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10:00am CDT

BLM Under Trump: Where Do We Go from Here?

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT

The second wave of the Black Lives Matter rebellion erupted in 2020 while Trump was president in reaction to George Floyd & Breanna Taylor’s murder by the police. Now that Trump is back in the White House where does the movement go from here?

Speakers

Robert Cuffy

Robert Cuffy is a member of the DSA Afrosocialist Caucus, a founder of the Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana, and on the editorial board of New Politics.

Jessica Garraway

Jessica Garraway is an active member of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and a founding member of Black Cat Workers Collective.

Sponsors

New Politics

Friday July 4, 2025 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
TBA

Black Liberation

3:00pm CDT

The Role of Black Media Under Fascism

Friday July 4, 2025 3:00pm - 4:30pm CDT

TBA

What is the role of Black media under fascism? This is one of the questions we would like to invite others to consider at this year's conference. We hope to delve into a discussion about what we see as our responsibility as an independent, Black-led publication and as part of movement media in this era of rising censorship. Moreover, we question what Scalawag can do to help push that agenda forward.

Speakers

Da'Shaun Harrison

Da'Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which was awarded the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, among several... Read More →

Socialism 2025

10:00am CDT

Robert Cuffy

Jessica Garraway

New Politics

3:00pm CDT

Da'Shaun Harrison

Tea Troutman

Ko Bragg

Aurielle Marie

Scalawag