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Numbers following names indicate session numbers Abdullah, Makola, 100 Abdullah, Melina, 186 Abdulrahman, Ajibola A, 259 Abenes, Darian, 201 Aboderin, Olutoyosi, 164 Acey, Yvonne B., 278 Adame, Jeanette, 197 Adams, Ashley F., 272 Adams, John E., 024, 188, 243 Adams-Gaston, Javaune, 100 Adderley, Laura, 106 Adderley, Philip, 284 Adi, Hakim, 285 Ahmed, A. Kayum, 143, 214 Aiello, Thomas, 114 Aina, Oladipo, 164 Ajak, Anyiel, 164 Akbar-Williams, Tahirah, 231 Al’ Basil Davis, Timur, 024, 243 Albert III, A. Prince, 039 Alemu, Amsale, 181 Alexander, Shawn L., 026, 117, 137 Allen, Jafari Sinclaire, 285 Allen, Jody L., 026 Allen, Madge H., 278 Allen Tate, Merida, 121 Alridge, Derrick, 069, 110, 260 Alston, Yvonne, 130, 188 Amador, Emma, 245 Amen, Kali-Ahset, 129 Amoah, Grace, 206 Anderson, Alyssa, 164 Anderson, Carol, 285 Anderson, Sarah, 052, 171 Anthony, Kendra, 173, 304 Arlain, Mandissa, 075 Arthur-Mensah, L’Rai, 017 Artis, Ajani, 244 Asante, Marcus, 050 Ashaolu, Gloria Jesuyemi, 250 Askew, Leslie, 300 Austin, Antonio, 173, 304 Austin, Paula, 014 Authority, Fort Monroe, 251 Averett, Samantha, 167, 268 8

Babers, Myeshia, 096, 229 Bailey, Kayla Z, 231 Bailey, Marlon M., 190 Baker Morales, Ejiima, 268 Baker - Spruill, Mia, 164 Baldini, Giulia, 145 Ballard, Jessica, 075 Banks, Jacqueline L, 188, 267 Banner, Joy, 061 Banwo, Bodunrin, 014 Barber, Rebekah, 216 Barclay, Gerald, 218 Barnes, Althemese, 307 Barnes, Kelli R, 004 Baron, Lindamichelle, 217 Barone, Brian, 125 Barra Costa, Isis, 214 Bass, Sam, 006 Bates, Niya, 061 Bates, Tyvon, 098 Batson, Barbara, 008 Baylor, Jazmyne, 140 Beauboeuf, Tamara, 168, 259 Beeks, Sr., James W., 198 Bell, Felicia, 116 Bell, Janine Y., 305 Bell, Ramona, 099, 236 Bendolph, Angelia, 013 Bennett, Bernice Alexander, 223 Bennett, Vanessa, 222 Benson, Richard D, 270 Benton, Akhenaton, 090, 141, 277 Benzo, Hotep, 277 Berger, LaNitra, 303 Bertsch, Amy, 070 Betcher, Nathan, 272 Bevel, Felicia, 012 Bingaman, Asia, 007 Biondi, Martha, 037, 143 Bishop, Jennifer R, 113 Black, Cameron, 095 Black, Ray, 005, 037, 141 Blackman, Dexter Lee, 281 Blackman-Richards, Norka, 262 Blackmer, Peter, 117, 143 Blackwell, Chanelle, 106

Blagojevic, Jovana, 133 Blakeslee, Thomas, 225 Bland, Robert David, 027 Bloomfield, Taiylor, 034 Board, Marcus, 194 Bolton, Darnell N., 096 Bombo, Elijah, 299 Bond, Linda Penn, 269 Bonner, Madeline, 119 Bonner, Mariah “Yaa”, 273 Booker, Roger, 269 Borders, Candace, 202 Bouie, Jamelle, 106 Boutelle, RJ, 291 Bowie, Wallace, 224 Boyce, Travis D., 247 Bradley, Armon, 265 Bradley, Francis (Cisco), 214 Bradley, Stefan M., 285 Bradley, Tameka, 112 Branch, Craig, 040 Branch, William E., 307 Brandon Croft, Barbara, 021 Brinkley, Trenice, 256 Brinson, Claudia Smith, 247 Bristow, Margaret Bernice Smith, 259 Broadnax, Lavonda Kay, 143 Brock, Lisa, 063 Brown, Aleia M, 109 Brown, Jocelyn, 168 Brown, Lisa, 024, 074 Brown, Nikki L., 292 Brown, Scot, 292 Broyld, Daniel J., 004 Bruchko, Erica, 164 Brunson, Takkara, 294 Bryant, Joan L, 215 Bryant, Sherwin Keith, 187 Buchanan, Heather, 143 Buchter, Lois, 164 Buckner, Marland, 017 Buffins, Mansur Ali, 074 Bunch, Marlee, 260, 307 Burgess, Samia International, 289 Burke, Emma, 291 Burlock, Carnell, 274

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Burnett, Brandon A, 084 Burnette, Daarel, 033 Burnette, Larry, 034 Burney, Sharon, 200 Burns, Keon A, 122 Burroughs, Dennis, 050 Burroughs Project, The Nannie Helen, 078 Burrowes, Carl Patrick, 218 Burrus, Mario Xalic, 123 Burton, Cassandra, 141 Burton, Nsenga, 296 Butts, Jimmy, 089 Bynes, Kiamsha, 247 Campbell, Aaron, 189 Campbell-Blakes, Semaj Imane, 250 Campos, Franchesca, 031 Canton, David A., 292 Cantu, Lourdes, 299 Cardenas, Joanna, 123 Carey, Harmon R., 050 Carr, Nicole, 143 Carr, Renatto, 118 Carr, Veronica Asheia, 046 Carter, Mickell, 030, 225 Carter Johnson, Tenesha, 096 Castillo, Alonya, 073 Caston, Matthew, 058, 105 Cavaness, Rev. Carolyn, 246, 279 Center, Woodson, 078 Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 024, 186, 279 Chambers, Ty’Leik, 177 Champion, Brittany Nicole, 164 Chancellor, Renate, 293 Chapple, Reginald, 068 Cherry, Jacqueline, 219 Childress, DaNia, 144 Chiles, Marvin, 026, 305 Choice, The Scholars, 078 Clark, Danyel, 135 Claybrook, M. Keith, 037 Clay House, Tanya, 185 Clemons, Angelique, 256 Clemons, Kristal Moore, 022, 069 Clothing, Afrique, 078 Cobbs, Joan Johns, 009 Colbert-Lewis, Danielle, 025, 060 Colbert-Lewis, Sean, 025 Cole, Alyssa, 193 Coleman, Cheryl, 203

Coleman-Robinson, Vedet R., 268 Collins, Ian, 011 Colón Pizzini, Beth, 295 Company, McFarland &, 078 Conley, Darlene, 114, 140 Conservation Association, National Parks, 039, 040 Conway, James, 174 Conyers, Nadia, 279 Cook-Bell, Karen B., 024 Coon, Sharon, 164 Cooper, Abigail J, 036 Cooper, Christalyn, 206 Cooper, Desiree, 005 Cooper, LLeweLLyn, 206 Cooper, Teianna, 257 Cooper Owens, Deirdre, 036, 059 Correa, Gilbert, 119 Cosmas, Jessica, 023 Council on Library & Information Resources, Council on Library & Information Resources, 078 Countee, Shavon, 188, 305 Crafts, Zee, 078 Craig, Ashley Ramey, 008 Crain, Crystallee, 115 Creary, Nicholas, 047 Crewe, Sandra Edmonds, 045 Croney, Stephanie, 289 Crump, William, 130 Crutchfield, Joshua, 109, 174 Cunningham, Candace, 266 Curry, James, 028, 140 Curry, Verlina, 157 Curtin, Mary E, 019 Curvey, Shemika, 303 Curwood, Anastasia, 019 Cyrus, Sylvia Y., 024, 040, 100, 127, 149, 161, 185, 188, 209, 211, 243, 278, 279, 282, 307 Dagbovie, Pero G., 166 Dance, Eola Lewis, 061, 116 Daniels, George Lamar, 266 Danley, Lori, 086 Davidson, Todd C., 282 Davis, Brian, 269 Davis, Candida, 013 Davis, Cleola, 143 Davis, Danne, 267 Davis, Daron, 089

Davis, Dena, 197 Davis, Gigi, 029 Davis, Jada, 157 Davis, Markeira, 105 Davis, Ophera, 131, 287 Davis, Ronald, 049 Davis, Veronica Alease, 143, 167 Deal, Rodney, 070 De Longoria, Maria, 262 Dennard, David C., 182 Dennis, Rutledge, 281 Densmore-Bey, Aisha, 067 De Senso, Justin, 032 Desinord, Shafantae, 116, 304 Dickenson, Beau, 249 Dickerson, Lorenzo, 177 Dickerson, Terri, 164 Dickinson, Michael, 290 Diop, Ousmane, 263 Dirkson, Menika, 132 Dixon, Lindsey, 287 Dobbins, Marion Ransell, 115, 164 Dolcé, Judith, 070 Domingo, Julio, 254 Drake, Russell, 087, 143 Duah, Manna, 025 DuBose Morris, Jamorra Monae, 134 Duensing, Anna, 301 Dukes, Demetrius, 076 Dulaney, William Marvin, 126, 307 Duncan, Natanya P., 024, 127, 165, 186, 195, 209, 245, 262, 285, 294 Dunmore, Stephanie, 044 Duplechain Garcia, James, 265 Duplessis, Chloé, 196 Durante, Dawn, 195 Durrett, Tasha, 071 Edison, Robert, 126, 279 Edwards, Latanya, 081, 243 Edwards, Patriann, 007, 083, 228 ElBashir, JoEllen, 307 el-Hakim, Khalid, 297 Ellis, Cynthia, 042 Ellis, Eric James, 272 Ellis, Jeremiah, 033 Emmert, Jessina, 137 English, Bertis D, 149, 166, 282 Ervin, Keona, 264 Escoffery-Torres, Renee N., 287

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Eshetu, Yemisrach, 090 Etienne, Leslie, 024, 088, 180, 279, 307 Evans, Stephanie Y., 103, 107, 202 Evans-Rangel, Sabrina, 216 Ewing, K.T., 176 Fahnbulleh, Kau, 218 Fain, Cicero Milton, 281 Fairfax, Colita Nichols, 100, 278 Faison, Latorial, 307 Fakunle, David O., 047 Falu, Rachael, 072 Farmer, Ashley Dawn, 103, 271, 298 Farrington, Carl Elliott, 034 Farrior, Christian, 011 Fashions, Aziz, 078 Fashions, Heritage International, 078 Favors, Jelani, 282 Fawkes, Rosalie, 255 Feimster, Crystal N., 192 Fernsten, Natalie, 073 Fett, Sharla M., 288 Field, Kendra, 080, 192 Fields-Black, Edda L., 307 Fitzgerald Wyatt, Catherine, 008 Flamer, Michelle, 246 Fleming, Joseph A., 149 Fleming, Julius B, 179 Flemming, Sheila, 307 Fletcher, Kami, 305 Flowe, Douglas James, 206 Flowers, Rodney, 057 Fons, Mary, 072 Ford, Charles H., 143 Foreman, Taryn, 081 Forney, Kayla Cherise, 164 Forry Guanci, Kate, 066, 115, 239 Fortado, Stephanie, 122 Foster, Kayla M, 235 Foundation, Mellon, 279 Franklin, V.P., 166 Frazier, Nishani, 062 Frazier, Tony, 299 Freas, Garrett David, 221 Frédéric Pierre, Nathalie, 181 Freeman, Tyrone McKinley, 088, 103 French, Scot A., 026 Frost, Harriet, 143 Fuentes, Marisa J, 190 Fulton, DoVeanna, 010, 216 10

Gaffney, Nicholas, 254 Gaines, Leah Tonnette, 267 Gao, Rongyou, 167 Garcha, Kiran, 169 Garcia, Sydney, 201 Gardner, Solomon, 244 Gardullo, Paul, 192 Gary, Lindsay, 143, 232 Gatson, Torren Leon, 109 Gawerc, Michelle I., 047 Genao, Soribel, 262 Genealogical & Historical Society, Middle Peninsula African-American, 283 Gentry, Charles, 096 Gentry, Mae, 143, 234 Gentry-Brown, Hollis, 164 Georgia Press, University of, 078 Gibson, Larry Kamau, 278 Gillard, Ashley, 086 Gillis, Hazel, 164, 278 Gipson, Grace, 051, 164 Gist, Lesley, 028 Global, Cathy’s, 078 Glover, Nicole, 143 Godfrey, Mollie, 249 Godley, Lisa, 092 Golden, Faith, 126 Goldman, Adria, 032 Goldthree, Reena, 143, 245 Gollar, Charles Walker, 259 Gooding, Frederick, 124 Gordon, Rosen, 032 Gordy, Kimberley, 010 Grace-Williams, Michelle, 070 Graham, E. Randolph, 023 Grandison, Kenrick, 179 Grant, Howard Mellon, 063 Gray, LaVerne, 215 Gray, Mari, 204 Gray-Sparks, LaToya, 124 Green, Congressman Al, 307 Green, Dana M, 235 Green, Hilary, 062 Green, Joseph L, 061 Green, Lester, 234 Green, Olivia M, 235 Green, Ramiyah, 131 Greene, Paul, 154 Greer, Arletha, 168, 273

Grier-Key, Georgette, 119 Griffin, Derek Andrew, 118 Grills, Cheryl T., 061 Gross, Maxine, 143 Guillory, Anthony, 037 Guzman, Isaac, 225 Gwekwerere, Tavengwa, 141 Haas, Amanda, 251 Hackett, Brenda, 143 Haggler, Patricia, 217 Haines, Errin, 185 Hale, Jon, 208 Hall, Michael Ra-shon, 051 Hall Dotson, Susan L., 180 Hamilton, Raymond, 268 Hamilton, Tikia K., 086, 110, 143, 195 Hamlin, Robert, 009 Hammack, Maria Esther, 132 Hammersmith, Sue Kiefer, 077, 143 Hampton Roads, Boys Choir of, 040 Haney, Bridget, 132 Hankins, Rebecca L., 215 Hardin, Zachary, 105 Hardy II, Everett F., 011, 188, 307 Harper, Misti Nicole, 143 Harper-Anderson, Elsie, 067 Harrell, Don G., 270 Harris, Felecia C, 018 Harris, Jerome, 048, 243, 307 Harris, Jessica, 061 Harris, Kimberly Ann, 192 Harris, LaShawn, 117, 191 Harris, Morgan, 156 Harris, Robert L., 307 Harris, Travis, 044 Harris, William M., 067 Harrison, Cedric, 187, 213 Hart, Miles, 034 Harvey, LaShay, 132, 188 Hawkins, Kenneth, 164 Hayden, Deanna, 164 Hayes, Jelani, 093 Haykal, Aaisha, 024, 063, 094, 161, 172, 188, 307 Haynes, Michelle, 220 Head, David L., 082 Hearns, Charles Fred, 279 Heinz, Abigail, 251 Henderson, Tammy L. Sanders, 188, 294

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Henley, Lauren, 191 Henry, Devon M., 307 Hernandez, Diana, 119 Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 195, 307 Hill, Kimberly, 288 Hill, Rozey, 201 Hill, Shari Central, 299 Hill Edwards, Justene, 017 Hinojosa, Felipe C, 165 Holden, Vanessa, 107, 184 Holley, Timothy, 153 Holmes, Damon, 244 Holmes, Linda Janet, 036 Holmes, Melanie, 029 Hooker, Ernest, 034 Horne, Gerald, 123, 195, 218, 253, 298 Horton, Paulette, 254 House, Anton D., 111, 297 Houston, Kirk T., 040 Howard, Ashley, 108, 176, 248, 275 Hozempa, Jacob T, 137 Hudson, Jamel Coy, 259, 276 Hughes, Chad, 136 Humphreys, Ann Central, 299 Hurt, Carletta, 021 Hylton, Raymond, 175 Iancu, Otilia, 198 Ichiki, Yuka, 140 Ifanga, Ray, 164 Ikwuemesi, Chinenye Egbuna, 089 Illinois Press, University of, 078 In Publications, Pencil Me, 078 International, The Foundation, 078 Islam, Suad Lawrence, 102 Ismael, Imam, 100 issacs, yoni D, 263 Jackson, Amber, 164 Jackson, Artice, 204 Jackson, Cathy M., 092 Jackson, David H, 163 Jackson, Evelyn, 022 Jackson, Ronald, 205 Jackson, Tanisha, 292 Jackson, Tenay, 157 Jackson, Wesley, 174 Jackson Gavin, Andrea, 060 Jacobs, Sharita, 307 Jacobson, Erik, 267

Jamison, Felicia L, 294 Jaynes Diming, Jessie, 039 Jazz Ensemble, Norfolk State University Vocal, 307 Jeffers-Coly, Phyllis, 143, 235 Jefferson, Travon, 007 Jefferson Jr., Robert Franklin, 201 Jeffries Leonard, Kimberly, 024 Jenkins, Deborah D, 028 Johnson, Alexis, 069, 115 Johnson, Andre E., 099, 120, 143 Johnson, Ayeshah, 028 Johnson, Charles Denton, 163 Johnson, Dejhana, 222 Johnson, Harold, 244 Johnson, Jacob Pinney, 082 Johnson, Jasmine, 256 Johnson, Lorna, 293 Johnson, Maude L., 278 Johnson, Tracy, 007 Jones, Jumaar Trumane, 185 Jones, Kaysyn, 114, 164 Jones, Marvin T., 283 Jones, Melissa, 118, 196 Jones, Shermaine, 051 Jones-Branch, Cherisse R., 195 Jones-Gibson, Eunique, 307 Jones-Sneed, Frances, 192 Jordan, Caine, 172 Jordan, Ervin, 095 Jordan, Kenneth, 198 Jowers-Barber, Sandra, 059 Kaba, Daiki, 099 Kabugi, Magana, 110 Kalami, Proshot T, 092 Ka-Re, Adofo, 151 Kaufmann, Charles, 234 Keeling, Benjamin, 006 Keith, Celeste, 004 Kellam, Brandi, 038 Kelley, Blair LM, 080 Kelly, William, 004 Kemit, Baye, 167 Key, Justin C., 020 Kibbe, Alison, 202 Kimball, Dr. Gregory, 008, 017 Kimble, Jr., Lionel, 024, 127, 188, 209, 248 King, Athena M., 194 King, Joyce E., 260

King, Shannon, 117, 165 King, Tiffany Lethabo, 179 King-Carroll, Kidiocus, 190, 275 King-Meadows, Tyson, 194 Kirby, Christina, 068 Klanderud, Jessica, 176 Klein, Rachel L., 093 Klugh, Elgin, 124 Knight, Kiana, 245 Kolnick, Jeffrey, 182 Kone, Salif, 244 Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen, 103, 147, 265 Kwoba, Brian, 186, 298 LaBon, Aysha, 296 Laing, Tiffney, 091, 148 Lamothe, Zola, 180 Lane, Stephen M, 201 Lanier, Walter J, 024 Lankinen, Marja, 168 Lassiter, Mary, 044 Lavan, Makeba, 169 Lawrence-Sanders, Ashleigh, 062 Lawton, Bishop, 108, 279 Laymon, Kiese, 192 Lee, Brandon, 044 Leroy, Justin, 264 Levert, Anjanette, 254, 296 Lewis, Allison, 137 Lewis, Cathleen, 118 Lewis, David Levering, 192 Lewis, Gina Marie, 116, 276 Lewis, Terrance, 072 Library Trust, HBCU Digital, 078 Lindsey, Lydia, 299 Lindsey-Taliefero, Debby, 084 Littleton, LaNeice, 200 LLC, Archoral, 078 Lopez, Allie, 037 Lora, Elsa, 093 Losier, Toussaint, 301 Louis, Diana Martha, 051 Louque, Angela, 204 Lowe, Herbert, 064, 302 Lowe, Jeffrey, 014, 067 Lucas, Frankie, 105 Lynn, Micah, 221

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Mack, Thura, 164 Magu, Stephen, 031 Main, Hudson, 151 Makabu, Martha, 222 Makalani, Minkah, 186, 188 Manor Jones, Fran, 265 Mapp, James R., 143 March, Kyra, 108 Marchbanks, Jack, 143 Marsh, Miko, 143 Marsh, Willie T, 092 Marshall, Tori, 090, 254 Martin, Daphne, 273 Maru, Makda, 196 Marvin, Valerie, 082 Maseru, Noble, 070 Masghati, Emily, 215 Masiki, Trent, 031 Mason, David, 066, 143 Mason, Michael, 125 Massachusetts Press, University of, 078 Mathews, Nathaniel, 181 Matthews, Kimberly, 175 Matthews, Lopez Denoble, 024, 094, 188, 268, 297 Mayfield, Ella, 164 Mayo, Georgette, 144 McCann, Alison, 288 McCants, Tamara, 024, 152, 188 McCarthy, Justine K., 164 McClellan, Sare, 164 McCollum Truesdal, Lucretia, 278 McCormick, Stacie, 012 McCoy, Austin, 030, 101 McCoy, LaNesha, 168, 248 McCray, Shirl, 278 McCullough, Isaac, 278 McCullough, Tyler, 244 McDaniel, Akua, 143, 234 McDonald, Pamela Mays, 246, 276 McDuffie, Erik S., 253, 271 McEwen, Kevin, 228 McInnis, Jarvis C, 027, 143, 179 McKinney, Charles, 185, 195 McLarney, Ellen, 143, 214 McLellan, Carlton, 143 McLemore, Leslie-Burl, 182 McNeil, Adam X, 225, 290 Meeks, Tomiko, 024, 113, 147, 173, 265, 304 12

Meldon, Perri, 006 Merrill, Philip J, 046 Metellus, Lucien, 307 Middleton, Leontyne, 278 Miletsky, Zebulon Vance, 024, 117, 165, 188, 266 Miller, Bria, 108 Miller, Stanley, 216 Millin, Amy S., 047 Milliones, Marimba, 254 Mills, James Edward, 097 Millward, Jessica, 080, 165 Mitchell Patterson, Tiffany, 268 Mizumura-Pence, Ray, 172 Moaney, Jaelon, 129 Modisa, LoRen LaDette, 164 Mohamed, Omniya Ibrahim Hafez, 074 Moncrease, Anita, 206, 224 Monroe, Kimberly, 181 Moon, Sesha Joi, 008 Moore, Channing, 220 Moore, Dominique, 195 Moore, Jeania Ree, 202 Moore, JoCora, 164, 207 Moore, Kelsey, 027 Moore, Liam, 244 Moore, Sabrina N, 204 Moore, Terri, 152 Morales, Olivia, 244 Morgan, James, 024, 127, 209 Morris, Burnis, 307 Morris, Tiyi, 182, 222 Morris Johnson, Nicole M, 214 Morrison, Amani, 005 Morrison, Brian, 129 Moten, Crystal, 024, 103, 250, 275 Moyd, Michelle, 301 Muhammad, Ayanna, 151 Muhammad, Baiyina, 219 Murphy, Britney, 005 Murray, Camren, 122 Musgrove, George Derek, 059, 188, 192 Mustakeem, Sowande’ M., 191 Nagaraja, Tejasvi, 264, 301 Napier, Alyssa, 214, 295 Nash, Mikal Naeem, 095 Neal, Chinyere M, 235 Nesbitt, Leroy, 164 Newby, Ashley, 144, 231

Newby, Jessica, 293 Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, 038, 100, 143 Newman, Brittany P, 164 Newman, Christopher, 293 Nichols-Fairfax, Colita, 175 Nitake, Lia, 039 Njonjo, James, 048 Nohe, Kristina, 303 Nunley, Tamika, 290 Nunnally, Shayla, 254 Nwanoro, Kelechi, 121 Oberle, George, 303 Obinna, Chinenye, 196 of Florida, University Press, 078 Ogbar, Jeffrey, 285 Ohmer, Sarah, 196 Olayinka, Verda, 205 Oliver, Michelle Evans, 095 Omara, Atima, 143 Onaci, Edward, 030, 108, 164 O’Neal, Lonnae, 143 Oriabure, Stephannie, 164 Originals, Cleb, 078 Orr, Marion, 019 Overton, Casey, 098 Packer, Tiffany, 022 Parikh, Shanti, 285 Parker, Nakia, 049 Parker Redmond, Sonjia, 043 Parson, Angel, 150 Patiño, Jimmy, 028 Patmon, Denise S., 014 Patterson, Darron, 106 Patterson, Robert J, 143 Patterson, Valerie L., 255, 289 Patton, Stacey, 185, 200 Pavlat, Michaela, 039 Payne, Kourtney, 291 Pearson, Bea, 291 Pelaez, Karen, 220 Pemberton, Keith, 065 Perkins, Kendric, 035 Perkins, Marcellis, 254 Peters-Maughan, Busi Elise, 226 Petties, Michelle, 132 Petty, Adrienne M., 165 Phelps Jackson, Tijuani, 142, 287

