Dayhoff Westminster: Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall

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Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com

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Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”

At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.

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