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Movement for Black Lives Convening

11:00am EDT

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 #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

2:30pm EDT

(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

1:15pm EDT

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 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

3:00pm EDT

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

1:15pm EDT

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