47th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference Program Book

47th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference March 22—25, 2023 Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Gainesville, FL sponsored by

Conference Theme

Welcome to your Afro Future!

The African American Studies Program Faculty and Staff

Welcomes you to Gainesville

Table of Contents

Welcome Letters ......................................................................................................................4

Conference Committee Recognition ................................................................................ 10 NCBS Organizational Overview ......................................................................................... 12 NCBS Organizational Activities ......................................................................................... 15 Past Presidents ....................................................................................................................... 16 NCBS Leadership ................................................................................................................... 17 NCBS Lifetime Members ..................................................................................................... 18 Terry Kershaw Student Essay Contest Winners ............................................................. 19 Institutional Members ........................................................................................................ 20 Dr. Tsehloane C. Keto Fellows ........................................................................................... 23 Ankh Maat Wedjau Honor Society Inductees ............................................................... 23 Conference Schedule........................................................................................................... 24 Thursday ......................................................................................................................... 25 Friday ............................................................................................................................... 33 Saturday.......................................................................................................................... 42 Participant Index .................................................................................................................. 49

A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT VALERIE GRIM Dear NCBS Conference Presenters and Attendees:

We are grateful that you chose to attend the National Council for Black Studies’ 47th annual meeting. This year, our conference theme is “Reparations, Resilience, and Restorative Justice: Commemorating the Centennial of the Rosewood Massacre of 1923”. Our theme is timely, especially during a time when great efforts are being forged to erase the encounters and experiences of African Diaspora peoples from the pages and annals of American history. But, there is no eraser broad or strong enough to take away our VALUE nor to disappear Black Studies subject matters from the minds and mouths of those who believe in truth, justice, and freedom for all people.

We have traveled to Florida as planned. A few years ago, the National Council for Black Studies determined that we would join our colleagues on the University of Florida campus to commemorate the history of the Rosewood Massacre of 1923. Our presence is essential to remembering how certain catastrophes and atrocities robbed African Americans of their lives, land, properties, and abilities to be autonomous and self-sufficient. The Rosewood Massacre stands in history as a reminder that justice is undone and unfinished in many parts of America, particularly in areas where Black descendants still recall their communities being burned down and burned out. These descendants, along with present-day survivors, have a right to speak up and to demand their communities be repaired. Our presence here means that we stand together with resilience and commitment to restorative justice. We are pleased that you have come to join this conversation. We invite your voice to engage topics that will help African American and African Diasporic communities better strategize as to how we should move forward to address continuous needs, while, at the same time, organizing for greater activism that exposes why some in African American communities are calling for reparations.

While here in Florida, we are delighted to articulate who the National Council for Black Studies is and for which we stand. We stand for academic excellence and social responsibility. As such, we are here to name ourselves, to identify who we are, and to say loudly and proudly that we are a people dedicated to speaking our truths and to establishing correct and evidenced perspectives aligned with self-determined agency that guards and sustains our internal security, which is our sense of purpose and self that will not be undermined by misrepresentations of the history and contributions of our people. We are empowered by the knowledge of our histories and cultures and the creativity of our epistemological being. We are unapologetic, as we call for a rethinking of the reparation question as a form of justice for African American communities. At this annual conference, we explore many issues and ideas designed to foster greater and even more critical questions regarding liberation struggles as well as Black achievement and strategies for survival throughout the world.

Our conference is food for thought. We have many intellectually stimulating sessions. There is something for each person that will lift your spirit and encourage your heart in the struggle for on-going African American achievement. While we honor achievements and contributions of past and current Black scholars, inventors, teachers, activists, community leaders of many kinds, and others, we hope you will find time to meet seasoned and upcoming scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, community activists and teachers, book exhibitors, and vendors.

It is our hope that you will be encouraged by OUR gathering in Florida.

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Out from the gloomy past, til’ now we STAND AT LAST!…….

A MESSAGE FROM VICE PRESIDENT ALPHONSO SIMPSON WELCOME FAMILY…I am so glad you’ve made it! I am so pleased that you have intentionally chosen to join us here for what I’m calling “The Reunion”. Yes, this is the 47th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference, but to me, this is a reunion - A family reunion and we are reuniting on multiple levels, enjoying one another, embracing one another, and most of all advancing, encouraging, and affirming one another. At some point during our time here make sure you tell somebody “It is so good to see you” because it truly is good to both see and be seen!

