JOHANNA FERNANDEZ: Can you imagine a study of slavery without the slave narrative?
ANGELA Y. DAVIS: Movements create a backlash, and backlash is part of the movement of history.
JULIA WRIGHT: I was just mesmerized by that cell.
LINN WASHINGTON, Jr.: That was his “house” for 28 years!
ME: Wow! A perfect replica!
STEVEN BERNHAUT, member, People’s Organization for Progress: Except for the window. That’s for us.
ME (Feeling Like An Idiot 😉 ): Right!
FERNANDEZ: The erosion of freedom erodes the standard of freedom for all of us.
WASHINGTON: I’m just awed by the way this exhibit has been put together. The phases of it. His activism. His literary productions.
CHRISTOPHER WEST, exhibit curator: There’s something about Mumia…It’s been magic since the beginning.
(Photos by LBWPhoto)
OCTOBER 3rd UPDATE: My article on the conference can be found here.
OCTOBER 8th UPDATE: And Linn Washington’s article is here.
OCTOBER 24th UPDATE: This audio allows everyone to hear the people behind the archive, exhibit and conference.
OCTOBER 25th UPDATE: Here’s my panel.
Drums in the Global Village 