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Phillips, Ash, 068 Phillips, Imani, 005 Phillips, Kenvi, 268 Phillips, Logan, 113, 216 Phillips, Mary, 059, 169, 186 Phillips, Sierra, 250 Pickett, Otis, 143 Pierre-Louis, Christian, 244 Pilgrim, Aminah, 125 Pinheiro, Jr., Holly, 062 Pinkard, Donald, 126 Pittman, Chadra, 024, 278, 284 Pittsburgh Press, University of, 078 Pix, Vivid-, 078 Polk, Breighlynn M, 235 Polk, Khary O., 301 Porter, Glenn E., 143, 185 Powe, Imani, 005 Power, Margaret, 281 Powers, Bernard E., 048 Praylow, Perzavia, 167 Prescott, Taylor, 291 Press, Columbia University, 078 Press, The University of Chicago, 078, 149 Press, University of South Carolina, 078 Press Exhibits, University of North Carolina, 078 Pressey, Jacqueline, 057 Preston, Ashley, 131, 200 Price, Noah, 119 Pritchett, Kamila, 255 Pryor, Elizabeth, 080 Pryor, Janell B, 173, 304 Publishers, International, 078 Purdy, Erin, 112 Purnell, Bruce, 133 Quarkume, Amy, 124 Quigless, Carol, 143, 259 Quiller, Walter, 070 Rabouin, Jackie, 020 Rahim, Raja Malikah, 109 Ramin, Sundiata, 143 Ramsey, Sonya, 018 Rebadow, Allison, 164 Reddy, Anthony, 285 Reed, Charles, 207 Reed, Larissa, 023

Reese Smith, Pamela, 278 Reid, Ahmed, 150 Reid, Ashley, 013 Reynolds, British, 090 Rhodes, Gloria, 070 Ribeiro Santana, Ariane, 221 Richardson, Julieanna, 266 Richardson, Renee, 151 Richard Thompson, Brandi, 230 Riddick, Zenzile, 208 Ridgeway, Jessica L, 076 Rishon, Shais, 120 Rismay, Sherma, 138 Rizzi, Stephanie, 098 Roach, Janet, 307 Roane, J.T., 027, 291 Robertson, Natalie, 143, 293 Robinson, Brian A., 060, 109, 163 Robinson, Robert, 169 Rochelin, Arielle, 288 Rochester Press, University of, 078 Rodman, Elizabeth, 251 Rodriguez, Raquel Roxii, 143 Rogers, William, 143 romaine, regine, 296 Romney-Schaab, Mary, 031, 143 Rose, Rholine, 164 Ross, Marlon B., 179 Ross-Hammond, Councilwoman Amelia, 307 Rowley, Larry Lee, 010 Roy, Ariel, 272 Royster, Briana Adline, 288 Russell, Alexandria, 049 Saleh, Carmen, 020 Samuel, Tabitha, 172 Samuels, Norina, 221 Sanders, Crystal R., 024, 086, 110, 176, 208 Sanders, Sheren, 175 Sanders, Zana, 123 Sarmah, Abhijit, 114 Scott, Aishah, 193 Scott, Congressman Bobby, 307 Scott, Damion, 142 scott, darlene anita, 172, 206 Scott, Daryl Michael, 024, 188, 282, 297, 307 Scott, Michelle, 191, 245, 263, 294

Scruggs, Camesha, 024, 188, 307 Seger, Lucius, 174 Seniors, Paula Marie, 018 Service History Project, National Park, 078 Sewell, Jon, 140, 171, 197 Shade, Sabrina, 164 Shakir, Ameenah, 022 Sharp, J Anthony, 270 Shepherd, Anita M., 024, 081, 161, 170, 188, 243, 278, 307 Sheppard, Markette, 143 Shipp, Sigmund C, 067 Simmons, Hannah, 080 Simmons-Bennett, Adreonna Nicole, 164, 187 Simms, Jill-Capri, 070 Simpson Epps, Bob-e, 077, 143 Sinclair, Anastasia, 042, 142 Sinitiere, Phillip Luke, 192 Sistrunk, Walter Lee, 049 Sivels, Xavier, 096 Small, W.Marcus, 307 Smalls, Irene, 143, 238 Smith, Bridget Yolanda, 212 Smith, Kaylen, 250 Smith, Kristie, 032, 164 Smith, Larissa Michele, 009 Smith, Marty, 068 Smith, Nathaniel, 262 Smith, Shively, 266 Smith, Taylor, 066 Smith, Wan R., 146 Spears, Charles Alan, 039, 246 Spence, Lester, 285 Spires, Derrick, 290 Spurlin-Saravanan, Tracy, 133 Stanley, Rosalind Caldwell, 164 Starks, Tracy, 189 State University, Alabama, 149 Stauch, Michael, 101 Stephens, Mattyna, 074 Steptoe, Tyina, 174 Sterrs-Howard, Tamika Sakayi, 164, 197 Stevenson, Andre, 164 Stevenson, Brenda, 176, 288 Stewart, James Benjamin, 069, 307 Stewart, Taylor, 219 Stokes, Brandon, 164 Stokes, Jacquelyn D, 139

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Stokes-Brown, Quenton, 139 Store, ASALH, 078 Stovall, Calvin, 143 Strawther, Maegan, 254 Strickler, David, 099 Stuckey, Melissa, 207 Sturkey, William, 191 Sundiata, Ibrahim, 118 Sutton, Cierra, 244 Sutton, Jazma, 275 Sutton, Vincentt M, 235 Swindle, Haley, 178, 187 Taliefero, Michael, 084 Tandy, Kisha, 180 Tarik, Latif Ashanti, 175, 207 Taylor, Marquis, 033, 164 Taylor, Michael, 073, 143, 164, 227 Taylor, Nikki, 285 Taylor, Tiffany, 121 Taylor, Ula Yvette, 059, 093, 123, 190 Taylor-Sawyer, Chandra, 071 Terry, Shelley, 013 Thiam, Amina, 263 Thomas, Kenisha, 157, 252 Thompson, Albert, 111 Thompson, Bernard E., 084 Thompson, Jonathan Edgar, 136 Thompson, Keisha, 150 Thorne, Claudia, 045 Thornton, Taylor Monet, 004 Threat, Charissa J, 103 Thurman, Kehinde, 072 Tillerson-Brown, Amy J., 219 Tinnie, Wallis Hamm, 073, 255 Toliver, Kathelon, 045 Torrence, Jeauanthony, 244 Townsend, Cainan D., 009 Troutt, David, 143 Tucker, Wanda, 061, 175 Tulloch, Deborah, 167 Turnmire, Rebekah, 164 Tyus, Yao, 143 Ulrich, Noah, 263 University, Morgan State, 195 University Press, Cambridge, 078 University Press, Vanderbilt, 078 University Press, Wayne State, 078 Utsey, Shawn O., 186 14

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WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 _ 7:15 A.M.

Pre-Conference African American Heritage Bus Tour Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area)

_ 8:00 A.M. Conference Registration Norfolk II- Registration Check-In 1st Floor Academic Program Committee Information Table (APC) Help Desk (Wednesday) 3rd Floor-APC Help Desk

_ 9:00 A.M. Executive Council Private Work Session Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

_ 10:15 A.M. New Directions in Black Education Studies James 3 4th Floor Placemaking While Black: Documenting Urban Lives through Archives and Oral Histories Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor The Great Dismal Swamp: Retelling our Stories through CommunityEngaged Commemoration James 1/2-AV 4th Floor The Revolution will be Databased: America 250 Commemorations are Online and Underway Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

Reclaiming a Community History: A Collaboration between The JXN Project and the Library of Virginia Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Commemorating 75 years of the Moton Student Strike & 25 years of the Moton Museum Washington 3rd Floor Black History as Theological Method in Scholarship, Teaching and Practice Wilson 3rd Floor Reclaiming the Record: Black Institution-Building, Narrative, and Resistance from the Stage to the Newsroom Madison 3rd Floor Archiving Black Life: the Search for Home(s) Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor Archivism as Community Building: Transformative Episodes in Black Storytelling 2 Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor “Resisting Erasure through Black Feminist Counter-Storytelling” Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

_ 1:00 A.M. USPS Kwanzaa Stamp Sales Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

_ 12:00 P.M. Brumsic Brandon: A Legacy in Art and Community James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Everyday Mental Wellness in the Black Community Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Power Brokers, Activists, or Something New? Reassessing the

Congressional Careers of Shirley Chisholm, Charles Diggs, and Barbara Jordan in 1970s Washington DC Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor Repairing the Civic Square: New Approaches to The Politics of Public Memory Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Telling Family Business: The Complicated Journey of Writing about Family as Historical Subjects Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor USPS Kwanzaa Forever Stamp 1st Day of Issue Dedication Ceremony Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor Civil Rights and Reclaiming Public Memory: Tallahassee 1960, Philadelphia 1965, and Greensboro 1979 Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Preserving Rural African American Schools in Uncertain Times Washington 3rd Floor

_ 1:30 P.M.

Executive Council Meeting Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

_ 2:15 P.M.

Between Bias and Possibility: AI’s Role in Shaping Black Masculinity in Real Time Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Black Studies at Work in Virginia, For the World Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Hine-Horne Roundtable: Austin McCoy’s “Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World De La Soul Made” James 3 4th Floor

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New Directions in Black South Geographies Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor (Re)Writing Global Black History as a Form of Black Power James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Sites of Community Insurgency: Black Social Movements Across Space and Time Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Black Against Empire: PanAfricanism and the Struggle for Global Human Rights Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Hip Hop and the Work of Freedom Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor The Architecture of Resistance: Public History, Place-Making, and the Spatial Dimensions of Black Excellence Washington 3rd Floor “Leading Through Service: The Role of HBCUs in Educating and Developing Black Army ROTC Officers” The NCA&T Aggie Battalion” Wilson 3rd Floor Teaching History through Chess: Workshop and Case Study Madison 3rd Floor

_ 6:30 P.M. Opening Reception Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

_ 7:00 P.M.

An Artifactual Journey of Black Virginia: Norfolk at the Center of Memory, Material Culture, and Preservation James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Children of the Struggle Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Come to the Front Porch: An Oral History Preservation Project Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Descendants of Dispossession: Black Displacement and Memory in the Reservation and Magruder, Virginia Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor Second to None: 90-year History of Social Work Education at Howard University Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission James 3 4th Floor

Debates on Black Nationalism Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

Voter Engagement Town Hall Meeting Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Reproductive Justice as a Framework for Civil War and Emancipation History Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

Protect and Respect the Bodies -The Charleston Strangers and Negro Burying Ground Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

Uprooted: Reconstructing a Displaced Black Community Through Film, Archives, and Memory Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

Teaching Truth, Preserving Memory: Black Labor, Protest, and the Subversive Work of History Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

_ 4:30 P.M.

Beyond the Rockets Red Glare: The Cost of Interpreting a Painful Past Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

African Roots/American Fruits: RePresenting the Middle Passage in the Context of Reawakened Global Empowerment Washington 3rd Floor

Feeding the Future: Children, Foodways, and the Preservation of Black Historical Memory Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor Pleasure as Praxis: Black Wellness, Leisure, and the Politics of Feeling Good Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

_ 8:30 P.M.

Academic Program Committee Meeting Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

THURSDAY,

SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 _ 7:00 A.M.

African American Heritage Bus Tour Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area) Conference Registration Norfolk II- Registration Check-In 1st Floor

_ 8:00 A.M.

Academic Program Committee Information Table (APC) Help Desk (Thursday) 3rd Floor-APC Help Desk

_ 8:30 A.M.

Black History Across Time, Space and Place: Learning as an Act of Resistance Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor Freedom Forward: Remembering 1619, the Journey to Freedom, and Descendant Empowerment at the Time of America’s Semiquincentennial Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Hine-Horne Roundtable: Hilary N. Green’s “Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War” Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

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Howard Mellon Workshop: Teaching the Social Justice Toolkit Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

New Directions in Black Studies: Gender and Power Wilson 3rd Floor

Processing Black Historical Collections in the Age of AI: A HandsOn Workshop James 3 4th Floor

The Sounds of Blackness: Commemorating Music and Dance in Black Cultural Studies Session 2 Madison 3rd Floor

Race on Screen: Using Film and Documentary to Teach a Century of Black Commemoration James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

Collaborative Library Approaches to Black History Month Programming at UIUC: A Century of Commemoration Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

Spirituality & Leadership: Can Spirituality Through Resiliency Be Actually Quantifiable? Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Past Rendered, Futures Imagined: Emerging Media and the African American Historical Continuum Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

The James E. Shepard Memorial Library (NCCU) as a Keeper of Culture: Amplifying Community Legacies Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor The Public-Facing Scholar: Reimagining the Academic Voice. Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Footprint in the Black Community Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor The Role of Black Planners in Shaping the U.S. Planning Profession Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor Preserving Sweet Auburn: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park and the Stewardship of a Civil Rights Landscape Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor In the Spirit of Sankofa: Liberation Themes in Black Educational Thought Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Woodson Lightning Round Session #1 Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Plantations to Pollution: Black Communities, Legacy Pollution, and the Path Forward Washington 3rd Floor

Post The Great Migration: An Assessment of Black American Adult Education, Jobs, and Cultural Preservation Franklin- AV 2nd Floor “Scientific Racism” Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 9:00 A.M.

Thursday Norfolk I/III Exhibits Norfolk I/III- Exhibits 1st Floor

_ 9:30 A.M.

Film Festival: Within Our Gates (1920) Directed by Oscar Micheaux. 1 Hour 19 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 10:15 A.M.

Hine-Horne Roundtable: Elizabeth Pryor: “Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me” Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor Historicizing Black Philanthropy: Community Funding, Resistance, and Liberation James 3 4th Floor Ori as Counter-Archive: Dialogic Practices of Black Memory and Historical Transmission Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Reflections of Black Veterans Who Served in the Vietnam War Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Transnational Histories of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Constructing Black History Against the Grain: Black Historiography and the Politics of Memory Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor The Fight to Defend Black History in Education: Strategies in a Time of Crisis Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor How to Overcome the Slave Mentality Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor 200 Years of the Black Press: Voice, Resistance, and Global Impact Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

1915 Lincoln Jubilee Celebration Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

Carceral History: Legacies of Race and Resistance Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

Beaumont’s Black History - In Moving Pictures Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

Information Professionals of ASALH (IP of ASALH) Washington 3rd Floor

Establishing ASALH Branch Affiliates and Growing Membership Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

New Directions in Black Studies: Commemoration and Critique Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

Guardians of the Movement: Building Unbreakable Leadership for Black Liberation James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

Revolution Within and Without: Black Resistance Against the Backdrop of Antebellum War Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

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Unhidden Histories: Interpreting Black America Through National Parks, Public Lands, and Storytelling Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

Episodes of Black Social Movements in Education Throughout History Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

Strategic Resilience in Black Historic Preservation: Coalition Building and Legislative Advocacy Amidst Political Hostility Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

Hine-Horne Roundtable: Crystal Sanders’ “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs” Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

“Swords into Plowshares”: Tools for Rectifying Oppressive Monuments Washington 3rd Floor

_ 12:00 P.M. Theories of Black Radicalism Across Time and Space Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Hine-Horne Roundtable: Michael Stauch’s “Wildcat of the Streets: Detroit in the Age of Community Policing” Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor VA HBCU’S and The Power of Black Excellence Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor The ABC’s of Genealogical Research: Understanding Who You Are to Empower and Impact Your Life Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 2:15 P.M.

Honoring Historiography: Discussing the Creation and Use of the ABWH and Booklist Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Introducing the Descendants Forum: a Growing National Network of Descendant-Led Organizations for Research, Remembrance, and Repair Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor New Histories of Self-Determination and Self-Defense Across Space and Time Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Rediscovering and Defining an Alternative Outlook: “Conservative Blackness” Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Running to the Fight: The Dynamism of Black Women Resistance James 3 4th Floor The Generative Futures of African American History in the Age of A.I. Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor The Past Is Now: Exhibiting the Long Arc of the Voting Rights Struggle James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

_ 3:50 P.M.

Facts and Fiction: The Power of Black Literature in Our Narratives of Liberation Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

Film Festival: A Raisin in the Sun (1961). Directed by Daniel Petrie. 2 Hours 8 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

Immersive Archives from the Voices of the People: The Oral History Tradition Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

_ 4:00 P.M.

Association of Black Women Historians Annual Business Meeting Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

Listening Across Borders: Oral History, Migrant Labor, and Ethical Storytelling Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Episodes of Resistance to AntiBlack Racial Oppression in Southern History Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

New Directions in Black Religion Studies Wilson 3rd Floor Empowering Black Student Leaders: Aligning Strategic Priorities for Inclusive Excellence Madison 3rd Floor Race, Class, and Labor: Black Workers in the South and Midwest Tyler 3rd Floor Black Environmental Memory, Family History, and Place: A Conversation Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor Black Music & Culture at Berklee College of Music Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor New Directions in African American Studies Franklin- AV 2nd Floor A Partnership that Works: The WM Dulaney Branch and The African American Museum, Dallas Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 5:45 P.M.

Divine 9 Group Photo Session Presidential Foyer 3rd Floor

_ 6:30 P.M.

Film Festival: Black Girl (1966). Directed by Ousmane Sembene. 1 Hour 6 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 7:00 P.M.

Being Black in Retail Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

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Displaced from the Birthplace of America Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

Authors Book Signing Norfolk Foyer- Authors Book Signing 1st Floor

How to Establish a State Commission on African American History and Culture: A Practical Blueprint for Advocacy and Action Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Holding the Mic Wilson 3rd Floor

Innovative Research in Black Biography 2 Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

Fashion media: audience responses to black editorials and social media campaigns Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

The Remarkable Story of James Apostle Fields: HBCU Origins, Black Education, and the Work of Historical Commemoration Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

O God, Please!!: The Life and Afterlife of Lillian Jones Horace Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

FRIDAY,

The Secret to Empowering Black Children Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 7:00 A.M.

New Directions in Black Studies: History and Methodology Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Taking History on the Road: Traveling Exhibits for African American History Education and Engagement James 1/2-AV 4th Floor The (In)Visibility of Black Girlhood: Interventions, Education, & The Collision Points of Black Girlhood Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Using Pop Culture to teach Form James 3 4th Floor Our Black American History Mapped out Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor The Work of Remembering: Wrestling, Opera, and Fancy Girls Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor An oral history documentary, Mrs. Howard: A Lineage and Legacy of Excellence through Dance Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Archivism as Community Building: Transformative Episodes in Black Storytelling Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor New Directions in Black Studies: Alternative Sites of Struggle and Reconstructing Spaces of Power Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Revolutionary Pedagogy in Black Education Washington 3rd Floor

Cleveland Avenue: Roots, Ruin, Resistance Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

_ 8:00 P.M.

Journal of African American History Reception Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

_ 8:30 P.M.

Beats, Rhymes, Life: New Debates in Hip Hop Culture, Pedagogy and History Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor BlackRx: Historical Highlights of Black Pharmacy in the United States Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Conversation with Dr. Adolphus Hailstork: Historical and Musical Themes of Memory, Protest, Uplift and Healing in Four Selected Works (1979-2009) Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor Hidden Histories, Public Truths: Diasporic Black Memory and Institutional Accountability Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor “Just to Live”: A Work-in-Progress Screening on Segreganomics, Memory, and the Afterlife of Redlining Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

Film Festival: The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973). Directed by Ivan Dixon. 1 Hour 42 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor Rooted in Resilience: Black Farmer Perspectives on Land, Loss, and Legacy Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 Conference Registration Norfolk II- Registration Check-In 1st Floor

_ 8:00 A.M.

Friday Norfolk I/III Exhibits Norfolk I/III- Exhibits 1st Floor Academic Program Committee Information Table (APC) Help Desk (Friday) 3rd Floor-APC Help Desk

_ 8:30 A.M.

ASALH Members Annual Business MeetingHampton Ballroom 4 & 5Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

_ 9:00 A.M.

Film Festival: The Education of Sonny Carson (1974). Directed by Michael Campus. 1 Hour 44 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 10:45 A.M.

A Black Feminist Legacy of the Black Panther Party Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

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Active Archives: Material Culture, Visual Arts, and the Vernacular Landscapes of Black Commemoration James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Activism as Scholarship: Honoring the Life and Legacy of Johanna Fernandez Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor Architects of Revolution: Black Self-Determination and Community Leadership in the Twentieth Century Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor ASALH Branch Leadership and Governance Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Black Students Rise Up! Commemorating a Century of Black Social Protest in Education Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Black Women and the Struggle Towards Internal Sovereignty Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Memories of Health and Wellness in Black America James 3 4th Floor Participating in the Legacy of Carter G. Woodson: The Significance of Publishing in the Journal of African American History Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor Poster Session Hampton Foyer- Poster Session 3rd Floor The Work of Holding On: Black Care, Kinship, and Survival from Slavery to the Present Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor What They Don’t Commemorate: Law, Power, and Black Resistance from Anti-Lynching to Education Reform Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor New Research on Black Virginians’ Struggle for Freedom Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

Motherwork: Black Academic Mothering in the 21st Century Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Refounding Legacies: Expanding the Nation’s Origin Story at Monticello Washington 3rd Floor Presenting: Chaney Preservation Studios LLC Presenter: J. Haley Swindle Madison 3rd Floor

_ 4:00 P.M. 2027 Conference Planning Meeting Hampton Foyer- Poster Session 3rd Floor Author Meets Engaged Readers: Lauren Henley’s Inquisition for Blood The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South (2026) Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

Black Sovereigns in the Academy, City, & Empire Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

Beyond Technological Optimism: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Medical Advancement Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

Hine-Horne Roundtable: Jarvis McInnis’ “Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South” Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

Black Placemaking: Black Queer Communities, Black Families, Black Girls, and Black Children Experiencing Homelessness Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

Land and Legacy: Creating and Sustaining Black Community in Indiana Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

Demanding Citizens: Racial Politics, Racial Inclusion, and Efforts to Repair a Fragmented Democracy in a Post-Truth Era Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

The Legacy of Mississippi Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 11:30 A.M.

Film Festival: A Soldier’s Story (1984). Directed by Norman Jewison. 1 Hour 41 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 12:00 P.M.

Association of Black Women Historians Annual Luncheon Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

_ 12:30 P.M.

Du Bois as Method at Black History’s Centennial (1926–2026): Archives, Monuments, Museums, and Democratic Knowledge Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Episodes of Struggle Against Racial Oppression in Government and Social Organizations James 3 4th Floor Felix Armfield Dissertation Pitch James 1/2-AV 4th Floor From Suppressed History to Economic Impact: Public History and the Rise of Black Heritage Tourism Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

Black Political Power: The 92% and Where Do We Go From Here Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

“Invisibly Visible”: Missouri as a Model for Black Female Superintendent Representation in American Public Education Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

Diagnosis of our Discomfort: The Crisis and Future of Black Studies. Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

The Geospatial Legacy of Civil Protest and Racism Since the 1500s Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

_ 2:15 P.M.

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The Sounds of Blackness: Commemorating Music and Dance in Black Cultural Studies Session 1 Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor Marlon Riggs Film Festival: Ethnic Notions (1986), 57 min; Tongues Untied (1989), 55 min; Black Is...Black Ain’t (1994), 1 hour 27 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor Safe Spaces: Healing the Bodies That Hold Black Memory in an Era of Erasure Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Dissertating with Ethics of Care: Reflections from a Black Feminist Methods Writing Group Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Warriors and Witnesses: African American Military Service and Memory Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Three Centuries of Black Musical Genius Wilson 3rd Floor We Were Always Here: Recovering the Educational Histories of Black Women and Girls in the West Tyler 3rd Floor Banking, Music, and Nonprofit Work in the History of Black Business Franklin- AV 2nd Floor Our Health is Our Power: Agency, Gender, and Incarceration in the Expansion of Black Healthcare Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor Voices, Places, and Memory: Collaborative Approaches to Community-Facing Histories in Northeastern North Carolina Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor Learning & Freedom: Lessons from 19th & 20th Century Black Educational History Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 5:45 P.M.

HBCU Group Photo Session Presidential Foyer 3rd Floor

_ 6:00 P.M. Friday Night Out Bus Load Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area) Friday Night Out at Norfolk State University Norfolk State University

_ 7:00 P.M.

