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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

12:30pm EDT

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

3:00pm EDT

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