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Movement for Black Lives Convening

8:00am EDT

Registration Student Center: First Floor Atrium

9:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

10:00am EDT

Welcome to Cleveland Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium

11:00am EDT

EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEAK OF NEW DOCUMENTARY: "Whose Streets?" by Damon Davis TBADamon Davis Emotional Emancipation Circles: Weekly Support Groups for Black People to Process Racial Stress Trinity Cathedral: Room 1Erika Totten Black Side of the Red Ribbon: HIV/AIDS Activism for Black Lives Past, Present and Future Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3Maxx Boykin: HIV Prevention Justice Alliance & BYP 100 • Kenyon Farrow: Treatment Action Group • Waheedah Shabazz-el: ACT-UP Philly & US Positive Women's Network • Deon Haywood: Women With a Vision Where can we go from here: intentional sharing of power within 501(c)(3) structuresLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 332 Let Your Motto Be Resistance! Why Folks Are Saying We Will Shoot BackLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322Darasia Selby-Adebisi: Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) Philly Chapter • Jamal P. Oliver: MXGM NY Chapter • Jonathan Stith: MXGM DC Chapter • Sanyika Bryant: MXGM Oakland Chapter • taliba obuya: MXGM Atlanta Chapter Street Dance Activism in the Black Lives Matter Movement Trinity Cathedral: Room 2Shamell Bell and Black Lives Matter members The Revolutionary conversation: a theatrical jazz retrospect with Audre and JamesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 136Jonathan Lykes • JeNae' Taylor Bone-Weary and Cried Out: Healing SpaceLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 1Shemariah Arki • June Cara Christian Building Self Care and Resilience through Mindfulness, Movement and MeditationLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 146Kelsie Augustin • Kellie Kirksey Healing from Black Church Trauma in the Quest For Black LiberationLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 445Latishia James How Farming Saved My Life & Made Me Aware of My BlacknessLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 444Kelly Carlisle #BlackWorkersMatter: The State of Black Worker Organizing in the U.SLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 307BSean Thomas-Breitfeld: Co-Director - Building Movement Project & Lead Author -#BlackWorkersMatter • Kimberly Freeman Brown: President - KFB Consulting LLC & Author - And Still I Rise • Marc D. Bayard: Director of the Black Worker Initiative - Institute for Policy Studies Developing Your Policy AgendaLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122Samuel Sinyangwe Free From Fear: Dangerous Homosexuals Building Power in Da' South to address profiling and the municipal courtLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Bri Carter • Brinn Frazier • Southerners on New Ground: Mary Hooks • Cazambe Jackson • Mickey Jordan • Serena Sebring • Eshe Shakur • Tiffany Smith • Dean Stead • Kiesha Webb • Rebecca Wooten How to Build Decentralized Networks in the Black Lives Matter MovementLIMITED Main Classroom :Room 326Monica Dennis • Carmen Dixon • Allen Frimpong Facilitation 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Maurice Mitchell • Cyndi Suarez Organizing 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Nelini Stamp Solidarity is a Verb, Collaboration is a PracticeLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Patrisse Cullors • Elle Hearns

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Lunch Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

