This panel discussion focuses on Malcolm’s legacy today, and will hear from five cultural activists who have made great contributions to bringing issues of race and colonial oppression into mass consciousness. Swiss of So Solid Crew hit the headlines late last year with his single discussing the varied meanings of the ‘N-word’, whilst Sara Myers was a leader of the campaign against the ‘Exhibit B’ exhibition, both of them managing to bring issues of white supremacy and the enduring legacy of colonialism into public consciousness and debate. Aamer Rahman, from Asian-Australian comedy duo ‘Fear of a Brown Planet’, uses his comedy to satirise whiteness and white denial in as profound a way as any writer on the topic, whilst Taimur Rahman’s group Laal use music to raise anti-imperialist political consciousness in their homeland of Pakistan. We are also hoping that Malcolm’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz, who has used written a memoir, a children’s book and now a novel on her father, will be joining us via skype.
The event will be followed by tasty Caribbean food served from 9pm.