Panel Discussion | March 8 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Remote; Link provided upon registration.
Dan Berger, Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty; Waldo Martin, Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley; Michael Simmons, International Human Rights Activist and Community Organizer; Ula Taylor, Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley
American Cultures, Multicultural Community Center
The American Cultures Center and the Multicultural Community Center at UC Berkeley are excited to present the Staff as Students of Social Justice (SSSJ) public disussion series, Aspirations of Material Anti-Racism: Whats Next?
The SSSJ Program is now in its third year, supporting the growth of a staff-student community engaging in antiracist pedagogies through enrollment in AC courses and a specially designed weekly discussion seminar. The SSSJ Spring 2023 lecture series continues to support this unique community of learning among UC Berkeley staff by centering a set of conversations between UC Berkeley faculty and affiliated contemporaries of their work beyond UC Berkeley.
For any questions, please email sssj@berkeley.edu.
The Long Arc of Freedom Struggles is a discussion of Dan Bergers latest publication, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey featuring Professor Dan Berger, Professor Waldo Martin, Professor Ula Taylor, and International Human Rights and Peace Activist Michael Simmons.
Book Description
A new history of Black Liberation, told through the intertwined story of two grassroots organizers The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never been told. Stayed On Freedom brings into focus two unheralded Black Power activists who dedicated their lives to the fight for freedom. Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons fell in love while organizing tenants and workers in the South. Their commitment to each other and to social change took them on a decades-long journey that traversed first the country and then the world. In centering their lives, historian Dan Berger shows how Black Power united the local and the global across organizations and generations. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, Stayed On Freedom is a moving and intimate portrait of two people trying to make a life while working to make a better world.
All Audiences, Alumni, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Prospective
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