109th Annual Meeting and Conference Academic Program Journal

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Reception, Banquet, & Luncheon Menus

Wednesday Executive Council Meeting

ITALIAN BUFFET LUNCH

SALADS

Field greens | Parmesan | Artichokes | Olives | Tomatoes | Red Wine Vinaigrette

Roasted Zucchini | Tomatoes | Crushed Basil | Charred Radicchio | Peppers | Lemon Oil

MAINS

Roasted salmon with lemon, herbs and romesco

Grilled chicken breast with lemon thyme butter

SIDES

Penne pasta, vodka sauce, Charred peppers & green beans

SWEETS

Wednesday Reception at the Heinz History Center

Fruit and veggie display

Antipasta display (meats, cheese, roasted vegetables, dips, breads, crackers)

Black eyed peas and rice

Honey-a-Must wings

Jambalaya / cornbread squares

Collard & kale greens - no meat

Catfish nuggets

Vegan chicken stir fry

Vegetable pasta

Dessert display

Thursday Luncheon Buffet

TRAILS & RIVERS BUFFET HOT BUFFET

SALADS

Blue cheese, toasted pistachios, dried fruits, fava beans, red wine vinaigrette

Roasted Brussels sprouts salad | Pomegranate arils, crumbled bacon, candied walnuts, buttermilk ranch dressing

MAINS

Coffee & molasses-rubbed pork loin

Herb encrusted chicken breast | Garlic cream

SIDES

Skillet sweet potatoes | Crumbled feta, raisin relish

Spinach & baby carrots | Espresso dust, sea salt

DESSERT

Thursday Reception at the Embassy Suites

Reception Display

Raw Organic Vegetables with Hummus, Smoked

Almonds, Baked & Grilled Pitas

Sliced Fresh Fruit Display with Seasonal Berries

Caribbean Station

Jerk Chicken

Caribbean Seasoned Vegetables

White & Brown Rice

Skewer Station

Beef Satay Skewers

BBQ Chicken Skewers

Vegetable Skewers

Served with Assorted Sauces

Roasted Potatoes

Assorted Cookies & Brownies

Friday Luncheon Buffet

MOUNTAINS & NATURE BUFFET

SALADS

Baby kale | Forest mushrooms, pickled beets, seasoned feta, whole-grain mustard vinaigrette

Mesclun greens | Heirloom cherry tomatoes, shaved red onion, cucumbers, shredded carrots, torn bread croutons, wild herb vinaigrette

MAINS

Roasted cod | Herbed cracker crumbs, caper lemon pan jus

Sweet tea fried chicken

SIDES

Campfire potatoes | Marble potatoes, caramelized onions, smoked paprika butter

Charred cauliflower | Apple cider glaze, crushed red pepper

SWEETS

Friday Night Reception

SLIDER BAR RECEPTION STATION

Angus beef, Nashville hot breaded chicken, Southwest black bean

Kettle Chips

BLOOMFIELD PASTA RECEPTION

STATION

Penne and ravioli

Pomodoro, short rib Bolognese and Gournay

Alfredo & chicken sauces

TOSS-IT-UP SALAD STATION

Southwest Caesar salad

Torn romaine, marinated black beans, cumin roasted corn

chipotle Caesar dressing, crushed corn tortilla crisps

Baby kale & gem lettuce salad

Forest mushrooms, roasted bell peppers, sprouts, savory trail mix

seasoned feta, whole-grain mustard vinaigrette

Lemon Bars and Brownies

Coffee, tea, iced tea (sweet & unsweet) and lemonade

Saturday Luncheon Buffet

VINE & VINTNERS BUFFET

SALADS

Gem lettuce salad | Garbanzo beans, sundried tomatoes, pecans, crumbled goat cheese, red wine vinaigrette

Garden greens salad | Haricots vert, shaved parmesan, caramelized root vegetables, Sunflower seeds, champagne vinaigrette

MAINS

Chardonnay-brined chicken breast, grape chutney

Rosé wine-basted salmon, orange marmalade & mustard glaze

SIDES

Steamed broccolini, forest mushroom mélange, verjus, aged balsamic

Heirloom grain pilaf, spinach, confit tomatoes

DESSERTS

Saturday Banquet

Butter lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, watermelon radish carrot, grapefruit & basil dressing

Garlic roast chicken

Ranch Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes

Green beans, carrots

Dessert

Vegetarian

Cavatappi Pasta

Baked Tomato Marinara

Chef’s blend mushrooms, olives, basil

HOTEL & LOCATION INFORMATION

SESSIONS FOR THE CONFERENCE WILL BE LOCATED IN THREE BUILDINGS

THE HEINZ HISTORY CENTER

1212 SMALLMAN STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA 15222

On Wednesday, from 12:00 noon to 8:15 p.m., transportation will be provided from the Omni Hotel through the Oliver Avenue entrance to the Center.

THE OMNI WILLIAM PENN HOTEL - HOST HOTEL

530 WILLIAM PENN PLACE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15219

ROOMS LOCATED ON THE 1ST FLOOR

CHURCHILL

FOX CHAPEL

MT. LEBANON

OAKMONT

OAKMONT FOYER - REGISTRATION

SEWICKLEY

SHADY SIDE

ROOMS LOCATED ON THE CONFERENCE LEVEL

CARNEGIE I

CARNEGIE II

CARNEGIE III

OLIVER

PARKVIEW EAST

VANDERGRIFT

ROOMS LOCATED ON THE WILLIAM PENN LEVEL ANCHOR

RIVERBOAT - EXHIBITS

STERNWHEELER - EXHIBITS THREE RIVERS

WILLIAM PENN BALLROOMMEALS AND PLENARY SESSIONS

ATTENDEE WIFI ACCESS CODE: ASALH2024

THE EMBASSY SUITES HOTEL

535 SMITHFIELD STREET, PITTSBURGH, PA, 15222

Located across the street from the Omni William Penn Hotel. Exhibitors, the Thursday Author's Book Signing and Journal of African American History Reception, the Friday Poster Sessions, and other sessions.

ROOMS LOCATED AT THE EMBASSY SUITES ON THE SECOND FLOOR

HEINZ

GRANT

OLIVER CHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS ROOM

365, Black History, 045

Abdiruhman, Lisette, 014

Abdo-baari, Barakah, 020, 170

Abdul-Ghani, Casarae, 067, 110 abdullah, keturah, 008, 104

Abdullah-Smith, Hazim, 104

Acker, Daniel, 012

Adams, Ashley, 100, 121 Adams, John, 002

Adell, Sandra, 052

African American Civil Rights Network, NPS/, 045

Agbo, Chinedu, 075

Ai, Joan, 092

Akines, Stacey L., 140

Alahmed, Nadia, 059, 107

Alexander, Shawn, 123, 163 Allen, Austin, 165

Allen, Madge, 127

Allen, Marcus Anthony, 011

Allison, Donnetrice, 114

Alridge, Derrick P., 163

Alston, Sydney, 124

Alvarez Guillen, Miranda, 106

Alves Matos, Thayza, 111 Anderson, Mia Y., 126 Anderson, Reynaldo, 076

Andrews, Amelia Anne, 104

Apparel, YBI African, 045

Armagost, Karen, 126

Ashaolu, Gloria J., 122 Austin, Kaila, 091

Banks, Adam, 113

Barba, Paul, 086

Barber, Tiffany E., 076

Baudelaire, Jameson, 104, 136 Bay, Mia, 163

Bayeza, Ifa, 126

Beasley, Jaycob Mykel, 104 Bell, Ramona, 136

Belt, Leia Danae, 008, 140, 188

Bernado, Ashley, 111

Bernier, Julia, 067, 187

Bess, Reginald A., 017

Bickerstaff,II, Daniel, 165

Billops, Camille, 035, 048, 065, 069

Billups, William Robert, 030

Bireda, Martha Russell, 092

Black, M. Taylor, 188

Black, Samuel W, 003, 005, 174, 191

Blackman, Dexter, 175

Participant Index

Numbers following names indicate session numbers

Blackman-Richards, Norka, 002

Blackmer, Peter, 057, 088, 123, 142

Blakeslee, Thomas, 015

Blockett, Kimberly, 038

Boccella, Demeatria, 062

Books, Zawadi, 045

Bookstore, Blackworldschoolers Mobile, 044

Boston, Amanda, 136

Bradley, Regina, 186

Bradley, Stefan, 049

Brewer, Herbert, 054, 175

Briggs, Qwenton, 146

Bristow, Margaret, 081

Brock, Lisa, 119

Brodie, Lyman, 002

Brodnax, David, 158

Brooks, Lonny Avi, 076

Brooks, Maya, 110

Brown, Aleia, 087

Brown, Deborah Anna, 018, 079, 148

Brown, Lisa Rochelle, 095

Brown, Nikki Lynn Marie, 146

Brown-Smith, Tailar, 010

Brown Stangeland, Layli Jeanette

Tahirih, 087, 111

Broyld, dann j, 158

Brunson, Joy, 085

Bullock, Gretchen, 113

Bullock, Quintin A., 046

Burden-Stelly, Charisse, 033

Burgin, Say, 067, 161

Burrell, Kristopher, 161

Burrowes, Patrick, 054, 067

Butler, Philip, 076

Butts, Renia, 057

Bynum, Cornelius, 002, 174, 191

Cade, Anthony J, 002, 158, 181

Caise, William, 020

Caldwell-Serges, Lisa, 095

Calhoun, Cathryn, 001

Callier, Durell, 058

Cama, Anaelle Rosa Huguette, 009

Campbell, Maia, 118

Canton, David Alvin, 033

Carter, Carlos T., 191

Cartwright, Joan, 013, 185

cathcart, alexis, 008

Causey, Evelyn, 093

Cauthen, Sloane, 104

Celano, Daniele, 187

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 002, 064, 067,

125, 138, 162, 182

Chiwa, Akudzwe Elsie, 137

Choice, The Scholar’s, 045

Cilli, Adam Lee, 066

Clarkson, Alonge O, 013

Cochran, Marie Toni, 153

Cody, Tiffany N., 085

Cole, David, 090

Cole Kai-Lewis, Abimbola, 118 Collins, Ian, 106

Conley, Darlene, 008

Conner, Grover Jasper, 026

Contreras, Christian, 023

Cook-Bell, Karen, 002, 040, 187

Cooke, James Robert, 113

Cooper, Melissa L., 177

Cooper Owens, Deirdre, 177

Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 054

Cowan, Aaron, 066

Cox, Jordana, 096

Crafts, Zee, 045

Craig, Bradley, 086

Crawford, Margo, 059

Cromartie, J. Vern, 088

Croney, Stephanie, 085

Crumley, Jaimie D, 038

Cruz, Kymberly, 042

Culverson, Donald, 022

Cummings, Edna, 181

Cummings, Jaha, 092

Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 002, 005, 006, 046, 068, 108, 127, 130, 138, 171, 174, 191

Dagbovie, Pero, 122, 174, 191

Dance, Eola, 155

Dancy, Elon, 068

Davis, Brian C, 075

Davis, Christina, 060

Davis, Christopher, 088, 117, 140

Davis, Ella J, 014, 077, 158

Davis, Hunter Miles, 028

Davis, Ophera A., 136

Dekle, James, 020

Diaz, Tyler, 017

Dickerson, Christina Marie, 053

Diggs, Constance L., 183

Diggs Colbert, Soyica, 105

Dillahunt-Holloway, Ajamu, 124

Diouf, Shani Dessie Inell, 032, 180

Donaldson, Bobby, 188

Donkor, Crystal, 139

Dow, Talia, 115

Drake, Simone, 082

Dromgoole, Ambre, 039

Drum and Dance Group, Sankofa Village, 127

Duckett, Ajewole, 142

Dulaney, W. Marvin, 002, 005, 062, 064, 068, 123, 127, 138, 182, 191

Duncan, Natanya, 002, 006, 112, 154, 178

Dyer, Ervin, 062

Dyssou, Nanda, 036

Ealey, Jordan, 105, 157

Ebright, Wanda, 032, 067, 180 Eddins, Crystal, 094

Edgar, Donna Marie, 104 Edmeier, Daniela, 169

Edwards, Anne Marie, 031, 170 Edwards, Norrell, 102 Ellis, Kimberly, 062, 108 Ellis, Paul, 062

England, Tanya M, 183

English, Bertis D, 068 Erchak, Wyatt, 015

Etienne, Leslie, 002, 010, 027, 064, 091, 135, 182, 191

Eure, Eve, 102

Evans, Stephanie Y., 067, 178 Everybody, Something For, 045

Ewing, Carl, 165

Ewing, K.T., 039, 043, 060, 094

Ewing, Lavita, 165

Fashions, Aziz, 045

Fashions, Heritage International, 045

Favor, Logan, 023 Fields-Black, Edda L., 067, 101, 177 Finley, Shakealia, 056

Fischer, Dawn-Elissa, 125, 186

Flamer, Michelle, 052 Fleming, Julius, 105

Flemming, Sheila Y., 171 Flynn, Joseph, 061

Fontno, Sean, 147

Fontno, Tiffeni, 011, 147 Ford, Melissa, 066, 157

Foreman, Deirdre, 002, 183

Fortado, Stephanie, 165 Fraser, Rhone, 081 Frazier, Valerie, 104 Freeman, Trayc, 140 Fuller, Sharon, 168

Gaines, Kevin, 163

Gainey, Ed, 005

Gallagher, Sean, 086

Gannaway, Jada, 122

Gantt, Nyah, 142

Garcia, John J, 015

Garrett-Scott, Shennette, 030, 112

Gary, Lindsay, 180

Germain, Esther, 138

Germain, Felix, 138, 174, 191

Gillis, Hazel D, 064, 104, 127

Gilpin, Tyson, 181

Gipson, Maurice D., 043

Girardeau, Arnetta C, 104

Givens, Jarvis Ray, 002

Glantz, Jillian, 022

Global, Cathy’s, 047

Goggins, Lathardus, 067

Gold, Aniya, 110

Gonzalez-Garcia, Debra Taylor, 087

Goodwin, Daleah, 006, 060

Gosa, Jamaal, 145

Grace-Williams, Michelle, 028

Gray, LaVerne, 144

Gray Jr, Marc, 095

Greason, Walter, 128, 172, 190

Greene, Clarreese La’Nay, 170

Greer, Arletha, 104

Griffin, Tarsha, 106

Grouper, 044

Grubbs-King, Leslee, 008

Gruber, Christiane, 152

Guy, Harrison, 180

Hall, Alycia, 094

Hall Dotson, Susan, 027

Halley, Brian, 050

Halliday, Aria S., 167

Hamilton, Gabriel, 067

Hamilton, Kenneth M, 053, 118

Hamlin, Francoise N., 051

Hammack, María Esther, 086

Hammell, William Masami, 050

Hankins, Rebecca Louise, 006, 104

Hanna, Cassondra, 041

Hardy, Everett, 030, 106

Harris, Felecia, 079

Harris, LaShawn, 122, 127, 174, 191

Harris, Phillip, 008

Harris-Cole, Linda, 090

Hawk, Emily, 096

Hawkes, DeLisa, 102

Hawkins, Kenneth, 028

Hayes, Nichelle M., 027

Hayes, Sheena, 060, 157

Haykal, Aaisha N., 002, 006, 021, 138, 156

Head Foundation, David L., 045

Hearns, Charles, 064

Helpdesk, APC, 044

Henderson, Edwin Bancroft, 067

Henderson, Jaontra, 080

Henderson, Wanda, 042

Henry, Britney, 139

Henry, Kelsey, 026

Hewins-Maroney, Barbara, 188

Hightower, Frank Floyd, 098

Hines, Vanessa, 041

Hobson, Maurice J., 186, 189

Hodge, Ruth E., 174, 191

Holland, Daniel, 077

Holley, Jaida, 012

Holley, Regina, 042

Holmes, Melanie R., 099

Holness, Lucien, 187

Holt, Valerie Ann, 002

Hooper, Leta, 033

Horace, Ashly, 032, 104, 180

House, Anton D., 117

Howell, Kisha, 103

Howze, Tamanika, 042

Hulbert, Isaac, 023

Humphrey, Amina, 081

Humphrey, Kathy, 046

Hunter, Lex, 120

Hyman, Monique, 148

Ignite, CMR, 044

Igwedibia, Adaoma, 013

Illingworth, James, 187

Information Resources, Council on Library &, 044

Ingram, Corey, 034

International, The Foundation, 045

Issac-Savage, Paulette E., 095

Iyengar, Malathi, 058

Jackmon, Marvin X, 152

Jackson, Evelyn, 006, 008

Jackson, Kellie Carter, 067, 101

Jackson, Tanisha M., 019

Jacobs Thompson, Sharita, 122

James, Dawnavyn, 016

Jefferson, Nailah, 189

Jelks, Randal Maurice, 189 Jenkins, Joshua, 126

Jennings, Brandon D, 145

Jenrich, Marissa A, 038

Johns, Glynis, 019, 087, 115, 150

Johnson, Aisha, 002, 006, 021, 138, 174, 191

Johnson, Amber, 164

Johnson, Andre E., 067, 158

Johnson, Charles, 124

Johnson, Deanda, 093

Johnson, Elizabeth, 022, 052, 113

Johnson, Maude, 127

Johnson, Rahman, 127

Johnson, Tracey, 096

Jones, Aristotle, 153

Jones, Cassandra, 127

Jones, Ida E., 002, 127

Jones, Kelly Houston, 040

Jones, Marcelle, 067

Jones, Michelee Theresa, 079

Jones, Patrick, 049

Jones, Renata Love, 147

Jordan, Ashley, 174, 191

Jordan, Jamon, 097

Jouili, Jeanette, 152

Joyner, Brian, 126

Judy, RA, 152

Jurgenson, Barry, 121

Kennedy, Katrena, 165 Khater, Micah, 026

Kilgore, Brittney, 041

Kimble, Lionel, 002, 006, 008, 071, 132, 138

King, Dante D, 080

King, Shannon, 096

Klanderud, Jessica D, 006, 066

Laing, Justin D, 145

Lang, T., 180

Langellier, John Phillip, 017

Lanier, Walter J, 002

Lawrence, Valerie Adeniji, 116

Lee, Asa, 046

Lee, Kim, 067

Legend, Latif, 008

Leverette Hall, Tru, 104

Levy, Peter, 161

Lewis, Allison Michele, 024

Lewis, Gina Marie, 155

Lewis, Thabiti, 160

Lewis-Hale, Phyllis, 032

Lewis-Timmons, Monet, 139

Ligon, Tina Louise, 159

Likely, Rasheda, 025

Liles-Amponsah, Alyssa, 120

Lindner, Jenee, 067

Lindsey, Treva, 169

Livingston, Samuel, 031

Lloyd, Morgan T, 017

Locke, Brandi, 038

Lopez, Alyssa, 096

Lowe, Turkiya, 100

Lubin, Alex, 107

Maginn, Andrew, 135

Makalani, Minkah, 162

Maranatha, Bia-, 045

Martin, Lois Mufuka, 137

Martin-King, Charity, 023

Masghati, Emily, 110

Mason, Michael Gerard, 009

Matthews, Lopez, 002, 021, 084, 174, 191

Maxwell, M Marie, 022

Mays McDonald, Pamela, 055

McAllister, Paul, 169

McClarin, Kamal A., 090, 177

McGill, Alicia, 124

McKinney, Jr., Charles, 051, 067

McLarney, Ellen, 152

McNair, Oliver, 174

McNamee, Heather, 043

McNeil, Adam Xavier, 017, 086, 117

McPherson, Tracey Lynne, 008

Media, Jasiri X/One Hood, 130

Meeks, Tomiko, 002, 006

Meggerson Moore, Joyce, 191

Mehta, Archit Jaladhi, 041

Middleton, Leontyne, 127

Miletsky, Zebulon, 002, 006, 049, 123

Militz-Frielink, Sarah, 061

Miller, Uzoma, 024

Mimms Scavnicky, Kristen, 104

Mingo, AnneMarie, 053

Mississippi, University Press of, 044

Mitchell, Anthony, 042

Mixon, Gregory Lamont, 011, 028, 188

Moeller, John, 181

Monroe, Kimberly, 099

Montgomery, Nicholl D, 147

moore, candace, 017

Moore, Chris, 046

Moore, Lawana Holland-, 055

Moore, Tyler DeWayne, 113

Morant, Quintarra, 137

Morgan, III, James, 002, 006, 008

Morris, Naja, 104

Morrow, Lynne, 168

Morton, Terrell, 056

Moten, Crystal M., 067, 161

Mufuka, Rumbidzai, 028, 067, 137

Mwangi, Peter Njagi, 111

Myburgh, Brittany, 031

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti, 101, 178

Nachescu, Ileana, 157

Nance, Nichole, 008

Neal, Deacon Jeffery, 095

Neal, Rev. Jeffery, 095

Nelson, Noah, 088, 164

Neubauer, Mark, 011

Newman, Christopher, 142

Nickens, Rabin, 077

Nicol, Donna J., 036, 067

Nicole, Zariah, 118

Niño, Laura, 111

Norment, Jr., Nathaniel, 125

Noyalas, Jonathan A, 181

Odion, Gretchen J, 149 of Florida, University Press, 044

Ogbar, Jeffery O.G., 186

Oliver, Keisha, 008, 011, 136

Onli, Turtel, 097

Osei, Johari Diata, 074

Ossa, Luisa Marcela, 058

Overton-Mann, Dwayne, 096

Parker, Alison Marie, 040, 112

Patterson, Leah La’Nay, 020, 170

Patterson, Valerie Lyles, 085

Pearl, Staycee, 155

Penn, Bonita Lee, 067

Perdue, Santrell, 028

Petties, Michelle, 067

Phillips, Kenvi, 002, 084, 155

Phillips, Logan, 008

Pilatte, Malaurie, 009

Pinkston, Ada, 155

Plange, Xorlali, 097

Plasencia, Sam, 015

Pollard, Sam, 089

Popowich, Natasha, 079

Porter, Curtiss, 116

Powers, Jr., Bernard, 177

Pratt, Menah, 067, 167

Press, Columbia University, 044

Press, Myers Education, 044

Press, The University of Chicago, 045

Press, University of Arkansas, 044

Press, University of Georgia, 044

Press, University of Illinois, 044

Press, University of Mass, 044

Press, University of North Carolina, 045 Press, University of Pennsylvania, 045 Press, University of Pittsburgh, 045

Press, University of South Carolina, 044 Press, University of Virginia, 044

Press, Vanderbilt University, 044

Preston, Ashley Robertson, 040, 171

Price, Reginald, 173

Procope Bell, Danielle, 102

Putnam, Lara E, 112

QUEEN, KIMBERLY M, 127

Quiros, Ansley Lillian, 053

Rains, Lesley, 050

Redd, Marques, 010

Rejuvenation Cream, Egyptian Harvest, 045

Renée, L, 153

Ribeiro, Ariane, 146

Richardson, Renee, 162

Richmond, LaWana, 076

Ridley, Leticia, 105

Rivera, Isaiah Frost, 106

Rivers, Larry O., 053, 067

Robinson, Deborah, 156

Rocke (DMA), Dr. Jolie, 032

Rogers, Christopher R., 055

Rogers, Juhanna, 019

Rogers, Justin Isaac, 158 Rogers, Lewis, 083

Rolark Barnes, Denise, 002

Rooks, Noliwe, 171

Rowe, Brian, 181 Roy, Ariel, 100, 121 Royster, Briana, 094

Saffold, Jacinta R, 139 Sanchez, Sonia, 174, 191

Sanders, Crystal R., 040, 067

Sanders-McMurtry, Kijua, 009, 081

Sankarsingh, Brian, 063, 067

Sanya, Brenda N., 058

Saunders, Ronald Brooks, 005

Scott, Daryl Michael, 002, 006, 054, 101, 138, 163, 175

Scott, Michelle R., 039, 067

Scruggs, Camesha, 174, 191

Segal, Rana, 166

Sewell, Caleb, 056

Shabazz, Amilcar, 123

Shakir, Ameenah, 184

Shelton, Jason E, 014, 067

Shepherd, Anita Moore, 002, 138 Silva Hyde, Kathryn, 049

Siracusa, Anthony C, 051, 053

Smethurst, James, 059

Smith, Hampton, 088

Smith, Joyya, 183

Smith, Pamela Reese, 067

Smith, R. Drew, 046, 075

Smith, Shanna Louise, 159 Smith, Tanisha, 008

Smith-Pradia, Kemba, 083

Smooth, Anthony, 008

Solutions, Advanced Meetings, 044

Southers, Mark Clayton, 098, 116

Soylu, Mary, 031

Spears, Alan, 126

Spires, Derrick A., 139

St. Angelo, Benjamin, 169

Stanley, Rosalind “Roz” Caldwell, 067

Stephens, Brian, 079

Sterrs-Howard, Tamika Sakayi, 032, 104

Stevens, Tim, 191

Stewart, James B., 042, 067, 125, 163

Stokes, Brandon, 160

Stokes, Jackie, 180

Strayhorn, Joshua, 121

Sutton, Nicole, 164

Taaffe, Claudine Olivia, 167

Table, ASALH Media, 044

Table, ASALH Store, 047

Tadej, Peggy, 181

Tandy, Kisha, 027, 091

Tarik, Latif, 099

Tate, Angela, 038, 099

Taylor, Kieth, 145

Taylor, Nikki, 101, 174, 191

Taylor, Ula Y., 112

Taylor, Valerie, 159

Tchakirides, Will, 074

Temple, Christel N, 075

Terry, Scott, 037

Terry-Elliott, Jessica Lynn, 087

Thomas, Daniel, 008

Thomas, Felicia, 040, 175

Thomas, Terrance, 064, 182

Thompkins, Will, 042

Thompson, Albert, 002, 006, 024

Thompson, Heather Ann, 189

Thompson, Lisa B., 105

Thomson, Paul Michael, 059, 160

Tillman, Ryan, 083

Tinson, Christopher, 123

Todd, Timothy, 030

Towns, Shaleace Nichelle, 104

Trotter, Joe W., 053, 066, 174, 191

Tucker, Arthur, 091

Turner, Denise, 062

Turner, Lou, 141

Tuszynska, Agnieszka, 144

Udin, Sala, 098, 108, 116

Uyola, Rosie Jayde, 161

Valentine, Danyelle, 094

Vance, Reginald, 067

Vaughn, Gladys Gary, 002, 012

Vortia, Christina, 006, 104

Walker, Marcel, 080

Walker, Tahirah, 171

Walters, Wayne, 046

Warren, Alexandra Joye, 180

Warren, Kellee, 015

Warren Hill, Laura, 161

Webb, Taurean, 107

Webber, Randall C., 067, 168

Webster, Crystal Lynn, 040

West, E. James, 144

West, John J, 037

Whitaker, Nathaniel Junious, 011

White, Deborah Gray, 174, 191

White, Derrick, 123

White, Morgan, 008, 028

Whitman, Kayleigh C, 053

Wilkerson, Dominique, 093

Wilkins, David G., 064

Williams, Douglas, 160

Williams, Hettie V, 040

Williams, Jullanar Zakiyyah, 140

Williams, Kier, 008

Williams, Sade, 140

Williams, Shawn Lamar, 098, 116

Williams, Tawanna, 023

Willis, Ajanae, 037

Willmott, Kevin, 189

Wilson, Michael K, 087

Wilson, Tiana U., 157

Winford, Brandon K., 030, 117

Winters, Andrew, 050

Wise Whitehead, Karsonya, 002, 061, 138, 174, 191

Wolde, Eden, 148

Wolf, Jacob, 104

Wolf, Lakeisha, 108

Wolfe, George C., 129

Wood, Augustus, 002, 006, 138, 182

Wooden, Isaiah, 105

Woodson, Craig D., 029, 052, 104, 115

Woodson Truth, Black White, 044

Woodson Walters, Ashley, 056, 120 Wormsley, Alisha, 155

Wright, Joshua K., 161

Wright, Kelechi Chinyere, 184

Young, Darius J., 018, 037

Young, Jarvis Aaron, 013

Young, Zoe Samar, 008

Youth Vote, Pa, 044

Yusef, Kideste Mariam, 083

Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni, 046

Zehyoue, Elijah, 099

Zelaya, Karla Vanessa, 135

Zhang, Jia, 059

Zinkle, Austin, 146

001. 7:00 am to 8:00 am

Leader:

SESSION SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

7:00am

MeetingRiverboat- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn ZUMBA FOR ALL EARLY RISERS.

