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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Negroes With Guns
Credited with inspiring the Black Power Movement, Robert Williams led his North Carolina hometown to defend itself against the Ku Klux Klan and challenge repressive Jim Crow laws. The film "Negroes With Guns: Robert Williams and Black Power" follows Williams's journey from southern community leader to his exile in Cuba and China – a journey that brought the issue of armed self-defense to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.
The Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) in partnership with ITVS, Busboys and Poets, and WHUT-TV, and with support from the Howard University Organization of Graduate Sociologists and Project South, invite you to a free screening followed by a panel discussion with Mabel Williams, activist and wife of Robert Williams, filmmaker Sandra Dickson and former Revolutionary Action Movement member Banbose Shango.
When: Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 9 p.m. Where: Busboys and Poets (14th and V Streets NW) More info: Space is limited. RSVP recommended to itvs.cinema@gmail.com, www.HotSalsa.org or 202/787-5229. The film will be broadcast nationally on the Emmy award-winning PBS series Independent Lens on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 10 p.m., locally on WHUT-TV, Channel 32.
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