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January 25, 2015

AHA 2015: Historical Perspectives on Ferguson (Video)

by Marcia Chatelain, William Jelani Cobb, Colin H. Gordon, Khalil Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson

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This video, broadcast on CSPAN, features a panel at the 2015 annual convention of the American Historical Association: "Understanding Ferguson: Race, Power, Protest, and the Past." Panelists include: Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University), William Jelani Cobb (University of Connecticut),  Colin H. Gordon (University of Iowa), Khalil Muhammad (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), and Heather Ann Thompson (Temple University).

Read entire article at CSPAN