STW Legacy Network Events
From time to time, the STW
Legacy Network will host or promote public events. All
events are free for Peacemakers,
Legacymakers, Partner and Lifetime members of the STW Legacy Network.
Prior Events
December 13, 2007
Premiere showing in the Bay Area, California, of the documentary
film, "Tribute," about the life and work of Stanley Tookie Williams,
his execution on December 13, 2005, and the memorial service in his honor
one week later. That service was notable for those who honored Stan with
eulogies: Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan; Reverend
Jesse Jackson; motivational speaker Tony Robbins; film producer ("Redemption")
Rudy Langlais; attorney Verna Wefald, who fought for Stan's
clemency to the final hours of his life; and musician Snoop Dogg --
all spoke movingly about Stan's life and the impact of his work at this
service in Los Angeles, where several thousand people came to the church
over a two-day period to view Stan's body and then to hear the speakers
honor the man and his work.
Much of that memorial service is captured by the 93-minute documentary film. Several illustrious speakers highlighted this December 13 film premiere at Contra Costa College in San Pablo, California: celebrated social activist and professor at U.C. Santa Cruz Angela Davis; McKinley Williams, President of Contra Costa College; City of Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin; exonerated death row inmate Darby Tillis; and activist Barbara Becnel. Oakland City Council member Desley Brooks was also scheduled to speak but detained at a prior event.
Barbara Becnel and Shirley Neal produced and directed this documentary honoring Stanley Tookie Williams. "Tribute" includes never-before-seen footage of the spreading of Stan’s ashes in Soweto, South Africa, on June 25, 2006. It is a moving and provocative homage to the extraordinary legacy of the death row prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and children's book author Stanley Tookie Williams.
August 15-16,
2007
Maki
Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, attends the First Annual Stanley
Tookie Williams Legacy Summit at Contra Costa College in San Pablo. A
VIP Reception is held in her honor at The Mechanics Bank of Richmond.
Other speakers at the Legacy Summit were Minister Abdullah Muhammad of
the National Prison Ministry of the Nation of Islam, Donald Lacy of the
Love Life Foundation, Elizabeth Terzakis of the Campaign to End the Death
Penalty, and Alice Kim of the Illinois Humanities Council of Chicago.
October 27,
2007
Barbara Becnel is Keynote Speaker at the Oral History Association's annual
dinner event at Oakland Marriott City Center.
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| Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir Foreword by Tavis Smiley
Epilogue by Barbara Becnel In bookstores in the United States and Canada November 13, 2007 | ||
