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12:00pm CDT

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

Join author and educator Brian Jones for an urgent discussion of the power of Black history to challenge our assumptions about race and nation, as well as the meaning of Black history in the context of attacks on education today.

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Brian Jones

Brian Jones is the author of Black History Is for Everyone

Sunday September 6, 2026 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

Three Generations in the Struggle for Socialism and Black Liberation

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

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Gerald Lenoir, Jesse Hagopian, and Miles Hagopian—a grandfather, son, and grandson—reflect on three generations of struggle: from Black Studies student strikes, to socialist organizing, to anti-imperialist and anti-apartheid movements, to Black Lives Matter at School. They also discuss lessons from their family's discovery of the plantation that enslaved their ancestors.

Speakers

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian has taught in the public schools for over 20 years, serves on the Black Lives Matter at School steering committee, organizes for the Zinn Education Project, and founded the Ethnic Studies course at Seattle’s Garfield High School. He is the author of Teach Truth:... Read More →

Miles Hagopian

Gerald Lenoir

Sunday September 6, 2026 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT
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