Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:00 PM-7:00 PM

Cabot Asean Auditorium

D H O R U B A B I N W A H A D

Co-sponsored by the Toupin-Bolwell Fund (Deans of Arts, Sciences, & Engineering), Africana Studies, American Studies, Asian American Center, Center for the Study of Race & Democracy, English Department, Latino Center, Peace & Justice Studies, Sociology Department, and Pan-African Alliance

Dhoruba Bin Wahad is a former Black Panther Party leader from New York. Once a political prisoner in the USA for 19 years, he is a long time Pan-African activist, writer, and lecturer. On several occasions, Bin Wahad has appeared before the UN commission on Human Rights, and its special committee on Decolonization, as an NGO representative. He has helped organize several international forums on political prisoners and US human rights violations as well. Having worked with scores of civil war refugees in West and Central Africa seeking asylum in the United States and elsewhere, Bin Wahad is currently an advocate for the establishment of an All-African Refugee and Relief Foundation – spanning the continent and the diaspora – under  the  auspices  of  the  African  Union.    As  a  writer,  Bin  Wahad’s  work  appears in numerous publications from Covert Action Bulletin to The Black Scholar. In 1993, he would collaborate with Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur on the Semiotext(e) book, Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War against Black Revolutionaries. A Muslim, Bin Wahad continues to write for various Black periodicals in the U.S. as well as continental African and Middle-Eastern newspapers. Finally, his historic experiences are featured in two award-winning documentaries, Framing the Panthers in Black & White and Passin’   It  On:   The   Black   Panthers’   Search   for  Justice.

THE RISE OF DEMOCRATIC FASCISM: POST 60'S REVISION OF BLACK

RADICALISM IN AMERICA AND THE CORPORATE NATIONAL-SECURITY-STATE

For more information: greg.thomas@tufts.edu