Book Event: Hip Hop in Africa
Come out for this talk and book signing with Msia Clark about the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems.
Conference: Pan-Africanism in the 21st Century: Challenges and Prospects
The Institute for Policy Studies and Revival of PanAfricanism Forum convene to evaluate the state of the global African movement, Black people in the U.S. as a domestic colony, and why African/Black community control is the only solution.
Film: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution
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.
Author Event: Unfinished Agenda
Join IPS, Teaching for Change books, and Busboys & Poets for a talk with noted attorney, educator, musician and community advocate, Junius Williams, presents and signs his new book on “Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power.”
Author Event: DARK DAYS, BRIGHT NIGHTS: From Black Power to Barack Obama
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.
Film: The Powerbroker – 2nd screening
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.
Film: The Powerbroker
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.