Be sure to join us this Thursday for our Over a Cup of Tea program, part of the Black History Month events: Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow: Black Power and Asian American Leftist Activism” By: Associate Professor, Jakobi Williams, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Department of History Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 Time: 5 pm to 6 pm Venue: Bridgwater Lounge, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center Description: The Civil Rights/Black Power movements (the Black Panther Party in particular) influenced much of the radical grassroots activism of Asian Americans in the 1960s. Although much of the Asian American movement was based in large part in nationalism, the Black Panther Party either worked in coalition with Asian American groups or Asian American groups modeled some of their methods and ideology after the Panthers.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:47:44 +0000