ASCAC MARC Conference Program- Norfolk VA

1. “MDW
NFR:
AFRICA
SPEAKS
FOR
AFRICA
A
COMMEMORATION
OF
DR.
JOHN
HENRIK
CLARKE”
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
14,
2014
FREE
COMMUNITY
EVENT
6:00
-­‐
8:30
P.M.
Meet
and
Greet
Reception
Drumming,
Libations,
Welcome,
Acknowledgements:
Council
of
Elders
and
Others
Willis
Broadcasting
Building
645
Church
Street
(Corner
of
Church
Street
and
Brambleton
Avenue)
Norfolk,
VA
23510
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER
15,
2014
8:00
-­‐
9:00
A.M.
REGISTRATION
9:00
-­‐
9:30
A.M.
WELCOME,
LIBATIONS,
ACKNOWLEDGING
PRESIDING
COUNCIL
OF
ELDERS,
MUSICAL
SELECTION:
“LIFT
EVERY
VOICE
AND
SING”
9:00
-­‐
6:30
P.M.
AFRICAN
MARKET
PLACE
9:30
-­‐
10:30
A.M.
OPENING
PLENARY
-­‐
Moderator:
Dr.
Yaa
Asantewaa
Blake,
ASCAC
International
Secretary
Speaker:
Dr.
Mario
Beatty
-­‐
Associate
Professor;
Afro-­‐American
Studies
Department,
Howard
University.
“Reflections
on
the
Rise
of
the
Black
Pharoahs
by
National
Geographic.”
SUPPORT
THE
AFRICAN
MARKETPLACE
10:30
-­‐
11:30
A.M.
Concurrent
Workshops
Facilitator:
Johnnie
Isaac,
Sojourner
Truth
College
Workshop
#1:
Latif
A.
Tarik
-­‐
ABD
Howard
University;
“The
Legacy
and
Pedagogy
of
Dr.
John
Henrik
Clarke:
Teaching
Africana
Subjects
in
World
History.”
Michael
Daniels
–
“Accumulation
of
Wealth:
A
Community
Banking
System.”

2. Facilitator:
Brother
Chris
Cager,
Baltimore
Study
Group,
Baltimore,
MD
Workshop
#2:
Mwaalkebu-­‐lan
Akil
-­‐
Prosser
City
Study
Group,
Richmond,
VA
-­‐
“Interpreting
Listervelt
Middleton’s
Dream:
What
Our
Kemetic
Ancestors
Revealed.”
Henry
Rose
-­‐
Community
Activist.
“Exploring
the
Ideological
Foundations
Upon
Where
The
Giant
Stood:
Black
Nationalism,
Pan
Africanism,
and
Socialism
in
the
Thought
and
Practice
of
John
Henrik
Clarke.”
Facilitator:
Brother
Charles
Allen,
Sep
Tepy
Study
Group,
Philadelphia,
PA
and
DestroyNRebuild
Blogtalk
Radio
Show
Host
Workshop
#3:
Michael
Imhotep
-­‐
Founder,
African
History
Network
and
host
of
The
African
History
Network
Show;
“Understanding
the
Trans-­‐Atlantic
Slave
Trade:
What
They
Didn’t
Teach
You
in
School.”
Ronnie
Sidney,
MSW
-­‐
Virginia
Commonwealth
University
–
“Perceptions
of
Black
Fathers.”
Workshop
#4:
Aaron
Conaway,
Villanova
University;
Sep
Tepy
Study
Group,
Philadelphia,
PA;
“Economic
Development
from
an
African-­‐Centered
Worldview:
Pecundity
Investments.”
11:30
-­‐
12:30
P.M.
MID-­‐MORNING
PLENARY
Moderator:
Baba
Edward
“Tahuti”
Taylor
Speaker:
Dr.
Umar
Johnson
-­‐
“Linking
Scholarship
to
Struggle:
John
Henrik
Clarke
&
the
Political
Accountability
of
the
African-­‐Centered
Scholar.”
12:30
-­‐
1:30
P.M.
LUNCH
SUPPORT
THE
AFRICAN
MARKETPLACE
1:30
-­‐
2:30
P.M.
AFTERNOON
PLENARY
Moderator:
Dr.
Mario
Beatty,
ASCAC
International
President
Speakers:
Valethia
Watkins,
Ph.D.,
J.D.
-­‐
Director
of
Howard
University’s
Women’s
Studies
Graduate
Certificate
Program
and
Assistant
Professor,
Africana
Studies
in
the
Department
of
Afro-­‐American
Studies;
Howard
University
Ray
Winbush,
Ph.
D.
-­‐
Morgan
State
University;
“A
View
from
the
Bridge:
What
Chancellor
Williams
Might
Say
about
Afrika
Today.”

