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Redwood Day Speaker Series Event: W. Kamau Bell with Alicia Garza, April 10
Join us for a special event featuring W. Kamau Bell, comedian, host and executive producer of CNN’s Emmy Award-winning series United Shades of America with Kamau Bell, in conversation with Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder and the Principal of Black Futures Lab. Tickets are available HERE.
Alicia will talk about her life of activism, the challenge of making intersectionality more than a buzzword, the 2020 election, “allies” vs. “co-conspirators”, Oakland, movement building, and forgiveness. They will talk and then take questions at the end. Both are proud to rep Oakland everywhere they go.
GENERAL ADMISSION: $20 (PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT BLACK FUTURES LAB)
EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS WITH SCHOOL ID: FREE
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ABOUT:
W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian who is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. He recently made his Netflix debut with a new stand-up comedy special, Private School Negro. Kamau has a book with the easy-to-remember title The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. He is the director of the critically-acclaimed documentary Cultureshock: Chris Rock’s Bring the Pain. Kamau has hosted three critically acclaimed podcasts: Kamau Right Now!, Politically Re-Active, and Denzel Washington is The Greatest Actor of All Time Period.
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Alicia will talk about her life of activism, the challenge of making intersectionality more than a buzzword, the 2020 election, “allies” vs. “co-conspirators”, Oakland, movement building, and forgiveness. They will talk and then take questions at the end. Both are proud to rep Oakland everywhere they go.
W. Kamau Bell in Conversation with Alicia Garza
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Laney College Theater
900 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94607
GENERAL ADMISSION: $20 (PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT BLACK FUTURES LAB)
EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS WITH SCHOOL ID: FREE
THIS EVENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
ABOUT:
W. Kamau Bell is a sociopolitical comedian who is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning CNN docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell. He recently made his Netflix debut with a new stand-up comedy special, Private School Negro. Kamau has a book with the easy-to-remember title The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. He is the director of the critically-acclaimed documentary Cultureshock: Chris Rock’s Bring the Pain. Kamau has hosted three critically acclaimed podcasts: Kamau Right Now!, Politically Re-Active, and Denzel Washington is The Greatest Actor of All Time Period.
Alicia Garza is an internationally recognized organizer, writer, and public speaker. In 2018, Alicia founded the Black Futures Lab, which works to make Black people powerful in politics. Currently, as the Strategy & Partnerships Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Alicia works to build power, placing domestic workers at the forefront of the movement we need to change the domestic work industry and to build an economy that places people over profits. With Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, Alicia created the Black Lives Matter Global Network, with 40 chapters in 4 countries, to change the ways in which Black people are stripped of our humanity.
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