Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers to Speak at MSU

Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers to Speak at MSU

Bobby Seale, co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, will give a lecture titled "The State of Black Politics in the 21st Century" Thursday, January 15. Doors for the event will open at 4:45 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 5pm in Michigan State University’s Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium, followed promptly by a question and answer session. This is event is free and open to the public. Last time Bobby Seale visited MSU’s campus, over 400 people came to see him speak and this time hundreds have already RSVPed to attend his lecture.
The event is hosted by MSU’s W.E.B. DuBois Society and the Young Democratic Socialists. It is sponsored by the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, James Madison College, the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Services, the Residential College of Arts and Humanities, the Multicultural Business Program, the African American and African Studies Program, Case Hall Government, and Lyman Briggs College.

For more information, please e-mail the W.E.B. DuBois Society at msuduboissociety@gmail.com or the Young Democratic Socialists at msuyds@gmail.com. For more information on Bobby Seale, visit http://bobbyseale.com.

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The MSU Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) is a student led chapter of the nationally recognized Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the USA. YDS serves to educate the public about social and political issues and actively promote democratic socialism in the East Lansing community and abroad. The group contains people from various part of the left-leaning political spectrum who care about a wide variety of social justice issues. This is a kind of "think tank," or study group, for anyone who wants to learn more about democratic socialism and participate in meaningful activism. In addition to reading, members work with other progressive students groups and groups in the greater Lansing area to participate in various service projects, campus activism, and get involved with other state and local issues.

The W.E.B. DuBois Society is an organization fighting for racial justice through continued education. It is tasked with specifically attacking economical and social structures as well as individual and broad based ignorance. Through self-empowerment and self-knowledge the organization works to serve as a bastion of intellectual thought for the Black community at Michigan State. It does not operate on a hierarch, but rather functions as separate committees, a characteristic similar to YDS. It has four committees - the educational committee, the coordinating committee, the outreach committee, and the finance committee.