The US state is now occupying the city of Minneapolis after murdering Renée Good and Alex Pretti. It is terrifying migrant communities and assaulting residents in the name of anti-Blackness, targeting Somalis and people of color on the same ground where it killed George Floyd in 2020.

Facilitated by Debt Collective Visionary Escalator Dr. Shamell Bell and co-sponsored by the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, this event features leading scholar-activists Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jeanelle K. Hope in conversation on why we must draw on the Black Anti-Fascist Tradition in this moment. From Ida B. Wells to Angela Davis, W.E.B Du Bois, and the Black Panther Party, Africans in the diaspora have much to teach us about the relationship of anti-Blackness to fascism, authoritarianism, and state repression. They have also taught us much about how to organize against it.

FACILITATORS:

Dr. Shamell Bell & Bill V. Mullen, Coalition for Action in Higher Education

SPEAKERS:

Charisse Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor at Wayne State University.

Jeanelle K. Hope is a native of Oakland, California. She is an independent scholar of Black political thought, culture and social movements.