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.
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.
Transit equity isn’t just about where you sit on the bus. It’s about whether you can get on a bus at all.
Belafonte’s own version of a triple legacy — music, writing, and social justice — is still on the rise.
Come to donate your Stuff, share refreshments with us, and tell us your stories!
Under the guise of protecting police, laws are being enacted that are nothing more than attempts to censor and criminalize political resistance and protests of police violence.
The war abroad and the war at home are both fueled by a fear of encroaching chaos — and it’s hard to miss the racist subtext.
The infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling once denied African Americans any and all rights as human beings. Has anything changed?
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.
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.
For 50 years, Detroit’s own John Conyers has been an advocate for important social issues.
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”
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.
Heinous schemes to limit the right to vote keep appearing in state legislatures.