Black Panthers Co-Founder Bobby Seale to Speak March 25
Bobby Seale, co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party, will share his experiences as a community activist in an upcoming talk at Guilford. “The Liberation of the People” will take place Wednesday, March 25 at 5:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
The program will begin with a brief book signing, followed by the talk and a question-and-answer session. A post-event reception is also open to the public.
Seale and Huey Newton founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He published Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton in 1968, the same year he and seven others were arrested for conspiracy and inciting violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
In recent years, Seale has focused on community activism, forming the youth education group REACH! and publishing the REACH Chronicles, an on-line social change magazine. He is the author of A Lonely Rage: the Autobiography of Bobby Seale (1978) and the cookbook Barbeque’n with Bobby Seale (1998).
Admission for students with a college ID is free, and general admission is $5. For additional information, contact bus@guilford.edu or call 336-316-2473.
The talk is presented by Guilford’s Blacks Unifying Society (BUS) and Native American Club.
March 17, 2009