Events
Professionals of Color Lecture Series: Rosa Clemente
Date and Time
Thursday, October 2, 2014 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Description
Community organizer, journalist and political activist Rosa Clemente was nominated by the Green Party as a vice presidential candidate in the 2008 election. Along with Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, the pair became the first women of color ticket in American history.
For more than 15 years, Clemente has been a community organizer and activist, and a featured keynote speaker, panelist and political commentator. In 1995, she developed Know Thy Self Productions, which has since produced four major community activism tours. She also consults on issues such as hip-hop activism, media justice, voter engagement among youth of color, third-party politics, intercultural relations between African Americans and Latinos, immigrants’ rights as an extension of human rights, and universal health care.
Clemente's academic work has been dedicated to researching national liberation struggles inside the U.S., with a specific focus on the Young Lords Party, Black Panther Party, and Black and Brown Liberation Movements of the ’60s and ’70s, as well as the effects of COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) on such movements. She has written extensively on Afro-Latino identity and politics, sexism within hip-hop culture and hip-hop activism, media justice and African American and Latino unity.