Cathryn Calhoun, Owner, Constantly Creating, LLC 9:30am

002. 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Participant:

Meeting Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING AND LUNCH.

John Adams, ASALH Executive Council

Albert Thompson, American University

Norka Blackman-Richards, ASALH Executive Council

Lyman Brodie, University of Central Florida

Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University

Anthony J Cade, US Air National Guard History Office

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Karen Cook-Bell, Bowie State University

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

Natanya Duncan, City University of New York

Deirdre Foreman, Ramapo College of New Jersey and Executive Council

Jarvis Ray Givens, Harvard University

Aaisha N. Haykal, College of Charleston and ASALH Vice President for Programs

Valerie Ann Holt, ASALH Treasurer

James Morgan, III, Morgan State University

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ida E. Jones, Morgan State University and ASALH Vice President for Membership

Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University

Walter J Lanier, ASALH Executive Council

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Lopez Matthews, District of Columbia, Office of Public Records, ASALH Executive Council, ASALH Roland MCConnell Branch

Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University

Denise Rolark Barnes, ASALH Executive Council & The Washington Informer

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Kenvi Phillips, Barack Obama Presidential Library, NARA

Anita Moore Shepherd, ASALH Executive Council and ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch

Tomiko Meeks, Howard University

Gladys Gary Vaughn, ASALH Executive Council

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

Augustus Wood, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 10:00am

10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Leader:

Samuel W Black, Senator John Heinz History Center

004. 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Special Presentation

USPS KWANZAA STAMP 1ST DAY OF ISSUE CEREMONY. 6:00pm

Heinz History Center

005. 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Reception Heinz History Center OPENING RECEPTION.

Greetings:

Ronald Brooks Saunders, ASALH Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch (Pittsburgh)

Ed Gainey, Mayor of City of Pittsburgh

Samuel W Black, Senator John Heinz History Center

Emcee:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Welcome and Occasion:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

9:00pm

006. 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm Meeting Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING.

Chairs:

Augustus Wood, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Participant:

Aaisha N. Haykal, College of Charleston and ASALH Vice President for Programs

Jessica D Klanderud, Berea College

James Morgan, III, Morgan State University

Albert Thompson, American University

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University

Natanya Duncan, City University of New York

Daleah Goodwin, Xavier University

Tomiko Meeks, Howard University

Evelyn Jackson, ASALH Member

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University

Rebecca Louise Hankins, Texas A&M University

Christina Vortia, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Deirdre Foreman, Ramapo College of New Jersey and Executive Council Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:00am

007. 7:00 am to 11:45 am TourOmni William Penn Hotel Oliver Street Entrance Omni William Penn

008. 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

MeetingSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (THURSDAY).

Participant:

Latif Legend, Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge

Anthony Smooth, Morgan State University

Phillip Harris, Morgan State University

Nichole Nance, Morgan State University

alexis cathcart, Morgan State University

James Morgan, III, Morgan State University

Darlene Conley, Morgan State University

Leslee Grubbs-King, National Institute of Health

Zoe Samar Young, North Carolina Central University

Morgan White, North Carolina Central University

Logan Phillips, Northwestern University

Keisha Oliver, Penn State University

Tracey Lynne McPherson, Temple University

Evelyn Jackson, ASALH Member

keturah abdullah, University of Michigan, Marsal Family School of Education

Tanisha Smith, Morgan State University

Leia Danae Belt, University of California, Merced

Kier Williams, Morgan State University

Daniel Thomas, Morgan State University

Leader:

Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University 8:30am

009. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Session

TRANSNATIONAL STRUGGLES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Mount Holyoke College

Participants:

AfriCOBRA: Still Bad/Relevant. A “TransAfrican” framework for addressing the epidemics of loneliness and friendlessness. Michael Gerard Mason, University of Virginia Building a Transatlantic Nation: Africobra’s Use of African Imagery as a Counter-Hegemonic Praxis. Anaelle Rosa Huguette Cama, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, The University of Massachusetts Amherst “A Studio of my Own”: Meta Warrick Fuller’s Parisian stay. Malaurie Pilatte, Johns Hopkins University

010. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Paper Session Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

NEW DIRECTIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE.

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Participants:

Seeing the Signs: An Analysis of Early Onset of Violence and Desistance amongst Serious Juvenile Offenders. Tailar Brown-Smith, University of Texas at Arlington

‘We get the spear from those that come before us’: The Invocation of Martin Delany in the Art of Contemporary Pittsburgh. Marques Redd, Rainbow Serpent

Paper
Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

011. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Lightning Round

WOODSON WORKS POP-UP TALKS 1.

Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

Chair: Gregory Lamont Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Participants: Are Black Entrepreneurs Heroes? Marcus Anthony Allen, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Black Women Artists of The New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Keisha Oliver, Penn State University Lightning Talk : Preserving Our Legacy: The Importance and Strategies for Recording Local Chapter History in Black Greek-Letter Organizations. Tiffeni Fontno, Vanderbilt University; Mark Neubauer, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity

Wake Up: School Daze The Musical-Exploring Black Radicalism and Respectability at HBCUs. Nathaniel Junious Whitaker, Morehouse College

012. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

FORGOTTEN NARRATIVES FROM THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.

Chair: Gladys Gary Vaughn, ASALH Executive Council

Participants:

Black Architects are Artists and Should be Part of the Harlem Renaissance. Daniel Acker, Independent Scholar Col Charles Young Who Was The First Successful Black Graduate of West Point Should Be Part of The Harlem Renaissance. Daniel Acker, Independent Scholar

Writing a New Harlem: The New Negro and a New Age Renaissance. Jaida Holley, N/A

013. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

WOMEN’S WAYS OF KNOWING.

Chair: Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College District

Participants: Maria Stewart’s Prophetic Imagination: The Emergence of a Heterodox Black Prophetic Tradition. Jarvis Aaron Young, ASALH Member

Religion, Apartheid, The Power of Music, and The Marginalization Of Women Musicians. Joan Cartwright, ASALH South Florida Branch

Identity and Racial Segregation: A Study of Selected Poems of Audre Lorde. Adaoma Igwedibia, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Black Arts Movement: Women Writers Imaginings Toward Cultural Truth. Alonge O Clarkson, Temple University

014. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair: Tomiko Meeks, Howard University

Participants:

Paper Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

BLACK RELIGION IN AMERICA.

The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion. Jason E Shelton, University of Texas at Arlington, Center for African American Studies

“We Are Not Negroes” Women and the First Moslem Mosque Community of Pittsburgh 1930-1950. Lisette Abdiruhman, Morgan State University

015. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Panel Session Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

ARCHIVAL ENCOUNTERS: RECOVERING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AT THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.

Chair: John J Garcia, American Antiquarian Society

Participants:

The Color of Ink: Enriching African American Stories of the Civil War Era through Digitized Fugitivity. Wyatt Erchak, Carnegie Mellon University

Call and Response: Reflecting on Past, Present, and Future (Collection Development) in African American Print Culture in Chicago. Kellee Warren, University of Illinois at Chicago

Re-membering the Lives, Loves, and Labors of Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley. Sam Plasencia, Colby College

Radical Paternity: The Resistant Masculinity of African American Fatherhood from Anti-Slavery to Civil Rights. Thomas Blakeslee, Harvard University

016. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Leader:

Workshop Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn BEYOND FEBRUARY.

Dawnavyn James, The State University of New York at Buffalo

017. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn

BRINGING ‘EM BACK TO LIFE: UNCOVERING THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY BLACK HISTORICAL FIGURES.

Chair:

Adam Xavier McNeil, Rutgers University

Participants:

Diasporic Blackness in the Life Writing of Afro-Germans. Reginald A. Bess, College Language Association

North Star in a Black Night: Re-Envisionist Narratives of Enslaved Futurity. candace moore, Michigan State University

Unveiling the Untold Stories: Exploring the Lived Experience of Black Musicians in 19th Century Philadelphia. Tyler Diaz, 1838 Black Metropolis; Morgan T Lloyd, 1838 Black Metropolis

MORE WORK THAN GLORY: Exploring the Black Military (Buffalo Soldier) Experience, 1866-1916. John Phillip Langellier, Independent Scholar

018. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper SessionCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

AGENCY AND EXPRESSION IN LITERATURE AND ARTS.

Chair:

Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University

Participant:

Making Transnational Black Families: Conversations about the Black Family and Germany in Ebony Magazine, 1945-1953. Deborah Anna Brown, Riverside City College

019. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

EXPLORING BLACK EMPOWERMENT THROUGH ARTS INSTITUTIONS: MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS, AND PERFORMANCE.

Chair:

Tanisha M. Jackson, Syracuse University

Participants:

Unveiling Empowerment: The Community Folk Art Center and the Intersection of African Diaspora Arts and Black Studies. Tanisha M. Jackson, Syracuse University

Building Black Arts and Cultural Spaces: From Archiving to Institution. Glynis Johns, Black Scranton Project Afrofuturist Perspectives on Black Empowerment: Reimagining History and Contemporary Life through Playwriting. Juhanna Rogers, CenterState CEO

020. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Participant:

Media Session Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

ART, IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE--PURDUE BLACK CULTURAL CENTER IN CUBA.

James Dekle, Purdue University Black Cultural Center

Leah La’Nay Patterson, Purdue University

Barakah Abdo-baari, Purdue University

Commentator: William Caise, Purdue University Black Cultural Center

021. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS OF ASALH (IP OF ASALH) PROGRAM AND MEETING.

Lopez Matthews, District of Columbia, Office of Public Records, ASALH Executive Council, ASALH Roland MCConnell Branch

Presenters:

Aaisha N. Haykal, College of Charleston and ASALH Vice President for Programs

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

022. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chairs:

Panel Session

Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

BLACK WOMEN FILMMAKERS: STORIES TO TELL.

M Marie Maxwell, Truxton Circle History Project

Elizabeth Johnson, Tennessee State University

Participants:

Reel Remarkable: Women Filmmakers Who Influenced Cinema. Jillian Glantz, Texas A&M University

Eloyce Gist and the Hell Bound Train” Self Taught Silent Filmmaker. M Marie Maxwell, Truxton Circle History Project

Kasi Lemmons – The Teller of Hidden Black Stories. Elizabeth Johnson, Tennessee State University

Commentator:

Donald Culverson, Governors State University

023. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

RoundtableWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

WHY A GRADUATE DEGREE IN BLACK STUDIES IS IMPORTANT AND THE WAYS IT CAN BE USED TO ENHANCE PEOPLE’S LIFE CHANCES.

Chair: Isaac Hulbert, Ohio State University

Presenters:

Logan Favor, Ohio State University

Tawanna Williams, Ohio State University

Charity Martin-King, Ohio State University

Christian Contreras, Ohio State University

024. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

MUSICAL INTERSECTIONS OF RACE.

Chair: Albert Thompson, American University

Participants:

The Cost of Freedom is Death: Black Opera, Malcolm X, and Vocal Love Politics. Allison Michele Lewis, University of Kansas

025. 8:30 am to 9:40 am Workshop Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

BLACK TEACHING AS ART THROUGH PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE REFLECTIONS.

Chair: Rasheda Likely, Kennesaw State University

Participant:

Black Teaching as Art through Reflections of the Past, Present-Day Expression, and Envisioning Futures. Rasheda Likely, Kennesaw State University

10:00am

026. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Roundtable Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

BLACK DISABILITY STUDIES: ORIGINS, OBJECTS, ORIENTATIONS.

Chair: Kelsey Henry, Princeton University

Presenters:

Grover Jasper Conner, Carter G. Woodson Institute

Micah Khater, University of California at Berkeley

027. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

“SPEAK THE TRUTH TO THE PEOPLE” ART AND CULTURAL HISTORY IN INDIANAPOLIS.

Chair: Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Presenters:

Kisha Tandy, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites

Nichelle M. Hayes, ASALH Joseph Taylor Branch, Indianapolis

Susan Hall Dotson, Indiana Historical Society

028. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Lightning Round Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

WOODSON WORKS POP-UP TALKS 2.

Chair: Gregory Lamont Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Participants:

More Than A Story: Folklore, Narrative, and Oral History as Black Preservation. Morgan White, North Carolina Central University Playwright August Wilson’s Vision of the American Black Family. Kenneth Hawkins, ASALH Tampa Bay Branch

Progressive Harmonies: “The Interplay of Jazz and The Civil Rights Movement.” Hunter Miles Davis, National Park Service; Santrell Perdue, National Park Service

Securing Futures: The Role of Legacy Planning in Sustaining Black Entrepreneurship and Political Economy. Rumbidzai Mufuka, I Am Willing™

Standing Up for Our Rights: The Use of Black Art Literacies and Histories to Challenge Anti-Black Racism in U.S. K-12 Schools. Michelle Grace-Williams, Northern Michigan University

029. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Workshop Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: MAKE A SIMPLE VERSION OF THE GHANAIAN TALKING DRUM, THE DONDO.

Leader:

Craig D. Woodson, Ethnomusic, Inc. and Drums of Humanity

030. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Panel Session Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

BLACK BANKING AND WHITE SUPREMACY: DEBATING AFRICAN AMERICAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS’ RELATIONSHIPS WITH RACIAL HIERARCHY.

