Revolution In These Times: A Black Liberation Book Talk

The newly released book Revolution In These Times, by veteran Black Panther Party member, Black Liberation Army leader, and former political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad, delivers an analysis of how today’s resurgent right-wing agenda is an outgrowth of the ongoing and historical political struggle between the oppressed masses and settler-colonialism of America and Europe. Bin Wahad not only explores how white supremacist politics have recaptured the American imagination but also prescribes a radical grassroots response to counter this ideology and supplant the violent state repression that keeps it in power.

Engage directly with Dhoruba Bin Wahad live from his residence in Ghana for the DC launch of his book, in a discussion that pieces together fight-back strategies against the police and the state through a process of mobilizing in the streets, on the block, and in our communities, while gathering mass through antifascist coalition-building in a manner unrealized since the 1960s and 1970s. At this Black Liberation Book Talk you will get a primer on how Bin Wahad grounds us in the now, seamlessly weaving together firsthand accounts of his own and other’s revolutionary past in the history of struggle, alongside lessons for today and books will be available for purchase.

Dhoruba bin-Wahad was a leading member of the NY Black Panther Party, a Field Secretary responsible for organizing chapters throughout the East Coast, and a member of the Panther 21. Arrested in June 1971, he was framed as part of the illegal FBI Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) and subjected to unfair treatment and torture during his nineteen years in prison. During Dhoruba’s incarceration, litigation on his behalf produced over 300,000 pages of COINTELPRO documentation, and upon release in 1990 he was able to bring a successful lawsuit against the NY Depart. of Corrections for their criminal activities. Living in both Ghana and the U.S., Dhoruba continues to write and work promoting Pan Africanism, an uncompromising critique of imperialism and capitalism, and freedom for all political prisoners.

Moderated by Prof. Jame Pope, Howard University, Political Science

Co-sponsors: HU Dept of Political Science, Howard U Kwame Ture Society, Pan-African Community Action (PACA), Black Alliance for Peace- DC Citywide Alliance, All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), and Africa World Now Project.

Special thank you to WPFW 89.3 FM for serving as the media sponsor of this event.

This event is free and open to the public! Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.