A conversation with Bobby Seale - WED 4/5


Race and Pedagogy Institute presents "A Conversation With Bobby Seale," founding chairman and national organizer of the Black Panther Party, moderated by Professor Dexter Gordon, African American studies and communication studies.

This important leader in the effort to advance the cause of justice in the nation since the 1960s will be in Tacoma and the Race and Pedagogy Institute and African American Studies is embracing an opportunity to host him on campus April 5, 2017, thus providing opportunities for students and our broader Puget Sound community to engage with him in conversations about his life and his considerable and distinctive history of critical political engagement.

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