Vol. 77/No. 29        August 12, 2013

Calendar

NEBRASKA
Omaha
Black August Weekend: Human Rights-Political Prisoner
Commemorative Festival in Support of the Omaha Two,
Mondo we Langa (aka David Rice) and Ed Poindexter.
Fri., Aug. 2: 6 p.m., live music; 8:30 p.m., film showing of Cointelpro
Sat., Aug. 3: 10 a.m., DVD interview with Poindexter and we Langa,
leaders of Omaha Black Panther Party in 1960s, framed up and imprisoned for more than 40 years.
11 a.m., panel presentation on Cuban Five, Cuban revolutionaries in U.S. prisons;
1 p.m., keynote speaker Charles E. Jones, author, Black Panther Party [Reconsidered];
2 p.m., panel discussion, includes Neb. state Sen. Ernie Chambers
and Buddy Hogan, Omaha NAACP president at time of we Longa and Poindexter’s arrest
Malcolm X Memorial Foundation Center, 3448 Evans St.
Tel.: (800) 645-9287