Students, faculty, staff and administrators gather for a group photo with featured guests following the “Spring Colloquium: From Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions” on Feb. 21 that welcomed guest speakers (seated from left to right) déqui kioni-sadiki, a black feminist, educator for liberation, artist, poet, and chair of the Malcolm X Commemoration Committee; Sekou Odinga, an original member of the Black Panther Party (Harlem Chapter), who has continued to build awareness of and advocate for the release of political prisoners and prisoners of war; and Matt Meyer, a senior research scholar at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Resistance Studies Initiative with a lifelong pursuit of bridging gaps between academics and activists. The event was sponsored by a Humanities New York Grant, the college’s Public Justice - David F. Cutler ’74 Fund for Excellence, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Office, the gender and women’s studies program, Syracuse Peace Council and ArtRage Gallery in Syracuse.