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Speakers & Artists
Search for Speakers, Artists, Exhibits and Films below
 | | Michael Albert
Writer on Participatory Economics "Parecon"
• Creating a New Economic Vision for the Future
• Author of sixteen books on political economy and radical organizing
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 | | Anthony Arnove
Best-selling Author and Activist
• Editor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States
• Author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
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 | | Elaine Brown
Veteran Civil Rights Leader & Author
• New Age Racism in America: The Elimination of Race, Gender and Class Disparities
• First and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party in the 1970s
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 | | Ward Churchill
Native American Scholar, Activist & Author
• Author of over 20 books including From A Native Son, Critical Issues in Native North Americaand A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas
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 | | Angela Davis
Author, Educator and Activist
– Author of numerous books on the prison industrial complex including Abolition Democracy and Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Leader in the movement for economic, racial, and gender equality
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 | | James W. Loewen
Award-Winning Sociologist, Historian, and Best-Selling Author
• Author of numerous books including Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America and Sundown Towns and his latest, Teaching What Really Happened
• Topics cover U.S. history, multicultural education, civil rights, race relations, voting rights, law and social science
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 | | Ariel Luckey
Hip Hop Theater Artist, Poet, and Educator
• Exposes White Privilege and the Theft of Native Land through his solo show "Free Land: A Hip Hop Journey from the Streets of Oakland to the Wild Wild West"
• Director of the Free Land Project, which produces dynamic hip hop theater, keynotes, workshops, forums and cultural events
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 | | Carlos Muńoz Jr.
Prominent Political Scientist, Historian and Public Intellectual
• Author of Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement and the forthcoming Diversity and The Challenge for a Multiracial Democracy In America
• Founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department in the nation
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 | | Mark Nowak
Documentary Poet, Social Critic, and Labor Activist
• Author of Shut Up Shut Down(afterword by Amiri Baraka) and Coal Mountain Elementary
• Regenerating the Rich Tradition of Working-Class Literature
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 | | Barbara Ransby
Award-Winning Writer and Historian
• Author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
• Co-founder of the Black Radical Congress, African American Women in Defense of Ourselves and the Progressive Media Project
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 | | Loretta J. Ross
Women's Rights & Human Rights Leader
• National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
• Co-author of Undivided Right: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice
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 | | Carmen Mitzi Sinnott
Award-Winning Actress and Arts Educator
• Her solo show based on her own parents, SNAPSHOT: a true story of love interrupted by invasion, explores the forces of history, race, and war
• Best Actress nominee at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival & recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council’s NYSCA Individual Artist Award
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 | | Rev. C.T. Vivian
A Living Legend of the Civil Rights Movement
• A Baptist Minister who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for many years
• Speaks on building a Civil Rights Movement for the New Millennium
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