UPDATE: Maryland Pan Afrikan Community Town Hall Meeting Set for Saturday, July 13 in East Baltimore

The Maryland Pan Afrikan Cooperative Coalition (MPACC), in cooperation with Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (APP-HRC), the George Jackson University (GJU) and the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), will hold our first post-COVID Pan Afrikan Community Town Hall Meeting at the Temple of New Afrikan Thought, 5525 Harford Road in Easy Baltimore, on Saturday, July 13 from 12 noon to 4 PM.  

  • We will briefly introduce the Maryland Pan Afrikan Cooperative Coalition.
  • We will share ideas for a Community Cooperative Defense Plan.
  • We will discuss issues of Emergency Preparedness and how the community can be ready to respond to emergencies.
  • We will explain and discuss the process of organizing and establishing our grassroots voice on the world stage that was started by SRDC in 2007, continued until COVID and will be resumed this year.

Confirmed guests include:

  • Baba Bomani Uhuru Jihad Shakur, George Jackson University, Host of George Jackson University Radio, Black August Organizing Committee (Emergency Preparedness Plan)
  • Baba Thomas Ruffin, International Association of Black Lawyers and the Maryland Coalition for Justice and Progressive Change (Community Cooperative Defense Proposal)
  • Baba Leon Waters, Louisiana Museum of African American History, New Orleans Historian of the 1811 Slave Revolt and Hurricane Katrina Tribunal
  • Rev. Mother Marcia Bowyer-Barron, Maryland Council of Elders, Pan Afrikan Seniors Advocacy Network
  • Baba David Murphy, Publisher of The National Black Unity News, Maryland Council of Elders, National Black Council of Elders, Founding Member of BlackMen Unifying BlackMen

Other Important Information

  • Free admission; Diasporan Soul Cafe at the Temple of New African Thought will be selling healthy delicious food on the premises.
  • For more information, contact Bro. Cliff at cliff@kuumbareport.com.  Also, announcements concerning the Town Hall and the Maryland Pan Afrikan Cooperative Coalition can be found on the Web Site of KUUMBAReport Online, https://kuumbareport.com and of the Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC), https://srdcinternational.org.