Events & Calendars "Protest to Power: Lessons From the Making of Newark's First Black Mayor, Ken Gibson"

In the streets of America, the rage is clear. How do we bottle all that energy before it goes away or gets ground into dust or slips from memory or becomes statistics on the laptops of newsrooms across the world or textbooks in schools? History, to become useful, must be used as lessons for today. In today’s space, fresh upon this latest wave of needless police violence, how do we convert the power and energy in the streets, to sustain power at all levels? Power in the streets, power in the suites.

Please join our discussion on June 16 at 7 p.m., when veterans of the civil rights and black power movements, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and representatives of the new movements for black lives, look at lessons learned from Newark, N.J., 50 years ago, when we converted the energy of the Newark rebellions and street organizing to change the power alignment in the city, forever!