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On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2025, the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation celebrated the 80th birthday of Dr. Anthony Monteiro with a conference in Philadelphia.
We acknowledge one whose life is an example of revolutionary consciousness, moral courage, and a generosity of spirit. He emerges from a world historic people, whose struggle for true democracy and peace transformed the very fabric of the American nation. We celebrate Anthony Monteiro as a revolutionary, a social scientist, and a teacher. We lift up a life spent in the struggle for freedom, as exemplary of the Black proletariat’s contribution to civilization, and the remaking of the American people. Scorned by universities and other institutions of the ruling elite, the Saturday Free School became the product of his commitment to knowledge and liberation, and to young people. Anthony Monteiro has defended the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and the Black Revolutionary Tradition and interpreted them for the 21st century, making them an option for all humanity.
We commemorate Dr. Anthony Monteiro’s commitment to the ideological struggle of this time. In this time of crisis of the American empire, and with the unraveling of the white supremacist social system. We commemorate one who has fought for ideological clarity, intellectual competence and presented the values of the Black social system as an alternative to white supremacy. In celebrating Anthony Monteiro, the Saturday Free School celebrates the lifeworld, the beloved community that has produced revolutionaries like him: human beings who have committed their hearts and minds to what King said was “the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world.”
00:00 Vision Statement & Biography
21:15 Introduction
29:15 "My Man's Done Gone Now"
36:45 "The Black Proletariat in South Carolina"
48:45 Selection of Spirituals
1:05:30 "Come Sunday"
1:12:50 Rev. Leon Sullivan Sermon
1:26:05 Muhammad Ali Speech
1:28:10 Martin Luther King Jr. "Beyond Vietnam"
1:42:20 Peace Medley
1:55:15 "A Song for You" Dance
2:06:50 Testimonies for Almena
2:23:15 "Immortal Child"
2:30:25 "Wholy Holy"
2:36:25 Closing
On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2025, the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation celebrated the 80th birthday of Dr. Anthony Monteiro with a conference in Philadelphia.
We acknowledge one whose life is an example of revolutionary consciousness, moral courage, and a generosity of spirit. He emerges from a world historic people, whose struggle for true democracy and peace transformed the very fabric of the American nation. We celebrate Anthony Monteiro as a revolutionary, a social scientist, and a teacher. We lift up a life spent in the struggle for freedom, as exemplary of the Black proletariat’s contribution to civilization, and the remaking of the American people. Scorned by universities and other institutions of the ruling elite, the Saturday Free School became the product of his commitment to knowledge and liberation, and to young people. Anthony Monteiro has defended the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, and the Black Revolutionary Tradition and interpreted them for the 21st century, making them an option for all humanity.
We commemorate Dr. Anthony Monteiro’s commitment to the ideological struggle of this time. In this time of crisis of the American empire, and with the unraveling of the white supremacist social system. We commemorate one who has fought for ideological clarity, intellectual competence and presented the values of the Black social system as an alternative to white supremacy. In celebrating Anthony Monteiro, the Saturday Free School celebrates the lifeworld, the beloved community that has produced revolutionaries like him: human beings who have committed their hearts and minds to what King said was “the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world.”
00:00 Vision Statement & Biography
21:15 Introduction
29:15 "My Man's Done Gone Now"
36:45 "The Black Proletariat in South Carolina"
48:45 Selection of Spirituals
1:05:30 "Come Sunday"
1:12:50 Rev. Leon Sullivan Sermon
1:26:05 Muhammad Ali Speech
1:28:10 Martin Luther King Jr. "Beyond Vietnam"
1:42:20 Peace Medley
1:55:15 "A Song for You" Dance
2:06:50 Testimonies for Almena
2:23:15 "Immortal Child"
2:30:25 "Wholy Holy"
2:36:25 Closing
