Black History Is for Everyone

Brian Jones is an educator, scholar, and activist. He served as the director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and as the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He holds a PhD in Urban Education from CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History. Jones is a longtime member of the board of directors of Voices of a People’s History of the United States. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Jacobin, and Chalkbeat.