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Series Kick-off this Wednesday @8:30p

The Michigan Roundtable is launching a series of radical conversations hosted by Yusef Shakur with guest speakers from across the country.

Yusef Bunchy Shakur is hosting a bi-weekly dialogue series with organizers, leaders, and thinkers from across the country centered on what’s going on in the Black liberation movement. We will be covering a range of topics from mass incarceration to criminal justice to music. Audience engagement is encouraged throughout the series.

Our series kicks off this Wednesday at 8:30p with Khalid Alexander, Founder and President of Pillars of the Community in San Diego, CA. Pillars of the Community is a collective movement, based on faith, positivity, and a need to build a better world.

To register, click below or copy and paste this link: https://bit.ly/3wlTqZ2

Khalid Alexander is an African American who comes from a long line of Americans who, despite the odds, have always worked for social justice and a better world. Alexander has an M.A. in comparative literature at San Diego State University and became a Fulbright scholar in Damascus, Syria. He is an English professor, chairs the annual Social Justice and Education Conference at San Diego City College, and worked with well-known rappers affiliated with local gangs to create a CD meant to push positivity and give a voice to the disposed and forgotten as part of the Reclaiming the Community in Southeast San Diego. He also founded the ​“Reclaiming Our Stories” collective in 2015, which published a book of narrative essays written by people from impacted communities. Alexander is a proud resident of Southeast San Diego where he lives with his family and raises his children.

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