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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Emancipation Support Committee launches Kwame Ture Memorial Lecture Series 2022

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Minister of Education and Social Development, Anguilla,  Dee Ann Kentish-Roberts.

Minister of Education and Social Development, Anguilla, Dee Ann Kentish-Roberts.

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The Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of T&T (ES­CTT), says the month of June ig­nites the en­er­gy and ac­tiv­i­ties lead­ing up to the cel­e­bra­tion of Eman­ci­pa­tion Day on Au­gust 1, as it an­nounced the launch of the Kwame Ture Memo­r­i­al Lec­ture Se­ries.

The launch takes place on June 12, at 5pm, and will be streamed live on ESC’s Face­book and YouTube pages.

This year marks the 30th an­niver­sary of the ESC, and the launch of the lec­ture se­ries is the sec­ond phase of the com­mem­o­ra­tion, po­si­tioned af­ter the for­mal launch of the Pan AfricanTT Com­mem­o­rat­ing Eman­ci­pa­tion (PAFTT) in May.

The lec­ture se­ries, cham­pi­oned by the late Di­rec­tor of Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­search, Tra­cy Wil­son, aims to per­pet­u­ate Ture’s lega­cy by in­creas­ing knowl­edge, build­ing aware­ness, con­scious­ness and in­tel­lect of African peo­ple and all peo­ples of T&T, with a view to en­able bet­ter con­trol of their des­tiny and so­cial and eco­nom­ic well-be­ing.

Lead­ing the charge now is his­to­ri­an, for­mer lec­tur­er and Head of the His­to­ry De­part­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Dr Claudius Fer­gus, who will host the open­ing lec­ture, Kwame Ture in T&T: Re­vis­it­ing Black Pow­er.

Guest speak­er tabled for the launch is Trinidad-lin­eage jour­nal­ist and au­thor of Pan African­ist Kwame Ture (Stoke­ly Carmichael)/Be­com­ing Kwame Ture, Amand­la Thomas-John­son.

Fer­gus ex­plained that Thomas-John­son is es­sen­tial­ly a Pan African­ist, so it was a nat­ur­al fo­cus for him, and that grow­ing up in Britain, his parent­age was of the Win­drush gen­er­a­tion, so there was a nat­ur­al con­nec­tion to the Caribbean as well as iden­ti­ty to Caribbean he­roes such as Ture and an­ti-colo­nial­ism.”

Thomas-John­son is cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing a PhD at Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty’s De­part­ment of Lit­er­a­tures in Eng­lish, has re­port­ed from Chile, T&T and Switzer­land.

Key speaker for the launch of the Emancipation Support Committee TT’s Kwame Ture Lecture Series 2022,  Amandla Thomas-Johnson.

Key speaker for the launch of the Emancipation Support Committee TT’s Kwame Ture Lecture Series 2022, Amandla Thomas-Johnson.

He was based in Dakar, Sene­gal for three years, cov­er­ing West Africa, in­clud­ing The Gam­bia, Guinea, Mau­ri­ta­nia and Mali for Al­jazeera, Mid­dle East Eye and the Dai­ly Tele­graph. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, he has con­tributed to The Guardian, BBC Ra­dio 4, Ja­cobin, Vice, and was a trainee on Chanel 4’s In­ves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism pro­gramme.

At the launch of the Pan African Fes­ti­val last month, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, Ran­dall Mitchell praised ES­CTT for its con­tin­ued de­ter­mi­na­tion to cel­e­brate the African her­itage.

He al­so com­mend­ed the or­gan­i­sa­tion for its work over the past 30 years in mak­ing cit­i­zens more aware of the African tra­di­tions which have sig­nif­i­cant­ly in­flu­enced our cul­ture, food, mu­sic and oth­er fea­tures of the way of life.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion: +1 868.628.5008; Fax +1 868.628.9526; or E-mail: in­fo.eman­ci­pa­tion@esc-tt.org.

To fol­low ES­CTT: Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee – ESC (Face­book).

The Lec­ture Se­ries con­tin­ues be­tween Ju­ly 3-24

Ju­ly 3: Pan­el dis­cus­sion ad­dress­ing The Lega­cy of Dis­crim­i­na­tion in Ed­u­ca­tion – the sit­u­a­tion of the African Child. Key speak­er: Dee Ann Ken­tish-Roberts, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion and So­cial De­vel­op­ment in An­guil­la.

Artificial Intelligence lecturer Renee Cummings

Artificial Intelligence lecturer Renee Cummings

Ju­ly 10: Doc­u­men­tary film, De­colonis­ing Pub­lic Spaces: Doc­u­men­tary (Au­dit) on Pic­ton, fol­lowed by a dis­cus­sion with Gaynor Legall, co­or­di­na­tor of the Slave Trade and the British au­dit com­mis­sioned by the Welsh gov­ern­ment.

Ju­ly 17: Film on Caribbean state Haiti that will in­tro­duce Raisin Lakay: Con­tem­po­rary Is­sues Af­fect­ing Haiti’s De­vel­op­ment, and dis­cus­sion led by Jes­si­ca St Ville Ulysses, a first-gen­er­a­tion Hait­ian Amer­i­can dancer, ed­u­ca­tor, and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er.

Ju­ly 24: Ad­dress on De­colonis­ing Da­ta and De­moc­ra­tis­ing Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence to be de­liv­ered by Trin­bag­on­ian Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence Ethi­cist and Da­ta Ac­tivist, Re­nee Cum­mings.

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