Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party

About

Diane C. Fujino is an activist-scholar teaching and writing about Asian American radical struggles Black Power struggles and Afro-Asian solidarities and is professor of Asian American Studies and former director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California Santa Barbara. Professor Fujino has long participated in political prisoner education and US Third World liberation solidarity struggles and is active with the Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara Coalition. She is author of Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama(2005) and Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race Resistance and a Paradoxical Life (2012); and editor of Wicked Theory Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader (2009). Matef Harmachis is a social scientist teaching high school a former journalist and a long-time activist working in pan-African and Third World decolonization solidarity education labor and political prisoner liberation movements. He is active with the Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara Coalition which recently won the passage of an ethnic studies course requirement for high school graduation in the Santa Barbara school district.