2:30pm EDT

There’s A Method to the Movement: Examining Community Organizing Methods and MethodologiesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306BChaka Holley Young Gifted and Black: The real #DearWhitePeopleLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 302Rian Brown Organizing for Resilience: Supporting survivors and families to move through trauma and lead political change Trinity Cathedral: Room 2Ejeris Dixon Movie Screening and discussion-Out In The Night- The story of the New Jersey 4LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 134 Movie Screening Out in the Night: The Story of New JerseyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 134 The Art of Revolution: Collectively Organizing for Reproductive Justice At The Intersection of Art and ActivismLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 305Monica Raye Simpson • Camil Williams The Miseducation of Hip-HopLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 307BTierney Reed Legos & Monopoly: Mastering Your Inside/Outside Strategy, Gaming the Political System & WinningLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 146Maria Fernandez • Theodore Moore Mothers Cry for Justice Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3Anita Willis Self-Defense Trinity Cathedral: Room 1Emily Carpenter This Ain’t A Eulogy: A Ritual for RememberingLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 1Taja Lindley (RE) Education of the Negro: Developing Political Education Programs for Black CommunitiesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 445David C. Turner III Black Lives Beyond Borders: Statelessness and Deportations in The Dominican RepublicLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 136Black Alliance for Just Immigration (@BAJITweet) • We Are All Dominicans (@Dominicanxs) • The Media Consortium (@TMCmedia) Decriminalization of Weed & Weed ReparationsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 332Todd St. Hill • Jasson Perez Strategies For Transformation: Divest From Police/Invest in CommunitiesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 414Carmen Dixon • Ben Ndugga-Kabuye • Opal Tometi The 2016 Election: How to Make a Concrete Impact and Build Capacity for Black Organizing: Black Youth Project 100LIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 4Charlene Carruthers: Black Youth Project 100 • Cedric Lawson: The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights The Black Panther Party: Looking Back To Look ForwardLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Hank Jones: Former Member of Black Panther Party • Pam Hannah: Former member of the Black Panther Party • Ashanti Alston: Former member of the Black Panther Party & former political prisoner • Dhoruba Bin-Wahad: Former memeber of the Black Panther Party & former political prisoner) What Assata Really Taught Me: Gender, Sexuality, and NationalismLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322asha bandele • Beatriz Beckford • MXGM - Dara Cooper • Autumn Marie • taliba obuya • Ola Ronke Black Trans* Lives Matter!: Solutions Not Punishment CoaltionLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122 Building a Peoples Security TeamLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 315Che Long Building Black Women’s Leadership: Strategies to strengthen our leadership individually and collectivelyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Charlene Carruthers: Black Youth Project 100 ENCRYPT BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY: surveillance self defense & security culture 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326Gemini Matt Even My Poems Are RevolutionaryLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 123J Mase III Mapping Police ViolenceLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Samuel Sinyangwe and Johnetta Elzie Online Tools and Tactics to Supercharge Your CampaignsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306AWilliam Winters Queer As Fuck: We Been HereLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Tyrell Cooper • Shan Davis • Ashleigh Shackelford The Black Church: We need you now more than ever!LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Mary Hooks: Community Organizer-SONG • Dr. Makungu M. Akinyela: Ordained Elder - AME Church and MXGM Turn Down on Eachother, Turn up on the State: Conflict Resolution 101LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 444Alicia Garza Putting the T back in BlackLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 330Elle Hearns • Janetta Johnson • Miss Major

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Imagining the Win Main Classroom :Room 326DeRay • Netta • Sam

4:30pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium

9:00pm EDT

M4BL Opening Party TBA

9:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

10:00am EDT

I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free: Part 1 Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

