Local News Roundtable: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Screening

Charles Theater (Credit: Baltimore Sun)September 21, 2015 – Segment 3

In our show today Dr. Kaye sits in as a guest host. She is Associate Professor of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland, and the author of several books, including Letters to My Black Sons: Raising Boys in a Post-Racial America, and the award-winning Notes From A Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emile Frances Davis.

We continue our local news round table with Dr. Roni Ellington, Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Morgan State University; Heru of Urban Youth Initiative Project and the Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement; A.F. James MacArthur, blogger for the Baltimore Spectator; and Dr. Ray Winbush Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University. Stanley Nelson also joins our panel. He is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, MacArthur Genius Fellow, and member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He is director, producer and writer of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. During a screening of his film at the Charles this weekend at which Stanley Nelson was scheduled to speak, the theater was evacuated because of threats on Twitter.

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