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!
In many ways this is a revisitation of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, in which ruling Justice Roger Taney claimed, “African Americans had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”.
In many ways this is a revisitation of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, in which ruling Justice Roger Taney claimed, “African Americans had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”.
Our flight has never been dependent on who occupies the White House. It is driven by our secret duty in our deep commitment to justice and the liberation of our people.
