NYC
2019
Event Type: 
Panel
Room: 
H209
Timeslot: 
Session 6: Sunday June 30th, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Host/Sponsor(s): 
Black Agenda Report
Event Organizer: 
Bruce Dixon
Description/Abstract of your Event: 

Reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans is a topic on the lips of many these days, Bruce Dixon, Aasentewa Nkrumah Ture and Pascal Robert will present a set of unorthodox and challenging views of the history of reparationist discourse, and the deployment and uses of reparationist discourse at the present juncture.

Participants

Pascal Robert
Florida Green Party

Pascal Robert is a graduate of Boston University School of Law and has been researching and writing about Black and Haitian politics for over 10 years.
He is also a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, Alternet.com, AllHipHop.com and Black Agenda Report. Pascal is now busy writing...

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Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture is a long-time anti-capitalist/socialist community organizer and activist. She is a dues-paying member of these...

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Bruce Dixon
Black Agenda Report, Georgia Green Party

A habitual troublemaker and incorrigible activist, Bruce Dixon has been comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable since 1968.

As a rank and file member of the Black Panther Party in 1969-1970, a 1970s rank-and-file union activist in a string of factories, plants and...

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