Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library News March 2012 9th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium to be Held at AUC Woodruff Library The 9th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium will be held on Friday, March 23, 2012, from 4:00 -8:00 p.m. at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, 111 James P. Brawley Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA. The symposium "People's Power: Resistance, Occupation, and Uprising" will feature keynote speaker Dr. Lewis R. Gordon, professor of Africana philosophy, as well as a community panel who will discuss international uprisings, their impact on the occupy protests in the U.S. and the conditions necessary for social change efforts to be transformed into meaningful liberation. The symposium will also feature student presentations and international hip hop artist Bocafloja, London-based hip hop/Afro-beat duo Native Sun and Footprintz Music Group. The event is free and open to the public. The community panel will consist of Dr. Firoze Manji, Kenyan human rights activist and Editor-in-Chief of Pambazuka Press; Dr. Akinyele Umoja, scholar-activist and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University; Bocafloja, founder of the Quilombo Collective; and Jim Bacote, Gullah-Geechee community leader, educator and founder of Geechee Kunda. The Walter Rodney Symposium is hosted by the Walter Rodney Foundation in collaboration with the African American Human Rights Foundation, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, Clark Atlanta University Department of Political Science, Kennesaw State University African and African Diaspora Studies, Morehouse School of Medicine Master of Public Health Program, and the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Contact Karen Jefferson at kjefferson@auctr.edu<mailto:kjefferson@auctr.edu> for more information. For the full press release, visit http://walterrodneyfoundation.org/annual_symposium/ninth_annual_walter_rodney_symposium. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-520-0593 Skype:sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (Lyrasis) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children. Register now http://www.hbculibraries.org/html/2012meeting-form.html for the October 21-23, 2012 HBCU Library Alliance 5th Membership Meeting and the Photographic Preservation Pre-Conference in New Orleans, LA. The Pre-Conference and Membership meeting are open to directors and other librarians.