Join five outstanding leaders of movements in the 1960s, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Arthur Waskow, and Nelson and Joyce Johnson representing the U.S. National Council of Elders, discuss the launch of the Greensboro Declartation.
An IPS and DC Community Cinema preview about the Barefoot College, where rural women around the world, are trained to become solar engineers so that they can bring electricity back to their homes.
An IPS and DC Community Cinema preview about Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights, one of the most celebrated — and controversial — leaders of the civil rights era.
The series to promote intergenerational discussion will address what it take to save a neighborhood these days.
Join us for a lively talk and book signing about a narrative chronicle of race in America, and the successes, failures, and stalemates of black leaders in the past fifty years.
Institute for Policy Studies, with Teaching for Change bookstore and Busboys and Poets, welcomes Matt Herron, Dorie Ladner, and a panel moderated by Askia Muhammad to discuss the book on "Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement"
Institute for Policy Studies is proud to co-sponsor a Sunday evening screening of "She's Beautiful When She's Angry," a new film that takes a provocative look at the birth of the women's liberation movement between 1966 and 1971.
An IPS and Indie Lens Pop-Up (formerly Community Cinema) preview screening about the turbulent 1960s when change was coming to America, the fault lines could no longer be ignored, and a new revolutionary culture emerged seeking to drastically transform the system.
Come to donate your Stuff, share refreshments with us, and tell us your stories!
An intimate sit down with author Max Elbaum to discuss his book that is the first in-depth study of the long march of the US New Left after 1968 on, and a discussion of a then and now’ compare and contrast of what it might mean for today.
Join us for a viewing of the documentary exposing the FBI's strategy to prevent movements and communities from overturning white supremacy and creating racial justice through illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.