In the written address I shared from our last in -person conference, I stated that 2020 was pivotal for us as we steadily advanced towards a 45-year celebration of excellence in Black Studies notion-wide. Little did I know that pivotal would become the word we would have to embrace as we locked ourselves in and weathered the storm. My brothers and my sisters we weathered the storm indeed and the fact that we are here sharing in this moment as a unified family of whole -hearted believers in the totality of the disciplinary scope and function of Black Studies is but a testament to both the width and depth of its influence and authority.

From beginning to end, this year’s conference is promised to deliver several exciting and insightful sessions that are sure to keep us engaged, uplifted, and encouraged as we continue to relentlessly chart some deep and dark waters regarding the future of our beloved discipline and its socio-political and educational thrust is concerned. Family, do know that even amid the unnecessary attacks launched at the exterior of our disciplinary abode, as always, we have overwhelmingly answered the National Call for Papers that was heralded this past Fall. While here in Gainesville, the NCBS will serve as host of top-notch undergraduate and graduate student panels, roundtable, and discussions. These sessions alongside an impressive number of thought-provoking research presentations from professional scholars of Black Studies spanning the diaspora are sure to vitalize and motivate us to continue the much-needed work to bring acclamation to the discipline.

To that end, our Presidential and National Board plenaries are promised to be awe inspiring as our plenary speakers are indeed stellar. Additionally, the Dr. Terry Kershaw Student Essay contest winners will be recognized on Friday at the Student Awards Luncheon as there were numerous outstanding submissions, wherein the top three undergraduate and graduate essays will be honored. And lastly, as we celebrate scholars to send out into the mission field, an impressive number of new inductees to the Ankh Maat Wedjau Honor Society at the W.E.B. DuBois Awards Banquet will be presented on Saturday night.

Considering the amplified socio-political climate, we are currently experiencing, I believe that we have been both divinely and strategically positioned to aggressively contribute a counter-narrative to the incessant assault against African American Studies throughout various institutions of learning in America. There has been a legacy of great scholars who have all skillfully added to the American ideology of the Black Experience, many of them you hear from this weekend. Family, as we glean from one another over the next few days, I challenge us to remain heedful and perceptive as we continue to move forward without hesitation. We all know that he road ahead of us is long, rugged, and without retreat. So in this season, let us not get weary in our well doing and while we are doing well, let ‘s not forget to check in with ourselves to be well.

May peace and favor rest upon you,

Alphonso Simpson, Jr., Ph.D.

NCBS Vice-President & 2023 Conference Chair

Dr. Alphonso Simpson

NCBS Vice President and Conference Chair University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Dr. Alicia Fontnette NCBS Board Member and Membership Chair Clark Atlanta University Dr. Jakia Marie Grand Valley State University

Dr. Sharon Austin Jehila Andrew-Brown Dr. Drew Brown Dr. Courtney Moore Taylor Chad Munteanu Dr. David Canton Desmond Walker Dwan Courtney Eric Godet

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Dr. Danae Powell University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Dr. Kaniqua L. Robinson Furman University Dr. Amilcar Shabazz NCBS Board Member and Treasurer University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mouray Hutchinson Dr. Julia M. Mollenthiel Dr. James Stewart Dr. Jon Rehm Carol Richardson Dr. Riche’s J. Daniel Barnes Dr. Rik L. Stevenson Kandice Simmons Samuel Stafford

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The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) was established in 1976 by African American scholars who recognized the need to formalize the study of the African World experience, as well as expand and strengthen academic units and community programs devoted to this endeavor. NCBS was formed out of the substantial need for a national stabilizing force in the developing discipline of Africana/Black Studies. Since the late 1960’s, higher education has been profoundly impacted by the emergence of Africana/Black Studies. Its impact on the broader educational establishment is due to the holistic and multidisciplinary approach taken by Africana Studies. Growing fundamentally out of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, Africana/Black Studies has become the intellectual extension of that movement. The National Council for Black Studies is committed to academic excellence and social responsibility.

