----- Original Message ----- From: "Ami M" <[email protected]> To: "AEROS PIERCE" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:44 PM Subject: PR for SNCC Panel
Please distribute October 28, 2010 Media Contact: Ami Motevalli William Grant Still Arts Center 323.734.1165 [email protected] The William Grant Still Arts Center Presents >From Freedom Rides to Black Power; SNCCs Radicalization of the Movement - a Panel Discussion Please join us on Saturday November 6, 2010 at 2 pm for a panel and discussion featuring local members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The panel will include Shaka Bogolani, Ayuko Babu, Bobbie Hodges-Betts and moderated by Lamont Yakey. Discussion will pan from experiential history to the effect SNCC had on radical strategy. The Panel discussion is part of the Exhibition Hell No, We Wont Go! 50 years of SNCC Hell No, We Wont Go! 50 Years of SNCC at the William Grant Still Arts Center, is a visual survey of 50 years of struggle in the civil rights movement to run from October 1 - December 18, 2010. The exhibit will feature photographs, posters, magazines, memos and other archival material of the work of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (/snik/). There will be a particular look at the activities of SNCC in Los Angeles, including a focus on Imam Jamil Al-Amin aka H. Rap Brown. and the work of the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee. SNCC , was a seminal civil rights organization, started in 1960. Initially lead by Ella Baker in student meetings at Shaw University, SNCC grew in to a large organization and movement who staged sit-ins, voter registration drives and Freedom Rides. One of the principal organizers for SNCC, Willie Ricks coined the term Black Power which was popularized in a speech by SNCC chairman Stokely Charmichael. Over the next decade, civil rights activism moved beyond lunch counter sit-ins. In this violently changing political climate, SNCC struggled to define its purpose as it fought white oppression. Out of SNCC came some of today's black leaders, such as Angela Davis, former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, Congressman John Lewis, Bernice Reagan and Sweet Honey and the Rock and NAACP chairman Julian Bond. Historian Howard Zinn was also once a member of SNCC. Together with hundreds of other students, they left a lasting impact on American history. School tours and study guides available upon request. For additional information call (323) 734-1165 or email [email protected] . The William Grant Still Arts Center is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, located at 2520 S.Westview St. Los Angeles, exhibit hours Tuesday through Saturday 12n-5p. PROGRAM EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES Hell No, We Wont Go! 50 years of SNCC Dates: October 1 December 18, 2010 Times: Tuesday - Saturday, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Events: Panel Discussion with Ayuko Babu, Shaka Bogolani and Bobbie Hodges-Betts, Moderated by Lamonte Yakey November 6, 2010, 2-4 pm Film Screening Footage of H Rap Brown / Imam Jamil, James Forman, Willie "Mukasa" Ricks, Kwame Ture, and excerpts from Eyes on the Prize etc... November 10, 2010 6 8:30 November 17, 2010 - 6-8:30 (Imam Jamil Al-Amin Screenings) Discussion on the movement today, lead by Byron Perez December 1, 2010 Location: William Grant Still Arts Center 2520 South West View Street Los Angeles, CA 90016 Cost: Free [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