Beyond the Harlem Renaissance: Reframing the Career and Legacy of Arna Bontemps Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Commemorate, Create, Resist: Black History at 100 and the Politics of Freedom Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor From Erased to Experienced: Rebuilding Black History Through Experiential Public Storytelling Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor From Inclusion to Black Studies: Reclaiming Curriculum, Memory, and Power in Public Education Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Reframing Black Women’s Narratives James 3 4th Floor Reporting to a New Beat: The Black Press as a Tool for Liberation Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor The Assassination of William R. Tolbert (Directed by Gerald K. Barclay) Screening and Roundtable James 1/2-AV 4th Floor The Sankofa Cinema Club Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor Bridging Historical Worlds: Translating Africa & Byzantium World into Fifth Grade Harlem Classrooms Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor Chronicling Freedom: Storytellers, Historical Memory, and Black Resistance Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

Defying Erasure: Black Women’s Strategies of Resistance Across Time Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Pictures, Memories, and Legacy: Using Photos and Storytelling to Strengthen Connection and Brain Health Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor More Than Sunday: How Detroit’s Black Churches Built Community Beyond the Pulpit Washington 3rd Floor New Studies in the History of Black Masculinity Wilson 3rd Floor BEAH Ripple Movement Workshop: Connecting the Dots Madison 3rd Floor Beyond the Schoolyard: A Rosenwald School, Its Alumni, and the Work of Commemoration Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor From Commemoration to Embodiment: Teaching Black History Through African Diasporic Dance, Memory, and Community Practice Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor Shatter The Stereotypes: Reimagining Black Male Identity Through Media, Storytelling, and Education Franklin- AV 2nd Floor Our History Is Our Authority: How Family Documentation Practices Build Political Power in Black Communities Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

_ 8:30 P.M.

Our Elders Are Our Libraries: Living Archives in the Age of Heightened Erasure Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor Power of Belonging: Documentary on Recruitment, Retention, and Resilience for Black Male Faculty & Staff Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

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Race, Gender, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor Tenacity: The Story of Edwin and Elise Harleston Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor This Is My Jam!: Emerging Preservation Professionals & Memory Workers at the HBCU Radio Preservation Project Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Warlock in the Whitehouse: What We Gonna Do? A Workshop James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Black History Began with a Love Story Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Film Festival: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde (1995). Directed by Ada Gay Griffin & Michelle Parkerson. 1 Hour 30 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor From Family Collections to Community History: Preserving Black Shared Heritage Before It Is Lost Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 26, 2026

_ 7:30 A.M.

Conference Registration Norfolk II- Registration Check-In 1st Floor

_ 8:00 A.M.

Saturday Norfolk I/III Exhibits Norfolk I/III- Exhibits 1st Floor Academic Program Committee Information Table (APC) Help Desk (Saturday) 3rd Floor-APC Help Desk

_ 8:30 A.M.

ASALH Branch Meeting Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor 22

Carter G. Woodson Society: Students Leading a National Movement toward Black Intellectualism in Secondary Education Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

Hashtags, History, and Power: Black Digital Activism and Historical Revisionism in the Age of Social Media Wilson 3rd Floor

Circum-Caribbean Black Activism in the 20th Century Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

Beyond Resilience: Black Leadership, Workplace Culture, and the Hidden Cost of SurvivalMadison 3rd Floor

Fed Up : When Grievances Spark Social Movements Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

Innovative Research in Black Biography and Memory Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

From Hidden to Searchable: The Contraband Digital Archive (HollinsWiggins Contraband Legacy Archive) James 3 4th Floor

Soul Work: Oral Histories, Black Teachers, and Freedom Struggles Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

Hiding History: The Struggle to Preserve History at the President’s House in Philadelphia Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Reclaiming Local Black Histories: Lessons in Community-Engaged Pedagogy from the Celebrating Simms Project Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Remembering and Reimagining the Urban North in the Centennial Commemoration of Black History James 1/2-AV 4th Floor The Scholarship and Legacy of Quintard Taylor Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor The Future of HBCU from the Voices of the Past Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Hine-Horne Roundtable: Erik McDuffie’s “The Second Battle for Africa Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom” Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor Woodson Lightning Round Session #2 Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Across Waters and Borders: Memory and Commemoration in the African Diaspora Washington 3rd Floor

The Student Bus Protest That Challenged Jim Crow-Searching for the Descendants of Howard University Activists Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

_ 9:00 A.M.

Film Festival: Fruitvale Station (2013). Directed by Ryan Coogler. 1 Hour 25 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 10:15 A.M.

60 Years of SEEK: Commemorating and Continuing the Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge in CUNY Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor Combatting “State-Sanctioned Silence”: Exploring Black Life and Teaching Black History Through Stories Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor Commemorating Black History in the Archives, Fieldwork & Classroom Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor ‘Narrating Labor and Race in Our Historical Memory’ Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Struggles Against Anti-Blackness in the U.S. Military James 3 4th Floor

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Teaching and Preserving History for the 22nd Century: Expanding Narrative, Inquiry, Archival Practice, and Historical Consciousness James 1/2-AV 4th Floor Teaching with The HistoryMakers Digital Archive in the College Classroom Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor The Geography of Slavery and Memory: From the Texas Slave Trade Papers to the HistoryMakers Digital Archive Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Telling the Story: Norfolk State, Government Surveillance, and the Preservation of Black Historical Memory Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Hine-Horne Roundtable: Ashley Farmer’s “Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore” Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Workshop Washington 3rd Floor Beyond the Degree: Black Women Intellectuals and the Cultivation of Private Spaces Wilson 3rd Floor Digital Warfare needs Digital Ordnance: A Workshop to Access and Use Advanced Systems to Drive Black Economic and Sociopolitical Progress Madison 3rd Floor Black Artists as Griots: Disseminating Black History to Hearts and Minds Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor Documentary- Black in Anime Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor The Black Midwest Initiative at 10 Years Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

_ 11:00 A.M.

_ 4:00 P.M.

ASALH Member Remembrance Ceremony Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

African American Missionaries and Black Internationalism in Diaspora: Charting New Methodologies, Telling New Stories Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

_ 11:15 A.M.

Freedom School Initiative Workshop Marriott V, VI, VII (Whole room)-AV 4th Floor

_ 11:30 A.M.

Film Festival: Pariah (2011). Directed by Dee Rees. 1 hour 26 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 12:00 P.M.

Black Life and Community in Small Town United States Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor How ASALH Nationalized Negro History Week and Black History Month Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor Documenting the African American Experience Through Highway Markers Madison 3rd Floor From the Cargo to the Contraband and beyond: Combatting Erasure through Commemorations and Remembrances of Hampton Roads, Virginia Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

_ 2:00 P.M.

“We Keeping The Gate!”: The Promise and Progress of the Black Professorate in the 21st Century Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor Film Festival: I Am Not a Witch (2017). Directed by Rungano Nyoni. 1 Hour 33 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

Benjamin Quarles and the Challenge of Black History Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor Black Sightscapes: Photography, Memory, and Cultural Politics Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor Black Women NOW: Innovative Research on Contemporary Struggles Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor Book Publishing 101 James 3 4th Floor Mapping the Wake: Archival Ethics, Black Geographies, and the Aesthetics of Refusal Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor Telling It Like It Is: Black Women’s Biography Beyond the Archives James 1/2-AV 4th Floor The Social World Within the Black Community: Enslavement, PanAfricanism, Resistance, Kinship Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor We Who Remember: Black Memory, Memorial Practice, and Historical Resistance Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor America at 250: We Are Here! Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor Teaching the Record: Nonfiction Image Media, Journalism, and Preservation at HBCUs Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

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New Books in Black Radicalism: Queen Mother Moore, Hubert Harrison, and Atlanta’s Black Working Class Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor The Many-Headed Hydra and the Politics of Black Historical Memory: Storytelling, Resistance, and the Struggle for Democratic History Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters Washington 3rd Floor Roundtable on Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II Wilson 3rd Floor From Archive to Algorithm: Do’s and Don’ts for Using AI in Black Historical Research Madison 3rd Floor Black Lives Next Door and Using the Exploration of Local History as Reparative Public History: Researching, Remembering, and Repairing the Complex Past of Northern Virginia Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

“Nikki’s Chirrun: Mentorship, Lineage, and New Scholarship in African American History” Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor Telling Freedom Right: Juneteenth and Storytelling as Restorative Justice Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

_ 7:00 P.M. Film Festival: The Blackening (2022). Directed by Tim Story. 1 Hour 37 min. Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

_ 7:30 P.M. ASALH Annual Awards Banquet Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

SUNDAY,

SEPTEMBER 27, 2026

_ 1:45 P.M.

Depart the Marriott Norfolk Waterside for the Chrysler Museum of Art Guided Tour (TRANSPORTATION IS ON YOUR OWN) Chrysler Museum of Art

_ 2:00 P.M.

Guided Tour of the Chrysler Museum of Art Chrysler Museum of Art

_ 3:45 P.M.

Depart Chrysler Museum of Art for Reception at the ASPIRE Art Gallery (TRANSPORTATION IS ON YOUR OWN) Chrysler Museum of Art

_ 4:00 P.M.

Reception at the ASPIRE Art Gallery (645 Church Street, 23510) 1st Floor Aspire -1st Floor

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Wednesday, September 23, 2026 7:15am 001.

7:15 am to 6:00 pm

Tour

Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area)

PRE-CONFERENCE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR. 8:00am 002.

8:00 am to 8:00 pm

Registration

Norfolk I 1st Floor

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 003.

8:00 am to 7:30 pm

Meeting

Hampton Foyer- APC Help Desk 3rd Floor

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (WEDNESDAY). Leader:

Augustus Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:15am 004.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DATABASED: AMERICA 250 COMMEMORATIONS ARE ONLINE AND UNDERWAY. Presenters: Taylor Monet Thornton, Claiming Freedom William Kelly, Claiming Freedom Celeste Keith, Claiming Freedom Kelli R Barnes, Claiming Freedom Chair: Daniel J. Broyld 005.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

PLACEMAKING WHILE BLACK: DOCUMENTING URBAN LIVES THROUGH ARCHIVES AND ORAL HISTORIES. Presenters: Amani Morrison, Georgetown University Imani Phillips, Jacksonville Public Library Desiree Cooper, des@descooper.com Britney Murphy, Charles A. Brown Branch of Birmingham Imani Powe, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chair: Ray Black, Colorado State University 006.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP: RETELLING OUR STORIES THROUGH COMMUNITY-ENGAGED COMMEMORATION. Presenters: Benjamin Keeling, Leadership Team, Great Dismal Swamp Stakeholder Collaborative Sam Bass, Chief Emeritus, Nansemond Indian Nation Bria Young, Facilitator, Great Dismal Swamp Stakeholder Collaborative Chair: Perri Meldon, Boston University

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

James 3 4th Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK EDUCATION STUDIES. Participants: Black Education Studies: A Path Forward In Teacher Education & Preparation. Travon Jefferson, Teaching Teachers LLC Rewiring Historical Memory: Black Representation, Visual Curriculum, and the Cognitive Politics of History. Tanishia Lavette Williams Peterson, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy Black Epistemology and its Applications in Black Education. Asia Bingaman, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Afro-American Studies Ori as Archive: Black Memory Beyond the Institution. Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University Balance: The Afrikan Personality Assesses a Century of White Cultural Logic Deficiency and Its Impact on Diasporic Afrikan Life. Tracy Johnson, Tomorrow, LLC. 008.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

RECLAIMING A COMMUNITY HISTORY: A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE JXN PROJECT AND THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA. Presenters: Sesha Joi Moon, The JXN Project Dr. Gregory Kimball, Shockoe Institute Catherine Fitzgerald Wyatt, Library of Virginia Ashley Ramey Craig, The Library of Virginia Chair: Barbara Batson, The Library of Virginia 009.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

COMMEMORATING 75 YEARS OF THE MOTON STUDENT STRIKE & 25 YEARS OF THE MOTON MUSEUM. Presenters: Cainan D. Townsend, Robert R. Moton Museum Robert Hamlin, Robert R. Moton Museum Joan Johns Cobbs, Robert R. Moton Museum Chair: Larissa Michele Smith, Longwood University 010.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Wilson 3rd Floor

BLACK HISTORY AS THEOLOGICAL METHOD IN SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND PRACTICE. Presenters: DoVeanna Fulton, Norfolk State University Larry Lee Rowley, University of Virginia Kimberley Gordy, WakeMed Health & Hospitals Participants: “Loves Struggle” as Theology of Black Women’s Lives. DoVeanna Fulton, Norfolk State University “Vincent Harding and Black History as Movement Theology”. Larry Lee Rowley, University of Virginia “Tributaries from Thurman in the Andragogy of a Spiritual Care Educator”. Kimberley Gordy, WakeMed Health & Hospitals Chair: DoVeanna Fulton, Norfolk State University 011.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Madison 3rd Floor

RECLAIMING THE RECORD: BLACK INSTITUTION-BUILDING, NARRATIVE, AND RESISTANCE FROM THE STAGE TO THE NEWSROOM. Presenter: Ian Collins Participants: “Have Your Dead Negro and Eat Him”: Educational Programming, White Backlash, and the Remaking of WLBT-TV. Ian Collins The Archetype of the Afrocentric Hero: Historical Reclamation and Black Resistance in Othello and Iago. Christian Farrior “The Ladies Have Their Say”, Philadelphia’s NACW and nation building. Everett F. Hardy II, Oberlin College Chair: Everett F. Hardy II, Oberlin College 26 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

“RESISTING ERASURE THROUGH BLACK FEMINIST COUNTER-STORYTELLING”. Presenters: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville Rhaisa Williams, Princeton University Participants: “Narrating Black Women’s Ancestral Healing Communities in Toni Morrison’s Home and Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Take My Hand.” Stacie McCormick, Texas Christian University “In this Sacred Place: Conjure as Embodied Memory.” Rhaisa Williams, Princeton University “Centering Black Women’s Voices in the Archive: Storytelling as Ongoing Resistance Within and Beyond the Red Hill Cemetery Project.” Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida at Jacksonville Chair: Stacie McCormick, Texas Christian University 013.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

ARCHIVISM AS COMMUNITY BUILDING: TRANSFORMATIVE EPISODES IN BLACK STORYTELLING 2. Participants: Beyond the Archive: Gullah Geechee Storytelling, Black Affect, and the Work of World-Making. Candida Davis, State University of New York - Department of History From the Clotilda to Gee’s Bend: Intergenerational Memory and Descendant Discovery. Angelia Bendolph, Mobile AL Branch Bound by Benevolence: White Philanthropy Black Leadership in the Formation of HBCUs. Lisa Winn Bryan, Richmond Branch Burn, Repose, Forget? Questions of Cremation within a Century of Black Commemorations. Shelley Terry, Howard University Dept. of History Pushed Out Before They Begin: The Historical Legacy of Exclusionary Policy in Urban Early Childhood Classrooms. Ashley Reid, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Greg Wiggan, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC 014.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

ARCHIVING BLACK LIFE: THE SEARCH FOR HOME(S). Presenters: Paula Austin, Boston University Bodunrin Banwo, University of Massachusetts Boston Participants: Black Planners Need a Home: The Quest to Archive. Jeffrey Lowe, Texas Southern University “Adelaide Cromwell: Archiving Black Boston and Boston University”. Paula Austin, Boston University Home Is Where the Art Is! Boston Collective of Black Artists Under the Leadership of Allan Rohan Crite. Denise S. Patmon Chair: Christian Walkes, Washington and Lee University 11:00am 015.

11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Special PresentationHampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor USPS KWANZAA STAMP SALES. 12:00pm

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12:00 pm to 12:45 pm

Special PresentationHampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

USPS KWANZAA FOREVER STAMP 1ST DAY OF ISSUE DEDICATION CEREMONY.

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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

REPAIRING THE CIVIC SQUARE: NEW APPROACHES TO THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC MEMORY. Presenters: Marland Buckner, Shockoe Institute Dr. Gregory Kimball, Shockoe Institute L’Rai Arthur-Mensah, Local Projects Chair: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia 018.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

TELLING FAMILY BUSINESS: THE COMPLICATED JOURNEY OF WRITING ABOUT FAMILY AS HISTORICAL SUBJECTS. Presenters: Sonya Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Felecia C Harris, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Paula Marie Seniors, Virginia Tech 019.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

POWER BROKERS, ACTIVISTS, OR SOMETHING NEW? REASSESSING THE CONGRESSIONAL CAREERS OF SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, CHARLES DIGGS, AND BARBARA JORDAN IN 1970S WASHINGTON DC. Presenter: Mary E Curtin, American University Participants: Charles C. Diggs, Jr., the Congressional Black Caucus and the Struggle for Black Power. Marion Orr, Brown University Shirley Chisholm and the Comprehensive Child Development Act of 1971. Anastasia Curwood, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies at University of Kentucky Her Story Was Her Power: Barbara Jordan, the 1975 Voting Rights Act, and the Defeat of the Bork Nomination to the Supreme Court. Mary E Curtin, American University 020.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

EVERYDAY MENTAL WELLNESS IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY. Presenters: Justin C. Key, Regeneration Psychiatry Jackie Rabouin, San Jose State University Carmen Saleh, San Jose State University Chair: Romaine Washington 021.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Media Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

BRUMSIC BRANDON: A LEGACY IN ART AND COMMUNITY. Commentator: Carletta Hurt, Blu Topaz Inc Educational Consulting Presenter: Barbara Brandon Croft, Daughter of Brumsic 022.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Panel Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

CIVIL RIGHTS AND RECLAIMING PUBLIC MEMORY: TALLAHASSEE 1960, PHILADELPHIA 1965, AND GREENSBORO 1979. Participants: FAMU’s Role in the Establishment of CORE in Tallahassee. Evelyn Jackson, ASALH The History and Afterlife of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre: The Dirt Is Still Bloody. Tiffany Packer, Florida A&M University “Pressing for a full measure of satisfaction: Community Health Programs and the National Urban League of Philadelphia.” Ameenah Shakir, University of Houston Chair: Kristal Moore Clemons, Children’s Defense Fund 28 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

PRESERVING RURAL AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOOLS IN UNCERTAIN TIMES. Presenters: E. Randolph Graham, Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation Jessica Cosmas, Historical Services Manager, City of Chesapeake Margie Wilson Coefield, Princess Anne County Training School Union Kempsville High School Museum Chair: Larissa Reed, Historical Services, City of Chesapeake 1:30pm 024.

1:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Meeting

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING. Participant: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University John E. Adams, Bronzeville Trails Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Lisa Brown, Texas A&M University - College Station Timur Al’ Basil Davis, Mount Vernon Public Library Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Walter J Lanier, Great Lakes Urban Empowerment Center Pastor, Progressive Baptist Church James Morgan, Morgan State University Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kimberly Jeffries Leonard Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Stony Brook University Crystal Moten, NYPL/Schomburg Center Chadra Pittman, The Sankofa Projects Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University Karen B. Cook-Bell, Bowie State University Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University Department of History Gladys Vaughn, ASALH Eecutive Council Augustus Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Tamara McCants, National Pharmaceutical Association 2:15pm 025.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

BETWEEN BIAS AND POSSIBILITY: AI’S ROLE IN SHAPING BLACK MASCULINITY IN REAL TIME. Leader: Sean Colbert-Lewis, North Carolina Central University Presenters: Danielle Colbert-Lewis, North Carolina Central University Manna Duah, North Carolina Central University

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

BLACK STUDIES AT WORK IN VIRGINIA, FOR THE WORLD. Commentator: Robert Trent Vinson, The Carter G. Woodson Institute Presenters: Jody L. Allen Marvin Chiles, Old Dominion University Scot A. French, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH Chair: Shawn L. Alexander, The University of Kansas-African and African-American Studies 027.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK SOUTH GEOGRAPHIES. Presenters: Jarvis C McInnis J.T. Roane, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Kelsey Moore, Georgetown University Chair: Robert David Bland, University of Tennessee Knoxville 028.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

SITES OF COMMUNITY INSURGENCY: BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME. Participants: Black, Brown and Red Power in Minneapolis: Collective Soulforce in a Liberal Haven. James Curry, BR4R; Jimmy Patiño, University of Minnesota The Sacred and the Social: Black Churches as Architectures of Fugitive Pedagogy. Deborah D Jenkins, Faith at Work Christian Church/Pressley Family Institute Disassociation, Mobility, and Institution Building: Black Strategies of Survival and Self-Governance in Times of Crisis. Lesley Gist, The Gist of Freedom Commemoration, Collective Strategy, and the Historical Mediation of Personhood. Ayeshah Johnson, Incluent 029.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

(RE)WRITING GLOBAL BLACK HISTORY AS A FORM OF BLACK POWER. Participants: On the Rebel Front: Barbados and Pan-Africanism in the Black Power Movement (1967–1969). Melanie Holmes, University of South Carolina at Columbia Dreaming Freedom Across Borders: Black Women’s Emigration Activism as Black Power. Gigi Davis, Roosevelt University By Any Means Necessary: Black Internationalism, Radical Pan-Africanism, and the Founding of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. Tiffany Wheatland-Disu, Occidental College For Us, By Us: Liberia and the Global Black Freedom Struggle. Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Emory University Chair: Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Emory University 030.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Special Book Panel

James 3 4th Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: AUSTIN MCCOY’S “LIVING IN A D.A.I.S.Y. AGE: THE MUSIC, CULTURE, AND WORLD DE LA SOUL MADE.” Discussants: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Mickell Carter, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University Stephen Ward, University of Michigan Author: Austin McCoy

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

BLACK AGAINST EMPIRE: PAN-AFRICANISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS. Participants: Cruella de Colonizer and Global Human Rights Violations Regimes Against Africans: Anatomy of Imperial and Colonial Genocid(e) aires, 1885-1984. Stephen Magu, Norfolk State University Dominican History is Black History: African-American Periodicals and the Dominican Republic during the 20th Century. Franchesca Campos, Department of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh Bridging Latino and African American Studies: Theorizing Post-Soul Afro-Latinidad. Trent Masiki, Suffolk University An Afro-Caribbean survivor of the Nazi era: Oral history and healing from trauma. Mary Romney-Schaab, University of Connecticut, retired 032.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

HIP HOP AND THE WORK OF FREEDOM. Commentators: Kristie Smith, Kennesaw State University Adria Goldman, University of Mary Washington Presenters: Justin De Senso, Penn State Lehigh Valley Rosen Gordon, Clark Atlanta University-Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, & History Cortez Watson Participants: Writing Solidarity: The International Graffiti Times as Radical Diaspora. Justin De Senso, Penn State Lehigh Valley Black Feminism, Hip Hop and Collective Liberation. Rosen Gordon, Clark Atlanta University-Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, & History Hip Hop’s Liberatory Rhetoric & Radical Ideation. Johnathan J. White, Pennsylvania State University Greater Allegheny Chair: Johnathan J. White, Pennsylvania State University Greater Allegheny 033.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

THE ARCHITECTURE OF RESISTANCE: PUBLIC HISTORY, PLACE-MAKING, AND THE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF BLACK EXCELLENCE. Presenters: Marquis Taylor, Northwestern University Adrian Willis, Chicago Tour Guide Professional Association Daarel Burnette Jeremiah Ellis Chair: Jeremiah Ellis 035.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

TEACHING HISTORY THROUGH CHESS: WORKSHOP AND CASE STUDY. Leader: Kendric Perkins, Historic New Orleans Collection

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Panel Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AS A FRAMEWORK FOR CIVIL WAR AND EMANCIPATION HISTORY. Presenter: Abigail J Cooper, Brandeis University Participants: The Figa in the Quarters: Fertility, Defiance, and Sacred Ground in Civil War Refugee Camps. Abigail J Cooper, Brandeis University Calling In Civil War History: Black Mothers, Reproductive Justice, and the Politics of the Field. Jessica Wicks-Allen, Arizona State University Safe in a Midwife’s Hands: Birthing Traditions from Africa to the American South. Linda Janet Holmes, Independent Scholar Chair: Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut 037.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Paper Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

DEBATES ON BLACK NATIONALISM. Participants: Farming for Self-Sufficiency: Black Nationalism and White Blacklash in the Rural South, 1968-1975. Allie Lopez “Black Nationalism Revisited: A Reconsideration of Categories.” Anthony Guillory, The Citadel Military College of South Carolina Talking About Power: How Karenga’s Black Power Creates a New Home. Ray Black, Colorado State University; M. Keith Claybrook The Irruption of Internationalism: Debating the terms of African Solidarity. Martha Biondi, Northwestern University-Department of African American Studies 038.

2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Media Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

UPROOTED: RECONSTRUCTING A DISPLACED BLACK COMMUNITY THROUGH FILM, ARCHIVES, AND MEMORY. Commentators: Cathy M. Jackson Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Presenter: Brandi Kellam, Norfolk State University 4:30pm 039.

