Reminds me so much of the Panafrican Congresses that occurred in England and other cities in Europe, and of my own experience discussing and writing the first panafrican book on African American history with Realites Africains in Paris, 1963.I wrote under the pseudonym P. Poyas, anassociate of Denmark Vesey. The book's still in print at Presence Africaine.

Why doesn't the $100M ("white" originated ) IAAM have an indoor facility for this kind of discussion? It shouldn't have been held outside in the cold. Perhaps, to make it more difficult for them to occur. African Americans need to raise another $100M to correct this and other obvious defects .