NCBS seeks to:

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Facilitate through consultation and other services, the recruitment of Black Scholars for all levels of teaching and research in universities and colleges;

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Assist in the creation and implementation of multicultural education programs and materials for K-12 schools and higher education institutions;

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Promote scholarly African-centered research on all aspects of the African World experience;

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Increase and improve informational resources on Pan-African life and culture to be made available to the general public;

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Provide professional advice to policymakers in education, government and community development;

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Maintain international linkages among Africana Studies scholars;

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Work for the empowerment of people of African descent.

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ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: •

Annual Conference NCBS sponsors an annual conference which provides a forum for the dissemination of scholarship and a venue for mentoring students who wish to pursue a career in Africana Studies.

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International Journal of African Studies (IJAS) NCBS publishes an annual peer reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship and research about people of African descent.

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Terry Kershaw Student Essay Contest NCBS sponsors a student (undergraduate and graduate) essay contest for original work that focuses on any aspect of the Africana experience. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) receive a cash prize and a plaque at the student luncheon held during the annual conference.

The essay contest is named in honor of Dr. Terry Kershaw of the University of Cincinnati and former editor of the International Journal of Africana Studies.

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C. Tsehloane Keto Student Leadership Development and Mentorship Program Participants in the program will be exposed to a variety of settings where they will have the opportunity to observe, participate, examine and exercise leadership skills in a national organization. The program is named in honor of South African-born Dr. C. Tsehloane, a dedicated, committed African-centered scholar and educator who was a powerful force in the fight for liberation and empowerment for all people of African descent.

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NCBS Civic & Community Education and Engagement Grants Program Under this program, grants are awarded to support projects in which Africana Studies knowledge and skills are made available to local communities. Funding for the program is provided by National Black Federation of Charities (NBFC) and NCBS.

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1976-1978 Bertha Maxwell-Roddey University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1994-1998 William (Bill) A. Little California State University, Dominguez Hills

1978-1980 William King University of Colorado

1998-2002 James B. Stewart Pennsylvania State University

1980-1982 William E. Nelson, Jr. The Ohio State University

2002-2006 Shirley N. Weber San Diego State University

1982-1984 Carlene Young San Jose State University

2006-2010 Charles E. Jones Georgia State University

1984-1988 Delores P. Aldridge Emory University

2010-2014 Sundiata Cha-Jua University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1988-1992 Selase (Wayne) Williams California State University, Dominguez Hills

2014-2018 Georgene Bess-Montgomery Clark Atlanta University

1992-1994 Charles Henry University of California, Berkeley

2018-2022 Amilcar Shabazz University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

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Executive Board Valerie Grim

Alphonso Simpson

Amilcar Shabazz

Indiana University Bloomington, IN

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI

University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

President

Vice President

President

Serie McDougal III

Georgene Bess Montgomery

California State University, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA

Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA

Secretary

Past President

Board Members Melina Abdullah California State University, Los Angeles

Ifetayo Flannery Temple University

Leslie Alexander University of Oregon

Alicia Fontnette Clark Atlanta University

Venise T. Berry University of Iowa

Maulana Karenga California State University, Long Beach

Dexter Blackman Morgan State University

Thekima Mayasa San Diego Community College

Kevin Brooks Michigan State University

Karin L. Stanford California State University, Northridge

Greg E. Carr Howard University

James (Jim) B. Stewart, Emeritus Pennsylvania State University

Jeanette Davidson University of Oklahoma

Michael Tillotson State University of New York at Cortland

Sarita Davis Georgia State University

Dorothy Tsuruta San Francisco State University

Bertis English Alabama State University

Akinyele Umoja Georgia State University

Jonathan Fenderson Washington University

Alfred Young, Emeritus Georgia Southern University

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The following individuals have contributed $1500 in lump or 3-payments to NCBS

Riché J. Barnes

University of Florida

Daniela Gomes

San Diego State University

Drew D Brown

University of Florida

Alice Nicholas

California State University, Long Beach

Jeanette Davidson

University of Oklahoma

Charmane Perry

San Diego State University

Joshua Cotton

Piérre Ramon Thomas

Armani Stewart

Karl Lyn

Clark Atlanta University Advisor: Dr. Rico Chapman

Georgia State University Advisor: Dr. Sarita Davis

University of Massachusetts Amherst Advisor: Dr. Amilcar Shabazz

Marymount University Advisor: Dr. Tonya-Marie Howe

Chelsea Coughlin

California State University, Northridge Advisor: Dr. Cedric Hackett

Rachael Adeniran

California State University, Los Angeles Advisor: Dr. Serie McDougal III

Student Committee Members Dr. Sarita Davis Dr. Denae Mohammed Dr. Georgene Bess Montgomery, Chair Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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Institutional Membership year is July 1—June 30 Membership includes: Unlimited Position Announcement Postings ($150 savings/post) One Complimentary Professional Membership 50% discount on half or full-page ad in Conference Program Book Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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Looking for a past issue of the International Journal of Africana Studies?

