The Legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur and the Vision of a New Afrikan Future

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel examines the political legacy of Dr. Mutulu Shakur, his perspective of revolutionary New Afrikan nationalism as a vision for the future and his use of Hip Hop for intergenerational transmission of nation-building and revolution.

Sub Unit

• Theory, Practice & Struggle

Chair

• Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University

Individual Presentations

• Straight Ahead: A Political History of Dr. Mutulu Shakur - Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University

• Mutulu Shakur and Hip Hop - Ife Akinyela, LATTC

• Mutulu Shakur and the Biomythography of a New Afrikan College Student Activist, 1977-1987 - Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst