Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party 

Date

Monday November 10, 2025
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

This event is part of the 2025 Dunning Lectureship with Dr. Sam Schalk.

504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party 

Date: Monday, November 10

Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm

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Drawing from the book, Black Disability Politics, this talk will detail the Black Panther Party’s involvement in the 1977 504 Sit-in and discuss it as a historical example of how Black cultural workers have engaged with disability as a political issue in ways that have sometimes been obscured in Black studies and disability studies alike.

 

Collaborators: Black Studies, Department of Gender Studies, and School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Centre for Teaching and Learning