Activism and change from the armchair of comfort - questions raised by the youth perspective on the plethora of foundations.

Stacey Abrams talks about her dad’s prostate cancer, health disparity for African American men, and the importance of being a health activist.

For more information visit https://www.pcf.org/

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's leading philanthropic organization accelerating cutting-edge prostate cancer research, and funding life-saving treatments for patients.

The Women’s Legal Centre

The Women’s Legal Centre is an African feminist legal centre that advances women’s rights and equality using tools such as strategic litigation, advocacy, education, advice, training and partnerships in South Africa.

The Centre has a vision of women in South Africa being free from violence, empowered to ensure their own reproductive and health rights, free to own their own share of property, having a safe place to stay and empowered to work in a safe and equitable environment.

www.wlce.co.za

About the Kolisi Foundation 16 days of Activism Campaign

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.

We are reminded of the words of our co-founder, Siya Kolisi, to use August as our audit month as the work should be done every day for 365 days.

During 16 days of Activism we will be taking hands with organisations in the GBV space by focusing on amplifying the work they are doing.

Our vision is to create a hub for helping organisations to build capacity, in order for people to find each other, create synergies, provide support and work better together. We cannot win the fight against GBV if we operate with a silo mentality.

Over the next few days, we will introduce you to these organisations. Take this opportunity to learn from and about them, understand the role they are playing in the space and how you can engage with them…

Help is available, we only need to know where to find it.

www.kolisifoundation.org

Media credit: Black Bean Production

Speaker(s): Professor Barney Nyameko Pityana
Chair: Professor Paul Kelly
Recorded on 9 October 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

A programme of the Steve Biko Foundation, the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture is a platform to reflect upon the legacy of the late anti-apartheid activist; particularly in relation to issues of consciousness, leadership and the African development agenda.

The Revd Canon Professor Nyameko Barney Pityana is Rector of the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, South Africa. A lawyer, theologian, academic and notable human rights activist, Pityana was a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement alongside Steve Biko. Today he writes extensively and gives lectures on ethics, public morality and contemporary South African politics.

mp3 audio podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndM....edia/videoAndAudio/c

Join us as we connect with life long activist and educator, Dr. Howard Fuller, on the essence of Black Power and Education Reform. Let's celebrate his life and legacy as we learn more about his on-going fight for freedom and liberation for African People.

Speaker: Hugh Masekela
Chair: Professor Thandika Mkandawire

Recorded on 23 October 2014 in Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House.

Hugh Masekela has long spoken out about South Africa’s struggle for civil rights. His talk will be about arts & activism, reflecting on the role that he and other artists, particularly those in exile, played in the anti-apartheid movement.

Hugh Masekela is a world-renowned flugelhornist, trumpeter, bandleader, composer, singer and defiant political voice. With a career that spans over 5 decades, Masekela remains a driving cultural force at home and abroad, as well as an advocate for justice and equality globally.

Thandika Mkandawire is the inaugural holder of LSE's chair in African Development. He is based in LSE’s Department of International Development.

The Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, Europe, a partnership between LSE and the Steve Biko Foundation, is a platform for African thought leaders, policy makers and activists and to reflect on the past, present and future of Africa.

The LSE African Initiative (@AfricaAtLSE) is a long-term programme designed both to reinvigorate African research at LSE and to put Africa at the centre of the social sciences and in the global public spotlight.

A wide range of Americans contributed to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Students and young people were prominent groups of activists within the movement. Today, we'll learn about the Little Rock Nine, the Greensboro Four, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Freedom Riders. These groups undertook protests and worked to integrate schools and public accommodations by riding segregated buses, demanding service at lunch counters, and even by simply attending school.

Clint's book, How the Word is Passed is available now! https://bookshop.org/a/3859/9780316492935

VIDEO SOURCES
Jon N. Hale, The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016).
Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981).
Howard Zinn, SNCC: The New Abolitionists (Cambridge: South End Press, 2002).
Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Karen Anderson, Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013).
https://www.history.com/news/f....reedom-riders-route-


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Nyle Fort discusses agency and activism after delivering a lecture alongside Dr. Almeda Wright, entitled, "Young, Active + Faithful: Exploring Joy and Agency in Adolescence,” on May 2, 2018. This lecture is part of the Joy and Adolescent Faith & Flourishing Series.

Dr. Almeda M. Wright is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on African American religion, adolescent spiritual development, and the intersections of religion and public life. She is ordained in the American Baptist Church. She is co-editor, with Mary Elizabeth Moore, of Children, Youth, and Spirituality in a Troubling World, and has served as editor of an issue of Practical Matters Journal.

Mr. Nyle Fort is a Ph.D. Student at Princeton University in Religion and African American Studies, a preacher, activist and organizer, as well as former youth pastor. Nyle has worked in the fields of education, criminal justice, and youth development for nearly a decade. He recently travelled to Ferguson, Missouri to help build the Movement for Black Lives.

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