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Plenary Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

BEYOND THE ROCKETS RED GLARE: THE COST OF INTERPRETING A PAINFUL PAST. Moderator: A. Prince Albert III, The Culture Keepers Circle Participant: Jessie Jaynes Diming, Emmett Till Interpretive Center Lia Nitake, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Michaela Pavlat, National Parks Conservation Association Greeter: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Chair: Charles Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association Sponsor: National Parks Conservation Association

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6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Reception

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

OPENING RECEPTION. Invocation: Kirk T. Houston, Gethsemane Community Fellowship Bapt Church Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Craig Branch, 3rd District Representative, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity A. Prince Albert III, The Culture Keepers Circle Performer(s): Boys Choir of Hampton Roads Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University Sponsor: National Parks Conservation Association 7:00pm 041.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Meeting

Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

VOTER ENGAGEMENT TOWN HALL MEETING. Welcome: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

CHILDREN OF THE STRUGGLE. Commentator: Sonjia Parker Redmond, Professor Emerita of Social Work, California State University, East Bay Presenter: Sonjia Parker Redmond, Professor Emerita of Social Work, California State University, East Bay 044.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

DESCENDANTS OF DISPOSSESSION: BLACK DISPLACEMENT AND MEMORY IN THE RESERVATION AND MAGRUDER, VIRGINIA. Participants: Entering the Matrix: The Matrix of Dispossession and Black Land Loss of the Reservation and Magruder. Travis Harris, Norfolk State University “I Want the World to Know What They Did to Our People”: Recovering the History of The Reservation, a Displaced Black Community in York County, Virginia. Mary Lassiter, Descendant of the Reservation; Stephanie Dunmore, Descendant of the Reservation “Our Stories Must Be Told”: The Navy’s Dispossession of Magruder and the Survival of a Black Community. Allan Wynne, Descendant of Magruder; Brandon Lee, Descendant of Magruder Chair:Travis Harris, Norfolk State University

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

SECOND TO NONE: 90-YEAR HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Commentator: Claudia Thorne, Coppin State University Participants: Fighting From the Inside and Outside: Pre-Civil Rights Era of the Howard University School of Social Work. Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Howard University School of Social Work From Socio-Cultural to Black Perspective: The Post-Civil Rights Era of the Howard University School of Social Work. Tracy R Whitaker, Howard University School of Social Work Honoring Our Legacy through 90th Anniversary Celebration. Kathelon Toliver, Howard University School of Social Work Chair: Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Howard University School of Social Work 046.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

AN ARTIFACTUAL JOURNEY OF BLACK VIRGINIA: NORFOLK AT THE CENTER OF MEMORY, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND PRESERVATION. Leader: Philip J Merrill Presenters: Veronica Asheia Carr, Nanny Jack & Company LLC Rick Voight, Vivid-Pix 047.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton I-AV 3rd Floor

THE MARYLAND LYNCHING TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION. Presenters: David O. Fakunle, Morgan State University Michelle I. Gawerc, Loyola University Maryland Amy S. Millin, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project Chair: Nicholas Creary, Coppin State University 048.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

PROTECT AND RESPECT THE BODIES -THE CHARLESTON STRANGERS AND NEGRO BURYING GROUND-. Presenters: Bernard E. Powers, Director, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, College of Charleston Donald E. West, Charleston Area Branch ASALH James Njonjo, Protect and Respect the Bodies Steering Committee, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Chair: Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH 049.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Wilson 3rd Floor Room

TEACHING TRUTH, PRESERVING MEMORY: BLACK LABOR, PROTEST, AND THE SUBVERSIVE WORK OF HISTORY. Commentator: Brooks Winfree Presenter: Nakia Parker, Michigan State University Participants: From Cowboys to Butter Churners: Enslaved Labor on Texas Plantations and Ranches. Ronald Davis Refugeed Slaves in Texas: Displacement, Labor, and Survival in the Confederacy. Nakia Parker, Michigan State University Finding Truth in the Annals of Protests: A Message to Those Seeking to Become U.S. Citizens. Walter Lee Sistrunk Chair: Alexandria Russell 34 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

--------------------- AFRICAN ROOTS/AMERICAN FRUITS: RE-PRESENTING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF REAWAKENED GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT. Presenters: Harmon R. Carey, Afro-American Historical Society of Delaware Marcus Asante Dennis Burroughs, Middle Passage Ship Replica Project 051.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

PLEASURE AS PRAXIS: BLACK WELLNESS, LEISURE, AND THE POLITICS OF FEELING GOOD. Participants: “I Wasn’t Born to Labor”: Memorializing Black Pleasure in the Early Cultural History of American (US) Leisure and Recreation, ca. 1880s-1950s. Michael Ra-shon Hall, Virginia Commonwealth University “Cotton Candy, Coastlines, and Freedom Dreams: Black Leisure Spaces and Radical Rest”. Grace Gipson, Virginia Commonwealth University “‘Songs for the People’: Frances Harper and the Quest for Black Wellness”. Diana Martha Louis, University of Michigan “The Age of Pleasure”: Black Women’s Radical Pursuit of Feeling Good. Shermaine Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University Chair: Grace Gipson, Virginia Commonwealth University 052.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

FEEDING THE FUTURE: CHILDREN, FOODWAYS, AND THE PRESERVATION OF BLACK HISTORICAL MEMORY. Leader: Sarah Anderson, Oldways Preservation Trust 8:30pm 053.

8:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Meeting

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEETING. Thursday, September 24, 2026 7:00am 054.

7:00 am to 12:00 pm

Tour

Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area)

AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE BUS TOUR. 055.

7:00 am to 6:30 pm

Registration

Norfolk I 1st Floor

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am 056.

8:00 am to 9:00 pm

Meeting

Hampton Foyer- APC Help Desk 3rd Floor

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (THURSDAY). Leader: Augustus Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8:30am 057.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

SPIRITUALITY & LEADERSHIP: CAN SPIRITUALITY THROUGH RESILIENCY BE ACTUALLY QUANTIFIABLE? Leader: Jacqueline Pressey, UMGC & ReCreations Ministries, Inc. Presenters: Jacqueline Pressey, UMGC & ReCreations Ministries, Inc. Rodney Flowers, The Alpha LION Institute N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

THE PUBLIC-FACING SCHOLAR: REIMAGINING THE ACADEMIC VOICE. Presenters: Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Mary Phillips, Department of African American Studies-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chair: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley 060.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

THE JAMES E. SHEPARD MEMORIAL LIBRARY (NCCU) AS A KEEPER OF CULTURE: AMPLIFYING COMMUNITY LEGACIES. Leader: Andre D. Vann, North Carolina Central University of Archives Presenters: Danielle Colbert-Lewis, North Carolina Central University Brian A. Robinson, Organizing Triad NC Branch of ASALH Andrea Jackson Gavin, HBCU Digital Library Trust 061.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Key Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

FREEDOM FORWARD: REMEMBERING 1619, THE JOURNEY TO FREEDOM, AND DESCENDANT EMPOWERMENT AT THE TIME OF AMERICA’S SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL. Presenters: Eola Lewis Dance, VISION Collective LLC Niya Bates, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Cheryl T. Grills, Loyola Marymount University Joseph L Green, African American History Commission Wanda Tucker, The William Tucker 1624 Society Jessica Harris, Descendants of the Enslaved of Virginia Joy Banner, The Descendants Project 062.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Special Book Panel

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: HILARY N. GREEN’S “UNFORGETTABLE SACRIFICE: HOW BLACK COMMUNITIES REMEMBERED THE CIVIL WAR.” Discussants: Holly Pinheiro, Jr., Furman University Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Author: Hilary Green, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC 063.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

HOWARD MELLON WORKSHOP: TEACHING THE SOCIAL JUSTICE TOOLKIT. Leader: Lisa Brock, ASALH for the Howard/Mellon Social Justice Program Commentator: Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH 36 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

RACE ON SCREEN: USING FILM AND DOCUMENTARY TO TEACH A CENTURY OF BLACK COMMEMORATION. Leader: Herbert Lowe, University of Florida 065.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

James 3 4th Floor

PROCESSING BLACK HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS IN THE AGE OF AI: A HANDS-ON WORKSHOP. Leader: Keith Pemberton, Yale University Presenter: Keith Pemberton, Yale University 066.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

BLACK FAIRNESS, INVISIBLE LABOR, AND RESPONSIBLE AI IN HISTORICALLY HOSTILE INSTITUTIONS Participants: Navigating the Margins: Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health, and Environmental Justice in Black and Brown Communities. Philip Wilkerson, George Mason University To Be Black and Digital: The Elusive Nature of the Digital from a Black Studies Mind. Taylor Smith, University of Pennsylvania The Labor of Commemoration: Black Fatigue, Invisible Labor, and Responsible AI in Historically Hostile Institutions. David Mason, HMG ePublishing, LLC Stewarding Our Digital Legacy: Preserving Contemporary Community History. Kate Forry Guanci, Archoral The Journey to Freedom: Creating a Digital Footprint of the Black American Struggle in the United States. Stephanie F Wanza 067.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Media Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

THE ROLE OF BLACK PLANNERS IN SHAPING THE U.S. PLANNING PROFESSION. Commentator: Jeffrey Lowe, Texas Southern University Presenters: Elsie Harper-Anderson, Virginia Commonwealth University William M. Harris, Retired/ASALH Lifetime Member Sigmund C Shipp, Retired/City University of New York, Hunter College Aisha Densmore-Bey, Boston Architectural College 068.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

PRESERVING SWEET AUBURN: THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK AND THE STEWARDSHIP OF A CIVIL RIGHTS LANDSCAPE. Presenters: Ash Phillips, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park Marty Smith, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park Christina Kirby, Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park Chair: Reginald Chapple, National Park Service--Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

IN THE SPIRIT OF SANKOFA: LIBERATION THEMES IN BLACK EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT. Commentator: James Benjamin Stewart, Manasota Branch of ASALH Participants: Toward a History of Black Educational Thought. Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia The History and Legacy of the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools Program. Kristal Moore Clemons, Children’s Defense Fund Beyond Ressentiment: Notes Toward a Critical Moral Theory of African American Education. Corey D.B. Walker, Winston-Salem State University Chair: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia 070.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Lightning Round

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND SESSION #1. Participants: Access Granted Youth Exploration (AGYE): Experiential Learning as a Pathway to Leadership, Opportunity, and Global Citizenship. Tameca Wood, Authors Among Us Achieving Unity through Truth: The 4 Pillars of a Growth Mindset. Jill-Capri Simms, Plumb Line Consulting LLC Before the Migration: Regional Distinctiveness and the Unwritten History of Northern Black Identity. Judith Dolcé Black Intellectuals Bustin’ Loose. Walter Quiller, Augusta University Confronting the Past: Connecting Local Black History to Contemporary Law Enforcement Training. Amy Bertsch, Independent Researcher Documenting the African American Presence: A Multifaceted Oral History Project. Gloria Rhodes, San Diego State University Library Freedom Confirmed: The Flag of Remembrance 1865 Honors the Year 1865. Rodney Deal, Freedom Confirmed Freedom Literacies: Black Women’s Humanizing Literacy Work from the One-Room Classroom to the Home. Michelle GraceWilliams, Northern Michigan University Restorative Justice: It’s Legislative Acceptability from a Policy Landscape Analysis of Presidential Transitional Project 2025. Noble Maseru, University of Pittsburgh Schools of Health Sciences 071.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

PLANTATIONS TO POLLUTION: BLACK COMMUNITIES, LEGACY POLLUTION, AND THE PATH FORWARD. Presenters: Chandra Taylor-Sawyer, Southern Environmental Law Center Jordy Yager, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Cornell Watson, Cornell Watson Photography Chair: Tasha Durrett, Southern Environmental Law Center 072.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Wilson 3rd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES: GENDER AND POWER. Participants: “Molly, You in Danger Girl: Black Womanhood and Labor, There is Less Work to be Done”. Rachael Falu, Morgan State University Feeling Ten Feet Higher: On Zora Neale Hurston, Black Women’s Rap, and Politics of Shamelessness. Kehinde Thurman, University of Virginia The African-Diasporic Influences of Jennifer Lopez’s Global Image and Stardom. Terrance Lewis, Collabs Making Repairs: Mending the Narrative in African American Quilt History. Mary Fons, University of Texas at Austin

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Madison 3rd Floor

THE SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS: COMMEMORATING MUSIC AND DANCE IN BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES SESSION 2. Participants: “A Shattered Happiness”: Memories of the Florida Maroon in Verse and Song. Wallis Hamm Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Shatter The Stereotypes: Reimagining Black Male Identity Through Media, Storytelling, and Education. Michael Taylor, Creation Publishing Group Solange’s A Seat at the Table: “the Oppositional Gaze,” Afro-nostalgia, and Black Cultural Mythos. Alonya Castillo, University of Virginia White Ears Fix Black Lives: Dialect, Power, and Identity in Twain, Dunbar, and Everett. Natalie Fernsten, Brigham Young University 074.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

POST THE GREAT MIGRATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF BLACK AMERICAN ADULT EDUCATION, JOBS, AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION. Presenters: Lisa Brown, Texas A&M University - College Station Omniya Ibrahim Hafez Mohamed, Texas A&M University Mansur Ali Buffins, Boston Public Schools Mattyna Stephens, Texas A&M University Chair: Lisa Brown, Texas A&M University - College Station 075.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

COLLABORATIVE LIBRARY APPROACHES TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMMING AT UIUC: A CENTURY OF COMMEMORATION. Presenters: Jessica Ballard Mandissa Arlain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chair: Mandissa Arlain, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 076.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

PAST RENDERED, FUTURES IMAGINED: EMERGING MEDIA AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL CONTINUUM. Presenter: Jessica L Ridgeway, Norfolk State University Participants: Immersive Storytelling: Emerging Media and Cultural Preservation. Demetrius Dukes, University of Central Florida The Griot in the Algorithm and Digital Storytelling Across Communities. Jessica L Ridgeway, Norfolk State University Chair: Demetrius Dukes, University of Central Florida 077.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

“SCIENTIFIC RACISM.” Leader: Bob-e Simpson Epps, Presenters: Sue Kiefer Hammersmith Bob-e Simpson Epps, N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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9:00 am to 8:30 pm

Exhibitor

Norfolk II/III-Exhibits 1st Floor

THURSDAY NORFOLK I/III EXHIBITS. EXHIBITOR: National Park Service History Project ASALH Store The University of Chicago Press Zee Crafts, Zee Crafts McFarland & Company University of South Carolina Press International Publishers University of North Carolina Press Exhibits, University of North Carolina Press (Exhibits) Wayne State University Press, Wayne State University Press University of Illinois Press, University of Illinois Press (Exhibits) Council on Library & Information Resources Council on Library & Information Resources, Council on Library & Information Resources University of Massachusetts Press, University of Massachusetts Press University Press of Florida, University Press of Florida Columbia University Press, Columbia University Press Afrique Clothing, Afrique Clothing Heritage International Fashions, Heritage International Fashions Cathy’s Global, Cathy’s Global The Scholars Choice, The Scholars Choice The Foundation International, The Foundation International Vanderbilt University Press Aziz Fashions, Aziz Fashions University of Georgia Press, University of Georgia Press Woodson Center University of Rochester Press, University of Rochester Press University of Virginia Press, University of Virginia Press The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project, The Nannie Helen Burroughs Project Cambridge University Press, Cambridge University Press (2nd Person) HBCU Digital Library Trust, HBCU Digital Library Trust Cleb Originals Vivid- Pix Pencil Me In Publications University of Pittsburgh Press Archoral LLC 9:30am 079.

9:30 am to 11:30 am

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: WITHIN OUR GATES (1920) DIRECTED BY OSCAR MICHEAUX. 1 HOUR 19 MIN. 10:15am 080.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Special Book PanelHampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: ELIZABETH PRYOR: “SOMETHING WE SAID: RICHARD PRYOR, A NOTORIOUS WORD, AND ME.” Chair: Hannah Simmons, Northwestern University Discussants: Kendra Field, Gerald R. Gill Associate Professor of History Tufts University Deborah Gray White Blair LM Kelley, National Humanities Center Jessica Millward, University of California at Irvine Author: Elizabeth Pryor 40 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

ESTABLISHING ASALH BRANCH AFFILIATES AND GROWING MEMBERSHIP. Leaders: Taryn Foreman, ASALH Detroit Branch Latanya Edwards, Manasota Branch of ASALH Commentators: Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Chair: Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University 082.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

1915 LINCOLN JUBILEE CELEBRATION. Participants: The Michigan State Capitol Community. Valerie Marvin, Michigan State Capitol Commission Michigan`s Manual Descendant. Jacob Pinney Johnson, ASALH Detroit Chair: David L. Head, ASALH Detroit Branch 083.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

ORI AS COUNTER-ARCHIVE: DIALOGIC PRACTICES OF BLACK MEMORY AND HISTORICAL TRANSMISSION. Leader: Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University 084.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

REFLECTIONS OF BLACK VETERANS WHO SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR. Presenters: Brandon A Burnett, Syracuse University School of Law Bernard E. Thompson, Northwestern University School of Law Participants: Reflections of Black Veterans Who Served in the Vietnam War (Also known among Vietnamese people today as: The American War Against Vietnam). Debby Lindsey-Taliefero, Howard University Reflections of Black Veterans Who Served in the Vietnam War. Michael Taliefero, ComplianceTech The American War Against Vietnam. Debby Lindsey-Taliefero, Howard University Chair: Debby Lindsey-Taliefero, Howard University 085.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Media Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

BEAUMONT’S BLACK HISTORY - IN MOVING PICTURES. Commentator: Gordon Williams, G Sharp Productions Presenter: Gordon Williams, G Sharp Productions 086.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Presenters: Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University Lori Danley, University of Delaware Ashley Gillard, Howard University Chair: Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

GUARDIANS OF THE MOVEMENT: BUILDING UNBREAKABLE LEADERSHIP FOR BLACK LIBERATION. Leader: Russell Drake, Exordium Communications LLC 088.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

James 3 4th Floor

HISTORICIZING BLACK PHILANTHROPY: COMMUNITY FUNDING, RESISTANCE, AND LIBERATION. Presenters: Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Patience Wambugu, Indiana University Indianapolis Chair: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH 089.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

CONSTRUCTING BLACK HISTORY AGAINST THE GRAIN: BLACK HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY. Participants: “History as the Most Rewarding Research: The Value of History in Malcolm X’s Religio-Political Ideology.”. Jimmy Butts, Trinity University, San Antonio Beyond Commemoration: Community Literacy and the Next Generation of Black History. Tameca Wood, Authors Among Us Hidden Intellectual Labour: Memorabilia and the Reconstruction of Black Historical Knowledge. Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi, The Afrodeities Institute Why History Is Never Fixed—and How It Is Governed: Narrative Legitimacy and Black Political Counter-Memory. Daron Davis, Independent Black Governance Researcher and Public Scholar 090.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

THE FIGHT TO DEFEND BLACK HISTORY IN EDUCATION: STRATEGIES IN A TIME OF CRISIS. Participants: Protecting the Minds of Black Girls: Social-Emotional Learning as Educational Advocacy. Tori Marshall, Mosaic Mindset Wellness Co. Wake Work as Resistance: Exploring Black Students’ Journeys Through Anti-Black Policy Reform. British Reynolds, Elmhurst University Why Should We Preserve Historic Black High Schools? Yemisrach Eshetu, Washington University in St. Louis; Aaron Williams Building Strong Children. Akhenaton Benton, Black Education Station 091.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

HOW TO OVERCOME THE SLAVE MENTALITY. Leader: Tiffney Laing, Northern Virginia Community College- Loundon Campus 092.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Presidential Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

200 YEARS OF THE BLACK PRESS: VOICE, RESISTANCE, AND GLOBAL IMPACT. Commentator: Brandi Kellam Participants: The African American Press: More Than a Lonely Voice Hollering in the Wilderness. Willie T Marsh, Norfolk State University Beyond Black Music: A Global Impact Perspective. Proshot T Kalami, Norfolk State University From HUAC-Exile to European Acclaim: Claudia Jones and the Black Press That Shaped Her Activism. Cathy M. Jackson, Norfolk State University Chair: Cathy M. Jackson, Norfolk State University

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

CARCERAL HISTORY: LEGACIES OF RACE AND RESISTANCE. Participants: “Unsuitable” Mothers: Origins of the Family Regulation System. Jelani Hayes, Harvard University “‘If Walls Could Talk’”: Medical Violence and Abolition Inside California’s Prisons for Women. Rachel L. Klein, Brandeis University The Interior Within the Interior: Life Making in California Women’s Prisons, 1987-2025. Elsa Lora, Columbia University Chair: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley 094.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS OF ASALH (IP OF ASALH). Presenters: Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Chair: Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH 095.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

REVOLUTION WITHIN AND WITHOUT: BLACK RESISTANCE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF ANTEBELLUM WAR. Participants: A Stilted Breeze within the Common Wind: Race, Space and the American Revolution. Cameron Black, City University of New York Graduate Center (Center for Labor and Urban Studies|) Moorish, Hametic, Bilalian = Black: Discovering Connections in The New Jersey Muslim Story. Mikal Naeem Nash, Teacher’s Aide Consulting and Services LLC ‘I gave her eighty lashes, well laid on’: Afro-Virginian Women in Revolutionary War Virginia. Ervin Jordan, University of Virginia The Insurance-Industrial Architecture of Slavery. Michelle Evans Oliver, MLIS, President, ASALH Richmond, Virginia Branch 096.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES: COMMEMORATION AND CRITIQUE. Participants: From Our Heritage to Our Horizon: The Afro-American Heritage Bicentennial Commemorative Quilt as Public History. Tenesha Carter Johnson, Bard Graduate Center Juneteenth Celebrations in San Antonio, Texas: The First Forty Years. Charles Gentry, City of San Antonio What Counts as Theory? Entrepreneurial Knowledge and Intellectual Recognition in Black Studies. Myeshia Babers, Queens College CUNY “Virgie Lee Has Left Missoula”: Queerness, (Dis)Respectabiltiy, Resistance, and Erasure in Black Cultural Memory. Xavier Sivels, University of Mississippi 097.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Media Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

UNHIDDEN HISTORIES: INTERPRETING BLACK AMERICA THROUGH NATIONAL PARKS, PUBLIC LANDS, AND STORYTELLING. Commentator: James Edward Mills, Joy Trip Project LLC Presenter: James Edward Mills, Joy Trip Project LLC

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

STRATEGIC RESILIENCE IN BLACK HISTORIC PRESERVATION: COALITION BUILDING AND LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY AMIDST POLITICAL HOSTILITY. Leader: Stephanie Rizzi, Virginia Commonwealth University - Office of the President Presenters: Casey Overton, Virginia Commonwealth University - Office of the President Tyvon Bates, Project Gabriel, Office of the President Virginia Commonwealth University 12:00pm 099.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Paper Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

THEORIES OF BLACK RADICALISM ACROSS TIME AND SPACE. Participants: Forging Anti-Fascist Memory in Harlem: The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and Local Interracial Political Action. Daiki Kaba, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University Huey P. Newton’s Lost Critique of Sex and Power. Delio Vasquez, New York University Reclaiming the Rhetoric of the Colored Convention Movement. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Sporting Divas of the African Diaspora. Ramona Bell Du Bois, Black Aquatic Ecologies, and the Politics of Commemoration: Toward Black Radical River Histories. David Strickler, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 100.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Luncheon

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

VA HBCU’S AND THE POWER OF BLACK EXCELLENCE. Moderator: Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Guest Speaker: Javaune Adams-Gaston, President, Norfolk State University Makola Abdullah, President, Virginia State University Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Colita Nichols Fairfax, Norfolk State University Dr. Stenette Byrd III and Shakia Warren Invocation & Grace: Imam Ismael, Masjid William Saleem Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University 101.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Special Book Panel

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: MICHAEL STAUCH’S “WILDCAT OF THE STREETS: DETROIT IN THE AGE OF COMMUNITY POLICING.” Discussants: Danielle Wiggins Austin McCoy Author: Michael Stauch, University of Toledo 102.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

THE ABC’S OF GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH: UNDERSTANDING WHO YOU ARE TO EMPOWER AND IMPACT YOUR LIFE. Leader: Suad Lawrence Islam, Amanah Educational Services Presenter: Suad Lawrence Islam, Amanah Educational Services Chair: Suad Lawrence Islam, Amanah Educational Services 44 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Plenary Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

HONORING HISTORIOGRAPHY: DISCUSSING THE CREATION AND USE OF THE ABWH AND BOOKLIST. Moderator: Ashley Dawn Farmer, The University of Texas at Austin Greeter: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Discussants: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University Crystal Moten, NYPL/Schomburg Center Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Charissa J Threat, Spelman College 3:50pm 104.

3:50 pm to 5:50 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1961). DIRECTED BY DANIEL PETRIE. 2 HOURS 8 MIN. 4:00pm 105.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

EPISODES OF BLACK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN EDUCATION THROUGHOUT HISTORY. Participants: Empty Fields and Roadside Markers: African American Public Schools in Kentucky and Historical Memory. Zachary Hardin, University of Louisville Learning as Contraband: An Analysis of the Origins of Black Education in Arkansas. Matthew Caston, University of Arkansas School Closures as Structural Violence: A Spatial Analysis of Educational Inequity in Baltimore. Frankie Lucas, Morgan University Sunday’s Best: Clothing as a Marker of Status and Belonging in Black Chicago High Schools, 1980–1995. Markeira Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago 106.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

INTRODUCING THE DESCENDANTS FORUM: A GROWING NATIONAL NETWORK OF DESCENDANT-LED ORGANIZATIONS FOR RESEARCH, REMEMBRANCE, AND REPAIR. Presenters: Laura Adderley, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans Chanelle Blackwell, Clotilda Descendants Association Jamelle Bouie, Kinfolkology Darron Patterson, Mobile AL Branch Participants: “Descendants and Democracy: Lineage, Memory, and the Meaning of America at 250”. Jamelle Bouie, Kinfolkology Kinfolkology & the Descendants Forum. Laura Adderley, Charles Deslondes Branch of New Orleans The Clotilda Descendants Association & the Descendants Forum. Darron Patterson, Mobile AL Branch Introducing the Descendants Forum. Chanelle Blackwell, Clotilda Descendants Association Chair: Jennie K. Williams, Kinfolkology 107.