Chair: Timothy Todd, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Participants:

Rich Fools: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Dunbar National Bank of Harlem. Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University

A Bank for the People: The People’s Savings Bank and Community Building in Philadelphia, 1907–1917. Everett Hardy, Oberlin College

Banking against the Citizens’ Councils: the NAACP, the Tri-State Bank, and Drought Relief in Mid-1950s Mississippi. William Robert Billups, University of Florida

Commentator: Brandon K. Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

031. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Paper Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

EXPLORING DIGITAL FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND CREATIVITY.

Chair:

Samuel Livingston, Morehouse College

Participants:

Navigating the Intersections: African American Art History in the Digital Age. Brittany Myburgh, Jackson State University; Mary Soylu, Alabama State University

The Creative Dissertation: Podcasting as Qualitative Inquiry. Anne Marie Edwards, Purdue University

032. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Roundtable Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

GIVING VOICE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WITHIN THE CLASSICAL SPACES OF OPERA, ORCHESTRAS, AND BALLET.

Chair: Ashly Horace, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Presenters:

Tamika Sakayi Sterrs-Howard, University of South Carolina Columbia

Wanda Ebright, College of the Arts - Columbus State University, Dean, College of the Arts

Shani Dessie Inell Diouf, Professor

Phyllis Lewis-Hale, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Opera Workshop - Jackson State University

Participant:

Dr. Jolie Rocke (DMA), Instructor of Voice - Prairie View A&M University | Distinguished Marian Anderson scholar

033. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Paper Session Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn EQUITY AND EMPOWERMENT IN BLACK EDUCATION.

Chair:

Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University

Participants:

Preparing for Desegregation of Schools: Examination of Black Educators’ Experiences at HBCU Teacher Education Programs. Leta Hooper, Bowie State University Sins of Omission or Commission: NAACP Fight to Ban Racist Textbooks In New York City. David Alvin Canton, University of Florida

034. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Workshop Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn GENTLEMEN RESPECTING AND INTERACTING IN TRUTH (G.R.I.T) HEALTHY BLACK MASCULINITY.

Leader:

Corey Ingram, University of Georgia

035. 10:00 am to 11:50 am ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

THE KKK BOUTIQUE AIN’T JUST REDNECKS.

Commentator:

Camille Billops, Filmmaker

036. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Workshop Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites FROM RESEARCH TO RECOGNITION: STRATEGIES FOR CULTIVATING PUBLIC VISIBILITY AS AN ACADEMIC.

Presenter:

Donna J. Nicol, Africana Studies, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Leader:

Nanda Dyssou, N/A

037. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Paper Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

STRATEGIES FOR HEALING AND JOY THROUGH BLACK ARTS AND MOVEMENT.

Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University

Participants:

Black Art: The Expression of Joy, Power, Love and Life through the Ages. Scott Terry, Mahogany Black Arts and Cultural Center, Inc.

The Floods of Art: Black Geographies and the Healing Arts as Resistance in the Aftermaths of Disaster. Ajanae Willis, University of Houston

Moving in the Underground: The Politics of Black Joy in Roller-Skating and Funk Music in Chicago. John J West, Graduate Student

038. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Panel Session Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

LIBERATORY EXPERIMENTS: ART AS BLACK FEMINIST PRAXIS.

Kimberly Blockett, University of Delaware

Participants:

“Dear Sister”: Black Women and the Art of Friendship in Revolution-Era New England. Jaimie D Crumley, University of Utah “Designs of Her Own”: Black Women and Artistic Expression in the Nineteenth-Century Prison. Marissa A Jenrich, California State University, Northridge

Race Women’s Aesthetics as Liberatory Presentism: Literary and Photographic Experiments in the Black Clubwomen’s Movement Newspaper. Brandi Locke, University of Delaware

Black Art Internationalism: Shopping and Activism at The Afro-Arts Bazaar. Angela Tate, Northwestern University

Presenters:

Jaimie D Crumley, University of Utah

Marissa A Jenrich, California State University, Northridge

Brandi Locke, University of Delaware

Angela Tate, Northwestern University

039. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn SONGS OF THE SOUL: WOMEN’S SPACES IN BLACK MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP.

Chair:

Michelle R. Scott, University of Maryland—Baltimore County

Presenters:

Michelle R. Scott, University of Maryland—Baltimore County

K.T. Ewing, University of Alabama

Ambre Dromgoole, Cornell University

040. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

ADVANCING THE FIELD: CAMBRIDGE STUDIES ON BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.

Alison Marie Parker, University of Delaware

Presenters:

Karen Cook-Bell, Bowie State University

Felicia Thomas, Morgan State University

Crystal Lynn Webster, University of Texas at San Antonio

Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University

Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University

Kelly Houston Jones, Arkansas Tech University

Hettie V Williams, University of Massachusetts, Boston

041. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Paper SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

ARTISTIC ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: NARRATIVES OF RESILIENCE.

Participants:

Decoding Systemic Racism in the Artifact ‘Slaves Build Capital and White House’ at the National Archives Museum. Jaladhi Mehta, Georgetown University

Solos Make a Difference in a Choir: Examining Black Female Educators experiences after desegregation. Univeristy of Georgia

The Stagville Memorial Project: Using Public Art to Uplift the Humanity of Enslaved Communities in Durham, NC. Hines, The Stagville Memorial Project

Art and the Archive of Black Life in 20th Century Pittsburgh. Cassondra Hanna, Harvard University

042. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE IN THE PITTSBURGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Anthony Mitchell, Equity Advisory Panel/Pennsylvania State University

Presenters:

Wanda Henderson, ADVOCATE Complainant/ Chair, Equity Advisory Panel

James B. Stewart, Equity Advisory Panel

Tamanika Howze, ADVOCATE/Equity Advisory Panel

Regina Holley, ADVOCATE/Equity Advisory Panel

Will Thompkins, Equity Advisory Panel

Kymberly Cruz, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Office of Equity, Executive Director 12:00pm

043. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

HARMONIES OF RESISTANCE: INFLUENCE OF BLACK MUSIC AND ART IN RACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND RESISTANCE AMONG YOUNG ACTIVISTS.

Chair:

K.T. Ewing, University of Alabama

Participants:

Rhythms of Resistance: The Role of Black Music in Student Protests in Jonesboro, Arkansas. University

We Don’t Need a Seat at Your Table: The Origins of Black Emphasis Week. Maurice D. Gipson, University of Missouri

Children Call Your Mothers. K.T. Ewing, University of Alabama

044. 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

EXHIBITOR:

Blackworldschoolers Mobile Bookstore

ExhibitorRiverboat- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

THURSDAY RIVERBOAT EXHIBITS.

Council on Library & Information Resources

Columbia University Press

Black White Woodson Truth

University of Arkansas Press

Vanderbilt University Press

University of Illinois Press

University Press of Florida, University Press of Florida

University of Georgia Press

University Press of Mississippi

University of Virginia Press

University of South Carolina Press

ASALH Media Table

Pa Youth Vote

APC Helpdesk

Advanced Meetings Solutions

Grouper , University of Mass Press

CMR Ignite

Myers Education Press

045. 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

ExhibitorSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

THURSDAY STERNWHEELER EXHIBITS.

EXHIBITOR:

The Foundation International Heritage International Fashions

Bia- Maranatha, Mia Maranatha

Something For Everybody, Something For Everybody

Zawadi Books, Zawadi Books

David L. Head Foundation, David L. Head Foundation University of North Carolina Press

Egyptian Harvest Rejuvenation Cream Black History 365, BH365, LLC

The University of Chicago Press Aziz Fashions, Aziz Fashions

Zee Crafts

University of Pennsylvania Press

YBI African Apparel, YBI African Apparel

The Scholar’s Choice, The Scholar’s Choice University of Pittsburgh Press

NPS/ African American Civil Rights Network

046. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

LuncheonWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

EMERGING FRONTIERS IN PITTSBURGH’S HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON.

Moderator:

R. Drew Smith, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Guest Speaker:

Asa Lee, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, University of Pittsburgh, Dean

Quintin A. Bullock, Community College of Allegheny County

Kathy Humphrey, President, Carlow University

Greetings:

Wayne Walters, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools

Chris Moore, CEO,Chris Moore Communications, Inc.

Emcee:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

047. 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Exhibitor Oliver Ballroom Pre-Function Area Exhibits 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

THURSDAY OLIVER BALLROOM PRE-FUNCTION AREA EXHIBITS.

EXHIBITOR:

Cathy’s Global, Cathy’s Global, Inc. ASALH Store Table

048. 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

2:00pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

FINDING CHRISTA.

Commentator: Camille Billops, Filmmaker

049. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

2:05pm

Roundtable Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE: ZEBULON MILETSKY’S BEFORE BUSING.

Chair: Stefan Bradley, Amherst College

Presenters:

Patrick Jones, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Kathryn Silva Hyde, Orangeburg, SC

Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University

050. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn DEMYSTIFYING PUBLISHING, FROM SUBMISSION TO PROMOTION.

Chair: Brian Halley, University of Massachusetts Press

Presenters:

William Masami Hammell, University of Pittsburgh Press

Andrew Winters, University of North Carolina Press

Lesley Rains, University of Pittsburgh Press

051. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable

Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites NON-VIOLENCE AS A STRATEGY AND IDEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF A VIOLENT RADICAL RIGHT.

Chair: Francoise N. Hamlin, Brown University

Presenters:

Charles McKinney, Jr., Rhodes College

Anthony C Siracusa, St John Fisher University

052. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Paper Session Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn SEWING, STITCHING, MATERIAL PATTERNS: THE CREATIVENESS OF OUR AFRICAN TRADITIONS.

Chair: Elizabeth Johnson, Tennessee State University

Participants: Stitching For Memory and Justice. Michelle Flamer, ASALH Philadelphia Heritage Branch

American African Drumming: Origins to the Present – A Book in Process. Craig D. Woodson, Ethnomusic, Inc. and Drums of Humanity

Time, Space and Place in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Radio Golf. Sandra Adell, University of WisconsinMadison THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

053. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

FIFTY YEARS OF BLACK HISTORY: CELEBRATING THE SCHOLARSHIP OF DR. DENNIS C. DICKERSON.

Chair:

Christina Marie Dickerson, Quinnipiac University

Presenters:

Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

Anthony C Siracusa, St John Fisher University

Ansley Lillian Quiros, University of North Alabama

Kayleigh C Whitman, Sewanee University of the South

Larry O. Rivers, University of West Georgia

AnneMarie Mingo, Penn State

Commentator:

Kenneth M Hamilton, Southern Methodist University

054. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LIBERIA.

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Participants:

The Reverend Alexander Crummell, Congo Recaptives and Episcopal Missions in 19th Century Liberia. Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Massachusetts Amherst Gwogro the Bandit and Pipe-smoking Matilda: The Scholarly Aftermath of Two 1822 Battles for Cape Mesurado (Liberia). Patrick Burrowes, Independent Scholar

“African Americans, Liberia, and the Destruction of the Slave Trade on West Africa’s Windward Coast.” Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University

055. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

HONORING HENRY OSSAWA TANNER.

Pamela Mays McDonald, ASALH Philadelphia Branch, Arts advocate/Arts activist/Art Historian, Mother Bethel AME Church Historical Society

Participants:

Henry Ossawa Tanner and Family. Pamela Mays McDonald, ASALH Philadelphia Branch, Arts advocate/Arts activist/Art Historian, Mother Bethel AME Church Historical Society

The Tanner House Project. Christopher R. Rogers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Lawana Holland- Moore, National Trust for Historic Preservation

056. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm Workshop Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn

BLACK ECONOMIC EDUCATION AGAINST “BLACK LIBERATORY CONSUMPTION.”

Presenters:

Terrell Morton, University of Illinois at Chicago

Caleb Sewell, University of Pittsburgh

Shakealia Finley, North Carolina State University

Leader:

Ashley Woodson Walters, Black epiSTEMologies Project

057. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Paper Session Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn

RESISTANCE IN BLACK LGBTQ COMMUNITIES.

Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University

Participants:

The Vital Role of Art in the Black Queer Community. Renia Butts, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

058. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

BLACK AESTHETICS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: MUSIC, FASHION, POLITICS.

Malathi Iyengar, College of San Mateo

Participants:

Jairo Varela, Grupo Niche, and African Oral Traditions. Luisa Marcela Ossa, La Salle University

Sapeurs and Afropolitans. Brenda N. Sanya, Colgate University

Diasporic Dandy: African American intellectuals, Indian anticolonialism, and the politics of fashion. Malathi Iyengar, College of San Mateo

Commentator:

Durell Callier, University of Delaware

059. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

THE BORDERS OF THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.

Nadia Alahmed, Dickinson College

Participants:

The Movement of Black Form and Formlessness. Margo Crawford, University of Pennsylvania Handsworth Revolution: The Aesthetic Politics of the Provincial in the Black Arts Movement in the U.S. and the U.K. James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“From ‘F*gg*ty White Men’ to ‘Ending Up Funny’: Queering the Drama of the Black Arts Movement.” Paul Michael Thomson, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, The University of Massachusetts Amherst “Firespitter” and “Matriarchal Socialist”: An Afro Asian Radical Encounter with Jayne Cortez and Fred Ho. Jia Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Presenter:

James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst

060. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

RETHINKING ARTISTRY: COMPOSITION, PERFORMANCE, AND COMMUNITY BUILDING.

Daleah Goodwin, Xavier University

Presenters:

Daleah Goodwin, Xavier University

Christina Davis, Africana Studies

Sheena Hayes, Auburn University

K.T. Ewing, University of Alabama

061. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Presenters:

Roundtable Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

KEY WRITERS, ACTIVISTS AND POETS OF THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

Joseph Flynn, Northern Illinois University

Sarah Militz-Frielink, Northern Illinois University

062. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Presenters:

Paul Ellis, August Wilson House

Denise Turner

Ervin Dyer, August Wilson House

Moderator:

Presidential Session Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites THE MAKING OF THE AUGUST WILSON HOUSE.

Demeatria Boccella, Demeatria Boccella Productions

Kimberly Ellis, University of Pittsburgh

Commentator:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

063. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

WorkshopChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

USING POETRY TO ILLUMINATE THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN ENSLAVEMENT: FOSTERING CONVERSATIONS AND UNDERSTANDING.

