This event will be livestreamed on YouTube, those in the DC area can register to attend in person here. Jakobi Williams will be signing copies of his book From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago. During the reception, history professor Dr. The panel will be followed by an open reception where audience members and panelists may continue the dialogue amongst historically significant records relating to social movements in America. The panelists include former Black Panther member and Congressman, Bobby Rush (D-IL) author of Black Panther Princess and daughter of former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown, Erika Brown-Abram co-creator of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza historian and activist, Princess Black and associate professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington, Dr. The moderator for the panel is journalist and author, A’Lelia Bundles. McGowan Theater at the National Archives in Washington, D. Where do these two movements meet? What has Black Lives Matter learned from Black Power? And as the nation’s record keeper – how does the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) record the history that has been and is currently being made? To commemorate the 50 th Anniversary of the Black Power movement, Say it Loud! The African-American Employee Affinity Group presents a panel discussion of distinguished guests from revolutionary movements of the past and present on Wednesday, Octoat 7:00pm in the William G. Fifty years later, in 2016, Black Lives Matter, co-founded by Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors, has become a movement advocating for dignity, justice, and respect in the wake of social and judicial tragedies occurring in America today. Their efforts created the Ten-Point Platform that became the foundation for the establishment of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Newton and Bobby Seale canvassed their neighborhood inquiring about issues and concerns of black residents. In a speech during the March against Fear in Mississippi, Stokely Carmichael made public the phase Black Power and moved the civil rights movement towards a black nationalist agenda. In 1966, Black Power emerged as a rallying call for African Americans to shift their focus from freedom now to the embrace of black cultural, political, and economic power.
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