The program features keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West, along with Ms. Sybrina Fulton – the mother of #TrayvonMartin, Elaine Brown, Janaya “Future” Khan, Dr. Greg Carr, Professor Jody Armour, Queen Yonasda, and Dr. Melina Abdullah. Hosts include Tavis Smiley, Dominique DiPrima, Van Lathan, and Porch’se Miller. Performances by Nailah Porter, Pastor Cue, Yazmin Monet Watkins, Jimetta Rose DJ Domina, TYNACITY [THAT DJ], ISSAMAU, Kayo, Tiffany Rachal, the Fernando Pullum Youth Band, and more.
You can access the live stream by going to BLM Grassroots YouTube page or BLM-LA on Facebook! You can also catch the official livestream on Facebook with The Conversation Live and LA Progressive.
At 2:30 PM The Conversation Live hosted by James Farr will feature interviews from speakers and performers from the Black Brilliance Stage!
Black Lives Matter – California and each of the state’s eight chapters condemn the passage by the state legislature and signing into law by Governor Gavin Newsom of the unconstitutional and undemocratic bill AB 715 and its weak companion legislation, SB 48.
The United States government cornered her, framed her, caged her, made her a fugitive, then
named her a terrorist…their insidious lies woven from the same thread used to hunt Mama Harriet, to sever Nat Turner’s head and place on a stake, to rape our grandmothers, and to lynch
our grandfathers.
The occupation of Washington, DC by militarized troops at the behest of a racist, fascist Trump regime is the full-on declaration of war on Black people in America. While some “Black faces in high places” are complicit, becoming proxies for the colonizer, it is ultimately the power of the people that will defeat the oppressor. In DC, this is the long-held work of the #FreeDC movement and Black Washingtonians who have always resisted, never submitting to their own oppression.
