American Studies Professor Joshua Myers provided a history of the 1989 Howard University student protest, which closed the operations of the school for three days in…

Stacey Abrams, 2018 Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, discussed her blueprint to end voter suppression. This virtual event was sponsored by Sixth and I, a center for arts,…

Political analyst Tiffany Cross offered her thoughts on the power of the black vote. This was a virtual event hosted by the Commonwealth Club in San Franciscio.

Journalist and author Cameron McWhirter and historian Saje Mathieu discussed what is known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, a months-long period of racial unrest and violence against African…

Former Congresswoman Chisholm talked about her career as a politician, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a fighter for civil rights. She was a candidate for the Democratic…

James Baldwin talked about the civil rights movement, the mistaken worship of innocence and immaturity, the interdependent connections of the world, the U.S. guilt from taking Native…

Ohio State University history professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries discussed yesterday’s March on Washington and racial unrest.

Geoff Ward talked about the legacies of racial violence in America, particularly during the Jim Crow era. He is a professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University…

Authors Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Cornell West discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and next steps for the movement.

African American viewers expressed their thoughts on the state of civil rights in the U.S. This topic came amid the previous-day “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” rally and march. The event was held at the…

African American viewers expressed their thoughts on the state of civil rights in the U.S. This topic came amid the previous-day “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” rally and march. The event was held at the…

Conservative activist and former U.S. Air Force Captain Vernon Robinson discussed his book and yesterday’s March on Washington amid continued racial unrest.

Chad Williams is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. He talked about the post-war activism of these soldiers, explaining how after fighting for…

Wil Haygood talked about his biography Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Knopf; October 13, 2009). Born Walker Smith, Jr., the future title-holder spent his formative years in Harlem and mixed his…

Wil Haygood talked about the paperback reissue of his book King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company. In the book, Mr.…

NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson talked about Black voters and issues most important in campaign 2020.

Professor Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first black American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. She is a professor of humanities at Princeton University. She…

Purdue University associate professor of political science and African American studies Nadia Brown discusses Senator Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) VP nomination and the growing power of black…

Civil rights pioneers Fred Gray and Representative John Lewis (D-GA) talked about Rosa Parks and her long history of civil rights activism. They highlighted her influence in igniting boycotts and…