Conference for the International Decade for People of African Descent

Cuba | Conference for the International Decade for People of African Descent

Journey Dates: December 8-16, 2024 Trip Availability: OPEN by invitation only

Tour Sponsor: Sam Anderson

The Ministry of Culture and the National Program against Racism and Racial Discrimination of the Republic of Cuba–with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)–are inviting us to attend the Conference for the International Decade for People of African Descent, to be held in Havana, Cuba, from December 9 to 13, 2024.

Our delegation will arrive on December 8, 2024 and leave on December 16, 2024.

This will be a small delegation (10-15 people) of mainly Black public education activists/teachers. We will have the opportunity to not only attend this important conference, but also to get a chance to see Cuba today up close and personal as we connect with Cuban folk from all walks of life, and learn about how they are inventively struggling through a 62-year-long US blockade. Additionally, some members of our group will take part in two panels at the conference.

About Sam Anderson
Brooklyn, NY native Sam Anderson is an author of books and essays on science, technology (The Third World Confronts Science & Technology-with the late French Professor Maurice Bazin) and the history of slavery: The Black Holocaust for Beginners (Writers and Readers Publishers, 1995-2018). In addition, he has been an editor of numerous Black journals and anthologies: Black Dialog, NOBO Journal, The Black Activist, In Defense of Mumia, Writers and Readers,1996 and the tribute anthology to the Late Amiri Baraka: Let Loose on the World, 2010. He was the first chair of a Black Studies Department in 1969-70 at Sarah Lawrence College. Dr. Anderson has also taught at SUNY Old Westbury, City College of NY, NYU, Rutgers University, and Brooklyn College, and was former Education Director at the Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law and Social Justice. He has also been active in the Civil Rights/Black Liberation Movement since 1964, as a member of the Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a founding member of the original Black Panther Party in 1966. Sam Anderson was also an active participant within the US Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s.