NORWAY – Human rights activist Bob Brown will speak about racism on Tuesday at the Fare Share Commons.
The talk, “Joining the fight against racism and colonialism – Living the History of our time,” will begin at 7 p.m.
In the 1960s, Bob Brown organized for the Congress of Racial Equality, served as Midwest director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and founded the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party.
He also worked as an organizer for the political campaigns of Jesse Jackson, Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago, and U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun.
In 1995, he served as national coordinator of operations for the Million-Man March in Washington, D.C., and was national coordinator for the National Black United Front Project on Human Rights and Genocide.
Brown was a leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party in 1972, serving as national coordinator and member of its central committee.
Last month, Brown, then co-director of Pan-African Roots, filed a class action lawsuit in Chicago on behalf of all descendants of enslaved Africans in Africa and elsewhere, who were and are victims of the slave trade, slavery, colonialism, segregation and apartheid.
For more information, phone (207) 743-2183.
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