This Friday, Radius and MIT's Community and Equity Office are hosting a lunch featuring a talk by Professor Vincent Intondi. Professor Intondi is an Associate Professor of History at Montgomery College and Director of Research for American University's Nuclear Studies Institute, a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement. 

Most of us may not equate the black freedom movement and the nuclear non-proliferation movement, but, indeed, African-Americans were some of the first citizens to speak out against the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  They argued that our resources could be spent much more wisely improving the lives of the poor rather than investing in the build-up of nuclear arms. 

Professor Intondi's study of this movement includes contributions by artists, clergy, musicians and civil rights leaders.  According to the publisher of African Americans Against the Bomb, Intondi invokes the work of Langston Hughes to Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama and offers an "eye-opening account of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people."

Come join us for both an eye-opening and mind-opening lunch this Friday in Room 3-270!  Please RSVP to weinmann@mit.edu.