Exceptional Educators: The educational philosophy and methodology of the Black Panther Party

Hobart and William Smith Colleges Professor Khuram Hussain will discuss his research on the Black Panther Party as exceptionally skilled educators of adults and children

Friday, May 6, 2016
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Rochester, NY
Suggested donation of $5; no one turned away for lack of funds

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/477177452476624/
Hosted by Enough Is Enough

Sponsored by The Black Panther Party (Rochester, NY), and the Flying Squirrel Community Space

Professor Hussain's work pivots around the ways the Black Panther Party educated children and adults. He argues that they were exceptionally skilled educators, and that we have things to learn from their philosophy and method of teaching at the grassroots.

About Professor Hussain:
Khuram Hussain is a former New York City schoolteacher and currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of Education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY where he serves as a community organizer with Tools for Social Change. He completed his Ph.D. in the Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University. His current scholarship explores the radical origins of multicultural education and contemporary grassroots anti-racist movements that resist neoliberal school reform. His book, Imaging the Black Freedom Struggle: Political Cartoons of Muhammad Speaks, 1960 - 1975, is under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press.