Please join us for our upcoming discussion:
“Lost Voices of Revolution: Growing Up in the Black Panther Party”
Join us for a conversation with Meres-Sia Gabriel (writer, performance artist, and daughter of Black Panther Party members Emory Douglas, artist and the “Minister of Culture," and Gayle “Asali” Dickson, artist and educator.
Friday, February 21, 2025
11-12pm
HIB 100
Meres-Sia Gabriel was born into the Black Panther Party. She is the daughter of Emory Douglas "Artist and Minister of Culture” and Gayle “Asali” Dickson “Artist and Educator”. She grew up in Oakland, California and studied at Howard University and The Middlebury College School in France/ Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. After receiving her master's in French, Meres-Sia returned home to pursue her passion for teaching, writing, and performing. In 2024 she created a series of performance and interactive events centered around the lost voices of the children of the Black Panther Party. Those events included her one-woman show entitled “I Was There Too!” and the panel “We Were There Too!” In addition to her own artist practice, Meres-Sia is a French instructor, a teacher consultant for the Bay Area Writing Project at UC Berkeley, and the founder of her own creative writing program, Life-Changing Writing, that serves a diverse client base of national and international writers.
Co-Sponsored by the Humanities Center, BPOCS, Humanities Core, and Illuminations.