Historical Relationships in the Struggle for Freedom: Black Palestinians & The Black Panther Party
Sat, Feb 10
|Sankofa Video & Books
The first in a budding series - learn about the historical relationships in the fight for liberation around the world. During this session, learn about Afro-Palestinians and the current state of Black and Palestinian solidarity.
Time & Location
Feb 10, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Sankofa Video & Books, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About Greg Thomas
A Global Black Studies scholar, GREG THOMAS is the author of The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power as well as Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh. He is also co-editor with L.H. Stallings of Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines. The founding editor of PROUD FLESH, an-e-journal, he has guest-edited a special issue of CR: The New Centennial Review entitled “Coloniality’s Persistence” (2003) as well as a “Close-Up” on Haile Gerima’s eleventh film, Teza, for Black Camera: An International Film Journal (2013). His articles and essays appear in periodicals such as Présence Africaine, Human Architecture, Journal of West Indian Literature, Jenda Journal, Small Axe, Theory & Event, Words.Beats.Life, The C.L.R. James Journal, Journal of Pan-African Studies, American Quarterly and African Literature Today. Currently, he is completing a book on the writings of George Jackson and continuing to curate the traveling “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine” exhibition, which first launched in 2015 at the museum of the Abu Jihad Center for the Political…