Leader:

Brian Sankarsingh, N/A

064. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Presenters:

Presidential SessionThree Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn ASALH FREEDOM SCHOOL INITIATIVE.

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Hazel D Gillis, ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch of Jacksonville, FL

David G. Wilkins, ASALH Manasota Branch, Vice-President

Terrance Thomas, Bethel A.M.E. Church

Charles Hearns

Participant:

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Commentator:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth) 3:50pm

065. 3:50 pm to 5:00 pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

Commentator:

Camille Billops, Filmmaker THURSDAY,

A STRING OF PEARLS.

4:00pm

066. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Plenary SessionWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

PLACE, POLITICS, AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK PITTSBURGH HISTORY.

Chair:

Melissa Ford, Slippery Rock University

Presenters:

Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

Adam Lee Cilli, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

Jessica D Klanderud, Berea College

Aaron Cowan, Slippery Rock University

067. 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

6:00pm

Authors Book SigningOliver Ballroom Pre-Function Area-2nd Floor Reception Embassy Suites

AUTHORS BOOK SIGNING.

Participants:

Start A Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry. Casarae Abdul-Ghani Freedom’s Currency: Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United States. Julia Bernier

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River, Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War. Edda L. Fields-Black Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit. Say Burgin Liberia & the Quest For Freedom. Patrick Burrowes

Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua Dance on the Historically Black College Campus: The Familiar and the Foreign. Wanda Ebright Inspired to Climb Higher: The Challenges, Questions, Struggles, and Joys of Earning Your Doctoral Degree. Wanda Ebright Black Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books. Stephanie Y. Evans Bringing The Light Into A New Day: African-centered Rites of Passage (25th Anniversary Edition). Lathardus Goggins Life Lessons: Advice for a Kid Like Me Invested in Me. Gabriel Hamilton

The Grandfather of Black Basketball, The Life and Times of Dr. E.B. Henderson. Edwin Bancroft Henderson

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. Kellie Carter Jackson

No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Andre E. Johnson

The Speeches of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner: The Press, the Platform and the Pulpit. Andre E. Johnson

The Summer of 2020: George Floyd and the Resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Andre E. Johnson

Puzzles of Color. Marcelle Jones

A Proud History for Alex. Kim Lee

Black Communities of Fairfax: A History Non-Fiction. Jenee Lindner

From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of Black Freedom Struggles. Charles McKinney, Jr.

Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism, and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee. Crystal M. Moten

Our Wishes and Our Wealth: A Guide to Celebrating Life, Love, and Legacy. Rumbidzai Mufuka

Black Women on Board, Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and Fight to Save Affirmative Action. Donna J. Nicol

When the Trees Finally Testify. Bonita Lee Penn Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict. Michelle Petties

Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower. Menah Pratt

James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights. Larry O. Rivers

A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs. Crystal R. Sanders Enslaved, A Chronicle of Resistance. Brian Sankarsingh, N/A

T.O.B.A Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners’ Booking Association in Jazz Age America. Michelle R. Scott

The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion. Jason E Shelton Francis Lewis Cardozo An Unsung Hero of Reconstruction. Pamela Reese Smith

Healing of the Soul Ministries (with Healing for the Soul for African Africans). Rosalind “Roz” Caldwell Stanley Higher Fight, Refocusing Black/Africana Studies for the 21st Century. James B. Stewart

Mothers and Leadership: Twelve Principles for Success. Reginald Vance

A Balm in Gilead: Eulogies of Comfort. Randall C. Webber

068. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

6:30pm

ReceptionGrant Ballroom Pre-Function Area 2nd Floor Embassy Suites JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION.

Participant: Bertis D English, Alabama State University

Greetings:

Elon Dancy, Executive Director, Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh

Emcee:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Welcome and Occasion: W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

8:45pm

069. 8:45 pm to 10:00 pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn CAMILLE BILLOPS SHORTS FESTIVAL.

Commentator: Camille Billops, Filmmaker

070. 8:00 am to 6:30 pm

071. 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

Friday, September 27, 2024

8:00am

ExhibitorRiverboat- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn FRIDAY RIVERBOAT EXHIBITS.

MeetingSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (FRIDAY).

Leader: Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University

072. 8:00 am to 6:30 pm

ExhibitorSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

FRIDAY STERNWHEELER EXHIBITS.

073. 8:00 am to 6:30 pm

Exhibitor Oliver Ballroom Pre-Function Area Exhibits 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

FRIDAY OLIVER BALLROOM PRE-FUNCTION AREA EXHIBITS.

8:30am

074. 8:30 am to 9:40 am Paper Session Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn BLACK POWER IN THE PERFORMATIVE ARTS.

Chair: Jason Shelton, University of Texas at Arlington, Center for African American Studies

Participants:

Beyond the Laughter: Unpacking Race, Class, and Social Dynamics in Black Sitcoms. Johari Diata Osei, Arizona State University “An American Journey”: Inquests as Theater in Public Memories of Police Violence. Will Tchakirides, HBCU Radio Preservation Project FRIDAY,

075. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session

Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

RACIAL POLITICS AND THE LAW.

Chair: Delaina Price, The University of Texas at Arlington

Participants:

No Taxation Without Representation: The NAACP and the Selective Service. Brian C Davis, Florida State University

Trump’s Big Lie And The Fate Of Us Presidential Elections: Implications For Us Immigration, Afrikans, Liberal Democracy And Politics. Chinedu Agbo, Temple University

Black Love and the Law: Breach of Promise and Black Women’s Legal Agency, 1895-1984. Christel N Temple, University of Pittsburgh -- Africana Studies

Black History as Political Battleground: School Repression and Church Responsiveness in Southern States. R. Drew Smith, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

076. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Panel Session

Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

BLACK ARTS FUTURES AND AI: THEORY MEETS PRACTICE.

Chair: Tiffany E. Barber, UCLA

Participants:

The Astro Egalitarian Virtual Network (AEVN): Crafting a Pluriverse of Possibilities. Lonny Avi Brooks, California State University East Bay

Toward a Black Vernacular AI. Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology

Afrofuturism Dream Tank in VR and Applied Afrofuturism. LaWana Richmond, Firyali Visions

Presenters:

Lonny Avi Brooks, California State University East Bay

Philip Butler, Iliff School of Theology

LaWana Richmond, Firyali Visions

Commentator:

Reynaldo Anderson, Temple University

077. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.

Chair: Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College District

Participants: Pittsburgh’s Vanishing Black Neighborhoods. Daniel Holland, Independent Scholar The Socioemotional Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on African American School Leaders. Rabin Nickens, Independent Consultant/Ethnographer

079. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn COUNTRY, HIP HOP AND PUNK: CULTURAL RESISTANCE TO BLACK OPPRESSION.

Chair: Deborah Anna Brown, Riverside City College

Participants:

Black Punk as Freedom Praxis. Brian Stephens, Ohio University “You Look Like Them, But You Sound Like Us”: An Exploration of Blackness in Country Music. Natasha Popowich, California State University Fullerton Composing Mallet Percussion Arrangements of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Songs to Teach Black Boys Mallet Percussion. Michelee Theresa Jones, Indiana University 50 Years of Rap/Hip Hop and Black Popular Culture: “21st Century Sarah Baartman. Felecia Harris, University of North CarolinaCharlotte

080. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Workshop Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

EXAMINING ANTI-BLACKNESS:THE HISTORY OF WHITE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND LEGALIZED SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICA.

Presenters:

Marcel Walker

Jaontra Henderson, Blackademics

Leader:

Dante D King, Author - The 400-Year Holocaust

081. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Paper Session Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn BOOKS, FICTION, AND NEWSPAPERS.

Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Mount Holyoke College

Participants:

Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow!: Banned Books in the U.S.A.: Diverse Children’s Picture Books by Persons of African Descent, Intersectionality, and the Struggle for Inclusion. Amina Humphrey, Assistant Professor

“Sharpening Democratic Practice: Carter G. Woodson and the Negro World newspaper”. Rhone Fraser, Penn State University

Fearful Symmetry: Turning Turner’s Insurrection into Art. Margaret Bristow, Hampton Roads

082. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Moderator:

Simone Drake, Ohio State University

083. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Media Session Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites SHUTDOWN.

Roundtable Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

UNPACKING HBCU STUDENTS’ FEAR WHEN ENCOUNTERING POLICE: EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS FROM ACROSS THE US.

Chair:

Kideste Mariam Yusef, Bethune-Cookman University

Presenters:

Kemba Smith-Pradia, 400 Years of African American History Commission

Lewis Rogers, Petersburg National Battlefield

Ryan Tillman, 400 Years of African American History Commission

084. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn CAREERS IN CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Lopez Matthews, District of Columbia, Office of Public Records, ASALH Executive Council, ASALH Roland MCConnell Branch

Presenter:

Kenvi Phillips, Barack Obama Presidential Library, NARA

085. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Panel Session

Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ART AS PLACE, SPACE, AND MEMORY: VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS AS THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL EXPRESSION, MEMORY MAKING, AND RESILIENCE IN THE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN DIASPORA.

Chair:

Valerie Lyles Patterson, Florida International University

Participants:

Using Fiber and Textile Art to Document Shared Experiences and Meaning-Making in the Lives of Bahamian Women Immigrants and their Daughters. Valerie Lyles Patterson, Florida International University

Dark on the Fringe: Examining Black Female Masculinity as an expression of Black Feminism Abstract:. Joy Brunson, Florida International University

Presenters:

Stephanie Croney, Florida International University

Tiffany N. Cody, Florida International University

086. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Panel Session

Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

SLAVERY AND WAR(FARE) IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY BLACK ATLANTIC WORLD.

Paul Barba, Bucknell University

Participants:

Enslaved Women’s Labor and Movement Behind British Imperial Lines, 1776-1783. Adam Xavier McNeil, Rutgers University

Freedom from Violence: Black Resistance to Patriot Terror in the American Revolution. Sean Gallagher, Colorado Mesa University

“Negro, Feroz y Valiente”: Black Mexican Revolutionaries who Anchored Freedom for Black Americans in 19th Century Mexico. María Esther Hammack, Ohio State University

Oathbound: Warfare and Maroon Sovereignty in the Atlantic Age of Revolutions. Bradley Craig, Boston University

Presenter:

Adam Xavier McNeil, Rutgers University

Commentator:

Paul Barba, Bucknell University

087. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

CULTURAL EXPRESSION AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVES: RECLAIMING BLACK HERITAGE.

Chair:

Glynis Johns, Black Scranton Project

Participants:

A Love Supreme: Black Cultural Expression and Political Activism of the 1960s and 1970s. Jessica Lynn Terry-Elliott, Syracuse University

The Afro Museum. Layli Jeanette Tahirih Brown Stangeland, University of New Mexico

Preserving Our Ancestors Burial Spaces - The Art of Developing Life Stories. Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia, Friends of Geer Cemetery and African American Cemetery Coalition

Experiments in Crafting Freedom. Aleia Brown, East Carolina University

Navigating the Danish Colonial Past and U.S. Imperial Present through Art in the Virgin Islands. Michael K Wilson, African American Museum in Philadelphia/ Lincoln University

088. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Paper Session Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

VISIONS OF LIBERATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE.

Christopher Davis, Adelphi University

Participants:

Striking the Common Wind: Ornamental Iron and the Black Radical Tradition in New Orleans. Hampton Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Askia Toure: Grounded in Struggle - The Deep Roots of Black Liberation in Black Artistry. Noah Nelson, PhD Student

The Black Arts Movement: The Forgotten Contributions of Black Panthers Bobby Seale, George Mason Murray, and Bobby Seale. J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College

“A militant new generation has arisen”: Black Artists and the Advent of Black Power in New York City. Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University

089. 9:00 am to 11:00 am

William Penn

Commentator:

9:00am

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni

AUGUST WILSON: THE GROUND ON WHICH I STAND.

Sam Pollard 10:00am

090. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

“HARMONY OF FREEDOM: ECHOES FROM THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.”

Kamal A. McClarin, Underground Network to Freedom

Presenters:

Linda Harris-Cole

David Cole

091. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Roundtable Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

JOHN WESLEY HARDRICK: “LIFE WITHOUT ART IS BRUTALITY”.

Chair:

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Presenters:

Kaila Austin, ASALH Joseph Taylor Branch, Indianapolis

Kisha Tandy, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites

Arthur Tucker, Indiana

092. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

A NATIONAL NARRATIVE CHANGE PLATFORM: PROMOTING THE SECOND CENTURY OF CARTER G. WOODSON’S LEGACY.

Chair:

Jaha Cummings, Blanchard House Institute

Presenters:

Jaha Cummings, Blanchard House Institute

Joan Ai, Blanchard House Institute, Co-Founder

Martha Russell Bireda, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

093. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

CREATING BEAUTIFUL COLLABORATIONS: EFFECTIVELY WORKING WITH THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY (ASALH) AND THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (NPS).

Chair:

Deanda Johnson, National Park Service

Presenters:

Deanda Johnson, National Park Service

Evelyn Causey, National Historic Landmarks Program - NPS

Dominique Wilkerson, African American Civil Rights Network, National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) Intern

094. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Panel Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn BLACKNESS, LAND, AND COMMUNITY IN THE CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN.

Chair:

K.T. Ewing, University of Alabama

Participants:

From Here Through Here: Black Migration from the United States to the British West Indies, 1834-1862. Danyelle Valentine, Vanderbilt University Idleness; Habitual Idleness. Alycia Hall, University of British Columbia ‘All is Right and the Property… has Been Saved’: Black Protestant Women and Land as Progress in the Guianas. Briana Royster, University of Alabama

Commentator:

Crystal Eddins, University of Pittsburgh

095. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

THE ROLE OF GOSPEL MUSIC AND NEGRO SPIRITUALS AS INSPIRATIONAL ADULT PEDAGOGY.

