FILM - FRUITVALE STATION:
A recount of the last 24 hours in the life of Oscar Grant III, a young black man recently released from prison who strives to live a better life and support his family. Oscar’s aspirations are cut short after an altercation with police which claims his life on New Year’s Eve 2008. (Based on a true story)
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016
Time: 4:00pm
Cost: FREE!!!
Value: PRICELESS!!!
Discussion follows, led by Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon, Research Fellow, Institute of African Studies framed in the context of the Black Lives Matter Movement as a response to the continued onslaught against African people at home and abroad!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Genocide is defined as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and]
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
- Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
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