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Robyn C. Spencer is a historian of the Black Freedom struggle who teaches at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender and the Black Panther Party (Duke University Press, 2016) and a member of the Campaign to Bring Mumia Home and Black for Palestine. She is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of Scholars for Social Justice.
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