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Donna Murch

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Donna Murch is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. She is the author of the prize-winning book Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland and is currently completing a book entitled Crack in Los Angeles: Policing the Crisis and the War on Drugs.

She has published articles in the Journal of American History, New Politics, Jacobin, Boston Review, and Souls, among other publications. Her most recent book is Revolution in Our Lifetime, which explores the history and the legacy of the Black Panther Party at its 50th anniversary.

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