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Zoom schedule appears on our website at harvard. Com. I will be contacting a link to support event night tonight possible of the independent bookstore thank you for tuning in we support your support now and always. Thank you for your patience and understanding so now im so pleased to introduce tonight speakers professor jones that the president ial professor at Johns Hopkins university and the organization of american historians for legal history and those scholarships with columbia universitys center for critical analysis. As well as pbs and netflix and others and also the coeditor of the africanamerican culture and the birthright citizen but tonight professor jones of the correspondent for the New York Times Pulitzer Prize vanguard. It was that expensive history of black women and National Book awardwinning author the political historian and this is the commanding history of the struggle of africanamerican women for political power is a without further ado we will go to our guest. Th