3. 2:30
-­‐
3:30
P.M.
CONCURRENT
WORKSHOPS
Facilitator:
Brother
Randolph
Gumby,
Sep
Tepy
Study
Group,
Philadelphia,
PA
Workshop
#5:
Akil
L.
Parker
-­‐
Lincoln
University
and
Sep
Tepy
Study
Group,
Philadelphia,
PA
“African
Youth
Voice
for
Revolutionary
Development.”
Karanja
K.
Carroll,
Ph.D.
-­‐
Associate
Professor
of
Black
Studies,
State
University
of
New
York
at
New
Paltz;
“John
Henrik
Clarke
and
the
Africana
Studies
Tradition:
Insight
from
a
Founding
Father.”
Facilitator:
Baba
Richard
Isaac
-­‐
President,
Board
of
Trustees,
Khepera
Charter
School,
Philadelphia,
PA
Workshop
6:
Umar
Johnson
-­‐
“Understanding
the
Mis-­‐Education
Machine:
Strategies
for
Parents
and
Activists.”
Workshop
#7:
Larry
Lewis,
Jr.
-­‐
“Socially
Responsible
Media…
How
Many
People
do
you
Influence
and
What
Is
the
Message
that
You
are
Sending.”
David
Imhotep,
Ph.D.;
Independent
Scholar
-­‐
“The
First
Americans
Were
Africans:
Documented
Evidence.”
SUPPORT
THE
AFRICAN
MARKETPLACE
3:30
-­‐
4:30
MID-­‐AFTERNOON
PLENARY
Moderator:
Nana
Kwame
Toprah
Sep
Tepy
Study
Group,
Philadelphia,
PA
Speaker:
Nana
Korantema
Ayeboafo
“African
Spirituality
and
the
Ancient
Tradition
of
the
Nene
Akonedi
Shrine
in
Larteh-­‐
Kubease,
Ghana.”
4:30
-­‐
5:30
KEY
NOTE
PLENARY
Moderator:
Dr.
Josh
Myers,
Associate
Professor;
Department
of
Afro-­‐American
Studies;
Howard
University
Speaker:
Dr.
Greg
Kimathi
Carr
-­‐
Associate
Professor
and
Chair,
Department
of
Afro-­‐
American
Studies;
Howard
University
-­‐
“John
Henrik
Clarke:
The
Timekeeper,
His
Networks
and
Narrations
of
Meaning.”
Sunday,
November
16,
2014
SUPPORT
THE
AFRICAN
MARKETPLACE
9:00
-­‐
10:00
A.M.
Mid-­‐Atlantic
Region
Business
Meeting

4. 10:00
-­‐
11:00
A.M.
PLENARY
I:
Moderator:
Dr.
LaFrancis
Rodgers-­‐Rose,
Founder
and
CEO
of
the
International
Black
Women’s
Congress
Speaker:
Dr.
Rosalind
Jeffries,
ASCAC
International
Creative
Productions
Commission
Co-­‐Chair
11:00
-­‐
12:00
A.M.
PLENARY
II:
Moderator:
Dr.
Greg
Carr,
1st
Vice
President
ASCAC
International,
Associate
Professor
of
Africana
Studies
and
Chair,
Department
Afro-­‐American
Studies;
Howard
University
Speaker:
Dr.
Leonard
Jeffries;
ASCAC
International
One
of
the
Founding
Directors
of
ASCAC
Chair,
Council
of
Elders
Closing
Remarks
and
Inspirational
Sayings
***************
{NOTES}

5. “Lift
Every
Voice
and
Sing”
Words
by
James
Weldon
Johnson
Music
by
J.
Rosamond
Johnson
Lift
every
voice
and
sing
Till
earth
and
heaven
rings,
Ring
with
the
harmonies
of
liberty;
Let
our
rejoicing
rise,
High
as
the
listening
skies,
Let
it
resound
loud
as
the
rolling
sea.
Sing
a
song
full
of
the
faith
that
the
dark
pass
has
taught
us
Sing
a
song
full
of
the
hope
that
the
present
has
brought
us,
Facing
the
rising
sun
of
our
new
day
begun,
Let
us
march
on
till
victory
is
won.
Stony
the
road
we
trod
Bitter
the
chastening
rod,
Felt
in
the
day
when
hope
unborn
had
died;
Yet
with
a
steady
beat,
Have
not
our
weary
feet,
Come
to
the
place
for
which
our
fathers
sighed?
We
have
come
over
away
that
with
tears
has
been
watered
We
have
come,
treading
our
path
through
the
blood
of
the
slaughtered;
Out
from
the
gloomy
past,
Till
now
we
stand
at
last,
Where
the
white
gleam
of
our
bright
star
is
cast.
God
of
our
weary
years
God
of
our
silent
tears,
Thou
who
has
brought
us
thus
far
on
the
way;
Thou
who
has
by
Thy
might
Led
us
into
the
light,
Keep
us
forever
in
the
path,
we
pray.
Lest
our
feet
stray
from
the
places,
our
God,
where
we
met
Thee,
Lest
our
hearts
drunk
with
the
wine
of
the
world
we
forget,
Thee:
Shadowed
beneath
Thy
hand,
May
we
forever
stand,
True
to
our
God,
True
to
our
native
land.