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Emory Douglas coming to Baltimore
Jul 27, 2010
So Emory Douglas, the legendary illustrator for the Black Panther Party, is coming to Baltimore on August 20th, for a special talk and reception at the Cork Gallery to raise money for former Baltimore Black Panther and current political prisoner Eddie Conway, who, as regular readers of this website hopefully know by now, has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit as a result of a counterintelligence frameup for over 40 years. It's a crucial time to be funding Eddie's legal defense, and as part of that effort, Eddie's support committee will be selling limited edition Emory Douglas prints to raise money. The event starts at 7PM, at the Cork Gallery (1601 Guilford), and costs $10.
Down here at Red Emma's, we've been working with Eddie to put together a quarterly study group, where we all read a text and then discuss it together, with Eddie joining us over the telephone from the prison in Jessup where he's imprisoned. The first installment, convened around Frederick Douglas' "What is the Fourth of July to the Slave?", went great—you can hear the audio below, and keep on eye on the website for details about the next session, where we will be talking about Huey Newton's Revolutionary Suicide.
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