In Greenwood, Mississippi on June 16, 1966, Stokely Carmichael [at urging of Willie Hicks] asserted that:“We [have] been saying ‘freedom’ for six years…What we are going to start saying now is Black Power!” By 1972 there was an identifiable intersection and continuity in radical Black Power movements around the world, with a number of non-African groups in the Middle East and elsewhere rallying as oppressed peoples under call for “Black Power.” The momentum was so strong that SNCC as well as other groups called for and began to organize a Sixth Pan-African Congress to follow in the path of the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress of 1945 in Manchester that inspired the African independence movement.
This program will offer a unique perspective on the global dimensions of Black Power and in doing so excavate the unity in African world resistance.
Film featured: Panther in Africa.
Africa World Now Project (AWNP) is an educational program that seeks to merge theory with practice through an active agenda where we engage in various initiatives that map the continuities in history, culture and politics of the entire African World...Our mission is to (re)connect Africa with all of its known and unknown parts.
For more information contact: 202.256.9937 or 240.308.0788 or email:
africaworldnowproject@gmail.com; or visit www.busboysandpoets.com.
