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Saturday March 15, 2025, 7:00 PM @ The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center
3940 Broadway @ 165th Street
Co-Chair, Roger Wareham
Roger Wareham has been a people’s lawyer and political activist of over four decades. He is a leader of the December 12th Movement, an organization of African people which organizes in the Black and Latino community around human rights violations. Roger is the International Secretary-General of the International Association Against Torture (AICT), a non-governmental organization in consultative status before the United Nations. Since 1989, he has annually presented evidence of human rights violations facing people of color in the United States and other parts of the world at assemblies of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (formerly the Commission on Human Rights) and its other bodies that meet in Geneva, Switzerland. Roger was co-counsel representing three of the 5 young Black and Latino men wrongfully convicted in the Central Park Jogger case of 1989. Roger earned his B.A. from Harvard University and J.D. from Columbia University Law School.
SATURDAY EVENING EVENT
SPECIAL SPEAKERS AND MUSICAL GUEST:
Arturo O’Farrill and Band
Ambassador Yuri Gala Lopez
Deputy Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations
Leima Martinez Freire
Director, North American Desk, Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People’s (ICAP)
Zayid Muhammad, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee, Spoken Word - Poetry
Dr. Rosemari Mealy
Longtime Cuba solidarity, international human rights, and political prisoner activist-scholar. Author, Fidel and Malcolm X --Memories of a Meeting (Black Classic Press 2014)
Dr. Kelvin Rojas
Born in Dominican Republic and raised in Harlem, NY. Dr. Rojas attended the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), graduating in 2024. He recently rejoined his community in Harlem after living in Cuba for 7 years and is hoping to apply what he learned in Cuba for the betterment of the health system in the United States.
Light Refreshments – Dance Music
SUGGESTED DONATION $20 -- No one turned away for lack of funds