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Meeting

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. Leader: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University Chair: Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

NEW HISTORIES OF SELF-DETERMINATION AND SELF-DEFENSE ACROSS SPACE AND TIME. Commentator: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Participants: By Force or By Fire: Black Youth and their Kin’s Fight Against the Apprenticeship System During Reconstruction. Kyra March, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Pan-African Paradigms: African American Intellectuals and Africa. Bishop Lawton, ASALH The Abolitionist Atlas and New Afrikan Counter-Mapping. Bria Miller Chair: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa 109.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

THE GENERATIVE FUTURES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE AGE OF A.I. Commentator: Aleia M Brown, New York University Presenters: Raja Malikah Rahim, University of Mississippi Torren Leon Gatson, Middle Tennessee State University Brian A. Robinson, Organizing Triad NC Branch of ASALH Chair: Joshua Crutchfield, Arkansas State University 110.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Special Book Panel

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: CRYSTAL SANDERS’ “A FORGOTTEN MIGRATION: BLACK SOUTHERNERS, SEGREGATION SCHOLARSHIPS, AND THE DEBT OWED TO PUBLIC HBCUS.” Discussants: Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Magana Kabugi Author: Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University 111.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

REDISCOVERING AND DEFINING AN ALTERNATIVE OUTLOOK: “CONSERVATIVE BLACKNESS”. Presenters: Anton D. House, Delaware State University Albert Thompson, Morgan State University David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Participants: “Tell Them We Are Rising”: Ethnocentrism and Institutional Development of Black America, 1865-1900. Anton D. House, Delaware State University In Search of the Early Black American Conservative Tradition. Albert Thompson “Reformers, Not Revolutionaries”: Black American Conservative Thought, 1865 to the Present. David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Chair: David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Media Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

THE PAST IS NOW: EXHIBITING THE LONG ARC OF THE VOTING RIGHTS STRUGGLE. Presenters: Tameka Bradley, African American Research and Library Cultural Center Erin Purdy, Broward County Library 113.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

James 3 4th Floor

RUNNING TO THE FIGHT: THE DYNAMISM OF BLACK WOMEN RESISTANCE. Participants: AlwaysBankOnHer: How Black Women Survive and Succeed in Systems Never Designed for Them to Win. Jennifer R Bishop, alwaysbankonher “Producing Girlhood: Print Culture, Protective Resistance, and the Black Feminist Praxis of Epistemic Archival Care”. Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Our By-line is Liminal: Encore Magazine and Black Women’s Editorial Activism, 1972-1982. Logan Phillips, Northwestern University What Becomes of the Difficult Black Woman? Ida B. Wells and the Complexities of Commemoration. Joi’ Weathers, Temple University Commemorating the Beasts Of Burden: Black Women Domestics’ Resistance to The Mammy Myth. Naya Woods 114.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

FACTS AND FICTION: THE POWER OF BLACK LITERATURE IN OUR NARRATIVES OF LIBERATION. Participants: All the Dead Children: Commemorating Generational Trauma in Black Women’s Fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Thomas Aiello, Valdosta State University Continuing the Legacy of Slave Narratives: Examining Narratives Choices in Contemporary African American Memoirs. Abhijit Sarmah, The University of Georgia Paradise Down at the Bottom. Darlene Conley, Morgan State University The Biomythography of Zora’s Eatonville. Kaysyn Jones, Florida State University 115.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

IMMERSIVE ARCHIVES FROM THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE: THE ORAL HISTORY TRADITION. Participants: Capturing Stories Before They Are Lost: Community Interviewing Methods. Kate Forry Guanci, Archoral Authorship As Agency: Your Story Our Collective Change. Crystallee Crain, Prevention at the Intersections The Power of Oral Histories; Preserving our Past, Shaping our Future. Marion Ransell Dobbins, Marion Historian 116.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

LISTENING ACROSS BORDERS: ORAL HISTORY, MIGRANT LABOR, AND ETHICAL STORYTELLING. Presenters: Felicia Bell, College of Charleston Shafantae Desinord, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission Gina Marie Lewis, Bowie State University Chair: Eola Lewis Dance, VISION Collective LLC 117.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

UNLEASHING BLACK POWER: GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING IN HARLEM AND THE ADVENT OF THE LONG, HOT SUMMERS. Presenters: LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie) Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Stony Brook University Shannon King, Fairfield University Chair: Shawn L. Alexander, The University of Kansas-African and African-American Studies

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

EPISODES OF RESISTANCE TO ANTI-BLACK RACIAL OPPRESSION IN SOUTHERN HISTORY. Participants: Fayette County, Tennessee: A History of Anti-Black Injustice. Renatto Carr, Southern Illinois University We Feared Doing Nothing: James Mapp and the Case that Integrated Chattanooga’s Schools and Changed a City. Derek Andrew Griffin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville July 1816 --- A Flash of Black Independence. Ibrahim Sundiata, Brandeis University Race, Place, Faith, and Space: How the Jim Crow South Prepared Blacks for Aerospace. Cathleen Lewis, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum “The Clinton Massacre of 1875: Competing Narratives Surrounding Racial and Gendered Violence in the Reconstruction Era South”. Melissa Jones, Colorado Black Equity Study at History Colorado 119.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

Washington 3rd Floor

“SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES”: TOOLS FOR RECTIFYING OPPRESSIVE MONUMENTS. Leader: Diana Hernandez, World Heritage USA/ICOMOS USA Presenters: Noah Price, World Heritage USA/ICOMOS USA Gilbert Correa Madeline Bonner, World Heritage USA/ICOMOS USA Chair: Georgette Grier-Key, Nassau Community College 120.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Wilson 3rd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK RELIGION STUDIES. Participants: “To Sink Self and Exalt Christ: A Rhetorical History of the Black Sermon Collections. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Beyond Conflation: African American Jews, Hebrew Israelite Movements, and the Politics of Historical Memory Conflation: Eidot CHeMDaT”A Jewry. Shais Rishon 121.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Madison 3rd Floor

EMPOWERING BLACK STUDENT LEADERS: ALIGNING STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE. Presenters: Merida Allen Tate, University of Dayton Tiffany Taylor, University of Dayton Kelechi Nwanoro, University of Dayton Chair: Tiffany Taylor, University of Dayton 122.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Tyler 3rd Floor

RACE, CLASS, AND LABOR: BLACK WORKERS IN THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST. Presenters: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Augustus Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Camren Murray, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Keon A Burns, Penn State University

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES. Commentator: Gerald Horne Participants: Carceral Ecologies: Mapping the History of Institutional Violence in Dublin, California. Joanna Cardenas, University of California, Berkeley Black Journal 1968 to 1970: Visualizing a Black Nation in Time of Black Power. Zana Sanders, University of California, Berkeley ‘Viva Lumumba’: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, a ‘Howlin Riot’ at the UN, and Black Politics During the Cold War/Civil Rights Era. Mario Xalic Burrus, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley 124.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

BLACK ENVIRONMENTAL MEMORY, FAMILY HISTORY, AND PLACE: A CONVERSATION. Presenters: Elgin Klugh, Coppin State University Amy Quarkume, Howard University LaToya Gray-Sparks, Virginia Department of Human Resources Chair: Frederick Gooding 125.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

BLACK MUSIC & CULTURE AT BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC. Leader: Michael Mason, Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Presenters: Aminah Pilgrim, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee Brian Barone, Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee 126.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

A PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS: THE WM DULANEY BRANCH AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM, DALLAS. Presenters: William Marvin Dulaney, W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH Faith Golden, African American Museum of Dallas Donald Pinkard, Hidden History DFW LLC Participants: From an ASALH Perspective. William Marvin Dulaney, W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH The Community Benefits of the Partnership between the WM Dulaney ASALH Branch and the African American Museum. Faith Golden, African American Museum of Dallas The Benefits to the African American Museum from the Partnership. Donald Pinkard, Hidden History DFW LLC Chair: Robert Edison, African American Museum

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5:45 pm to 6:05 pm

Meeting

Presidential Foyer 3rd Floor

DIVINE 9 GROUP PHOTO SESSION. Participant: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Leaders: David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York James Morgan, Morgan State University 6:30pm 128.

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: BLACK GIRL (1966). DIRECTED BY OUSMANE SEMBENE. 1 HOUR 6 MIN. 7:00pm 129.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Hampton VI-AV 3rd Floor.

HOW TO ESTABLISH A STATE COMMISSION ON AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE: A PRACTICAL BLUEPRINT FOR ADVOCACY AND ACTION. Leader: Brian Morrison, The William J. Watkins, Sr. Educational Institute Presenters: Kali-Ahset Amen, Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Jaelon Moaney, Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience 130.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

DISPLACED FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICA. Commentators: Yvonne Alston, PG County Truth Branch of ASALH William Crump, The Village Initiative Presenter: Jacqueline Williams, The Village Initiative 131.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN BLACK BIOGRAPHY 2. Participants: The Foremother of the Freedom Riders. Ramiyah Green, The University of Alabama Remembering The Outstanding Career and Legacy of Virginia born Ambassador Bizmark Myrick Sr. Ophera Davis, Davis Consulting Norfolk born Sociologist, Visionary and Founder of International Black Women Congress: Dr. LaFrancis Rodgers-Rose. Ophera Davis, Davis Consulting Mary McLeod Bethune’s Interpretation of Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s Mission. Ashley Preston

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Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF BLACK GIRLHOOD: INTERVENTIONS, EDUCATION, & THE COLLISION POINTS OF BLACK GIRLHOOD. Commentator: Maria Esther Hammack, The Ohio State Presenters: LaShay Harvey, Black Girl Saturday School® Michelle Petties, Brand New Now Press Bridget Haney, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Chair: Menika Dirkson, Morgan State University 133.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Tyler 3rd Floor

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES: HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY. Participants: The Power of a Legacy: Moving From the Underground Railroad to the Overground Freeway. Bruce Purnell, The Love More Movement, Inc. Revolutionary Storytelling: Disrupting American Narratives with Afrocentricity. Tracy Spurlin-Saravanan, Norfolk State University The Negro Motorist Green Book – a Travel Guide as a Historical Source. Jovana Blagojevic, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy 134.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

BEING BLACK IN RETAIL. Moderator: Jamorra Monae DuBose Morris, Prince Georges Community College Commentator: Jamorra Monae DuBose Morris, Prince Georges Community College Presenter: Jamorra Monae DuBose Morris, Prince Georges Community College 135.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

TAKING HISTORY ON THE ROAD: TRAVELING EXHIBITS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT. Leader: Danyel Clark, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center Presenter: Danyel Clark, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center 136.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

James 3 4th Floor

USING POP CULTURE TO TEACH FORM. Leader: Chad Hughes, Morehouse College Presenter: Jonathan Edgar Thompson, Fort Valley State University

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

THE WORK OF REMEMBERING: WRESTLING, OPERA, AND FANCY GIRLS. Participants: There is a Crack in Everything: Memory, Voice, and the Self. Allison Lewis, Minnesota Opera Who Gets Remembered? Fancy Girls and the Uneven Geography of Black Commemoration in New Orleans. Jessina Emmert, Hamilton College Recontextualizing Black Female Autonomy in Professional Wrestling: Sharmell, Booker T. Huffman, and Kurt Angle’s 2005 Feud. Jacob T Hozempa, University of Kansas Chair: Shawn L. Alexander, The University of Kansas-African and African-American Studies 138.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

OUR BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY MAPPED OUT. Commentator: Sherma Rismay, BluePrint Publishing Presenter: Sherma Rismay, BluePrint Publishing 139.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

AN ORAL HISTORY DOCUMENTARY, MRS. HOWARD: A LINEAGE AND LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE THROUGH DANCE. Commentator: Jacquelyn D Stokes, Richland School District 2 Presenter: Quenton Stokes-Brown 140.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

ARCHIVISM AS COMMUNITY BUILDING: TRANSFORMATIVE EPISODES IN BLACK STORYTELLING. Participants: Grassroots Black Reading Spaces in Appalachia: A blueprint from the past. Jazmyne Baylor, Western Carolina University Peace in Green Pastures: A Critical Look at Green Pastures Camp. Darlene Conley, Morgan State University Reconstructing Civil Rights Memory: Representations of SNCC in Contemporary College Textbooks. Yuka Ichiki, The Graduate School of International Cultural Studies,Tohoku University Building a Black Heritage Trail in a Sundown Town: A Mississippi Minnesotan Experience. James Curry, BR4R “Case study: The community house of the Jefferson Street Sound Museum”. Jon Sewell, Middle Tennessee State University 141.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Madison Room 3rd Floor.

NEW DIRECTIONS IN BLACK STUDIES: ALTERNATIVE SITES OF STRUGGLE AND RECONSTRUCTING SPACES OF POWER. Participants: Keeping the Mentor Tradition Alive: Creating an Implicitly Targeted Mentor Program at a PWI. Ray Black, Colorado State University Black Intellectuals as Literary Authors: Rethinking Knowledge Production in African(a) Studies. Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Cal State LA Holding Two Truths: The Duality of the Black Aging Experience in America- An AARP Study. Cassandra Burton Being Black in Anime. Akhenaton Benton, Black Education Station 142.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Paper Session

Washington 3rd Floor

REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGY IN BLACK EDUCATION. Participants: Critical Race Theory Erasure from Education and the War on Anti-Blackness. Tijuani Phelps Jackson, Arizona State University Project E.C.H.O.E.S. (Exploring Community Histories via Oral and Experience-based Storytelling): A Curriculum. Anastasia Sinclair, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Sankofa and Beyond: Decolonizing Epistemology in Social Sciences. Kelechi Wright, University of Houston What Counts as Black History? Memory, Power, and the Politics of Curriculum. Tanishia Lavette Williams Peterson, Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy Our Battle for Peace: W.E.B. Du Bois and Carceral Pedagogies. Damion Scott, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Authors Book Signing

Norfolk Foyer- Authors Book Signing 1st Floor

AUTHORS BOOK SIGNING. Participants: Theorizing Fallism: Rhodes Must Fall and the Global Movement to Decolonize the University. A. Kayum Ahmed, Barnard College We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation. Martha Biondi, Northwestern University-Department of African American Studies Unleashing Black Power: Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers. Peter Blackmer, Eastern Michigan University Shining Stars: African American Women Authors of the Civil War Era. Lavonda Kay Broadnax, Lavonda Kay Broadnax FREED, African Am EMPIRE. Heather Buchanan, Aquarius Press Willow Books The Price of Exclusion: The Pursuit of Healthcare in a Segregated Nation. Nicole Carr, Clark Atlanta University “Forged in Battle: African American Officers Serving in the United States Army.” Cleola Davis, Forged in Battle, LLC Coloring History Barbara Johns: Teenaged Civil Rights Activist Coloring History Maggie Lena Walker: First Female Bank President Coloring History Mary Peake: Mother of African American Education in Virginia. Veronica Alease Davis, Coloring History Books Guardians of the Movement: Building Unbreakable Leadership for Black Liberation. Russell Drake, Exordium Communications LLC The Rosewood Settlement: A Story about the Idella Carrier’s Families of Rosewood; Includes African American Family Accounts of the Mcleod’s Family. Harriet Frost, Rosewood Idella Carrier Foundation The New Red Book: A Guide to 50 of Houston’s Black Historical and Cultural Sites. Lindsay Gary Absolutely Amazing American Artists: Elise Forrest Harleston (1891-1970). Mae Gentry, Starflower Film The Starseekers. Nicole Glover Democracy’s Foot Soldiers: World War I and the Politics of Empire in the Greater Caribbean. Reena Goldthree, Princeton University Chance or Circumstance? A Memoir and Journey through the Struggle for Civil Rights. Brenda Hackett, National Black Nurses Association; James R. Mapp Ladies of Little Rock: Black Femininity and Respectability Politics in the Fight to Desegregate Central High School. Misti Nicole Harper, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke We Got Soul, We Can Heal Overcoming Racial Trauma Through Leadership, Community and Resilience. Phyllis Jeffers-Coly, Diasporic Soul Art and Activism: Jazz Artists and Writers in the Civil Rights Vanguard. Jack Marchbanks, Language Universal, LLC. Living with Jezebel; You Don’t Want Success Create Your Success Yearly Planner; Stop Surviving and LIVE!; Introduction to Childcare; An Unexpected Hero; The Family Gift; No(t) Home for Christmas A Holiday with Finesse. Miko Marsh The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Return to Southampton County;Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes Trilogy. David Mason, HMG ePublishing, LLC Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South. Jarvis C McInnis Black Arts, Black Muslims: Islam in the Black Freedom Struggle. Ellen McLarney, Duke University Black Ambassadors: Every Day A Diplomatic Legacy. Carlton McLellan, The American Ambassadors Project The Dr. Milton D. Quigless, Sr. Story: A Memoir of Race, Medicine, and Purpose in the Segregated South. Carol Quigless, Flourish Essential Oils LLC SOUL SEARCHER: Life and Legend of Chuck Brown-Godfather of Go-Go. Sundiata Ramin, Sun Ra Publishing The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Making of AfricaTown, USA: Spirit of Our Ancestors. Natalie Robertson, Mobile AL Branch My Temporary Home. Raquel Roxii Rodriguez Hellfire Effect: Thou Shalt Not Kill. William Rogers An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German. Mary Romney-Schaab, University of Connecticut, retired Grandma Dee’s Pineapple Upside-Down Cake. Markette Sheppard, Markette Sheppard Publishing Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era. Calvin Stovall, ICONIC Presentations, LLC Why The Future Belongs To Us - A Vision of Hope, Healing, and Unlimited Possibilities For Black America. Michael Taylor, Creation Publishing Group Reckoning the Racial Reckoning: From Backlash to Accountability after George Floyd. David Troutt, Rutgers Law School-Newark Relationship Conversation You Don’t Want to Have (But Should Anyway). Yao Tyus, Steppingstones Management Services, LLC 88 Unashamed Black Mental Health Stories. Romaine Washington A Balm in Gilead: Eulogies of Comfort. Randall Webber, Louisville, Kentucky Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH First Gardeners. Martha Williams No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner. Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Virginia Mae Burnette Perry/Perry. Audrey Perry Williams, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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To Understand Race in America. Bob-e Simpson Epps, 1; Sue Kiefer Hammersmith First Baptist Church of Williamsburg: A History of Resilience, Determination, and Hope. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk’s Public Schools. Charles H. Ford, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Zora, The Story Keeper. Ebony Wilkins, National Louis University Journey with Jesus through Black History. Glenn E. Porter, Queen Street Baptist Church A Dream Deferred: The Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston. Akua McDaniel, Independent Scholar Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves: Presbyterian Domestic Missionaries and Race in South Carolina, 1802–1874. Otis Pickett, Clemson University There Is Nothing I Can’t Do! Tameca Wood, Authors Among Us Nothing Less Than Equality: The Battle over Segregated Education in the Nation’s Capital. Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago Black Narratives of Slavery: a Very Short Introduction. Robert J Patterson, Georgetown University Rushing, Raising And Painted Rust. Maxine Gross, Legacy Circle LLC The Instigators: How Black Women Have Been Essential To American Democracy (And What We Can Learn From Them). Atima Omara, Omara Strategy Group An Affirmation: Nite Baby Nite. Irene Smalls, SleepWiseHealth Bibb Country: Unearthing My Family Secrets of Land, Legacy and Lettuce. Lonnae O’Neal 144.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Wilson 3rd Floor

HOLDING THE MIC. Presenters: Georgette Mayo, College of Charleston Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Ashley Newby, University of Maryland Chair: DaNia Childress, College of Charleston Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 145.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

FASHION MEDIA: AUDIENCE RESPONSES TO BLACK EDITORIALS AND SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS. Leader: Giulia Baldini, Lehman College (CUNY) Presenter: Giulia Baldini, Lehman College (CUNY) 146.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

CLEVELAND AVENUE: ROOTS, RUIN, RESISTANCE. Commentator: Wan R. Smith, Georgia State University Presenter: Wan R. Smith, Georgia State University 147.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

O GOD, PLEASE!!: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF LILLIAN JONES HORACE. Commentator: Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Presenter: Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University 148.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

THE SECRET TO EMPOWERING BLACK CHILDREN. Leader: Tiffney Laing, Northern Virginia Community College- Loundon Campus 54 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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8:00pm 149.

8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Reception

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY RECEPTION. Participant: Bertis D English, Editor, Journal of African American History Invocation: Joseph A. Fleming, Third Baptist Church Portsmouth, VA Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University Sponsor: The University of Chicago Press Alabama State University 8:30pm 150.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Workshop

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

HIDDEN HISTORIES, PUBLIC TRUTHS: DIASPORIC BLACK MEMORY AND INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY. Leader: Angel Parson, Scott Trust Commentator: Adria Walker, The Guardian News & Media Presenters: Keisha Thompson, Scott Trust/ The Guardian Ahmed Reid, Scott Trust/ The Guardian 151.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Paper Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

BEATS, RHYMES, LIFE: NEW DEBATES IN HIP HOP CULTURE, PEDAGOGY AND HISTORY. Participants: Hip-Hop Within and Against Empire: Commodification of Black Noise in a post-Civil Rights era. Hudson Main, University of North Florida Unapologetically Educated: Hip-Hop as Rebellious Pedagogy in the Legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Adofo Ka-Re, Virginia Commonwealth University When they Reminisce Over You - Music, Murals, and Memorialization in Hip Hop and Urban Public Memory. Ayanna Muhammad, Howard University, School of Communications The Truth From the Boot: Mannie Fresh’s Legacy in New Orleans and Southern Hip Hop. Renee Richardson, Prairie View A & M University 152.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

BLACKRX: HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS OF BLACK PHARMACY IN THE UNITED STATES. Presenter: Tamara McCants, National Pharmaceutical Association Participant: A History of Pharmaceutical Education at Howard University: 1868-1981. Terri Moore, Moore and Associates Chair: Terri Moore, Moore and Associates

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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153.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

CONVERSATION WITH DR. ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK: HISTORICAL AND MUSICAL THEMES OF MEMORY, PROTEST, UPLIFT AND HEALING IN FOUR SELECTED WORKS (1979-2009). Presenter: Timothy Holley, NCCU Department of Music 154.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

“JUST TO LIVE”: A WORK-IN-PROGRESS SCREENING ON SEGREGANOMICS, MEMORY, AND THE AFTERLIFE OF REDLINING. Participant: Paul Greene Greeter: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University Presenter: Paul Greene 156.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton III - AV 3rd Floor

THE REMARKABLE STORY OF JAMES APOSTLE FIELDS: HBCU ORIGINS, BLACK EDUCATION, AND THE WORK OF HISTORICAL COMMEMORATION. Commentator: Danielle C Wingfield-Smith, University of Richmond and First Class Pilot LLC Presenter: Morgan Harris, First Class Pilot LLC 157.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

James 1/2- AV 4th Floor

ROOTED IN RESILIENCE: BLACK FARMER PERSPECTIVES ON LAND, LOSS, AND LEGACY. Commentator: Kenisha Thomas, Florida A&M University Presenters: Jada Davis, Florida A&M University Verlina Curry, Florida A&M University Tenay Jackson, Florida A&M University

Friday, September 25, 2026 7:00am 158.

7:00 am to 8:00 pm

Registration

Norfolk I 1st Floor.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am 159.

8:00 am to 6:00 pm

Exhibitor

Norfolk II/III-Exhibits 1st Floor

FRIDAY NORFOLK I/III EXHIBITS. 160.

8:00 am to 9:00 pm

Meeting

Hampton Foyer- APC Help Desk 3rd Floor

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

Augustus Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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8:30am 161.

8:30 am to 10:30 am

Meeting

Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

ASALH MEMBERS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. Participant: Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL 9:00am 162.

9:00 am to 11:00 am

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: THE EDUCATION OF SONNY CARSON (1974). DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CAMPUS. 1 HOUR 44 MIN. 10:45am 000.

