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Brian Jones (activist)

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to organize and promote public performances of primary texts from radical American history. In addition to his role as a director, Jones also often serves as an educator and as a performer. Jones' collaboration with Arnove and Zinn dates back to his nationwide of tour of Zinn's one-man play
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ticket. They received 184,419 votes (4.86%), which was more than enough for the party to retain statewide recognition. Jones was a member of the
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for 9 years, Jones has been a prominent critic of school privatization. He co-narrated the independent film "
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is an American educator, scholar, activist, and actor. He is the inaugural director of the
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Black Lives Matter At School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
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Jones has been published in a wide variety of media including
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Erickson, Ansley; Jones, Brian; Sanchez, Adam (2018-05-17).
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Jones is a long time member of the board of directors of
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Members of the International Socialist Organization
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Index

Center for Educators and Schools
The New York Public Library
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Black Lives Matter At School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History
Voices of a Peoples History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Marx in Soho
The Flores Exhibits
New York City Public Schools
The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman
Waiting for "Superman"
In 2014
Lieutenant Governor of New York
Howie Hawkins
Green Party of New York
International Socialist Organization
The New York Times
The Guardian
Socialist Worker
Jacobin
Chalkbeat
Susan Pourfar
"Welcome to NYPL's Center for Educators and Schools"
"Contact Information for Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"
"Past Fellows: Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program"
"Brian Jones | New York Public Library - Academia.edu"
"BCALA Announces the 2023 Literary Awards Winners"
"Board | Voices of a People's History of the US"
"Voices of a People's History at the Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry"

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