The following issues can be purchased on the NCBS website.

Darwing Charles, SUNY New Paltz Lindsay Gary, Temple University Lyric Hathaway, Georgia State University Brianna Hicks, SUNY New Paltz Britney Huston, SUNY New Paltz Alicia Jenkins, Stockton University Christopher Newman, Howard University Victor Sledge, Georgia State University Armani Stewart, Georgia State University Kendall Washington, Stockton University

Marcus Smith Indiana University

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47 Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference Opening Ceremony 8:30—10:00 am Century Ballroom A

Opening Remarks NCBS President

Keynote Speaker NCBS Board Member

Dr. Valerie Grim

Dr. Maulana Karenga

Director and Professor of Undergraduate Studies, African American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University Bloomington

Department Chair and Advisor Africana Studies California State University, Long Beach

Other Speakers:

Dr. Akinyele Umoja: Libations/Mojuba Dr. Alicia Fontnette: Membership Matters Dr. Alphonso Simpson: Conference Highlights Dr. Amilcar Shabazz: Business Meeting Wrap Up

Hot beverage station and AM breakfast enhancements sponsored by: Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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001. Popular Culture as Sites of Resistance Panel 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: The Transcendent Groove: Hip-hop and its Resonant Space within contemporary Pan-Africanism Shingi Mavima, University of Toledo Reorienting the field: Understanding sport through the limitations of Liberalism Munene F. Mwaniki, Western Carolina University The Spook Who Made a Subversive Film David Walton, Western Carolina University Poetics of Black Foodscapes: An ethnographic study of cultural food knowledge on the food practices of African American women in urban settings Armani Stewart, Georgia State University Chair: David Walton, Western Carolina University 002. Realizing Rosewood: Resilience and Representation Paper Session 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Participants: Rosewood Massacre: Educating Using Narratives of African American Women's Resilience Octavia Clarkson Rosewood the Movie: Misrepresentation, Manhood, and PHA in the Jim Crow South Derrick Lanois, Norfolk State University An Examination of Racial Violence in the Sunshine State Kenneth Tinoco, University of Florida "Reparations, Resilience, and Restorative Justice as Acts of Self-Care: A Sebaitic Inquiry" Anthony Dandridge, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz Chair: David Canton, University of Florida

003. Scotland, Slavery and Reparations Panel 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Chair: Jeanette Davidson, University of Oklahoma Discussants: Jeanette Davidson, University of Oklahoma Graham Campbell, Glasgow City Council Cassandra Gooptar PhD, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull Stephen Mullen PhD, Glasgow University 004. Community, Social Empowerment, and the Progression towards Freedom Paper Session 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: Neighborhood Development, Spatial Imaginaries, and Urban “Souls of Black Folks” R. DREW SMITH, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Political Maroonage in Philadelphia: Is Non-Voting an Option Matthew Ellis Simmons, Cheyney University Wading in the Water: What Black Lives Matter can tell us about social movement continuity and abeyance? Kevin C Winstead, Georgia Institute of Technology Dear Tuskegee: Navigating Information in a Jim Crow Country Michelle M Kuhl, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chair: Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College 26