10:15 am to 11:00 am

Special Book Panel

Norfolk V-AV 1st Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: RUSSELL RICKFORD’S “A PROXY AFRICA: GUYANA, AFRICAN AMERICANS, AND THE RADICAL 1970S.” Discussants: Kevin Gaines Minkah Makalani Nicole Burrowes 163.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

ARCHITECTS OF REVOLUTION: BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Presenters: David H Jackson, North Carolina Central University, Architect of a Revolution: Charles Banks and Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1903,1923 Darius J Young, Agnes Scott College, Architect of a Revolution: Albert B. Cleage Jr., and Detroit, 1963 Brian A. Robinson, Organizing Triad NC Branch of ASALH Chair: Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University 164.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Poster Session

Hampton Foyer- Poster Session 3rd Floor

POSTER SESSION. Judge: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Participants: Animating the Archive: The Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection. Stephannie Oriabure, Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board; Allison Rebadow, Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board At the Threshold of Home: Interpreting Domestic Interiors as Archives of Black Historical Memory in the Mid-Atlantic. Brittany P Newman Beyond the Expected Black Man”: Reimagining Black Masculinity Through History, Memory, and Social Expectation. Ray Ifanga, Virginia Commonwealth University; Grace Gipson, Virginia Commonwealth University Black Representation in Animation: A History of Erasure in Children’s TV. Alyssa Anderson, University of North Alabama Creating and Repurposing Spaces of Care: Black Hospitals in Jim Crow Florida, 1900 - 1967. Sabrina Shade, Florida State University Decode and Discover Literacy Lab. Tameca Wood, Authors Among Us Don’t Get Mad, Get Smart’: Pauli Murray’s Evolving Relationship Between Activism and the South, 1938-1944. Sare McClellan, Elizabeth City State University Ebony Magazine’s First Lady of Food: Freda DeKnight. Amber Jackson, Boston University N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

FR IDAY, SE PTE M B E R 25 , 202 6

Forming a Community: Heartbreak and Triumph in Making Black Chicago. Brandon Stokes, Newberry Library Black Student Fund From Commemoration to Transformation: The GRIT Initiative and Black Male Persistence in Community Colleges. Kenneth Hawkins, Hillsborough College Get Your Rifle Before It’s Too Late!: Picturing Armed Self-Defense during the 1960s and 1970s. Edward Onaci, Ursinus College Happily Ever After: A Documented History of the Attack on Black Love IRL and On-Screen. Olutoyosi Aboderin, University of San Diego HOSM4AA (Healing of the Soul for African Americans): A Biblical Model for Addressing Generational Racialized Soul Wounds/ Historical Trauma Producing Soul Healing. Rosalind Caldwell Stanley, Healing of the Soul Ministry I Ain’t Lying: Exploring the Intersections of Media, Community, and Philanthropy in Rural Mississippi. Deanna Hayden James Weldon Johnson. Sharon Coon, Friends of the Brentwood Public Library, Inc. Jean Michel Basquiat’s Bebop. Tamika Sakayi Sterrs-Howard Lambs of God: The Story of Black Children Who Desegregated Catholic Schools in New Orleans. Terri Dickerson Lemon Street Grammar School: A Snapshot of Black Education History in Story and Memory. Kristie Smith, Kennesaw State University; Johnathan J. White, PSU Greater Allegheny Moscow in the Harlem Renaissance. Kaysyn Jones, Florida State University Philadelphia’s Negro History Movement: From Negro History Clubs to The Philadelphia Heritage Branch, 1924–2026. Regina J. Vaughn, Philadelphia Heritage Branch of ASALH Preserving our Past and Shaping our future; The Power of Oral Histories. Marion Ransell Dobbins, Marion Historian Preserving Sacred Spaces: Identity, Community Grief, and Southern Black Catholic Education. LoRen LaDette Modisa Shatter The Stereotypes - Reclaiming Black Male Identity Through Storytelling, Reflection, and Cultural Transformation. Michael Taylor, Creation Publishing Group Social Inertia and Institutional Resistance: Cyclical Barriers to Educational Reform. Leo Winston, Radford University Socioeconomic status and stress: Impact of Project 2025 on a Comparison of Populations. Oladipo Aina, Lincoln University Sudan: Diversity Before Division. Anyiel Ajak, Goucher College Sundown Towns and the Architecture of Absence: Memory, Silence, and Structural Racism in America. Mia Baker - Spruill, Elizabeth City State University The Black Panther Party’s Social Welfare Programs and the Erased Origins of Community-Based Social Work. Andre Stevenson, Norfolk State University The (In)Visibility of Black Opera Performers. Kellie Williams, The University of North Carolina At Charlotte-Africana Studies The Myth of Black Excellence. JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University; Nichole Walker, Elizabeth City State University The North Carolina HBCU Freedom Trail: Education, Activism, and Memory. Jayla Williams, Elizabeth City State University The Power of Oral Histories. Marion Ransell Dobbins, Marion historian “The Records of a People are Their Very Soul”: Archives as a Tool for Community Preservation and Commemoration. Rebekah Turnmire, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research; Angelica Williams, University of South Carolina, Center for Civil Rights The State of the Black American Mind: A Century of Crisis, Commemoration, and Community Across the African American Experience. Kayla Cherise Forney The Value of Black Spaces at Radford University: An Observation of African American Student Engagement. Leo Winston, Radford University Under One Roof: Teaching Black and Im/migration Histories Together. Marquis Taylor, Northwestern University Understanding And Addressing Resource Underutilization in Bronx Communities. Justine K. McCarthy Beyond the Diamond – Negro Leagues and Black Economic Self sufficiency. Rholine Rose From Memoir to Community: Reconstructing the Margaret Douglass School for Free African American Children in Norfolk, 1852– 1854: Education, Law, and Community in Antebellum Norfolk. Hollis Gentry-Brown, Smithsonian Libraries & Archives “I’m Laughing but It Ain’t Funny”: A Qualitative Examination of Racial Teasing Among Black Youth. Myahkia Watson, Oklahoma State University James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Branch Programs and Activities - September 2025 - August 2026. Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Ouachita Parish Rosenwald Schools and the Communities Who Built Them. Ella Mayfield, North Carolina State University Professionalism in the Margins: Black Librarians and the NC Negro Library Association. Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC; Brittany Nicole Champion, University of South Carolina The Great Depression and 200 Black Women and 20 men in Norfolk VA. Martha Williams Trouble Don’t Last Always: Cultural Pathways to Black Women’s Resilience and Psychological Outcomes. Myahkia Watson, Oklahoma State University Chairs: Thura Mack, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Erica Bruchko, Emory University Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC 58 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Key Session

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

ACTIVISM AS SCHOLARSHIP: HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF JOHANNA FERNANDEZ. Moderator: Augustus Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Presenters: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Felipe C Hinojosa, Baylor University Shannon King, Fairfield University Jessica Millward, University of California at Irvine Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Stony Brook University Adrienne M. Petty 166.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Key Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

PARTICIPATING IN THE LEGACY OF CARTER G. WOODSON: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLISHING IN THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. Greeter: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Presenters: Bertis D English, Editor, Journal of African American History V.P. Franklin, Former Editor, Journal of African American History Pero G. Dagbovie, Michigan State University- Department of History 167.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Paper Session

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

BLACK STUDENTS RISE UP! COMMEMORATING A CENTURY OF BLACK SOCIAL PROTEST IN EDUCATION. Participants: After the 1968 Bursar Takeover: How Black Students Kept Northwestern University Accountable to the May 4th Agreement. Deborah Tulloch Commemorating Student Activism: The 75th Anniversary of the Barbara Johns Moton School Strike. Veronica Alease Davis, Coloring History Books “Contesting Race Leadership: Student Activism and Institutional Power at Fisk University, 1960–1970.” Perzavia Praylow, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Hidden Architects of Change: Student Protest, Youth Agency, and Educational Reform in Chicago Public Schools. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago The consolidation of policing power on campus—as illustrated by student movement 1969 at Emory. Rongyou Gao, Emory University School of Law Early Black Schooling in the Antebellum South: Examining the Antecedents of the Council of Independent Black Institutions and the African Centered School Movement. Baye Kemit, Clark Atlanta University-Department of African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies, & History 168.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Paper Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

BLACK WOMEN AND THE STRUGGLE TOWARDS INTERNAL SOVEREIGNTY. Participants: Miscarriages for Black Girls. Jocelyn Brown, Ohio University “You May Call Me Eva P.”: Using the subjunctive to tell a Black matrilineal history. Tamara Beauboeuf, Grinnell College “A Revolution That Begins Within Ourselves”: Black Women’s Intellectual Activism and the YWCA’s One Imperative. LaNesha McCoy, University of Washington Signs All Along: Lilian Thomas Burwell and the Problem of Recognition in Black Art History. Arletha Greer “‘The right combination, the key, the code, the sound that broke the back of words’.” Marja Lankinen, Howard University Graduate School N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

A BLACK FEMINIST LEGACY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Commentator: Makeba Lavan, Grinnell College Presenters: Robert Robinson, City University of New York Kiran Garcha, California State University Bakersfield Mary Phillips, Department of African American Studies-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Renee Wilmot, Michigan State University Chair: Makeba Lavan, Grinnell College 170.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Workshop

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

ASALH BRANCH LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE. Leader: Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Commentators: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Chair: Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University 171.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

ACTIVE ARCHIVES: MATERIAL CULTURE, VISUAL ARTS, AND THE VERNACULAR LANDSCAPES OF BLACK COMMEMORATION. Participants: Feeding the Future: Children, Foodways, and the Preservation of Black Historical Memory. Sarah Anderson, Oldways Preservation Trust The Problem with Archives: A Portrait is Worth Our Words. Lillian Young, Brooklyn Museum A black-owned independent record label in Music City: Carrie Records, James Hendrix, and a diversified output. Jon Sewell, Middle Tennessee State University Chair: Sarah Anderson, Oldways Preservation Trust 172.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

James 3 4th Floor

MEMORIES OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS IN BLACK AMERICA. Participants: The Relation of Archival Repair, Black Communities, and the American Healthcare System. Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH; Tabitha Samuel, Waring Historical Library, Medical University of South Carolina Origin Story: The Impact of Black Identity Construction on Black Female Peoples’ Wellness Outcomes. darlene anita scott, Virginia State University “Survivors’ Stories”: Richard Pryor and Jamie Foxx. Ray Mizumura-Pence, University of Kansas The Berry Plan: Addiction, Public Health, and the Law in 1950s Chicago. Caine Jordan, The University of Chicago Chair: Caine Jordan, The University of Chicago

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10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

THE WORK OF HOLDING ON: BLACK CARE, KINSHIP, AND SURVIVAL FROM SLAVERY TO THE PRESENT. Presenters: Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Antonio Austin, National Museum of African American History and Culture Kendra Anthony, Morgan State University Janell B Pryor, Bowie State University Participants: She Became a Person: Archival Strategies for Recovering Enslaved Black Women and Girls’ Voices and Choices. Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Relationships within the Black Community. Antonio Austin, Howard University Layin on of Hands: Things We Lost when the License Came. Kendra Anthony, Morgan State University Chair: Shawna D. Williams 174.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

WHAT THEY DON’T COMMEMORATE: LAW, POWER, AND BLACK RESISTANCE FROM ANTI-LYNCHING TO EDUCATION REFORM. Commentator: Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona Participants: Punishing the Mob: A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Lynching Politics between Texas and the Federal Government, 1897-1907. Lucius Seger, University of Central Arkansas From Brown to No Child Left Behind-Federal Education Policy, Black Schooling, and the Costs of Reform in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Houston. Wesley Jackson, Arkansas State University Black Teachers vs The Memphis Board of Education. James Conway, African and African American Studies Program, University of Memphis “The Number of People We Can Activate”: Charlene Mitchell’s 1968 Presidential Campaign and the Politics of Black Liberation. Joshua Crutchfield, Arkansas State University Chair: Wesley Jackson, Arkansas State University 175.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Paper Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

NEW RESEARCH ON BLACK VIRGINIANS’ STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM. Participants: Eclipse and Recovery: The Long-Deferred Commemorations of the Richmond 34 Arrests. Raymond Hylton, Virginia Union University; Kimberly Matthews, Virginia Commonwealth University Erased from the Story: Forgotten Story of the Readjuster Movement in Virginia. Sheren Sanders, Virginia State University Norfolk State College The Vanguard Party and Black Panther Influences. Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University The Power of Preservation in Community Development and Environment Justice. Colita Nichols-Fairfax, Barrett-Peake Heritage Foundation William (Tucker) and the Origins of African American History: Reexamining 1619 in English North America. Wanda Tucker, The William Tucker 1624 Society 176.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Roundtable

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

MOTHERWORK: BLACK ACADEMIC MOTHERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Presenters: K.T. Ewing, The University of Alabama Ashley Howard, University of Iowa Jessica Klanderud, Berea College Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University Noel Voltz, Case Western Reserve University Chair: Brenda Stevenson, University of California - Los Angeles and Oxford University N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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177.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

REFOUNDING LEGACIES: EXPANDING THE NATION’S ORIGIN STORY AT MONTICELLO. Presenters: Tiana Woodard, Getting Word African American History Department at Monticello Ty’Leik Chambers, Getting Word African American History Department at Monticello Lorenzo Dickerson, Getting Word African American History Department at Monticello Chair: Auriana Woods, Getting Word African American History Department at Monticello 178.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

PRESENTING: CHANEY PRESERVATION STUDIOS LLC PRESENTER: J. HALEY SWINDLE. Leader: Haley Swindle ,City of Atlanta Department of City Planning 179.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Special Book Panel

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: JARVIS MCINNIS’ “AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION: PLOTTING AGRARIAN FUTURES IN THE GLOBAL BLACK SOUTH.” Chairs: Tiffany Lethabo King, University of Virginia Kenrick Grandison, University of Virginia Discussants: Julius B Fleming, Washington University in St Louis Marlon B. Ross, University of Virginia Author: Jarvis C McInnis 180.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

LAND AND LEGACY: CREATING AND SUSTAINING BLACK COMMUNITY IN INDIANA. Participants: The Archaeology of Lick Creek. Kisha Tandy, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Joseph Taylor Branch Unveiling a Forgotten Legacy. Zola Lamothe, Living Art Creations Researching Roberts Settlement. Susan L. Hall Dotson, Indiana Historical Society Chair: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH 181.

10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

BLACK SOVEREIGNS IN THE ACADEMY, CITY, & EMPIRE. Presenter: Nathalie Frédéric Pierre, Howard University Participants: The 1805 Enslavement Proclamation and Defending Black Children. Nathalie Frédéric Pierre, Howard University The Southern Roots of Black Progressive Leadership in Washington DC. Nathaniel Mathews, Binghampton University Chair: Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University

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10:45 am to 12:15 pm

Panel Session

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

THE LEGACY OF MISSISSIPPI CIVIL RIGHTS HEROINE FANNIE LOU HAMER. Participants: “Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, the Atlantic City Compromise, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Jeffrey Kolnick, Southwest Minnesota State University “Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer: A First-Hand Sketch and Profile of a Mississippi Grassroots Activist and Community Mentor.” LeslieBurl McLemore, The Hamer Institute “More than a Political Activist: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer’s fight for Economic Liberation.” Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University at Newark Chair: David C. Dennard, Retired/Emeritus professor, East Carolina University 11:30am 183.

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: A SOLDIER’S STORY (1984). DIRECTED BY NORMAN JEWISON. 1 HOUR 41 MIN. 12:00pm 184.

12:00 pm to 1:50 pm

Luncheon

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

ASSOCIATION OF BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS ANNUAL LUNCHEON. Leader: Vanessa Holden, University of Kentucky 12:30pm 185.

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

Luncheon

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

BLACK POLITICAL POWER: THE 92% AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE. Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President, Loyola University Moderator: Errin Haines, The 19th News Guest Speaker: Stacey Patton, Howard University Charles McKinney, Rhodes College Tanya Clay House, Clay House Consulting Inc Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Glenn E. Porter, Queen Street Baptist Church Tamar Smithers-Diakhi Gary Flowers Invocation & Grace: Jumaar Trumane Jones, First Baptist Church East End, Newport News Benediction: Jumaar Trumane Jones, First Baptist Church East End, Newport News

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2:15 pm to 3:45 pm

Plenary Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

DIAGNOSIS OF OUR DISCOMFORT: THE CRISIS AND FUTURE OF BLACK STUDIES. Moderator: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Discussants: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University Mary Phillips, Department of African American Studies-University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Melina Abdullah, California State University, Los Angeles Shawn O. Utsey, Department of African American Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University 4:00pm 187.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

FROM SUPPRESSED HISTORY TO ECONOMIC IMPACT: PUBLIC HISTORY AND THE RISE OF BLACK HERITAGE TOURISM. Presenters: Haley Swindle City of Atlanta Department of City Planning Cedric Harrison, WilmingtoNColor Sherwin Keith Bryant, Rice University - Center for African and African American Studies Chair: Adreonna Nicole Simmons-Bennett, Romare Bearden Branch of ASALH of Charlotte, NC 188.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Meeting

Hospitality Room 616 6th Floor

2027 CONFERENCE PLANNING MEETING. Participant: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University John E. Adams, Bronzeville Trails Everett F. Hardy II, Oberlin College Tamara McCants, National Pharmaceutical Association Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Stony Brook University Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University Department of History Tammy L. Sanders Henderson, University of Maryland Baltimore County Gladys Vaughn, ASALH Eecutive Council Jacqueline L Banks, Royalty iS Black, LLC LaShay Harvey, Black Girl Saturday School® Shavon Countee, Goucher College Minkah Makalani, Johns Hopkins University George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Yvonne Alston, PG County Truth Branch of ASALH Chair: Augustus Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 64 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

“INVISIBLY VISIBLE”: MISSOURI AS A MODEL FOR BLACK FEMALE SUPERINTENDENT REPRESENTATION IN AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION. Participants: Visible Yet Invisible: The Ascendancy of Black Women Superintendents in Missouri and the Blueprint for Equitable Leadership. Tracy Starks, Lincoln University of Missouri Missouri’s Exceptionalism: Black Women, Educational Leadership, and the Conditions That Make Equity Possible. Aaron Campbell, Lincoln University of Missouri “From M Street to Missouri”: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper’s Legacy of Intellectual Resistance at Lincoln University. David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Chair: David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University 190.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

BLACK PLACEMAKING: BLACK QUEER COMMUNITIES, BLACK FAMILIES, BLACK GIRLS, AND BLACK CHILDREN EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. Commentator: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley Participants: Social Epidemics, Sexual Economies: The impact of HIV/AIDS on Black Queer Communities and Placemaking. Marlon M. Bailey, Washington University, St. Louis, Dept. of African and African American Studies and Dept. of Women, Moynihan and His Children: Racial Governance and Black Interiority in Postwar Milwaukee. Kidiocus King-Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of African & African Diaspora Studies ‘Like, Does the Government Want Us to Die?’ Children’s Ideas about Race, Place, Power and Change in the Bronx. Erin Winkler, Wayne State University, Department of African American Studies Nasty Work: Black Girls’ Refusal of Territorial Stigma in Saginaw, Michigan. Ashley Woodson, Wayne State University, Honors College Chair: Marisa J Fuentes, Rutgers University 191.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

AUTHOR MEETS ENGAGED READERS: LAUREN HENLEY’S INQUISITION FOR BLOOD THE MAKING OF A BLACK FEMALE SERIAL KILLER IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH (2026). Commentator: Lauren Henley, University of Richmond Presenters: William Sturkey, University of Pennsylvania Michelle Scott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Sowande’ M. Mustakeem, Washington University Chair: LaShawn Harris, Journal of African American History (Pero Dagbovie)

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

DU BOIS AS METHOD AT BLACK HISTORY’S CENTENNIAL (1926–2026): ARCHIVES, MONUMENTS, MUSEUMS, AND DEMOCRATIC KNOWLEDGE. Participant: Kendra Field, Gerald R. Gill Associate Professor of History Tufts University Phillip Luke Sinitiere, College of Biblical Studies (Houston) Paul Gardullo, Smithsonian NMAAHC George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Crystal N. Feimster, Associate Professor, Black Studies & History, Yale University Kiese Laymon, Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of Creative Writing and English, Rice University Commentator: David Levering Lewis, Professor of History Emeritus, New York University Presenters: Frances Jones-Sneed Kendra Field, Gerald R. Gill Associate Professor of History Tufts University George Derek Musgrove, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Kimberly Ann Harris Chair: Frances Jones-Sneed 193.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

BEYOND TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIMISM: RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF MEDICAL ADVANCEMENT. Participants: Infrastructures of Survival: Black Women’s Labor and the Making of Medical Innovation in Jim Crow Hospitals. Alyssa Cole, University of Florida The Social Determinants of Access: Rethinking Innovation in the Shadow of Structural Racism. Aishah Scott, Providence College Chair: Alyssa Cole, University of Florida 194.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

DEMANDING CITIZENS: RACIAL POLITICS, RACIAL INCLUSION, AND EFFORTS TO REPAIR A FRAGMENTED DEMOCRACY IN A POST-TRUTH ERA. Commentator: Jasmine Noelle Yarish, University of the District of Columbia Participants: Authoritarianism Against Black Populism and Politics at the Margins: The Way Through is Around. Marcus Board, Howard University The Path to Environmental Justice is Circular: Legislative Response and Grassroots Activism. Athena M. King, Old Dominion University Craftivism as Feminism, Bricolage as Abolitionism, and the 2018 Candidacy of Paula Jean Swearengin. Jasmine Noelle Yarish, University of the District of Columbia Chair: Tyson King-Meadows, Norfolk State University 195.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Key Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

FELIX ARMFIELD DISSERTATION PITCH. Leaders: Charles McKinney, Rhodes College Dominique Moore Dawn Durante, UNC Press Gerald Horne Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Martha’s Vineyard Branch of ASALH Chair: Tikia K. Hamilton, Loyola University Chicago Sponsor: Cherisse R. Jones-Branch Morgan State University, Morgan State University Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York 66 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

James 3 4th Floor

EPISODES OF STRUGGLE AGAINST RACIAL OPPRESSION IN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. Participants: “Excavating and Documenting Over 150 Years of Historical and Racial Harm Against Black Coloradans in the Centennial State”. Chloé Duplessis, History Colorado Center; Melissa Jones, Colorado Black Equity Study at History Colorado Silencing the Guns or Silencing Action? The African Union’s Failure to Prevent the Tigray Conﬂict. Makda Maru, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Delaware State University Open Door in a Stone Wall: Ida B Wells’ Transatlantic Antilynching Activism to Great Britain in the 1890’s. Chinenye Obinna, The University of Alabama Refusing Racism in Rutherford: How the Woods family Desegregated Rutherford Tennessee. Christian Woods, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Conciência Negra/Black Consciousness: Black Women Writers’ Publishing Strategies in Post-Dictatorship São Paulo. Sarah Ohmer, CUNY - Lehman College Keisha Oliver Jelani Hayes Jessica Newby WIlliam Taylor LaNesha McCoy Andrew Aldridge Taylor Brookins 197.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

THE SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS: COMMEMORATING MUSIC & DANCE IN BLACK CULTURAL STUDIES SESSION 1. Participants: “A Place that Might Go on Forever”: Intergenerational Joy and Diasporic Belonging in Jook Joints. Jeanette Adame, Florida International University Sounding Black History: The Jenkins Jazz Heritage Project, a Century of Cultural Commemoration Through Music. Dena Davis, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Basquiat’s Bebop. Tamika Sakayi Sterrs-Howard “Black Musicians in Music City, USA”: Revisiting a 40 year old research study. Jon Sewell, Middle Tennessee State University 198.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

THE GEOSPATIAL LEGACY OF CIVIL PROTEST AND RACISM SINCE THE 1500S. Presenters: Otilia Iancu, Savannah State University James W. Beeks, Sr., Walden University School of Public Policy/Administration Kenneth Jordan, Savannah State University Chair: Otilia Iancu, Savannah State University 199.

