Dec 5th 2016

Love Liberation: 50 Years of BPP History

@ Saieh Hall for Economics

5757 S University Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Opening Monday, December 5th, from 6PM - 8PM

Part of the “All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party @50” series (csrpc.uchicago.edu/programs/all_power_to_the_people)

Tribute to Fred Hampton, Mark Clark and Mrs. Iberia Hampton by Flint Taylor, People’s Law Office People’s Law Office

Performance by Avery R. Young

Roundtable discussion with scholars and BPP members on the history and legacy of the Party, centering women, gender and sexuality.
Panelists include:
Joan Gray (BPP Illinois)
W.E. Dunbar (BPP Illinois)
Ericka Huggins (BPP Los Angeles, New Haven & Oakland)
Angela LeBlanc-Ernest (Independent Scholar and Filmmaker)
Mary Phillips (Africana Studies, Lehman College, CUNY)
Tracye Matthews (Historian, Assoc. Director, CSRPC)
Robyn Spencer (Historian, Lehman College, CUNY)

Discussion moderated by Elizabeth Todd-Breland (University of Illinois at Chicago).

Presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at UChicago and the Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project, with support from the The University of Chicago Institute of Politics, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

This event is free and open to the public.

This venue is physically accessible. Please contact the CSRPC at 773.702.8063 with any questions or accommodation requests.
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