Film: COINTELPRO 101

Film: COINTELPRO 101

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.

Film: Black Cop

Film: Black Cop

A DC premiere movie that is an intense and timely political satire that provocatively takes on issues of race, class and power, followed by popular education style interaction with attendees.

10 Trumped Up Halloween Terrors

10 Trumped Up Halloween Terrors

A look at the real-life horrors our government is peddling this year — and a look at the movements rising up to stop them.

29th Annual WMS-AME Church UN NGO Conference

29th Annual WMS-AME Church UN NGO Conference

IPS’s Netfa Freeman speaks about the 2016 report of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent from their fact finding mission assessing human rights conditions of African/Black people in the U.S.

Woke!: Black Resistance to US Domestic and Foreign Policy

Woke!: Black Resistance to US Domestic and Foreign Policy

A discussion unpacking the role of Black organized resistance in building an even broader independent movement that addresses the economic needs of all poor and working people and the escalating violence that accompanies the neo-liberal agenda.

Reclaiming MLK

Reclaiming MLK

Dr. King left us a radical vision. Join IPS and a community of scholars and activists to reclaim this vision, our history and our future, part of the Institute for Policy Studies’s Liberation in Action 2017 Black History Month series!

The Bad News about Good Census Numbers

The Bad News about Good Census Numbers

Despite better numbers, the latest census data leaves much to be desired for closing the racial wage, wealth, and opportunity gaps in the United States.