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Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/01/2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St
San Francisco
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Resistance Mixtape, Volume 1, brings together Bay Area activists and artists for an evening of performance, storytelling, history, and inspiration.
Join movement elders and activist musicians, poets and organizers — and discover ways to plug in to the resistance. Performers and presenters include Joti Singh, Pam Tau Lee, Zakia Afrin, Zahra Billoo, and Rupert Estanislao.
This event is curated by Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee of the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
May 12, 1902 - "Joe Gans Becomes World's First African-American Boxing Champion" Joe Gans defeated Frank Erne to become the world's first African-American
to win World Championship in any weight class. He became a world champion a full six years before famed boxer Jack Johnson. This is because Johnson's attempts at challenging for the heavyweight title were thwarted as James J. Jeffries refused to face him. Gans and Johnson were two early champions in a sport dominated by African-Americans throughout the 20th century.