 Dr. Cornel West, a nationally recognized writer, teacher, and activist will be in Dallas Juneteenth weekend on Friday, June 20 in support of the work of Mothers Against Police Brutality (MAPB), an emerging, Dallas-based organization seeking justice for the victims of police violence, excessive use of force, and deadly force. “One of our main goals is to turn a national spotlight on the shooting of unarmed suspects, mostly African-American and Latino young men, by Dallas police officers,” said Collette Flanagan, founder of MAPB. “This is a national issue. From the shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland by transit police, to the murder of Trayvon Martin in Florida by a patrolling vigilante, to the murder of my own son, Clinton Allen, last year by a Dallas police officer, this plague of official and unpunished murders of our unarmed children must end.”
“Community Matters:Â A Townhall Meeting” is co-presented with Friendship-West Baptist Church, a well-respected local institution known for its community activism.
Dr. West will speak on national current affairs such as police use of deadly force, mass incarceration, deepening poverty and inequality, voting rights, and other issues that are negatively affecting communities of color disproportionately.
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Cornel West is well known nationally as a provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Dr. West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. His most recent book, co-authored with Tavis Smiley, is The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto, a game-changing text on economic injustice. Dr. West has a passion to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
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Event Details:
Community Matters:Â A Townhall Meeting featuring Dr. Cornel West
Friday, June 20, 2014Â 8 p.m.
Friendship-West Baptist Church
2020 W. Wheatland Rd., Dallas TX 75232
Presented by Mothers Against Police Brutality and Friendship-West Baptist Church
Doors open at 7 p.m.  Â
Visit:Â Â http://friendshipwest.org/main/ |
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MAPD is doing important work. As the general public becomes more and more desperate due to the changing conditions and more attempts are made to brainwash the public into accepting abuse, police brutality will increase. This society is rapidly moving toward facism and the police could end up being the primary enforcers unless people take steps to prevent it. The time to stop police brutality is now — before it becomes a government policy.
Thank you for this article. (Note: His first name has only one “L” in it.)
Thanks — I fixed for the print edition and overlooked here!