{"id":19525,"date":"2023-02-03T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/bobby-seale-black-panthers-co-founder-visits-hvcc-on-thursday-feb-9\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T18:10:20","slug":"bobby-seale-black-panthers-co-founder-visits-hvcc-on-thursday-feb-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/bobby-seale-black-panthers-co-founder-visits-hvcc-on-thursday-feb-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Seale, Black Panthers co-founder, visits HVCC on Thursday, Feb. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Bobby Seale\u2019s appearance at HVCC is the third annual event in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaker Series for Black History Month. It is co-presented by Student Activities, the Student Senate and Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with support from the Cultural Affairs Program.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-146049\" src=\"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/HVCC_BobbySeale_Feb9-2023-e1675269911166-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby Seale<\/strong>, best known as co-founder of the Black Panthers who rejected nonviolence during the civil rights movement in the late 1960s, will appear on campus Thursday, Feb. 9. The 6 p.m. program in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium on the Troy campus is free to the public.<\/p>\n<p>During an on-stage interview, Bobby Seale and Ainsley Thomas, the college\u2019s chief diversity officer, will discuss the evolution of resistance to racism in America since the founding of the Black Panthers through today. Time will be allotted for questions from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Seale also gained notoriety as one of the Chicago Seven, protestors arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and tried for conspiracy to incite a riot. Seale received a four-year jail sentence. Earlier that year, he\u2019d written \u201cSeize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton\u201d that was published in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Newton and Seale met at a protest rally in 1962 and quickly became friends. Both were part of the generation of young African-Americans who broke away from the mostly nonviolent Civil Rights Movement to preach a doctrine of militant Black empowerment. They formed the Black Panthers in 1966, later renamed the Black Panther Party.<\/p>\n<p>Following prison, Seale renounced violence. As the Black Panther Party faded from public view, he focused on improving Black neighborhoods and advancing other social causes. After a failed 1973 campaign for mayor of Oakland, CA (he placed second in a nine-candidate race), Seale returned to writing, and published \u201cA Lonely Rage\u201d in 1978. Now 86, he continues to work with young activists to spur social change.<\/p>\n<p>Additional Black History Month Programs \u2013 all free to the public:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Injustice in Healthcare: The Power of One, The Power of Many<\/strong> \u2013 Dr. Brenda Robinson, CEO and founder of the Albany-based Black Nurses Coalition, Inc., presents the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture as part of Voices: A Library Lecture Series \u2013 11 to 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7 \u2013 BTC Auditorium<\/li>\n<li><strong>Film Series<\/strong> \u2013 Thursdays, 2 to 4 p.m. \u2013 Siek Campus Center, room 202<br \/>\nFeb. 9 \u2013 \u201cDo the Right Thing\u201d<br \/>\nFeb. 16 \u2013 \u201cThe Help\u201d<br \/>\nFeb. 23 \u2013 \u201cBlack Panther\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Fri, 03 Feb 2023 13:10:20 +0000 by\u00a0d.gardner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bobby Seale\u2019s appearance at HVCC is the third annual event in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaker Series for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}