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Saturday
Evening Feature Event:
Harry
Belafonte, Angela Davis and David Harvey
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Imagining a World with
Transformative Justice:
Reform
and/or Revolution Today
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Harry
Belafonte exposed
America to world music and spent his life challenging and overturning
racial barriers across the globe.
Belafonte
met a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on King’s historic visit to New York
in the early 1950s. Belafonte and King developed a deep and abiding
friendship, and Belafonte played a key role in the civil rights movement,
including the 1963 March on Washington.
In
1985, disturbed by war, drought, and famine in Africa, Belafonte helped
organize the Grammy-winning song “We Are the World,” a multi-artist effort
to raise funds for Africa. Belafonte was active in efforts to end apartheid
in South Africa and to release Nelson Mandela.
Belafonte
served as the cultural advisor for the Peace Corps, a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador and was honored as an Ambassador of Conscience by Amnesty
International. Recently, Belafonte founded the Sankofa Justice & Equity
Fund, a non-profit social justice organization that utilizes the power of
culture and celebrity in partnership with activism. It is a space for
artists to contribute their talents to build awareness and confront the
issues that negatively impact marginalized communities.
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Angela
Y. Davis
is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of
oppression in the U.S. and abroad. Over the years she has been active as a
student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. She is a living
witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era. Today she
remains an advocate of prison abolition and has developed a powerful
critique of racism in the criminal justice system. She is a founding member
of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling
of the prison industrial complex. Angela Davis is Distinguished Professor
Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at
the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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David
Harvey is
a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the world's
most cited academic geographer and the author of many books and essays
influential in the development of modern geography as a discipline. His
work has contributed to broad social and political debate, and he is
credited with helping to resurrect social class and Marxist methods as
serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism,
particularly its neoliberal form
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Celebrating 10 Years
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