4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

MARLON RIGGS FILM FESTIVAL: ETHNIC NOTIONS (1986), 57 MIN; TONGUES UNTIED (1989), 55 MIN; BLACK IS... BLACK AIN’T (1994), 1 HOUR 27 MIN. 200.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

SAFE SPACES: HEALING THE BODIES THAT HOLD BLACK MEMORY IN AN ERA OF ERASURE. Presenters: Stacey Patton, Howard University LaNeice Littleton, Atlanta History Center Tara White Ashley Preston Chair: Sharon Burney, CLIR-Council on Library & Information Resources N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

WARRIORS AND WITNESSES: AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITARY SERVICE AND MEMORY. Commentator: Robert Franklin Jefferson Jr., University of New Mexico Participants: Black Military Service and the American Identity: The Reconstruction of the Meaning of Masculinity and Service. Rozey Hill, Cornell University “We Have Always Been Here”: Building a Community Archive in Norwood and the Legacy of Black Civil War Memory. Stephen M Lane, Indianapolis Public Library From Jim Crow to Buchenwald: Black Soldiers and Liberation on Two Fronts. Darian Abenes, Florida State University Hidden in Plain Sight: The Intentional and Unintentional Act of Passing and Forensic Identifications. Sydney Garcia, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Chair: Robert Franklin Jefferson Jr., University of New Mexico 202.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

DISSERTATING WITH ETHICS OF CARE: REFLECTIONS FROM A BLACK FEMINIST METHODS WRITING GROUP. Presenters: Jeania Ree Moore, Brite Divinity School Alison Kibbe, College of Charleston Candace Borders, Washington University in St. Louis Chair: Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University 203.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

Wilson 3rd Floor

THREE CENTURIES OF BLACK MUSICAL GENIUS. Leader: Cheryl Coleman, Manasota ASALH, Inc. 204.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Tyler 3rd Floor

WE WERE ALWAYS HERE: RECOVERING THE EDUCATIONAL HISTORIES OF BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE WEST. Commentator: Angela Louque, CSU San Bernardino Participants: Silenced No More: Black Educators, Desegregation, and the Unfinished Promise of Brown in Portland’s Schools. Artice Jackson, CSU Sacramento Coming of Age in the Golden State: Black Girls’ Educational Experiences, Resistance, and Survivance in Northern California, 1849–1970. Mari Gray, CSU East Bay Leading, Leaving, and Staying Power: Black Female Sustainability and Legacy in the Bay Area Principalship. Sabrina N Moore, Oakland Unified School District Chair: Mari Gray, CSU East Bay 205.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

BANKING, MUSIC, AND NONPROFIT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF BLACK BUSINESS. Participants: Initializing A Network Economy for Future Generations. Verda Olayinka, Cultural Consultant; Verda Olayinka, Cultural Consultant Making Jim Crow Pay: Charles Harry Anderson’s Racial Progress during the Nadir Period in Florida. Ronald Jackson, BethuneCookman University Sanders L. Howell, Black Depositors, and the Investigative Hearings of the Freedman’s Bank, 1876-1880. Brandon Winford, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 68 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

OUR HEALTH IS OUR POWER: AGENCY, GENDER, AND INCARCERATION IN THE EXPANSION OF BLACK HEALTHCARE. Participants: A Century of Black History Commemorations in Healthcare: Revisiting the Tuskegee Experiment and Preserving the Legacy of Black Holistic Healing Traditions. Christalyn Cooper, Tennova Healthcare; LLeweLLyn Cooper, McNabb Mental Healthcare Origin Story: The Ongoing Impact of Black Identity Construction on Black Female Peoples’ Wellness Outcomes. darlene anita scott, Virginia State University The Legacy of Black Owned Medical Schools in the United States. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch The Sickness of Confinement: Tuberculosis, Black Men, and Prison Conditions in Jim Crow New York. Douglas James Flowe Sankofa: Legacy of Early Black Physicians in Virginia. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch The Agency Suppression and Restoration (ASR) Model: Understanding Racialized Psychological Violence and Black Healing. Grace Amoah, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Africana Studies 207.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

VOICES, PLACES, AND MEMORY: COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO COMMUNITY-FACING HISTORIES IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. Participants: Building Community through Building Rehabilitation: Rehabilitating Elizabeth City State University’s Rosenwald Practice School. Melissa Stuckey, University of South Carolina Remembering the Rural Freedom Struggle: Public Memory and the Civil Rights Movement in Plymouth, North Carolina. JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University Bridging Heritage and Preservation: Engaging HBCU Students in the Interpretation of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University Chair: Charles Reed, Elizabeth City State University 208.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

LEARNING & FREEDOM: LESSONS FROM 19TH & 20TH CENTURY BLACK EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. Commentator: Jon Hale, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Presenter: Zenzile Riddick, Northwestern University Participants: Rev. Jeremiah Burke Sanderson and the Many Beginnings of Black Education in 19th Century California. Darion A. Wallace, University of California, Riverside School Building Narratives and African American History from Slavery to Freedom. Christian Walkes, Washington and Lee University “Everything We Did Was an Educational Process”: Black Women, Black Power, and Educational Self-Determination. Zenzile Riddick, Northwestern University Chair: Crystal R. Sanders, Emory University 5:45pm 209.

5:45 pm to 6:05 pm

Meeting

Norfolk V-AV 1st Floor

HBCU GROUP PHOTO SESSION. Leaders: David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York James Morgan, Morgan State University

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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6:00pm 210.

6:00 pm to 6:30 pm

Tour

Hotel Front Entrance (Past the Valet Parking Area)

FRIDAY NIGHT OUT BUS LOAD. 211.

6:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Reception

Norfolk State University

FRIDAY NIGHT OUT AT NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY. Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University 7:00pm 212.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor THE SANKOFA CINEMA CLUB.

Moderator: Bridget Yolanda Smith Commentator: Bridget Yolanda Smith Presenter: Bridget Yolanda Smith 213.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

FROM ERASED TO EXPERIENCED: REBUILDING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL PUBLIC STORYTELLING. Leader: Cedric Harrison Presenter: Cedric Harrison 214.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

COMMEMORATE, CREATE, RESIST: BLACK HISTORY AT 100 AND THE POLITICS OF FREEDOM. Presenters: A. Kayum Ahmed, Barnard College Nicole M Morris Johnson, Dartmouth College Isis Barra Costa, Ohio State University Francis (Cisco) Bradley, Pratt Institute Ellen McLarney, Duke University Chair: Alyssa Napier, Columbia University 215.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

BEYOND THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: REFRAMING THE CAREER AND LEGACY OF ARNA BONTEMPS. Participants: Between Respectability and Representation: Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and the Politics of Black Image-Making in St. Louis Woman. Rebecca L. Hankins, Texas A&M University Arna Bontemps and the Julius Rosenwald Fund’s Fellowship Program, 1938–1948. Emily Masghati, Penn State Erie When They Called, He Answered: Arna Bontemps as a node in Black Intellectual Networks. LaVerne Gray, Syracuse University Spiritual Tracks on Arna Bontemps’ Journeys. Joan L Bryant, African American Studies Syracuse University 70 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

REPORTING TO A NEW BEAT: THE BLACK PRESS AS A TOOL FOR LIBERATION. Commentator: Rebekah Barber, University of North Carolina Presenter: Logan Phillips, Northwestern University Participants: Reporting to a New Beat: The Black Press as a Tool for Liberation (2). Sabrina Evans-Rangel, Howard University Reporting to a New Beat: The Black Press as a Tool for Liberation (3). Stanley Miller, UNC Chapel Hill Reporting to a New Beat: The Black Press as a Tool for Liberation (4). Logan Phillips, Northwestern University Chair: DoVeanna Fulton, Norfolk State University 217.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

FROM INCLUSION TO BLACK STUDIES: RECLAIMING CURRICULUM, MEMORY, AND POWER IN PUBLIC EDUCATION. Participants: Beyond Inclusion: Black Studies and the Struggle for Knowledge and Power in Public Schools. Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College Curriculum as Commemoration: A Comparative Analysis of the New York State Curriculum of Inclusion and New York City Black Studies. Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York Teaching Black History in an Era of Resistance: Policy, Practice, and Power. Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College Chairs: Patricia Haggler, CUNY York College Lindamichelle Baron, City University of New York 218.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

THE ASSASSINATION OF WILLIAM R. TOLBERT (DIRECTED BY GERALD K. BARCLAY) SCREENING AND ROUNDTABLE. Moderator: Gerald Horne Commentators: Carl Patrick Burrowes Kau Fahnbulleh, Independent Scholar Elijah Robert Zehyoue, Emory University Presenter: Gerald Barclay, GeeBee Productions 219.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

James 3 4th Floor

REFRAMING BLACK WOMEN’S NARRATIVES. Commentator: Amy J. Tillerson-Brown, Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA Participants: She’s Not Liberated, She’s Licensed: Respectability, the Market, and the Disappearance of the Ghetto Girl. Jacqueline Cherry, North Carolina Central University -History Department Wayward Lives, Alternative Futures: Black Women, Urban Space, and Everyday Resistance. Morgan White, North Carolina Central University -History Department Questioning Political Legitimacy: Mainstream Media Coverage of Black Female Political Campaigns, 2016-2024. Taylor Stewart, North Carolina Central University Chair: Baiyina Muhammad, North Carolina Central University

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Marriott VI- AV 4th Floor

BRIDGING HISTORICAL WORLDS: TRANSLATING AFRICA & BYZANTIUM WORLD INTO FIFTH GRADE HARLEM CLASSROOMS. Participants: Curating Africa for Young Audiences: Translating Africa & Byzantium into Elementary Pedagogy. Karen Pelaez, Metropolitan Museum of Art Near-Peer Teaching and Diasporic Learning: Bridging Museum Scholarship and Harlem Classrooms. Channing Moore, The Spence School Institutional Partnerships and Historical Representation: Building Sustainable Pathways Between Museums and Community Schools. Michelle Haynes, Sisulu Walker Charter School of Harlem Chair: Channing Moore, The Spence School 221.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Marriott VII- AV 4th Floor

CHRONICLING FREEDOM: STORYTELLERS, HISTORICAL MEMORY, AND BLACK RESISTANCE. Commentator: Micah Lynn, Emory Participants: Closing Wounds: Stories of Karmic Justice in the Ohio Valley. Micah Lynn, Emory “Yours For Freedom, Sarah Wright”: Sarah E. Wright as Narrator and Narrative in the Black Freedom Struggle. Ariane Ribeiro Santana, University of Kentucky Revolutionary in Motion. Garrett David Freas, University of Kentucky Remaking the Past, Imagining the Future: Historical Memory and Resistance in Contemporary Black Superhero Narratives. Norina Samuels, University of Kentucky Chair: Ariane Ribeiro Santana, University of Kentucky 222.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

DEFYING ERASURE: BLACK WOMEN’S STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE ACROSS TIME. Participants: The Enduring Impact of Medical Racism on Black Women’s Lives. Vanessa Bennett, The Ohio State University at Newark Black Women’s Respectability and Resistance. Martha Makabu, The Ohio State University Afrolatinidad in Brazil: Black Women and the Legacy of Colonialism. Dejhana Johnson, The Ohio State University Chair: Tiyi Morris, Ohio State University at Newark 223.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

PICTURES, MEMORIES, AND LEGACY: USING PHOTOS AND STORYTELLING TO STRENGTHEN CONNECTION AND BRAIN HEALTH. Presenters: Bernice Alexander Bennett, BB’s Genealogy and Educational Services Rick Voight, Vivid-Pix Participants: Pictures, Memories, and Legacy: Using Photos and Storytelling to Strengthen Connection and Brain Health. Bernice Alexander Bennett, BB’s Genealogy and Educational Services Cognitive Benefits of Photo Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia Patients. Rick Voight, Vivid-Pix An Interdisciplinary Framework for Rural Workforce Development and Cognitive Longevity. Rick Voight, Vivid-Pix Chair: Rick Voight, Vivid-Pix

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Washington 3rd Floor

MORE THAN SUNDAY: HOW DETROIT’S BLACK CHURCHES BUILT COMMUNITY BEYOND THE PULPIT. Presenter: Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch Participants: Detroit: The Black Hospital Capital of America. Anita Moncrease, ASALH Detroit Branch More Than Sunday: How Detroit’s Black Churches Built Community Beyond the Pulpit. Wallace Bowie, University of MichiganDearborn The Church as Archive: Teaching Young People to Preserve Detroit’s Black History. Wallace Bowie, University of MichiganDearborn Chair: Wallace Bowie, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 225.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Panel Session

Wilson 3rd Floor

NEW STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF BLACK MASCULINITY. Participants: “Radical Paternity: The Resistant Masculinity of Black Fatherhood from Anti-Slavery to Early Civil Rights.”. Thomas Blakeslee, University of Notre Dame Stylin Black Power: Fashioning Black Masculinity and Identity. Mickell Carter, Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Brown University Chair: Adam X McNeil, University of Notre Dame 226.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

BEAH RIPPLE MOVEMENT WORKSHOP: CONNECTING THE DOTS. Leader: Busi Elise Peters-Maughan, WHEW Women Healing & Empowering Women 227.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

SHATTER THE STEREOTYPES: REIMAGINING BLACK MALE IDENTITY THROUGH MEDIA, STORYTELLING, AND EDUCATION. Commentator: Michael Taylor, Creation Publishing Group Presenter: Michael Taylor, Creation Publishing Group 228.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

FROM COMMEMORATION TO EMBODIMENT: TEACHING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH AFRICAN DIASPORIC DANCE, MEMORY, AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE. Leader: Kevin McEwen, The Kofago Institute Incorporated Commentator: Patriann Edwards, Georgia State University

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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Media Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

BEYOND THE SCHOOLYARD: A ROSENWALD SCHOOL, ITS ALUMNI, AND THE WORK OF COMMEMORATION. Moderator: Myeshia Babers, Queens College CUNY Commentator: Myeshia Babers, Queens College CUNY Presenter: Myeshia Babers, Queens College CUNY 230.

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

OUR HISTORY IS OUR AUTHORITY: HOW FAMILY DOCUMENTATION PRACTICES BUILD POLITICAL POWER IN BLACK COMMUNITIES. Leader: Brandi Richard Thompson, Operation Growth LLC 8:30pm 231.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Roundtable

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

RACE, GENDER, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI). Presenters: Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland College Park Ashley Newby, University of Maryland Kayla Z Bailey, IT Tech Solutions Chair: Tahirah Akbar-Williams, University of Maryland College Park 232.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

OUR ELDERS ARE OUR LIBRARIES: LIVING ARCHIVES IN THE AGE OF HEIGHTENED ERASURE. Commentator: Lindsay Gary Presenter: Lindsay Gary 233.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

POWER OF BELONGING: DOCUMENTARY ON RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, AND RESILIENCE FOR BLACK MALE FACULTY & STAFF. Commentator: Philip Wilkerson, George Mason University Presenter: Philip Wilkerson, George Mason University 234.

8:30 pm to 11:00 pm

Media Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

TENACITY: THE STORY OF EDWIN AND ELISE HARLESTON. Commentators: Mae Gentry, Starflower Film Lester Green Akua McDaniel, Independent Scholar Presenter: Charles Kaufmann, Starflower Film

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8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Roundtable

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

THIS IS MY JAM!: EMERGING PRESERVATION PROFESSIONALS & MEMORY WORKERS AT THE HBCU RADIO PRESERVATION PROJECT. Participant: Dana M Green, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Presenters: Kayla M Foster, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Breighlynn M Polk, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Vincentt M Sutton, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Chinyere M Neal, HBCU Radio Preservation Project - NEDCC Olivia M Green, HBCU Radio Preservation Project Chair: Phyllis Jeffers-Coly, Diasporic Soul 236.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Workshop

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

WARLOCK IN THE WHITEHOUSE: WHAT WE GONNA DO? A WORKSHOP. Leader: Ramona Bell 237.

8:30 pm to 11:55 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: A LITANY FOR SURVIVAL: THE LIFE AND WORK OF AUDRE LORDE (1995). DIRECTED BY ADA GAY GRIFFIN & MICHELLE PARKERSON. 1 HOUR 30 MIN. 238.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Media Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

Session has been moved to Thursday 9/24/26 at 12:00 to 1:45 pm in Hampton III-AV 3rd Floor BLACK HISTORY BEGAN WITH A LOVE STORY. Moderator: Irene Smalls, SleepWiseHealth Participant: Irene Smalls, SleepWiseHealth Commentator: Irene Smalls, SleepWiseHealth Presenter: Irene Smalls, SleepWiseHealth 239.

8:30 pm to 10:00 pm

Workshop

Marriott V-AV 4th Floor

FROM FAMILY COLLECTIONS TO COMMUNITY HISTORY: PRESERVING BLACK SHARED HERITAGE BEFORE IT IS LOST. Leader: Kate Forry Guanci, Archoral Presenter: Kate Forry Guanci, Archoral

N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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Saturday, September 26, 2026 7:30am 240.

7:30 am to 2:30 pm

Registration

Norfolk I 1st Floor

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION. 8:00am 241.

8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Exhibitor

Norfolk II/III-Exhibits 1st Floor

SATURDAY NORFOLK I/III EXHIBITS. 242.

8:00 am to 9:00 pm

Meeting

Hampton Foyer- APC Help Desk 3rd Floor

ACADEMIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE INFORMATION TABLE (APC) HELP DESK (SATURDAY). Leader: Augustus Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

8:30am 243.

8:30 am to 10:30 am

Meeting

Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

ASALH BRANCH MEETING. Participant: Carlton Eugene Wilson, North Carolina Central University Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH John E. Adams, Bronzeville Trails Latanya Edwards, Manasota Branch of ASALH Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Timur Al’ Basil Davis, Mount Vernon Public Library Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director 244.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

CARTER G. WOODSON SOCIETY: STUDENTS LEADING A NATIONAL MOVEMENT TOWARD BLACK INTELLECTUALISM IN SECONDARY EDUCATION. Commentators: Liam Moore, The Collegiate School Eric Theard Presenters: Solomon Gardner, The Collegiate School Christian Pierre-Louis, Collegiate School Tyler McCullough, Collegiate School Damon Holmes, George Washington Carver High School Harold Johnson, George Washington Carver High School Jeauanthony Torrence, George Washington Carver High School Salif Kone, The Collegiate School Ajani Artis, The Collegiate School Chair: Liam Moore, The Collegiate School

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Panel Session

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CIRCUM-CARIBBEAN BLACK ACTIVISM IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Commentator: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Presenter: Kiana Knight, University of Notre Dame Participants: Black Women, Print Culture, and Racial Uplift in Afro-Caribbean Costa Rica. Kiana Knight, University of Notre Dame Racial Solidarity and the Politics of Latinidad in Harlem’s Spanish-Language Black Press. Reena Goldthree, Princeton University From Puerto Rico to New York: Antonia Pantoja and Afro-Latina Civil Rights and Educational Activism in the Shadow of the U.S. Empire. Emma Amador, Department of History, University of Connecticut Chair: Michelle Scott, UMBC 246.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

HIDING HISTORY: THE STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE HISTORY AT THE PRESIDENT’S HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA. Participants: Building the Record: Legal Oversight and the Making of the President’s House Exhibit. Michelle Flamer, Philadelphia Heritage Branch of ASALH Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The National Park Service and the Fight Against Historical Erasure. Charles Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association Erasing the Founders: Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and the Fight to Keep the President’s House Story Alive. Rev. Carolyn Cavaness, The Mother Bethel Foundation Chair: Pamela Mays McDonald, Mother Bethel AME Church Historical Society 247.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

FED UP : WHEN GRIEVANCES SPARK SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Commentator: Travis D. Boyce, San Jose State University Participants: How South Carolina’s last recorded lynching influenced one of its Black residents into a life of activism. Travis D. Boyce, San Jose State University When Fed Up Shakes Up A Hospital, A City, A State: Mary Moultrie and the 1969 Charleston, SC Hospital Strike. Claudia Smith Brinson, Independent Scholar On the Sidelines of Protests: Black Sportswomen’s Political Consciousness and the Road to the 1968 Olympic Games. Kiamsha Bynes, San Jose State University Chair: Kiamsha Bynes 248.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Key Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

THE SCHOLARSHIP AND LEGACY OF QUINTARD TAYLOR. Participant: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa Presenters: LaNesha McCoy, University of Washington Lionel Kimble, Jr., Chicago State University 249.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

RECLAIMING LOCAL BLACK HISTORIES: LESSONS IN COMMUNITY-ENGAGED PEDAGOGY FROM THE CELEBRATING SIMMS PROJECT. Presenters: Mollie Godfrey, James Madison University Beau Dickenson, Social Studies Coordinator (K-12 coordinator), Rockingham County Public Schools Tim Van Shaick, Social Studies Teacher (K-12 teacher), TA High School, Rockingham County, Virginia Chair: Mollie Godfrey, James Madison University

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Panel Session

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REMEMBERING AND REIMAGINING THE URBAN NORTH IN THE CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION OF BLACK HISTORY. Commentator: Crystal Moten, NYPL/Schomburg Center Participants: Minnesota’s First Black Woman Lawyer: Lena O. Smith’s Legal Advocacy as a Form of Community Care. Sierra Phillips Schools, Clinics, and Adolescent Reproductive Health in Syracuse, NY: The Young Mothers Educational Development Program (YMED): 1960-1979. Semaj Imane Campbell-Blakes, University of Notre Dame “To Build a Better World:” Early Twentieth-Century Curricular Activism in Indiana. Gloria Jesuyemi Ashaolu, University of California, Los Angeles Manhattan, Money, & Morality: The ‘Black Manifesto’ and Black Power. Kaylen Smith, Princeton University, History and Department of African American Studies Erik McDuffie’s “The Second Battle for Africa Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom” Jessica Millward Chair: Crystal Moten, NYPL/Schomburg Center 251.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

James 3 4th Floor

FROM HIDDEN TO SEARCHABLE: THE CONTRABAND DIGITAL ARCHIVE (HOLLINS-WIGGINS CONTRABAND LEGACY ARCHIVE). Presenters: Fort Monroe Authority, Fort Monroe Authority Elizabeth Rodman, Contraband Historical Society Amanda Haas, Fort Monroe Authority Abigail Heinz, Fort Monroe Authority Chair: Amanda Haas, Fort Monroe Authority 252.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Media Session

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THE FUTURE OF HBCU FROM THE VOICES OF THE PAST. Commentator: Kenisha Thomas Presenter: Kenisha Thomas 253.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Special Book Panel

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: ERIK MCDUFFIE’S “THE SECOND BATTLE FOR AFRICA GARVEYISM, THE US HEARTLAND, AND GLOBAL BLACK FREEDOM.” Discussants: Gerald Horne Robert Trent Vinson, The Carter G. Woodson Institute Author: Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois Department of African American Studies

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Lightning Round

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WOODSON LIGHTNING ROUND SESSION #2. Participants: From Black History to Black Futures: Using Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) to Strengthen Identity,Voice and Leadership in Black Girls. Tori Marshall, Mosaic Mindset Wellness Co. Place-Keeping as History-Making: Community Development as an Act of Black Commemoration. Marimba Milliones Race and the “Politics of the Edifice”: Political Iconography and “Black Public High School” Buildings. Shayla Nunnally, University of Tennessee Knoxville Reclaiming the Truth: Booker T. Washington’s Final Journey Through Davis Avenue and the Patton Home in Mobile, AL. Paulette Horton, Mobile AL Branch Revisiting the Negro Question: From Hampton to Heritage. Marcellis Perkins, Texas Christian University Teaching Resistance: Trust, Productive Struggle, and Cultivating Black Intellectualism in the Age of AI. Anjanette Levert The Commercial Value of the Past: Uncle Nearest Distilling and Historic Commemoration. Nicholas Gaffney There Is Nothing I Can’t Do!: Children’s Literature as a Tool for Cultivating Black Possibility, Literacy, and Legacy. Tameca Wood, Authors Among Us Unity as Survival: Lessons from the Black & Garnet Project for Chronicling and Preserving Black Campus History. Julio Domingo, University of South Carolina-Center for Civil Right History and Research; Maegan Strawther, North Carolina Central University 255.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Washington 3rd Floor

ACROSS WATERS AND BORDERS: MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA. Presenters: Kamila Pritchett, The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida Inc Wallis Hamm Tinnie, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Valerie L. Patterson, ASALH South Florida, Inc. Rosalie Fawkes, Fawkes Digital Library and Archives 256.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Wilson 3rd Floor

HASHTAGS, HISTORY, AND POWER: BLACK DIGITAL ACTIVISM AND HISTORICAL REVISIONISM IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. Presenters: Jasmine Johnson, Activist/Organizer | Executive Director and Cofounder of Fight Against Fascism Organization Trenice Brinkley, Educator, Author Angelique Clemons, Debate Panelist + Recent Law School Graduate Chair: Brianna Woodson, University of the Cumberlands 257.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

BEYOND RESILIENCE: BLACK LEADERSHIP, WORKPLACE CULTURE, AND THE HIDDEN COST OF SURVIVAL. Leader: Teianna Cooper, University of Dayton 258.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Media Session

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

THE STUDENT BUS PROTEST THAT CHALLENGED JIM CROW-SEARCHING FOR THE DESCENDANTS OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY ACTIVISTS. Presenter: Sonja Woods, Howard University-Moorland Spingarn Research Center

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8:30 am to 9:50 am

Paper Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN BLACK BIOGRAPHY AND MEMORY. Participants: James Meredith, Africana Studies and the Politics of Knowledge of production. Ajibola A Abdulrahman, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Legacy in Motion in the Midst of Jim Crow: The Dr. Milton D. Quigless, Sr. Story. Carol Quigless, Flourish Essential Oils LLC Lone but not alone: Memory keeping and the educational groundbreaking of Edith Renfrow Smith (1914-2026). Tamara Beauboeuf, Grinnell College; Valeriya Woodard, Grinnell College “Just Love God and Dance”— Mary Ellen Jones, or Aunt Pigeon’s “Prescription” for a Long Life. Charles Walker Gollar, Xavier University Commemoration of Former Newport News Mayor Jessie Rattley Showing How Her Life Commemorated Woodson’s Principles. Margaret Bernice Smith Bristow, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Islam, Self-Determination, and Historical Preservation at an Islamic Center in Wyandanch, New York. Jamel Coy Hudson, Baruch College 260.

