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Hartford Reads in Color Book Club

"Revolution in Our Time" by Kekla Magoon

Hartford Reads In Color Book Club invites you to participate in a book discussion about "Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People" by Kekla Magoon

Hartford L.I.T invites you to join for exciting reads on Sunday, February 26th at 2pm

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"Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People" by Kekla Magoon

In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers’ community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers’ story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members—mostly women—and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens.