Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Speaks at Detroit Public Meeting: '400 Years of Racist Massacres and People's Resistance,' Sat. July 18, 2015, 5:00-8:00pm
For Immediate Release
Media Advisory
Event: Workers World Detroit Branch Public Meeting
Topic: 400 Years of Racist Massacres and People's Resistance, From Jamestown to Charleston
Speaker: Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire and Contributing Editor for Workers World
Date: Sat. July 18, 5:00-8:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinette, Near WSU Campus, Midtown
Contact: 313-671-3715
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
On June 17 a massacre of nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina sent shock waves throughout the United States and the world. This racist killings inside an historic church founded in the resistance to slavery in 1818, was by no means an isolated incident.
Africans in America have been fighting racism and genocidal violence since 1619 when 20 people were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, a British colony, for the purpose of indentured servitude. Within 40 years Africans as a whole were confined to slave status in the colones and the later United States of America.
From the struggles of Africans on the West coast of the continent to Telemaque, also known as Denmark Vesey, who was a co-founder of Mother Emmanuel Church, slavery and racist violence has been challenged. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and Septima Clark of the 19th and 20th centuries are just two historical figures who represent a legacy of resistance and revolutionary struggle.
Join us this Saturday, July 18, from 5:00-8:00pm, for a public meeting on the continuing movement for national liberation and social justice.
This meeting will be held in tribute to the nine martyrs killed in Charleston as well as the millions of other ancestors that laid down their lives for the freedom of African people and the total liberation of humanity.
Media Advisory
Event: Workers World Detroit Branch Public Meeting
Topic: 400 Years of Racist Massacres and People's Resistance, From Jamestown to Charleston
Speaker: Abayomi Azikiwe, Editor of the Pan-African News Wire and Contributing Editor for Workers World
Date: Sat. July 18, 5:00-8:00pm
Location: 5920 Second Ave. at Antoinette, Near WSU Campus, Midtown
Contact: 313-671-3715
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
On June 17 a massacre of nine African Americans at the Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina sent shock waves throughout the United States and the world. This racist killings inside an historic church founded in the resistance to slavery in 1818, was by no means an isolated incident.
Africans in America have been fighting racism and genocidal violence since 1619 when 20 people were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, a British colony, for the purpose of indentured servitude. Within 40 years Africans as a whole were confined to slave status in the colones and the later United States of America.
From the struggles of Africans on the West coast of the continent to Telemaque, also known as Denmark Vesey, who was a co-founder of Mother Emmanuel Church, slavery and racist violence has been challenged. Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and Septima Clark of the 19th and 20th centuries are just two historical figures who represent a legacy of resistance and revolutionary struggle.
Join us this Saturday, July 18, from 5:00-8:00pm, for a public meeting on the continuing movement for national liberation and social justice.
This meeting will be held in tribute to the nine martyrs killed in Charleston as well as the millions of other ancestors that laid down their lives for the freedom of African people and the total liberation of humanity.
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