Labor/Community Strategy Center
UCLA Department of History
Strategy and Soul Movement Center
Present
Akinyele Umoja
Professor Department African-American Studies at Georgia State University
Author: We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
The Republic of New Africa and the Black revolutionary nationalist traditions
historical observations and lessons for today’s movement
Welcome,Channing Martinez
lead organizer—Labor/Community Strategy Center
Introduction Robin D.G. Kelley
Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA.
Editor, The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World by Walter Rodney
Conversation with Akinyele Umoja and Eric Mann
host, Voices from the Frontlines, author: Katrina’s Legacy: The Black Nation
and People of the World Confront the U.S. Empire and its Genocidal Climate Crimes
Respondent—Jeanette Charles
International Solidarity Liaison with Venezuelanalysis
Audience Questions and Discussion
Book Sales and Signing
Suggested donations $10 general admission $5 students
Thursday May 9th 2019
doors open @6pm, program begins @7pm
Strategy & Soul
3546 w Martin Luther King Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90008
