The Walter Rodney Foundation

We are so excited for today's portion of the Symposium. For those who have RSVP'ed as STREAMING ONLY, we will send the details for joining before the doors open at 3:30pm EST. If you haven't RSVP'ed yet, there is still time:

The Annual Walter Rodney Symposium — The Walter Rodney Foundation Since 2004, an annual symposium has been held in Atlanta, Georgia or virtually during the week of Walter Rodney’s birthday (23 March). The goal is to bring together scholars, researchers, activists, students, and the community to discuss contemporary issues from a Rodney perspective.

This year’s Keynote at the Walter Rodney Symposium is Dr. Natalia Kanem, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. She is a major world leader who oversees programs and people in 120 countries. Please share with colleagues in related fields, who would like to join us for this free and open event! We hope to see you!

Friends and comrades, please join us for the 21st Annual Walter Rodney Symposium on Friday March 22 and Saturday March 23, 2024 at the Bank of America Auditorium, Shirley A. Massey Executive Center, Morehouse College, 830 Westview Dr, Atlanta, GA 30314.

Note the (slightly) updated location. We look forward to seeing you. As always we have the most amazing guests speakers, keynotes and panels, the discussions will be powerful. Focused on health care justice and women’s leadership, we will going deep, so join us for another groundings. Bring your friends.

Looking forward to our annual groundings in Atlanta this year! Please explore the links and the program details, and share widely with your friends, family and communities! Day 1 focuses on Decolonizing Healthcare Sustems, Day 2 on Women’s Work and leadership. We look forward to seeing you soon, to continue the conversation.

https://www.walterrodneyfoundation.org/annual-symposium

https://bit.ly/wrs2024

Panel: Revolutionary Pan-Africanism Such a powerful discussion about revolutionary Pan-Africanism and the Anti-Imperialist struggle.We walked away with a lot of knowledge about African working ...

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Revolutionary Pan-Africanism: Groundings featuring Musa Springer and Erica Caines On Feb. 19, dialogue with special organizers and educators from various revolutionary Black and Pan-Africanist organizations.

Special chance to get some great books, to meet a legend and get the books signed. While supporting a Black owned community bookstore! Come out if you’re around!

The Legendary Dr. Patricia Rodney will be at Medu this Saturday signing her books. Join us in celebrating the great spirit of her and her family. See you soon.
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Friends in Kennesaw or the north side of town (Atlanta), we start our Book Club on Rodney’s historic classic The Groundings With My Brothers tonight!. Stop by if you’d like to join us, we’ll be discussing short selections every week for the next 7 weeks. This book always produces the BEST discussions, 50+ years later! Tell a friend.

Friends in Kennesaw or the north side of town, we start our Book Club tonight, on Rodney’s historic classic The Groundings With My Brothers. Stop by if you’d like to join us, we’ll be discussing short selections every week for the next 7 weeks. This book always produces the BEST discussions, 50+ years later!

As many of you know, the film “Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want you to Know” was selected for the 2023 BronzeLens Film Festival in Atlanta, GA! Read more and see the trailer below.

Please join us for the showcase on Sunday August 27th at 4:54 pm at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema (Theater 4), Atlanta, GA 30308. Click here for tickets and to see the trailer.

Walter Rodney: What They Don't Want you to Know Walter Rodney: What they don’t Want you to Know’ is an original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of Empire, and how that connects to the policing and surveillance practices of today.

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Marcia Douglas has been named as one of 10 writers to win one of this year's $50,000 Whiting Awards. Marcia Douglas's latest novel is The Marvellous Equations of the Dread. She is also the author of the novels, Madam Fate and Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom.

Announced on Wednesday evening, Marcia was picked as one of the 10 writers to show "excellence and promise". The award hopes to support emerging talent by giving winners the chance to "devote themselves full time to their own writing, or to take bold new risks in their work".

https://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/news-authors/marcia-douglas-recognised-2023-whiting-awards

This new film is SO good! Happy it’s made it’s way to South Africa!

This is what they don’t want you to know A new film on the life of Walter Rodney gives a glimpse of his radical solidarity politics, and centers his family, who struggled and suffered with him.

Important statements today from Angela Davis and WRF on , please share widely!

Thanks for being a top engager and making it on to our weekly engagement list! 🎉 Prince C. Ifoh, Kezia'h Brown, Steve Parris, Angelo Di Conte, Cynthia Rose. It has been a historic week with our 20th annual Symposium hosting Angela Davis!

Solidarity with some of the key leadership in this struggle today!

Promoting the necessity of a Union-Coop strategy to build worker power to transform the economy by socializing production and democratizing society at the Conference at UMass Amherst with Chris Smalls from the Amazon Workers Union.

Here is the detailed schedule for tomorrow. As you can see, it’s packed full of historic contributions and amazing guests. See you there comrades.

Please spread the word! The 20th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium is coming up quickly! Be sure to get your tickets today! bit.ly/wrs2023

Today! Please join us for a Decolonial Conversation about Migration, a dialogue oriented from the Origin points of migration, reversed-engineered from the perspective of migrants and their home communities. Global South decenterings. Underdevelopment at the roots.

Today at 11:00am EST, zoom address on the poster.

Our friends at a Millennials are Killing Capitalism talk again with Dr. Jesse Benjamin about the newest Rodney book, Decolonial Marxism! Check it out!

Dr. Benjamin is A WRF Board member, and co-editor with Patricia Rodney, Asha Rodney and Ben Mabie, of Decolonial Marxism.

https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/walter-rodneys-decolonial-marxism-with-jesse-benjamin

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Walter Rodney's Decolonial Marxism - Essays From The Pan-African Revolution with Jesse Benjamin In this episode Dr. Jesse Benjamin returns to the podcast. with Jesse we’re connecting to talk about a recently released book by Walter Rodney, in this case it’s Decolonial Marxism: Essays From The Pan-African Revolution, which is a previously unpublished collection of Rodney’s essays on race,...

Decolonial Marxism marks the 4th book now out in the Rodney Series with Verso! Check out their 40% sale. Al proceeds still go to the Rodney family and the Foundation. Tell your friends!

https://www.versobooks.com/lists/5393-walter-rodney-a-lighting-rod-for-working-class-black-power?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=student_reading_2022

Walter Rodney: A Lighting Rod for Working Class Black Power Complete your Walter Rodney bookshelf, all 40% off!

Salute to Charis Books, love to see this!

We can’t keep Decolonial Marxism on the shelves! Walter Rodney’s work continues to be incredibly important and widely read by organizers and scholars alike.

Walter Rodney was an internationally renowned historian of colonialism and a leader of Black Power and Pan-African movements across the diaspora, most notably the Guyanese Working People's Alliance. His life and work brought together struggles for independence on the African continent with the strivings of the black working classes of North America and the Caribbean basin. On June the 13th, 1980, Rodney was assassinated by the then-president of Guyana. He was 38 years old. (Bio from )

To learn more about Walter Rodney visit walterrodneyfoundation.org and attend the annual symposium that happens right here in Atlanta during the week of Walter Rodney’s birthday (March 23).
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Books pictured: Decolonial Marxism, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney: A Promise of Revolution edited by Clairmont Chung, and A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story by Leo Zeilig

Today marks 42 years since our beloved Dr. Walter Rodney was assassinated by the Guyanese state.

We are asking everyone to take a moment of silence and reflection to honor him at 8pm EST, the time of his death.

From the Family of Walter Rodney:

"Barbadian literary giant, par excellence, Professor George Lamming, has transitioned."