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Film Screening and Discussion of “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed” Join the film screening and discussion of the documentary on the historic presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first woman & first Black major-party candidate to run for President of the United States in 1972. Cost: FREE RSVP Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-zoom-discussion-of-chisholm-72-unbought-and-unbossed2004-77-minutes-registration-115289140924 Born in Brooklyn to Caribbean immigrants, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) became one of the most consequential American politicians of the latter twentieth century. Raised in Brooklyn and Barbados, she excelled at academics, earning a BA from Brooklyn College in … Continued

Discussing Cynthia Kaufman’s new book “Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World” published by Bloomsbury Books Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labor, police abuse, and economic deprivation. In Challenging Power, Kaufman pairs each of these issues with an operation of power — the large scale influence of multinational corporations; the power of governments; the authority of financial … Continued