Lisa Rochelle Brown, University of the Incarnate Word

Presenters:

Lisa Rochelle Brown, University of the Incarnate Word

Paulette E. Issac-Savage, University of Missouri Saint Louis

Marc Gray Jr, Ursuline College

Lisa Caldwell-Serges, University of the Incarnate Word

Deacon Jeffery Neal, Macedonia Baptist Chuch

Rev. Jeffery Neal, Parish Liturgy Council

096. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn

ART, ACTIVISM, AND PLACE: REVISITING BLACK CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN NEW YORK CITY.

Shannon King, Fairfield University

Presenters:

Jordana Cox, University of Waterloo

Emily Hawk, Princeton University

Tracey Johnson, University of Georgia

Alyssa Lopez, Providence College

Dwayne Overton-Mann, Independent Scholar

097. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Paper Session Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn

BLACK RESISTANCE IN THE VISUAL ARTS.

Jamon Jordan, Official Historian, City of Detroit

Participants:

Wax Prints (Ankara/Ntoma) as Visual Medium for Social Justice Campaigns: The Originators and Intersection Among Black and Diaspora Communities in America. Xorlali Plange, New York University

Birth of the Black Age of Comics 1993. Turtel Onli, N/A; Turtel Onli, N/A

098. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PITTSBURGH ON STAGE.

Shawn Lamar Williams, Georgia State University

Presenters:

Mark Clayton Southers, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre

Sala Udin, Community Activist/Artist

Frank Floyd Hightower, Hightower Photography

099. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

“FROM BLACK POWER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER: MEDIA, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND THE ARTS OF RESISTANCE”.

Chair:

Angela Tate, Northwestern University

Participants:

From Student to Revolutionary: Assata Shakur and the Black Freedom Struggle. Kimberly Monroe, Trinity-DC

The Invisible Hands of War: White Supremacy, Black Sovereignty, and the Origins of Conflict in Liberia 1980-2003. Elijah Zehyoue, Howard University

The Voice of the People: Barbados and Black Internationalism in the Black Power Era (1920-1970). Melanie R. Holmes, Howard University

Commentator:

Latif Tarik, University Professor

100. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Presenters:

Workshop Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS NETWORK INFORMATION SESSION.

Ariel Roy, African American Civil Rights Network and ASALH

Turkiya Lowe, National Park Service

Leader:

Ashley Adams, Coordinator, African American Civil Rights Network

101. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

NIKKI TAYLOR’S BROODING OVER BLOODY REVENGE: A HINE-HORNE BOOK ROUND TABLE.

Chair: Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Presenters:

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Indiana University

Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College

Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University

Commentator: Nikki Taylor, Howard University History Department

102. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Panel Session

Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

REMEMBERING BLACK WOMEN’S MEMORIES.

DeLisa Hawkes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Participants:

“Memories of Migration: Afro-Cherokee Resettlement Stories”. Eve Eure, Lehman College

“A woman is a woman anywhere:” Centering Black Femininity in Nannie Helen Burroughs’ Domestic Labor Activism. Danielle Procope Bell, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Mom Guilt and the Haunted Child in Contemporary Nigerian Literature”. Norrell Edwards, LeMoyne College

Commentator:

DeLisa Hawkes, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

103. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

WorkshopChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

SANKOFA: RETURNING TO THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SCHOOLS OF 1964.

Leader:

Kisha Howell, Teachers College, Columbia University

104. 10:00 am to 11:50 am

Poster SessionOliver Ballroom Pre-Function Area-2nd Floor Reception Embassy Suites

POSTER SESSION.

Chairs:

Christina Vortia, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

Rebecca Louise Hankins, Texas A&M University

Participants:

A Steep Hill to Climb: The Creation and Closing of U.S. Black Ballet Companies. Ashly Horace, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Amplifying Diverse Voices: The Importance of African American Women Artists in American Art. Arletha Greer, Independent Black/White Woodson Story 1984-2024: Reckoning with the Missing Pages from Our Family’s History. Craig D. Woodson, Ethnomusic, Inc. and Drums of Humanity

Commemorating Activism: Continuing the Legacy of Septima Clark through Artistic Expression. Valerie Frazier, College of Charleston

Enjoy the Ride: Exploring Black Women’s Motorcycling from 1920-2020. Jameson Baudelaire, Texas Tech University

Escapism and Its Affects on Black Art Pieces. Sloane Cauthen, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Branch Programs and Activities. Hazel D Gillis, ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch of Jacksonville, FL

Jaycob Beasley’s Voter Suppression Initiative. Jaycob Mykel Beasley, Tuskegee University

Jazz Ambassadors communicating the movement abroad. Tamika Sakayi Sterrs-Howard, University of South Carolina Columbia Parting: Spatial Analysis of French Quarter Urban Fabric. Kristen Mimms Scavnicky, Kent State University

Reese Street’s Last Stand: An African American Local Historic District’s Fight to Retain Community and Identity. Amelia Anne Andrews, ASALH Athens Branch (Georgia)

The Art and the Artist: How Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) photographers highlighted Black joy, emerging artists, and the Civil Rights Movement. Naja Morris, Getty Research Institute; Donna Marie Edgar, Getty Institute; Jacob Wolf, Getty Research Institute

Water Stories: Synergies of the Arts and Environmental Justice. Tru Leverette Hall, University of North Florida

Green Book Cleveland: African American Recreation, Entertainment and the Arts. Hazim Abdullah-Smith, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

The Effects of Social Media on Brain Development. Shaleace Nichelle Towns, University of Texas at Arlington, Center for African American Studies

Creating Freedom: Africentric Approaches to Curriculum Choices in Black Homeschooling Families. keturah abdullah, University of Michigan, Marsal Family School of Education

Ethical Framework for Sustainable Cultural Heritage. Be the human in the loop. Arnetta C Girardeau, Jacksonville native, Harvard/UNC/Duke alumni

105. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

Key Session Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

MANY RIVERS TO CROSS: BRIDGING BLACK STUDIES AND BLACK THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE.

Jordan Ealey, University of Rochester

Presenters:

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University

Julius Fleming, Washington University

Leticia Ridley, University of Toronto

Lisa B. Thompson, University of Texas at Austin

Isaiah Wooden, Swarthmore College 12:00pm

106. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn CLAPPING BACK AT ANTI-BLACKNESS: MAKING BLACKNESS VISIBLE ACROSS MEDIA IN THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES.

Chair:

Everett Hardy, Oberlin College

Participants:

Black Girl Magic: Calling for Diasporic Blackness and its Gods in “Black Girl” and “Nanny.” Miranda Alvarez Guillen, Lehigh University

Chronicling Resistance: The Cleveland Gazette, Harry C. Smith, and the Black Press Campaign Against “The Birth of a Nation.” Ian Collins, Lehigh University

The Duplicitous Representations of Cleopatra. Tarsha Griffin, Lehigh University

Embracing Black Mess: Televisual Representations of Black Serial Killers in Amazon Prime’s “Swarm” and “Them: The Scare.”

Isaiah Frost Rivera, University of Texas, Austin

107. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

A CENTURY OF BLACK AND PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY: BLACK ART, BLACK CHRISTIANITY, BLACK LIBERATION AND PALESTINE.

Chair:

Alex Lubin, Penn State University

Participants:

Black Intifada: The Roots and Lessons of Black and Palestinian Solidarity in the Black Power And Black Arts Era (1965-1965) and beyond. Nadia Alahmed, Dickinson College

Religious Grammars and Folded Futures: On African Diasporic and Palestinian Exilic Visual Arts. Taurean Webb, De Paul University

108. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

LuncheonWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN YOUR TROUBLES GET LIKE MINE: AUGUST WILSON’S LIFE AND PLAYS.

Keynote Speaker:

Kimberly Ellis, University of Pittsburgh

Greetings:

Sala Udin, Community Activist/Artist

Lakeisha Wolf, Executive Director, Ujamaa Collective

Emcee:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

1:30pm

109. 1:30 pm to 3:50 pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn FENCES. 2:05pm

110. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

POETRY AND POLITICS: SUBVERSIVE STRATEGIES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.

Maya Brooks, University of Georgia

Participants:

“We Return Fighting:” African American Soldiers as Literary Devices in the Harlem Renaissance. Maya Brooks, University of Georgia

Pen and Progress: Black Women Writers and Their Renaissance Legacy. Aniya Gold, University of Memphis

James Weldon Johnson and the Origins of the Julius Rosenwald Fellowship Program. Emily Masghati, University of Chicago

Commentator:

Casarae Abdul-Ghani, Temple University

111. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS IN THE BLACK DIASPORA: A PATH TOWARDS UNITY AND JUSTICE.

Thayza Alves Matos, University of New Mexico

Participants:

The Influence of African American Hip-hop in African Cities: Uniting Black Youth and Fighting Social Injustices. Peter Njagi Mwangi, University of New Mexico

The Devil finds Work: Critiquing Black Representation in American Cinema. Thayza Alves Matos, University of New Mexico

Searching Through the Cracks: Locating ‘The New Negro Woman’ in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Ann Petry’s the Street. Ashley Bernado, University of New Mexico

Cultural Preservation through Art: The First Afro Museum in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. Layli Jeanette Tahirih Brown Stangeland, University of New Mexico

Invisible Identity: Ralph Ellison’s Critique of American Society in Invisible Man. Laura Niño, University of New Mexico

Commentator:

Peter Njagi Mwangi, University of New Mexico

112. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm Roundtable Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

AN EFFICIENT WOMANHOOD: A DARLENE CLARK HINE AND GERALD HORNE BOOK ROUNDTABLE.

Chair:

Lara E Putnam, University of Pittsburgh

Presenters:

Alison Marie Parker, University of Delaware

Ula Y. Taylor, University of California at Berkeley

Shennette Garrett-Scott, Tulane University

Commentator:

Natanya Duncan, City University of New York

113. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Paper Session

Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

MUSIC AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: JOY, EMPOWERMENT AND THE CELEBRATION OF BLACK IDENTITY.

Chair: Elizabeth Johnson, Tennessee State University

Participants:

Eulogizing the Subject: Lori, Roberta, Lauryn, and the Politics of (re)Covering “Killing Me Softly”. Adam Banks, Ohio State University, Department of Comparative Studies

Beyond the Gridiron: Exploring the Artistic Roots and Enduring Influences of the HBCU Marching Aesthetic. Gretchen Bullock, University of North Texas

Singing with America: the influence of African American music on activism in Northern Ireland. James Robert Cooke, University of Arkansas

Black Power, White Liberalism, and the Mississippi Delta Blues Festival--1978 to 1981. Tyler DeWayne Moore, Prairie View A&M University

114. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Moderator:

Media Session

Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

TEACHING WHILE BLACK (TELEVISION PILOT).

Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University

115. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Paper Session Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

RECKONING WITH FAMILY HISTORIES AND LEGACIES.

Chair: Glynis Johns, Black Scranton Project

Participants:

Lessons From a Jim Crow Era Debutante: How One Black Community Passed on a Legacy of Resilience to its Youth. Talia Dow, University of Georgia

Black/White Woodson Story: Reckoning with the Missing Pages from Our Family’s History. Craig D. Woodson, Ethnomusic, Inc. and Drums of Humanity

116. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn PITTSBURGH’S LONG BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: CELEBRATING ARTISTIC ACTIVISM.

Chair: Shawn Lamar Williams, Georgia State University

Presenters:

Frank Floyd Hightower, Hightower Photography

Oronde Sharif, University of Pittsburgh

Sala Udin, Community Activist/Artist

Valerie Adeniji Lawrence, Magnolia Publishing House

Curtiss Porter, The African Library Unburnt

117. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Paper Session Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn CRISIS AND WEALTH IN THE BLACK ECONOMY.

Chair: Adam Xavier McNeil, Rutgers University

Participants:

“ ‘We Felt that We Were Pioneers’: Black Banking from the Nadir to the Stock Market Crash, 1888-1929”. Brandon K. Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Reformers Savings Bank: The Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers and the Black Economy. Anton D. House, Delaware State University

Race Riots and Labour Rebellions: Interwar Jamaica’s Economic Crisis Amidst A Racial Divide. Christopher Davis, Adelphi University

118. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Paper Session Carnegie II- Conference Level Omni William Penn

ESSAYS, POEMS AND FICTIONAL WRITINGS: TRACING THE LITERARY WORKS OF BLACK LIBERATION.

Chair:

Kenneth M Hamilton, Southern Methodist University

Participants:

Unbroken: Tracing the Threads of Black Poetry in Social Movements. Zariah Nicole, Johns Hopkins SOE

Poetic Legacy: Mazisi Kunene, Zosukuma Kunene, and Creative Responses to African-American Culture. Abimbola Cole KaiLewis, Hofstra University / York College - City University of New York

The Artist as Witness in James Baldwin’s Nonfiction. Maia Campbell, University of Dallas

119. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Leader:

Workshop Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

HOWARD MELLON WORKSHOP: BLACK RESISTANCE AND ARTS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE.

Lisa Brock, Social Justice and Anti- Racism Consultant; Howard-Mellon Just Futures Grant

120. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

MORE THAN MAGIC: USING ART AND ETHNOGRAPHY TO EXPLORE BLACK GIRLS’ LIVED EXPERIENCES.

Chair:

Ashley Woodson Walters, Black epiSTEMologies Project

Participants:

Somewhere Away: Creating Representations of Black Girls. Alyssa Liles-Amponsah, Please Touch Museum

The Role of African Queen Mythology in Black Girls’ Racial Socialization: Considerations for Education Psychology. Ashley Woodson Walters, Black epiSTEMologies Project

Seeing and Feeling Myself: Art-Based Pedagogies of Self-Reflection and Self-Care for Black Girls. Lex Hunter, University of Colorado - Boulder

121. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

FREEDOM SEEKING A FORM OF CIVIL RIGHTS. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS NETWORK NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PROGRAMS.

Chair:

Ariel Roy, African American Civil Rights Network and ASALH

Presenters:

Ashley Adams, Coordinator, African American Civil Rights Network

Joshua Strayhorn, National Park Service

Barry Jurgenson, Midwest Regional Coordinator for the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

122. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Panel Session

Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE FIELD OF BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY.