1:15pm EDT

Feelin’ My Femme: Fighting Femmephobia in the Land Trinity Cathedral: Room 2Jessica Lewis Pondering for Our Ancestor: Rashidah TutashindaLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 445Bay Area Chapter of BLM and Co-founder of Ancestral Healing • Rashidah Tutashinda Centering Black Women and Trans People’s Experience of Racial Profiling and Police Violence in the Movement for Black Lives Student Center: Ballroom:Room 3Mariame Kaba (pending) • Charlene Carruthers • Andrea Ritchie • Ashley Yates Communications Nuts and Bolts: Shannon Garth-RhodesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 414Shannon Garth-Rhodes Whose World is This? The World is OursLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 330Jamilah Brown • Nathaniel Phillipps • Shannon Shird • Tsige Tafesse Cultivating Joy: Free, Black & Communing through Theatre:Shamilia McBean,Dorcas DavisLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 136Shamilia McBean and Dorcas Davis Cultural Alchemy 101: The Root Mya Hunter, Heather Lee, Umar Muhammad, Paul Newman.LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 123Mya Hunter • Heather Lee • Umar Muhammad • Paul Newman Making All Black Lives Matter: Merging and Intersecting Movements to End Criminalization Student Center: Ballroom:Room 4Diane Burkholder • Jasmine Burnett • Kenyon Farrow • Treatment Action Group • Deon Haywood • Women With a Vision Inc • New Voices Pittsburgh: Women of Color for Reproductive Justice • One Struggle KC/KC AIDS Taskforce Womens Work: Heartivism and Healing Trinity Cathedral: Room 1Donna Davis • Ashley Grenne • Crystal Wilson Antiblackness: Theories and Strategies for Abolition: Page May & Jasson PerezLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 444Tyrell Cooper • Shan Davis • Ashleigh Shackelford Black Scholar-Activism in the 21st Century: Dr. Tabitha Chester, Dr. Treva LindseyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Dr. Tabitha Chester and Dr. Treva Lindsey Our Money, Our Voices: Public Budgets for Racial Justice: Maria HaddenLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 332Maria Hadden Post-Rachel Complex: Remaining the landscape of allyship in this BlackLivesMatters momentLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306BPaury Flowers • Erica Mines • Laniece Williams #BlackKidsLivesMatter Part 2: Revolutionary ParentingLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326Amara Abdullah • Melina Abdullah • Thandiwe Abdullah And I showed up #SayHerName: JeNae' Taylor, Jonathan LykesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 146JeNae' Taylor and Jonathan Lykes CANCELED: #BlackKidsLivesMatter Part 1: Packing Backpacks for Rebellion and RevolutionLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 326LeRoi Newbold • Kandace Price Don’t Talk About it, Be About it: Calling Out and Ending Systemic Racism: Cuyahoga PlaceMatters TeamLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 302Cuyahoga PlaceMatters Team Engaging Policy Makers Around Issues of Police Militarization: Million Hoodies Movement for JusticeLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306AMillion Hoodies Movement for Justice International Decade for People of African Descent and the National Plan of Action: MXGMLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 307Bbrandon king MXGM Jackson Chapter • Jonathan Stith: MXGM DC Chapter • Sanyika Bryant Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) Oakland Chapter • taliba obuya: MXGM Atlanta Chapter Liberation Can't Wait: How Black Queer and trans folks can and must be at the forefront of the movement towards LGBTQ liberation and full equality.LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Angela Peoples Riding Through the 6 Wit My Woes: Anti- Black Racism in Canada and Beyond: J Future KhanLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Future- Janaya (j) Khan The 60th Anniversary of Emmet Till’s Murder: From Emmet Till to Rekia Boyd, Extrajudicial Killings & Black ResistanceLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom:Room 1Airickca Gordon -Taylor • Martinez Sutton - Brother of Rekia Boyd • Brock Satter - Mass Action Against Police Brutality • Aislinn Pulley - BLM Chicago • Brian Taylor - BLM Cincinnati • cousin of Emmett Till and Executive Director at Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation The People, United, Shall Never be Defeated: How to craft a Black Revolutionary consensus for the 21st CenturyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322Toussaint Losier WE WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM COINTELPRO 101 & US POLITICAL PRISONERS: When We Fight Back & The State Strikes BackLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom:Room 2Fred Hampton Jr (Son of Chairman Fred Hampton) • Ramona Africa (MOVE Sole Survivor of the government's 1985 bombing of MOVE) • Ashanti Alston (Former Balck Panther/BLA Former Political Prisoner) • Eddie Conway (Former Black Panther/Former Political Prisoner) • Russell Maroon Shoatz (Son of US Political Prisoner Russell Shoatz) Welcome to America; Black Immigrant Experience of Anti-Black & Anti-Immigrant State Violence in the US: BAJI & BINLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441Devonte Jackson • Black Alliance for Just Immigration + Black Immigration Network members • Ben Ndugga-Kabuye • Marybeth Onyeukwu • Tia Oso • Abraham Paulos • Opal Tometi • Aly Wane What had happened was… Building tools for collective accountability: Che LongLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 315Che J long African Female Revolutionaries and their Lessons for the MovementLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 305Kopano Marumo and Rooney Hasaan Shade & Shoutouts: Popular Culture and Social Issues: Ashleigh Shackelford, Tyrell CooperLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122Ashleigh Shackelford and Tyrell Cooper MOVIE SCREENING and Discussion- Panther Vanguard of the Revolution- is an essential history and a vibrant chronicle of this pivotal movement that birthed a new revolutionary culture in AmericaLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 134

