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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

3:00pm EDT

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

7:00pm EDT

M4BL Concert Trinity Cathedral: Parking Lot