Sharita Jacobs Thompson, Independent Scholar

Participants:

Black Women Educators’ Pedagogy, Praxis, and Curriculum as Activism during the Early Twentieth Century. Gloria J. Ashaolu, Michigan State University

The Capital City Murders: Black Women and Serial Murder in Interwar Era Washington, D. C. LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University

The Battle for Freedom: The Mangrove Demonstration (1970). Jada Gannaway, Michigan State University

Commentator:

Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University

123. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm Presidential Session Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

THE LIFE, THOUGHT, AND ACTIVISM OF WILLIAM STRICKLAND.

Chair:

Shawn Alexander, University of Kansas

Presenters:

Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University

Derrick White, University of Kentucky

Zebulon Miletsky, Stony Brook University

Christopher Tinson, Saint Louis University

Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Commentator:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

124. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

RoundtableChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

PRACTICING HISTORY, EDUCATING PRACTITIONERS, AND ENGAGING WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH PUBLIC HISTORY GRADUATE EDUCATION IN NORTH CAROLINA.

Chair:

Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, North Carolina State University

Presenters:

Charles Johnson, North Carolina Central University

Sydney Alston, North Carolina State University

Alicia McGill, North Carolina State University

125. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Chair:

Roundtable Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn ROUND TABLE IN HONOR OF NATHAN HARE.

James B. Stewart, Equity Advisory Panel

Presenters:

Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Nathaniel Norment, Jr., Morehouse College 4:00pm

126. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Plenary SessionWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

A SOULFUL URGE: A CONVERSATION ABOUT BLACK ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN AND BEYOND OUR NATIONAL PARKS.

Moderator:

Joshua Jenkins, National Parks Conservation Association

Participant:

Ifa Bayeza, Playwright

Brian Joyner, Acting Superintendent, Rock Creek Park

Karen Armagost, Interpretive Park Ranger, New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park

Mia Y. Anderson, Actress

Sponsor:

Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association

127. 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Presenters:

Forum Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ASALH MEMBER REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY.

Ida E. Jones, Morgan State University and ASALH Vice President for Membership

Leontyne Middleton, ASALH Tampa Bay Branch, President

Maude Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University

Hazel D Gillis, ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch of Jacksonville, FL

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University

Rahman Johnson, Jacksonville City Council

Cassandra Jones

Sankofa Village Drum and Dance Group

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

KIMBERLY M QUEEN, Tampa

Yvonne Acey, ASALH Member

Ida Carey, ASALH Member

Kisha King, ASALH South Florida Branch

Anita Shepherd, ASALH Executive Council

Leader:

Madge Allen, ASALH Manhattan Branch

128. 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm Forum Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn AFRO-LATINX HISTORY AND AFROFUTURISM.

Leader: Walter Greason, Macalester College

129. 7:30 pm to 9:45 pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM.

Commentator: George C. Wolfe

130. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm

ReceptionWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn FRIDAY NIGHT IN.

Performer(s):

Jasiri X/One Hood Media

Emcee:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD) Saturday, September 28, 2024 8:00am

131. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

ExhibitorRiverboat- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn SATURDAY RIVERBOAT EXHIBITS. FRIDAY,

132. 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

MeetingSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (SATURDAY).

Leader:

Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University

133. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

ExhibitorSternwheeler- Exhibits Area Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

SATURDAY STERNWHEELER EXHIBITS.

134. 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Exhibitor Oliver Ballroom Pre-Function Area Exhibits 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

SATURDAY OLIVER BALLROOM PRE-FUNCTION AREA EXHIBITS.

8:30am

135. 8:30 am to 9:40 am Paper Session Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn FORGOTTEN BLACK ARTISTS OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC WORLD DURING THE AGE OF REVOLUTION.

Chair:

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Participants:

Isaac Louverture: Poet. Andrew Maginn, University of the South: Sewanee

Portrait for Portrait: Phillis Wheatley, Scipio Moorhead, and Early African Atlantic Acknowledgment Practices. Karla Vanessa Zelaya, Smith College, Africana Studies

136. 8:30 am to 9:40 am Paper Session Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn BLACK WOMEN’S VOICES AND IDENTITIES IN ART AND CULTURE.

Chair: Amanda Boston, University of Pittsburgh

Participants: Who’s the “Realest”?: Womanhood, Identity, and Hip-Hop Culture. Ramona Bell, Cal Poly Humboldt

An American History of Black Women Artists in The New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Keisha Oliver, Penn State University

High Heels and Handlebars: Examining Black Women’s Motorcycling and Its Impact Black Culture. Jameson Baudelaire, Texas Tech University

Artisan Womanism after Disasters: Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Women’s Survival and Resilience. Ophera A. Davis, Independent Scholar

137. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Roundtable

Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

“ART AS LEGACY: DIALOGUES ON ESTATE PLANNING FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS.

Chair: Rumbidzai Mufuka, I Am Willing™

Presenters:

Quintarra Morant, Morant Law Offices

Lois Mufuka Martin, KAVA Consultancy

Akudzwe Elsie Chiwa, Visual Artist

138. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Participant:

Meeting

Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

2025 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING.

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

Aaisha N. Haykal, College of Charleston and ASALH Vice President for Programs

Augustus Wood, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Lionel Kimble, ASALH Executive Council and Chicago State University

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

Anita Moore Shepherd, ASALH Executive Council and ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Felix Germain, University of Pittsburgh

Esther Germain

139. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Panel Session

Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

THE RADICAL ART OF BLACK PRINT CULTURE.

Chair: Crystal Donkor, Southern Methodist University

Participants:

“Tracking Jarena Lee’s Life, Narratives, and Pinky Ring”. Derrick A. Spires, Department of Literatures in English

Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Manifestation of a Black Print Culture Future. Monet Lewis-Timmons, University of Delaware

Black Print Culture as Activism. Britney Henry, University of Delaware

The Print Lives of Miseducation and The Coldest Winter Ever. Jacinta R Saffold, University of Delaware

140. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper Session

Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn INNOVATIONS IN BLACK EDUCATION AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION.

Chair: Christopher Davis, Adelphi University

Participants:

Afrofuturism and Sankofa as Methodology in Black Education Research. Sade Williams, University of Delaware

August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle and 20th Century Black Home Education. Stacey L. Akines, Carnegie Mellon University

Booker T. Washington High School in the Age of Segregation, Norfolk, VA. Trayc Freeman, University of Virginia

Charting New Paths: Integrating Du Bois’ Legacy into STEM Education. Leia Danae Belt, University of California, Merced; Jullanar Zakiyyah Williams, University of California, Merced

141. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Workshop Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

BLACK ARTS TODAY: AN ONLINE, ASYNCHRONOUS, COURSE IN BLACK LIFE, HISTORY, AND CULTURE.

Leader:

Lou Turner, University of Illinois

142. 2:05 pm to 3:50 pm

Paper Session

Sewickley-First Floor EXPRESSIONS OF BLACK RESISTANCE: A HISTORICAL EXAMINATION.

Chair: Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University

Participants:

Deliver Me: Contemporary Uses of Ritual and Performance to (Re)member the Black Queer Body Ajewole Duckett, Northern Illinois University

Revolutionary Poison: The Chemical and Material Terrorism of Makandal in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue. Christopher Newman, Howard University

The Resilience of Black Artists: The Rise from Oppression. Nyah Gantt, Undergraduate Student

143. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

144. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Media Session

AMERICAN SANTA.

Panel Session

Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

REVISING THE NARRATIVE THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: BMRC FELLOWS AT ASALH (PART I).

LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University

Participants:

Bright Young Things: Chicago’s New Negro Intercollegiate Club and the Wonder Books 1927 and 1929. LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University

Getting the Story Right: Black Literary Archives and the Life of Willard Motley. Agnieszka Tuszynska, QCC-CUNY

Building Black Media History: Race, Place, and the Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis. E. James West, University College London

145. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

THE OMEGA CARTER G. WOODSON ACADEMY: STEPPING OUT OF MISEDUCATION.

Justin D Laing, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Presenters:

Jamaal Gosa, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Brandon D Jennings, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

Kieth Taylor, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity

146. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Chair:

Panel Session Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

DIGITAL HUMANITIES AS A TOOL TO EXPLORE RACIAL VIOLENCE AND RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.

Nikki Lynn Marie Brown, University of Kentucky

Participants:

Restorative Research: Guidance Through Reflection and Uncovering Untold Stories. Qwenton Briggs, J. David Rosenberg College of Law, University of Kentucky

Challenging White Supremacist Discourses in the Archives. Ariane Ribeiro, University of Kentucky

Moving Beyond Trauma: Lessons of Healing from the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice-Kentucky Project. Austin Zinkle, University of Kentucky Post-Doctoral Scholar

147. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Workshop Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BLACK ARTISTS IN CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY BLACK CHILDREN’S LITERATURE.

Presenters:

Tiffeni Fontno, Vanderbilt University

Renata Love Jones, Georgia State University

Sean Fontno, Columbia College

Leader:

Nicholl D Montgomery, ASALH Member

148. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Paper SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

UNVEILING HIDDEN NARRATIVES IN EDUCATION.

Chair:

Deborah Anna Brown, Riverside City College

Participants:

The History of Southern Textbook Adoption and the White Women behind the Lost Cause, 1865-1920. Monique Hyman, Florida State University

“We Value Our Black Babies as well as Other Folks Do Theirs”: Reconstructing Public Memory of the Black Educational Pursuit in Nevada (1864-1890). Eden Wolde, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

149. 8:30 am to 9:40 am

Commentator:

Media Session Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

SPURRING CHANGE: THE MYRTIS DIGHTMAN STORY.

Gretchen J Odion, Houston Community College

150. 9:00 am to 10:30 am

9:00am

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

BLACK SCRANTON PROJECT: PRESERVING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

Commentator:

Glynis Johns, Black Scranton Project

152. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chair:

10:00am

Panel Session Fox Chapel- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

ISLAM AND BLACK ART: A DIASPORIC AESTHETICS.

Ellen McLarney, Duke University

Participants:

Performing the Islamic Black Atlantic: Afro-Diasporic Muslim Hip-Hop, Embodied Ethics, and Redefinition of British Islam. Jeanette Jouili, Syracuse University

Do For Self: The Visual Culture of the Nation of Islam. Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan

Poetics of Protest, from Africa to Minneapolis. RA Judy, University of Pittsburgh

An Islamic Poetics of Black Knowledge. Ellen McLarney, Duke University

Commentator:

Marvin X Jackmon, Academy Da Corner

153. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Roundtable Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

“IN THESE HILLS: BLACK APPALACHIAN ARTISTS ON CREATING PERFORMANCES AND CONSTRUCTING VISUAL NARRATIVES.”

Chair:

Marie Toni Cochran, Affrilachian Artist Project, Founder

Presenters:

Marie Toni Cochran, Affrilachian Artist Project, Founder

Aristotle Jones, Musician

L Renée, Poet/Storyteller

154. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Panel Session Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

MILLION DOLLAR PICTURE: THE DELANY HALL ART COLLECTION AND LEGACY BUILDING AT QUEENS COLLEGE.

Chair: Natanya Duncan, City University of New York

155. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Chairs:

Ada Pinkston, Towson University

Roundtable Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

PARABLES OF BLACK WOMEN ARTS LEADERSHIP.

Alisha Wormsley, Carnegie Mellon University

Staycee Pearl, Staycee Pearl Dance

Presenters:

Gina Marie Lewis, Bowie State University

Kenvi Phillips, Barack Obama Presidential Library, NARA Eola Dance, Howard University

156. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Workshop Sewickley- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF U.S. INDEPENDENCE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BLACK AMERICANS?

Chair:

Deborah Robinson, University of Michigan Program for Research on Black Americans

Leader:

Aaisha N. Haykal, College of Charleston and ASALH Vice President for Programs

157. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Panel Session Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

THE IDEAS, CRITICISMS, AND ACTIVISM OF BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN’S PRINT CULTURE DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Chair: Sheena Hayes, Auburn University

Participants:

Black Theatre for Black People: Twentieth Century Black Women’s Theatre Criticism in The Colored American. Jordan Ealey, University of Rochester

“The Oppressed Negro People Are Awakening”: Maude White and the Harlem Liberator. Melissa Ford, Slippery Rock University

The Intellectual Activism of the National Alliance of Black Feminists. Ileana Nachescu, Rutgers University

The Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance through Print and Digital Culture. Tiana U. Wilson, University of Pittsburgh

Commentator:

Sheena Hayes, Auburn University

158. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Paper Session Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn

BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLES IN SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR.

Chair: Ella J Davis, Wayne County Community College District

Participants:

A Free Man, Fortiori a Soldier: Corporal John Andrew v Archibald Montgomery in Civil War New Orleans. Anthony J Cade, US Air National Guard History Office

“I went South as a soldier: Collective Civil War Memory in Iowa’s Post-Reconstruction Black Press.”. David Brodnax, Trinity Christian College

Reframing Black Slavery in Chickasaw Country: Toney, Betsy Love, and Married Women’s Property in the Antebellum U.S. South. Justin Isaac Rogers, University of North Florida

Crafting Maroon Communities in British Canada Before the Civil War. dann j Broyld, University of Massachusetts Lowell

“With Fife and Drum:” A Rhetorical History of the 1866 Tennessee State Colored Convention. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis

159. 10:00 am to 11:40 am Roundtable Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

CREATIVITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: INNOVATIVE BLACK SPACES FOR POETRY, CULTURE, AND ART.

Chair: Tina Louise Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Presenters:

Shanna Louise Smith, Jackson State University

Valerie Taylor, University of Las Vegas, Nevada

Tina Louise Ligon, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

160. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn REVISING THE NARRATIVE THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: BMRC FELLOWS AT ASALH (PART II).

Chair: Douglas Williams, University of Illinois

Participants:

“The Black Ensemble Is a Necessity”: Theatre, Chicago, the Black Arts Movement, and Beyond. Paul Michael Thomson, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, The University of Massachusetts Amherst A Documentry in the Making: A Chicago Based Black Arts Movement Exemplar. Douglas Williams, University of Illinois

Forming a Community: Heartbreak and Triumph in Making Black Chicago. Brandon Stokes, Indiana University

Chicago’s Black Arts Movement. Thabiti Lewis, Washington State University Vancouver

161. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

MRS. RICHARDSON: A DRAMATIC READING OF A NEW PLAY ABOUT THE LIFE OF GLORIA RICHARDSON.