8:30 am to 9:50 am

Roundtable

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

SOUL WORK: ORAL HISTORIES, BLACK TEACHERS, AND FREEDOM STRUGGLES. Presenters: Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia Marlee Bunch, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Chair: Joyce E. King, Georgia State University 9:00am 261.

9:00 am to 11:00 am

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: FRUITVALE STATION (2013). DIRECTED BY RYAN COOGLER. 1 HOUR 25 MIN. 10:15am 262.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

60 YEARS OF SEEK: COMMEMORATING AND CONTINUING THE SEARCH FOR EDUCATION, ELEVATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN CUNY. Presenters: Maria De Longoria, Queens College CUNY Soribel Genao, Queens College CUNY Simone Yearwood, CUNY, Queens College Nathaniel Smith, Queens College CUNY Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Chair: Norka Blackman-Richards, Queens College City University of New York 263.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

COMMEMORATING BLACK HISTORY IN THE ARCHIVES, FIELDWORK & CLASSROOM. Presenters: Amina Thiam, UMBC yoni D issacs, UMBC Ousmane Diop, UMBC Noah Ulrich, UMBC Chair: Michelle Scott, UMBC

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Roundtable

Hampton III- AV 3rd Floor

‘NARRATING LABOR AND RACE IN OUR HISTORICAL MEMORY’. Presenters: Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University Augustus Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Justin Leroy, Duke University Daniela Valdés, Princeton University Chair: Keona Ervin, Bowdoin College 265.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

THE GEOGRAPHY OF SLAVERY AND MEMORY: FROM THE TEXAS SLAVE TRADE PAPERS TO THE HISTORYMAKERS DIGITAL ARCHIVE. Participants: Freedom at Your Fingertips: Doing Black History in the Digital Age. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev, Texas Southern University Mapping the Texas Slave Trade. James Duplechain Garcia, Texas Southern University Slavery and Memory in the HistoryMakers Digital Archive. Fran Manor Jones, Texas Southern University A Question of Manhood: Black Men in the Texas Slave Trade Papers. Armon Bradley, Texas Southern University Chair: Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University 266.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

TEACHING WITH THE HISTORYMAKERS DIGITAL ARCHIVE IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM. Leaders: George Lamar Daniels, University of Alabama Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas Chairs: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Stony Brook University Shively Smith, Boston University Sponsor: Julieanna Richardson, The History Makers 267.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

COMBATTING “STATE-SANCTIONED SILENCE”: EXPLORING BLACK LIFE AND TEACHING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH STORIES. Commentator: Danne Davis Participants: Black History as Activism. Eric M. Washington, Calvin University Crown the Story Early: Using Children’s Literature to Resist the Erasure of Black History. Jacqueline L Banks, Royalty iS Black, LLC Resisting Erasure in Formal and Informal Educational Settings. Erik Jacobson, Montclair State University Becoming Through Black Studies: Experiential Learning for Resistance and Liberation. Leah Tonnette Gaines, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University Chair: Danne Davis

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

TEACHING AND PRESERVING HISTORY FOR THE 22ND CENTURY: EXPANDING NARRATIVE, INQUIRY, ARCHIVAL PRACTICE, AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Presenters: Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago Kenvi Phillips Raymond Hamilton, District of Columbia Public Schools Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Arlington Public Schools Ejiima Baker Morales, District of Columbia Public Schools Participants: Preserving History. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago Teaching History. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago Teaching and Preserving History for the 22nd Century: Expanding Narrative, Inquiry, Archival Practice, and Historical Consciousness. Samantha Averett, City Colleges of Chicago Chair: Vedet R. Coleman-Robinson, Association of African American Museums 269.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Paper Session

James 3 4th Floor

STRUGGLES AGAINST ANTI-BLACKNESS IN THE U.S. MILITARY. Participants: Anti-blackness and the Struggle to Commemorate Black Military Service. Roger Booker, Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group (ASALH Branch) Desegregated Armed Forces, Segregated Communities: Black Military Families and the Struggle for Civil Rights during the Cold War. Brian Davis, Florida State University “Proving Freedom in Missouri: Black Military Resistance and the Determinative Origins of Union Policy, 1861–1862”. David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University The Destructive Power of Racism: The Story of Lt. Col Lemuel A. Penn. Linda Penn Bond, Retired Educator , Carter G Woodson Branch , Tuskegee Airmen Wives Auxiliary 270.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

TELLING THE STORY: NORFOLK STATE, GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE, AND THE PRESERVATION OF BLACK HISTORICAL MEMORY. Presenters: Don G. Harrell, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH J Anthony Sharp, Self Participants: Telling the Story: Norfolk State, Government Surveillance, and the Preservation of Black Historical Memory. Don G. Harrell, Central Florida Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH Fighting for Our Place in the Sun Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960–1973. Richard D Benson Chair: Richard D Benson 271.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Special Book Panel

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

HINE-HORNE ROUNDTABLE: ASHLEY FARMER’S “QUEEN MOTHER: BLACK NATIONALISM, REPARATIONS, AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF AUDLEY MOORE.” Discussant: Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois Department of African American Studies Author: Ashley Dawn Farmer, The University of Texas at Austin 82 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Washington 3rd Floor

RECONSTRUCTION ERA NATIONAL HISTORIC NETWORK WORKSHOP. Leader: Nathan Betcher, National Park Service Presenters: Ariel Roy, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Eric James Ellis, National Park Service Chair: Ashley F. Adams, National Park Service 273.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Wilson 3rd Floor

BEYOND THE DEGREE: BLACK WOMEN INTELLECTUALS AND THE CULTIVATION OF PRIVATE SPACES. Presenters: Daphne Martin, Attorney Mariah “Yaa” Bonner, Maryland Institute College of Art Chair: Arletha Greer 274.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

DIGITAL WARFARE NEEDS DIGITAL ORDNANCE: A WORKSHOP TO ACCESS AND USE ADVANCED SYSTEMS TO DRIVE BLACK ECONOMIC AND SOCIOPOLITICAL PROGRESS. Leader: Carnell Burlock, DRIVEN Systems 275.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Roundtable

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

THE BLACK MIDWEST INITIATIVE AT 10 YEARS. Presenters: Crystal Moten, NYPL/Schomburg Center Jazma Sutton Kidiocus King-Carroll, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Dept. of African & African Diaspora Studies Ashley Howard, University of Iowa 276.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Panel Session

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

BLACK ARTISTS AS GRIOTS: DISSEMINATING BLACK HISTORY TO HEARTS AND MINDS. Participants: Sixty Panels, One History: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series as Griot Narrative. Pamela Mays McDonald, Mother Bethel AME Church Historical Society Islam and the Blues: Sorrow Songs, Soul, and the Transmission of Black Historical Memory. Jamel Coy Hudson, Baruch College Artists, Historians, and Griots: Reclaiming Community Memory Through Arts-Based Research. Gina Marie Lewis, Bowie State University The Black Elder Archive: Portraiture as Historical Recovery. Lillian Young, Brooklyn Museum Chair: Pamela Mays McDonald, Mother Bethel AME Church Historical Society 277.

10:15 am to 11:45 am

Media Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

DOCUMENTARY- BLACK IN ANIME. Participant: Akhenaton Benton, Black Education Station Commentator: Akhenaton Benton, Black Education Station Presenter: Hotep Benzo, Black Education Station N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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11:00 am to 11:45 am

Special PresentationHampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor ASALH MEMBER REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY.

Moderator: Maude L. Johnson, Our Authors Study Club Branch of ASALH Participant: Leontyne Middleton, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Yvonne B. Acey, Memphis Area Branch of ASALH President Madge H. Allen, Manhattan Branch of ASALH Larry Kamau Gibson, Project 1619, Hampton, VA Shirl McCray, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Lucretia McCollum Truesdal, New Calvary Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA Audrey Perry Williams, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH Hazel Gillis, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Pamela Reese Smith, Rochester Branch Chadra Pittman, The Sankofa Projects Colita Nichols Fairfax, Norfolk State University Invocation: Isaac McCullough, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Welcome: Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Closing Remarks: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University 11:15am 279.

10:30 am to 6:00 pm

Workshop

Marriott V, VI, VII (Whole room)-AV 4th Floor

FREEDOM SCHOOL INITIATIVE WORKSHOP. Leaders: Bishop Lawton, ASALH Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presenters: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Rev. Carolyn Cavaness, The Mother Bethel Foundation Charles Fred Hearns, ASALH of Tampa Bay (Branch) Robert Edison, African American Museum Jada Wright-Greene, Manasota ASALH, Inc. Nadia Conyers, The Tending Space (Organization); The Tending Academy (Freedom School) Sponsor: Mellon Foundation 11:30am 280.

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: PARIAH (2011). DIRECTED BY DEE REES. 1 HOUR 26 MIN.

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12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Paper Session

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

BLACK LIFE AND COMMUNITY IN SMALL TOWN UNITED STATES. Participants: “I always felt safe and secure here” Lincoln Beach: Family, Community, and Faith. Margaret Power, Illinois Institute Technology “Race, Place, and Identity in Black Middletown”. Rutledge Dennis African American Communities Debate the Use of the 1936 Olympics and International Sports to the Black Freedom Struggle. Dexter Lee Blackman, Morgan State University/National Council for Black Studies 282.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Luncheon

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

HOW ASALH NATIONALIZED NEGRO HISTORY WEEK AND BLACK HISTORY MONTH. Moderator: Bertis D English Guest Speaker: Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University Department of History Jelani Favors, United Negro College Fund Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Benediction: Todd C. Davidson, First Baptist Church of Hampton Greetings: Sylvia Y. Cyrus, ASALH Executive Director Invocation & Grace: Todd C. Davidson, First Baptist Church of Hampton Performer: The G.Y.E.x.P! Symay Rhodes Tommy Bogger Emcee: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University 283.

12:00 pm to 1:45 pm

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

DOCUMENTING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH HIGHWAY MARKERS. Leader: Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society, Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society Presenter: Marvin T. Jones, Chowan Discovery Group 284.

10:45 to 12:15 pm

Roundtable

Wilson 3rd Floor

Session has been moved to Friday 9/25/26 at 10:45 to 12:15 pm in Wilson 3rd Floor. FROM THE CARGO TO THE CONTRABAND AND BEYOND: COMBATTING ERASURE THROUGH COMMEMORATIONS AND REMEMBRANCES OF HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA. Chair: Chadra Pittman, The Sankofa Projects Presenters: Philip Adderley, Contraband Historical Society Eola Lewis Dance, VISION Collective LLC N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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2:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Plenary Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

“WE KEEPING THE GATE!”: THE PROMISE AND PROGRESS OF THE BLACK PROFESSORATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Moderator: Stefan M. Bradley, Amherst College Participant: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York Discussants: Nikki Taylor, Howard University, History Department Jeffrey Ogbar, University of Connecticut Shanti Parikh, Washington University in St Louis Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies Lester Spence, John Hopkins University Anthony Reddy, University of Oxford Hakim Adi, The London School of Economics and Political Science Carol Anderson, Emory University 286.

2:00 pm to 3:45 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: I AM NOT A WITCH (2017). DIRECTED BY RUNGANO NYONI. 1 HOUR 33 MIN. 4:00pm 287.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session Hampton Ballroom 4 & 5- Plenary Sessions 3rd Floor

BLACK WOMEN NOW: INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ON CONTEMPORARY STRUGGLES. Participants: And What Happened to Her? Lindsey Dixon, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Black Feminists Then and Now. Tijuani Phelps Jackson, Arizona State University Commemorating Hurricane Katrina Over 20 years later: Radical Mississippi Women Survivors. Ophera Davis, Davis Consulting Centennial Sisters of Service: A Commemoration of Delta Omega and Alpha Epsilon Chapters, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®. Renee N. Escoffery-Torres, Hampton Roads Branch of ASALH 288.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton I- AV 3rd Floor

AFRICAN AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AND BLACK INTERNATIONALISM IN DIASPORA: CHARTING NEW METHODOLOGIES, TELLING NEW STORIES. Commentator: Kimberly Hill, The University of Texas at Dallas Participants: The “Coloniality” of Belonging: Black Antebellum Migrants in Liberia,1820-1860. Alison McCann, University of Miami How Joseph J. France Confronted Racialized Labor Politics and Navigated Diasporic Evangelical Networks in a Colonial Congo Baptist Mission. Sharla M. Fett, Occidental College Making Their Way: Black Missionary Women’s Mobility Labors to the Congo, 1885–1920. Arielle Rochelin, Duke University “An Earnest Appeal for the People of Her Native Land:” Guyanese Women and Financial Support of the NBC Foreign Mission Board. Briana Adline Royster, University of Alabama Chair: Brenda Stevenson, University of California - Los Angeles and Oxford University 86 1 1 1 T H A N N UA L M E E T I N G A N D C O N F E R E N C E | S EP T EM B ER 2 3 - 2 7, 2 0 2 6 | A L L T I M E S E S T

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton II- AV 3rd Floor

WE WHO REMEMBER: BLACK MEMORY, MEMORIAL PRACTICE, AND HISTORICAL RESISTANCE. Participants: “What If Memory Could Mentor? The Special Collections of Dr. Niara Sudarkasa as Archival Activation, Cultural Blueprint and Ancestral Connection. Stephanie Croney, African-American Research Library and Cultural Center Sites of Memory, Acts of Resistance: Memorial Art in Black History Commemorations. Valerie L. Patterson, ASALH South Florida, Inc. The Commemoration of Activism: Elders as Living Archives and Teachers. Samia International Burgess, Florida International University AADS M.A. student Chair: Valerie L. Patterson, ASALH South Florida, Inc. 290.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Tyler 3rd Floor Room

BENJAMIN QUARLES AND THE CHALLENGE OF BLACK HISTORY. Presenters: Tamika Nunley, Duke University Adam X McNeil, University of Notre Dame Michael Dickinson, Virginia Commonwealth University Derrick Spires, University of Delaware Chair: Derrick Spires, University of Delaware 291.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VI- AV 3rd Floor

MAPPING THE WAKE: ARCHIVAL ETHICS, BLACK GEOGRAPHIES, AND THE AESTHETICS OF REFUSAL. Commentator: J.T. Roane, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Presenter: Kourtney Payne, Emory University - Department of African American Studies Participants: Political Mobilization and Pan-African Corridors in Late Eighteenth Century Sierra Leone. Taylor Prescott, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis “‘Find Mariah’: Gender, Fugitivity, and Policing in the Archive and Antebellum New Orleans”. Bea Pearson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Bounded by the Frame: Photography, Anti-Black Violence, and the Carceral Archive. Emma Burke, Emory University, Department of African American Studies The Last Place They Thought Of: Black Women’s Collage as Immanent Geographical Critique. Kourtney Payne, Emory University - Department of African American Studies Chair: RJ Boutelle, University of Cincinnati 292.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VII-AV 3rd Floor

BLACK SIGHTSCAPES: PHOTOGRAPHY, MEMORY, AND CULTURAL POLITICS. Participants: Ancestral Memory and Generational Wellness through Photography in Black Women’s Art Ecosystems. Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University Images of the Afro-Turks: History, Memory and Resistance. Nikki L. Brown, University of Kentucky “Watching You”: Artistic Freedom, Music Industry Intervention and Slave’s Album Cover Art. Scot Brown, UCLA Chair: David A. Canton

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Paper Session

Hampton VIII- AV 3rd Floor

THE SOCIAL WORLD WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY: ENSLAVEMENT, PAN-AFRICANISM, RESISTANCE, KINSHIP. Participants: Kinship in Motion, 1750-1786: The Social Worlds of Enslaved Women in Jamaica. Jessica Newby, Johns Hopkins University Early Slave Populations _ How National Wealth Valuations in America Grossly Devalued and Undervalued Slaves. Lorna Johnson, North Carolina Central University -History Department Information as Resistance: Harriet Tubman and Knowledge Systems in Motion. Renate Chancellor, Syracuse University Crime of the Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship. Natalie Robertson, Mobile AL Branch “Aunt” Julia Brown: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of a Louisiana Voodoo Legend. Christopher Newman, Howard University 294.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

James 1/2-AV 4th Floor

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS: BLACK WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHY BEYOND THE ARCHIVES. Presenters: Michelle Scott, UMBC Felicia L Jamison Tammy L. Sanders Henderson, University of Maryland Baltimore County Takkara Brunson, Texas A&M University, College Station Chair: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York 295.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Hampton VIII AV 3rd Floor

BOOK PUBLISHING 101. Presenters: Beth Colón Pizzini, University of Virginia Press Andrew Winters, UNC Press Alyssa Napier, Columbia University Chair: Stephanie Williams, Wayne State University 296.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

TEACHING THE RECORD: NONFICTION IMAGE MEDIA, JOURNALISM, AND PRESERVATION AT HBCUS. Presenters: Nsenga Burton, Virginia State University Aysha LaBon, Georgia State University regine romaine, George Mason University Chair: Anjanette Levert 297.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Chesapeake 2-AV 4th Floor

AMERICA AT 250: WE ARE HERE! Presenters: David Mathew Walton, Lincoln University Anton D. House Lopez Denoble Matthews, Roland McConnell Branch of ASALH Khalid el-Hakim, Black History 101 Mobile Museum Chair: Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University Department of History

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Key Session

Norfolk V- AV 1st Floor

NEW BOOKS IN BLACK RADICALISM: QUEEN MOTHER MOORE, HUBERT HARRISON, AND ATLANTA’S BLACK WORKING CLASS. Presenters: Ashley Dawn Farmer, The University of Texas at Austin Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis Augustus Wood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Chair: Gerald Horne 299.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Norfolk VI-AV 1st Floor

THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA AND THE POLITICS OF BLACK HISTORICAL MEMORY: STORYTELLING, RESISTANCE, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRATIC HISTORY. Commentator: Tony Frazier, The Pennsylvania State University Participants: “Between the Witch and the Nigress: Gendered Reproduction, Blackness, and Racial Capitalism in the World of the Many-Headed Hydra”. Zoe Young, North Carolina Central University “Women Are the Revolution: Reclaiming Gendered Agency in The Many-Headed Hydra and the Revolutionary Atlantic”. Lourdes Cantu, North Carolina Central University “The Gendered Hydra and the Atlantic Crucible: Women, Maritime Resistance, and the Revolutionary Praxis of the Seventeenthand Eighteenth-Century Atlantic”. Shari Central Hill, North Carolina Central University The Spirit that Spoke to the Prophets: Revolutionary Religion and the Many-Headed Hydra of Slave Resistance. Ann Central Humphreys, North Carolina Central University Black Mariners and the Many-Headed Hydra: Mobility, Resistance, and the Contradictions of Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic. Elijah Bombo, North Carolina Central University Chair: Lydia Lindsey, North Carolina Central University 300.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Media Session

Washington 3rd Floor

IN SEARCH OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY PETERS. Participant: Leslie Askew Commentator: Leslie Askew Presenter: Leslie Askew 301.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Wilson 3rd Floor

ROUNDTABLE ON TROOP MOVEMENTS: LABOR, RACE, AND GLOBAL FREEDOM STRUGGLES IN AMERICA’S WORLD WAR II. Commentator: Tejasvi Nagaraja, Cornell University Presenters: Khary O. Polk, Amherst College Toussaint Losier Michelle Moyd, Indiana University Anna Duensing Chair: Penny Von Eschen, University of Virginia N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Workshop

Madison 3rd Floor

FROM ARCHIVE TO ALGORITHM: DO’S AND DON’TS FOR USING AI IN BLACK HISTORICAL RESEARCH. Leader: Herbert Lowe, University of Florida 303.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Franklin- AV 2nd Floor

BLACK LIVES NEXT DOOR AND USING THE EXPLORATION OF LOCAL HISTORY AS REPARATIVE PUBLIC HISTORY: RESEARCHING, REMEMBERING, AND REPAIRING THE COMPLEX PAST OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA. Presenters: LaNitra Berger, George Mason University Kristina Nohe, George Mason University Shemika Curvey, George Mason University Chair: George Oberle, George Mason University 304.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Roundtable

Shangrila- AV 2nd Floor

“NIKKI’S CHIRRUN: MENTORSHIP, LINEAGE, AND NEW SCHOLARSHIP IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY”. Presenters: Tomiko Meeks, Texas Southern University Antonio Austin, National Museum of African American History and Culture Shafantae Desinord, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission Phillip Warfield, Howard University, History Department Janell B Pryor, Bowie State University Kendra Anthony, Morgan State University 305.

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Panel Session

Yorktown- AV 2nd Floor

TELLING FREEDOM RIGHT: JUNETEENTH AND STORYTELLING AS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. Presenters: Marvin Chiles, Old Dominion University Shavon Countee, Goucher College Janine Y. Bell, Elegba Folklore Society Participants: Telling Freedom Right: Juneteenth and Storytelling as Restorative Justice. Kami Fletcher, Goucher College The History and Politics of Black Holidays. Marvin Chiles, Old Dominion University From Nace Hopkins to Wes Moore: Institutionalizing Memory-Making Towards the Fight for Restorative Practices. Shavon Countee, Goucher College Juneteenth, A Freedom Celebration is a Healing Cypher. Janine Y. Bell, Elegba Folklore Society Chair: Kami Fletcher, Goucher College 7:00pm 306.

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival

Chesapeake 1 AV-Film Festival 4th Floor

FILM FESTIVAL: THE BLACKENING (2022). DIRECTED BY TIM STORY. 1 HOUR 37 MIN.

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7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Banquet

Norfolk IV- Meal Functions 1st Floor

ASALH ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET. Awardee: JoEllen ElBashir, Moorland Spingarn, Chief Curator (Retired) Althemese Barnes, Riley House Center and Museum, Founder and Executive Director Latorial Faison, Virginia State University Devon M. Henry, Team Henry Enterprises, CEO Marlee Bunch, Rutgers University - New Brunswick William E. Branch, DC Archivist Jerome Harris, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Burnis Morris, Huntington Tri-State Branch Eunique Jones-Gibson, Culture Brands, CEO Lillian Serece Williams, University At Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of AAS Lucien Metellus, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, National President Edda L. Fields-Black, Carnegie Mellon University Congressman Al Green, US House of Representatives Award Presenter: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Robert L. Harris, Cornell University Retired,Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Sheila Flemming, Black Rose Foundation for Children James Benjamin Stewart, Manasota Branch of ASALH Daryl Michael Scott, Morgan State University Department of History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Martha’s Vineyard Branch of ASALH William Marvin Dulaney, W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH Anita M. Shepherd, James Weldon Johnson Branch of ASALH Jacksonville, FL Aaisha Haykal, Charleston Area Branch ASALH Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH Everett F. Hardy II, Oberlin College Sharita Jacobs, Prince Georges Community College Camesha Scruggs, Central Connecticut State University Randall Webber, Louisville, Kentucky Carter G. Woodson Branch of ASALH Gladys Vaughn, ASALH Eecutive Council Benediction: W.Marcus Small, Senior Pastor, New Calvary Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA Greetings: Karsonya Whitehead, ASALH President,Loyola University Councilwoman Amelia Ross-Hammond, Councilwoman, City of Virgina Beach Congressman Bobby Scott, Congressman, Third District of Virginia Kenneth Alexander Musical Selection(s): Norfolk State University Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Norfolk State University Invocation & Grace: W.Marcus Small, Senior Pastor, New Calvary Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA Emcee: Janet Roach, WVEC-TV 13 Introduction Emcee: N O R F O L K , V I R G I N I A | T H E 2 0 2 6 T H EM E : A C EN T U RY O F B L AC K H I S TO RY CO M M EM O R AT I O N S

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Tour

Chrysler Museum of Art

ARRIVE AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART GUIDED TOUR BY 1:45 pm. 1 MEMORIAL PLACE NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 23510 757-664-6200 BECKY LIVAS, TOUR GUIDE (TRANSPORTATION IS ON YOUR OWN). 2:00pm 309.

2:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Tour

Chrysler Museum of Art

GUIDED TOUR OF THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART. 3:45pm 310.

3:45 pm to 4:00 pm

Tour

Chrysler Museum of Art

DEPART CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART FOR RECEPTION AT THE ASPIRE ART GALLERY (TRANSPORTATION IS ON YOUR OWN). 4:00pm 311.

4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Reception RECEPTION AT THE ASPIRE ART GALLERY 645 CHURCH STREET 1ST FLOOR NORFOLK, VIRGINIA 23510 757-373-3293

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Join Mellon Mays Fellows attending the 2026 ASALH Annual Meeting for a

Breakfast Reception hosted by

September 25, 2026 10:00-11:00 AM Norfolk Waterside Marriot, Room 616

We invite Mellon Mays Fellows to join us to build new connections across generations, strengthen relationships, and learn about opportunities through ACLS.