We Who Believe in Freedom: The Next Civil Rights Generation

“We Who Believe in Freedom”: The Next Civil Rights Generation

Thursday, October 30, 7 p.m.

Durham Main Library

300 N. Roxboro St., Durham

Join Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs for the conclusion of Durham Reads Together as she moderates a panel of young activists who are continuing the Civil Rights Movement as they work for Voting Rights, Queer Liberation, Birth Justice, Gender Justice, Immigrant Rights and to end the School to Prison Pipeline.  Gumbs is the founder of the Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind and the co-founder of the Mobile Homecoming project.

The young activists on the panel include Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala, Qasima Wideman, Eden Segbefia and Matthias Pressley. Matehuala serves as the Associate Director of the Youth Organizing Institute and will be graduating from NC State University in December. Wideman works with the Youth Organizing Institute and NC Queer Youth Power Coalition. Segbefia is an eighth grader at Brogden Middle School and John Hope Franklin Scholar who is interested in birth rights. Pressley is a graphic designer and community organizer who currently works with Southerner’s on New Ground (S.O.N.G.).

For more information visit:  http://durhamcountylibrary.org/events/drt-we-who-believe-in-freedom-the-next-civil-rights-generation/