Chair: Say Burgin, Dickinson College

Presenters:

Kristopher Burrell, Hostos Community College

Laura Warren Hill, Bloomfield College

Rosie Jayde Uyola, Bard College

Joshua K. Wright, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Peter Levy, York College

Crystal M. Moten, Obama Presidential Center

162. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Paper Session Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

THEORY AND HISTORY IN THE MAKING AND RESHAPING OF BLACK LIBERATORY THOUGHT.

Participants:

“That Little Mistake We Made, the People Dem Love It!” The Art of Black Thought. Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University

The Two Central Contradictions Characterizing the African American Sociohistorical Experience. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Multi ‘Til the Sun Die: Applying Big K.R.I.T.’s “Geography Lottery” to Mississippi and Alabama Hip-Hop Artists. Renee Richardson, University of Louisville

163. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Key Session Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

REMEMBERING THE LIFE AND SCHOLARSHIP OF WILSON JEREMIAH MOSES.

Chair: Shawn Alexander, University of Kansas

Presenters:

Mia Bay, University of Pennsylvania

Derrick P. Alridge, University of Virginia

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

James B. Stewart, Equity Advisory Panel

Kevin Gaines, University of Virginia

164. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Panel SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

ART AS PRAXIS AND PEDAGOGY OF BLACK RADICALISM.

Chair: Noah Nelson, PhD Student

Participants:

Doris Derby as Activist, Artist, and Black Radical Educator. Amber Johnson, University of Maryland at College Park

The ACE in the Hole for Black Artists in Columbus, Ohio. Nicole Sutton, Columbus Metropolitan Library

Views from The EAST: The manifestation of Jitu Weusi’s Pedagogy in the material world. Noah Nelson, PhD Student

Presenter:

Amber Johnson, University of Maryland at College Park

165. 10:00 am to 11:40 am

Roundtable Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn CLEVELAND’S AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL GARDEN AND THE PROGRESSION OF ARTISTIC LANDSCAPE DESIGN ACROSS FIVE DECADES.

Chair:

Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Presenters:

Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Katrena Kennedy, African American Cultural Garden Association

Daniel Bickerstaff,II, Founder and Principal Architect, Ubiquitous Design, Ltd.

Carl Ewing, Association of African American Cultural Gardens, President

Lavita Ewing, Association of African American Cultural Gardens, Fundraiser

Commentator:

Austin Allen, University of Texas at Arlington 11:00am

166. 11:00 am to 1:30 pm

ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

THE LIGHT OF TRUTH: RICHARD HUNT’S MONUMENT TO IDA B. WELLS.

Commentator: Rana Segal

167. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Chair:

12:00pm

Panel Session Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn VOICES OF RESISTANCE: BLACK GIRLHOOD THEORY, WRITING, AND ART IN FOCUS.

Claudine Olivia Taaffe, Vanderbilt University

Participants:

“Blackwildgirl: A Writer’s Journey to Take Back Her Superpower”. Menah Pratt, Virginia Tech

“Developing a hooksian Theory of Black Girls”. Aria S. Halliday, University of Kentucky

“Curating Resistance: Art as a Catalyst for Black Girlhood Empowerment”. Claudine Olivia Taaffe, Vanderbilt University

168. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

Oakmont- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

EXPLORING EMBEDDED WISDOM IN THE SONGS OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA.

Chair: Sharon Fuller, Sonoma State University

Participants:

Songs of the Sea Islands. Sharon Fuller, Sonoma State University

Porgy and Bess and Gullah Culture. Lynne Morrow, Sonoma State University

Spiritual in Social and Musical context. Randall C. Webber, Wayside Christian Mission

169. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

PICTURING BLACK HISTORY: A VISUAL STUDIES PROJECT OF BLACK LIFE AND CULTURE.

Chair: Treva Lindsey, Ohio State University

Participants:

Imaging SNCC. Benjamin St. Angelo, Ohio State University

Refuge and Revolt for Black Americans in France. Daniela Edmeier, Ohio State University

Charles Young: The Life of a Soldier. Paul McAllister, Ohio State University

170. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

BLACK THOUGHT COLLECTIVE: PERFORMING RESEARCH AT A BLACK CULTURAL CENTER.

Presenters:

Anne Marie Edwards, Purdue University

Barakah Abdo-baari, Purdue University

Leah La’Nay Patterson, Purdue University

Leader:

Clarreese La’Nay Greene, ASALH Member

171. 12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

LuncheonWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

JOHN BLASSINGAME LUNCHEON: A TRIBUTE TO MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE.

Moderator: Sheila Y. Flemming, Black Rose Foundation for Children

Guest Speaker:

Ashley Robertson Preston, Howard University Noliwe Rooks, Cornell University

Greetings: Tahirah Walker, Assistant Professor, Organizational Development and Innovation, Park Point University

Emcee: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD) 12:15pm

172. 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm Forum Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

Leader: Walter Greason, Macalester College 2:00pm

173. 2:00 pm to 3:50 pm ASALH Film FestivalCarnegie III - Film Festival AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

TRACING OUR PATH THROUGH BRONZEVILLE.

Commentator: Reginald Price

174. 2:00 pm to 2:30 pm

MeetingWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

AWARDS BANQUET REHEARSAL.

Presenters:

Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Speaker:

LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University

Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University

Samuel W Black, Senator John Heinz History Center

Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University

Ashley Jordan, Evansville African American Museum

Nikki Taylor, Howard University History Department

Sonia Sanchez, Poet Laureate

Jesse Jackson, Sr.

Ruth E. Hodge

Moderator:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Participant:

Felix Germain, University of Pittsburgh

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

Oliver McNair

Lopez Matthews, District of Columbia, Office of Public Records, ASALH Executive Council, ASALH Roland MCConnell Branch

Welcome and Occasion:

Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University

175. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

2:05pm

GRADUATE STUDIES IN HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, AND MUSEUM STUDIES AND PUBLIC HISTORY AT MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY.

Chair:

Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University

Leaders:

Felicia Thomas, Morgan State University

Herbert Brewer, Morgan State University

Dexter Blackman, Morgan State University

177. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Special Book Panel Heinz - AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE ON EDDA FIELDS-BLACK’S COMBEE.

Discussants:

Kamal A. McClarin, Underground Network to Freedom

Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Nebraska

Melissa L. Cooper, Rutgers University at Newark Associate Professor of History,

Moderator:

Bernard Powers, Jr., College of Charleston, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston

Author:

Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University

Workshop Churchill- 1st Floor Omni William Penn

178. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Workshop

Mt Lebanon- 1st Floor Omni William Penn BLACK FEMINIST WRITING: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PUBLISHING ACADEMIC BOOKS--THE WORKSHOP.

Presenters:

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Indiana University

Natanya Duncan, City University of New York

Leader:

Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University

180. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable

Shadyside- AV 1st Floor Omni William Penn

(THE IMPORTANCE OF) ENGAGING HBCUS IN THE CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATION OF DANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE OVERARCHING LINK TO K-12 ARTS EDUCATION .

Chair:

Ashly Horace, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Presenters:

Wanda Ebright, College of the Arts - Columbus State University, Dean, College of the Arts

Shani Dessie Inell Diouf, Professor

Alexandra Joye Warren, Founder and Artistic Director, JOYEMOVEMENT Dance Company | Assistant Professor of Performing Arts - Elon University

Lindsay Gary, Founder and Artistic and Executive Director, Dance Afrikana LLC and Professor, Houston Community College

Participant:

Harrison Guy, Founder and Artistic Director, Urban Souls Dance Company

Jackie Stokes, K-12 Dance Educator and Board Member, Black College Dance Exchange

T. Lang, Associate Professor of Dance/Inaugural Dept. Chair of Dance Performance - Spelman College

181. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn THE POWER OF ART TO COMMUNICATE OUR MILITARY HISTORY: A WORKSHOP.

Chair:

Anthony J Cade, US Air National Guard History Office

Presenters:

Edna Cummings, Retired Colonel/Producer

Brian Rowe

Tyson Gilpin, NAACP Winchester Branch

Peggy Tadej, Patriot Art Foundation

Jonathan A Noyalas, Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute

John Moeller, Deputy Garrison Commander, Fort Belvoir, VA

182. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm Presidential Session Grant- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites THE ASALH FREEDOM SCHOOL PLAN.

Chair:

Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois

Presenters:

Terrance Thomas, Bethel A.M.E. Church

Augustus Wood, ASALH Executive Council and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Commentator:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

183. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Panel Session Oliver- AV Conference Level Omni William Penn

A DUBOISIAN BLACK HISTORY ART MOSAIC: STORY TELLING, JOURNALING, AND BLACK THEATER 1924 TO PRESENT DAY.

Chair: Deirdre Foreman, Ramapo College of New Jersey and Executive Council

Participants:

The Power of Black Drama: W.E.B. DuBois’ Krigwa Players and the Little Negro Theatre, 1925–1927. Deirdre Foreman, Ramapo College of New Jersey and Executive Council

The Art of Therapeutic Journaling: The Ancestors Are Moving Heaven and Earth to See You Whole. Tanya M England, ASALH Manhattan Branch

The Art of Documentary Story Telling. Constance L. Diggs, Nyack College/Alliance Theological Seminary

Commentator: Joyya Smith, Suffolk University

184. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Roundtable Vandergrift AV- Conference Level Omni William Penn

REMOVING THE WHITE-WASH IN HIGHER-EDUCATION: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CALL TO EXCAVATE BLACK CONTRIBUTIONS TO ESTABLISHING AND FURTHERING DISCIPLINES.

Chair: Kelechi Chinyere Wright, University of Houston

Presenter:

Ameenah Shakir, University of Houston

185. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Leader:

Joan Cartwright, ASALH South Florida Branch

186. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Workshop Anchor - AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

MISEDUCATION THE PLAY.

Roundtable Oliver- AV 2nd Floor Embassy Suites

A HIP HOP BEEF FOR THE AGES: DRAKE, KENDRICKS, AND WHAT THE CULTURE IS FEELING.

Chair: Maurice J. Hobson, Georgia State University

Presenters:

Regina Bradley, Kennesaw State University

Dawn-Elissa Fischer, San Francisco State University

Jeffery O.G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut

187. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Panel SessionChemistry Communications Room- 2nd Floor Board Room Set Embassy Suites

REMAKING FREEDOM: BLACK RIGHTS CLAIMS IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION.

Chair:Karen Cook-Bell, Bowie State University

Participants:

’I Have Considered Myself Free’: How Enslaved Women Navigated Flight and Freedom in Civil War Kentucky. Daniele Celano, University of Virginia

The Meaning of Abolition and Free Soil beyond the Boundaries of Pennsylvania: Black Freedom Claims in the Ohio Valley Borderlands and Upper South. Lucien Holness, Pennsylvania State University

Patient and Persistent Legal Means: Contract Labor, Military Justice, and the Making of the Black Public in Union-occupied Southern Louisiana. James Illingworth, Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland

Commentator:

Julia Bernier, Washington and Jefferson College

188. 2:05 pm to 3:40 pm

Panel Session Three Rivers- AV Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

TESTING THE BOUNDARIES OF FREEDOM: BLACK INSTITUTION BUILDING DURING RECONSTRUCTION, 18651915.

Chair:

Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina, Center for Civil Rights History and Research, Hollins Special Collections Library

Participants:

Self-Governance, Dignity , Citizenship, and Institution Building on the Plains, 1865 – 1880. Barbara Hewins-Maroney, Urban Studies Program School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha

“A Case Study of Sundowning in Iowa, 1870-1880.” Leia Danae Belt, University of California, Merced

What was the Militia: Black, Red, and White Definition of North Carolina’s Reconstruction Militia, 1865-1870. Gregory Lamont Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Black Chaplains, Voices of Identity from the Civil War to the Eve of Global War. M. Taylor Black, Department of History, University of California, Davis

Commentator: Gregory Lamont Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte 4:00pm

189. 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Plenary SessionWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

HOLLYWOOD AND BLACK HISTORIES.

Presenters:

Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan

Maurice J. Hobson, Georgia State University

Nailah Jefferson, Filmmaker

Kevin Willmott, Filmmaker

Moderator:

Randal Maurice Jelks, Indiana University

190. 6:30 pm to 7:15 pm

Leader:

Walter Greason, Macalester College

191. 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

6:30pm

Forum Carnegie I- Conference Level Omni William Penn

HIP HOP STUDIES AND GRAPHIC HISTORIES.

7:30pm

BanquetWilliam Penn Ballroom- Plenary Sessions Meal Functions Wm Penn Level Omni William Penn

ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET.

Awardee:

Ruth E. Hodge

Ashley Jordan, Evansville African American Museum

Pero Dagbovie, Michigan State University

LaShawn Harris, Michigan State University

Samuel W Black, Senator John Heinz History Center

Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University

Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University

Nikki Taylor, Howard University History Department

Sonia Sanchez, Poet Laureate

Participant:

Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Maryland

Award Presenter:

W. Marvin Dulaney, ASALH President and ASALH Marvin Dulaney Branch (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

Lopez Matthews, District of Columbia, Office of Public Records, ASALH Executive Council, ASALH Roland MCConnell Branch

Cornelius Bynum, Purdue University

Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University

Aisha Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology

Leslie Etienne, Indiana University - Indianapolis/Joseph Taylor Branch

Greetings:

Felix Germain, University of Pittsburgh

Tim Stevens, Founder, BPEP (Black Political Empowerment Project)

Carlos T. Carter, President and CEO, Urban League of Pittsburgh

Joyce Meggerson Moore, New Horizon Theater

Emcee: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director and Prince Georges County Truth Branch (MD)

Sunday, September 29, 2024

8:30am

192. 8:30 am to 11:30 am TourOmni William Penn Hotel Oliver Street Entrance Omni William Penn

POST-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE TOUR.

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