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CANCELED: Black/Land in ClevelandLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 332Mistinguette Smith Justifiable Homicide: Building A Movement With The Families Affected By State Saction Violence Workshop LeaderLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 1Cephus “Uncle Bobby” (Oscar Grant Uncle) Johnson Shots Fired: How Can You Respond?LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 136Ujimaa Medics Direct Action Play LabLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 330Celeste Faison • Chinyere Tutashinda Black, Trans and Brilliant: A Space For Us to ConnectLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 305Wriply M. Bennet • J Mase III • Aaryn Lang Black Lives Trauma - Addressing Our Hurt to HealLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 445Jonathan Projansky Elixirs for Black Brilliance and Resilience Trinity Cathedral: Room 1Jasmine Burems Intimacy with Food Trinity Cathedral: Room 2Alsie Parks Revolution Begins Within (Yoga): Olaronke AkinmowoLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 444Olaronke Akinmowo The Somatics of Black Liberation (Yoga)LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 146Rachel Lee Black minds Matter: How the educational industrial complex is destroying young black mindsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 315LaToia Jones HIV is Not a Crime – Or is it? { Intersecting HIV, Criminalization and Race}LIMITED Main Classroom: Room 329Deon Haywood • Bryan C. Jones Jackson Rising: A case study of the Jackson-Kush Plan Student Center: Ballroom: Room 4MXGM Making Justice: How Reparations for Police Torture Survivors Were WonLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 302Mariame Kaba • Page May Organizing for Self-Determination: Bldg a Nat'l Agenda for Blk Food & LandLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 307BDara • Beatriz Beckford Beyond IDFWU: best practices for collaboration in a Black led movementLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 414 Black Community Control Over the PoliceLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3M. Adams • Max Rameau Black Lives Matter: Race and Inequality is a Labor IssueLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 301Carmen Berkley: Director of Civil • Human and Woman’s Rights—AFL-CIO • Ephrin Jenkins: United Steel Workers Local #1014 • Yanela Sims: Service Employees International Union Local 1 • Darrin Spann: Executive Assistant to President -AFSCME Council 13 • Cherika Carter: Field Representative-Ohio AFL-CIO Black Love, Black Leadership, Black Power: Rebuilding the Black Liberation MovementLIMITED Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Sendolo Diaminah • Denise Perry Black Radical Women and Revolutionary Movement Building: Critical Insights and ActionsLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306ARose Brewer Check Your Bias: Ending American Denial of RacismLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 306BErika Maye Conscious Leadership: Grappling with Work-Life Dilemma Using the power of Life MappingLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 123Monika Moss-Gransberry Freedom from Violence is Reproductive Justice: Advancing the Human rights of Black women and people in ClevelandLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 122New Voices: La'Tasha D. Mayes- Founder and Executive Director Global Black StrugglesLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 441 Towards a Black Feminist Future: Co-creating a National Black Feminist StrategyLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 440Paris Hatcher #blackcommafeminist: Let’s Fuck Up Some CommasLIMITED Main Classroom: Room 322Shemariah Arki

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M4BL Concert Trinity Cathedral: Parking Lot

9:00am EDT

Continental Breakfast Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

10:15am EDT

We Gon' Be Alright: Visions of a Black Future Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Student Center: Third Floor Atrium

1:15pm EDT

I Wish I Knew How It Feels To Be Free: Part 2 Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium Art as Movement Work: Art and Culture for Black Lives Main Classroom: Room 136 Making Resilience and Resistane Work: Healing for Black Lives Main Classroom: Room 146 Creating a National Platform for Black Lives Main Classroom: Room 134 Global Movement Building: International Advocacy and the Global Movement for Black Lives Main Classroom: Room 445 Liberating Our Minds: Building Alternative Political Structures Student Center: Ballroom: Room 4 Local Power: Policy Priorities and Coordination for Black Lives Student Center: Ballroom: Room 2Nelini Stamp #Shutitdown: Building a National Action Table Student Center: Ballroom: Room 1 Electric Melanin: Technology and Black Freedom Main Classroom: Room 441Dante Berry • Rashad Robinson Movement Building: Creating Bases & Black Networks Across Regions Student Center: Ballroom: Room 3Charlene Carruthers: Black Youth Project 100 • Ash-Lee Henderson Telling Our Stories: Communications Strategies & Narratives Main Classroom: Room 123 Strengthening The Movement in Cleveland Main Classroom: Room 444Malaya Davis

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Movement For Black Lives Convening Closing Music and Communications Building: Waetjen Auditorium