We Remember the Wilmington Ten
35 Years Later

A panel discussion featuring
Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad
Friday, February 3
7:00-9:00 pm
Sonja Haynes Stone Center
UNC Campus

Free and open to the public.
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The Institute of African American Research, in association with the Center for the Study of the American South, the Southern Oral History Program, and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presents WE REMEMBER THE WILMINGTON TEN--35 YEARS LATER, a 35th anniversary commemoration program which will feature a panel discussion composed of journalists, writers, and participants who have intimate knowledge of the Wilmington Ten Incident of February 1971.

The program will take place Friday February 3, 2006, at the Sonja H. Stone Center, on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the Hitchcock Room, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and will include an appearance on the panel and a talk by Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, an Oxford, North Carolina native, who is the former executive director of the NAACP, an advisor to Minister Louis Farrakhan and the CEO and executive director of Hip Hop Summit Action Network. For more information, call the Stone Center at (919) 962-9001.

The panelists:

Milton Jordan, a journalist who wrote about the Ten and covered the story for newspapers in the state and wrote a magazine article in the now defunct Sepia Magazine. Jordan currently lives in Durham.

Willie Earl Vereen, a member of the Wilmington Ten, who now lives in Atlanta and who has stated many times that the entire incident ruined his life.

Reverend Kojo Nantambu, a Charlotte-based speaker and Pan-Africanist, who was a student leader during the incident and whose name is almost synonomous with the Wilmington Ten.

Dr. Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, the leader of the Wilmington Ten, former head of the NAACP, and advisor to Minister Louis Farrakhan. Muhammad is based in New York City and heads the Hip Hop Summit Action Network.

Larry Reni Thomas, a Chapel Hill-based author/activist/radio announcer who wrote The True Story Behind the Wilmingon Ten and Rabbit! Rabbit! Rabbit!: A Saga of the Wilmington Ten Inicdent of February 1971.