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005. Race, Capitalism, Colonization and Struggle: The Impact of Intersectional Oppressions Paper Session 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Intersectionality and dependency lenses in neonatal mortality: Evidence of regional, residential, and socioeconomic inequalities from post-colonial Tanzania, 1991-2016 Neema Langa, University of Houston The Lure of Development Tara Mock, The University of Alabama Pandemics in New Orleans and Johannesburg: From Jim Crow & Apartheid to COVID-19 Blair Proctor, SUNY New Paltz Mabo Case Sohail Shehada, University of Oklahoma Chair: Uzoma Miller, Ohio University 006. Radical Resistance and Consciousness Paper Session 10:15 to 11:30 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: The Black Radical Tradition and Zimbabwe’s Armed Struggle, 1965-1985 Toivo Asheeke, Georgia State University The Converging Streams of Afrikan War and Resistance in the Afrikan World Kimoni (Wilbert) Yaw Ajani (St. Hilaire), Stockton University/Arts Humanities Transcending Post-epistemic Trauma: Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness and the Restoration of African Humanism Jeremias Zunguze, University of North Carolina Asheville Chair: Alicia Fontnette, Spelman College 007. Health and Freedom: The Continued Journey to Equal Healthcare Paper Session 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: Addressing Health Disparities in Vulnerable and Underserved Populations by Continuing Dr. King’s Legacy – Lessons Learned from Underprivileged Countries Edward Wallace, University of Cincinnati The effects of historical antecedents and cultural trauma on the HIV risk of Black women living in Fulton County, Georgia. Sarita K. Davis, Georgia State University The Way They See Us: The Historical Experiences of Black Women as Patients in Mainstream Healthcare Ene Priscilla Idoko, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Where is the Village?: Restoring Maternal Mental Health Through Community Healing Nkechinyelum Chioneso, Florida A&M University; August Alderman, Florida A&M University Chair: Alphonso Simpson, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

008. Womanist Autobiography: An Ethnographic Journey toward Community Wellbeing Panel 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Participants: The Black Studies Paradigm in Practice: Creating Communities of Support for Black Girls and Women Kevin Brooks The Community Wellbeing Series: The Crossroads of Cultural Empowerment, Reclamation, and Community Aaliyah Buell, Michigan State University

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008. Womanist Autobiography: An Ethnographic Journey toward Community Wellbeing cont.

Good Femininity: A Dialogue on Self-Identity and Self-Actualization among Black Women and Girls Cameo King, Grit Glam And Guts An Essay on Womanist Autobiography Rondee J. Gaines, University of Alabama, Birmingham Chair: Kevin Brooks 009. Black Women's Bodies: Performativity as a Reclamation for Restorative Justice Panel 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Participants: The Queer Tear: Black Women's Performativity in the characters Vera & Sunshine of Harlem Nights Hope Jackson, North Carolina A&T State University Black Women by Looking and Redefining Self Image Sarah Bataille, North Carolina A&T State University The Need for Community for Self-Discovery and Healing after Trauma and Los Chalyn Smith, North Carolina A&T State University Chair: Hope Jackson, North Carolina A&T State University 010. May I Help You?: Considering Social Skills and Needs on Both Sides of a Graduate Student Mentor-Mentee Relationships Roundtable Discussion 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Chair: Ebony Gibson, Georgia Gwinnett College Discussants: Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University Aliza Leslie, Georgia State University Tiffany Smith, Louisiana State University 011. Police and Violence: Abolition and Black Resistance 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: From Police Reform to Police Abolishion james M Thomas, CAL State LA Resisting History: An Afropessimist Approach to the 1967 Texas Southern University Police Attack David Ponton III, University of South Florida Un-random Acts: A theory of State Violence Tekla Ali Johnson, USC Chair: Tekla Ali Johnson, USC 012. Roundtable on Joshua Myers' Of Black Study Roundtable Discussion 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Chair: Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University Discussants: Joshua Myers, Howard University James Stewart, Penn State Ifetayo Flannery, San Francisco State University Christopher Roberts

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013. Cultural Warriors: The Relationship between Social Dominance Orientation and Identity Panel 1:15 to 2:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: The Relationship between SDO and regional/national/religious identity: A Review of the Literature Khamil Canty, Valdosta State University The Relationship between SDO and political/gender/sexual identity: A Review of the Literature Janell Mills, Valdosta State University The Relationship between SDO and REC/class identity: A Review of the Literature Dr. M. Denise Lovett, Valdosta State University Chairs: Marilyn Lovett, Valdosta State University Louis Walee, Valdosta State University 014.

Rumor Has It: The Mis-Education of AP African American Studies Roundtable Discussion 2:45 to 4:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Discussants:

Latasha Eley Kelly College Board

Teresa L Reed

University of Louisville

Darius Young

Florida A&M University

Cathy Brigham College Board

015. Artistic Expression As A Means of Black Liberation Paper Session 2:45 to 4:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Participants: Come Out Here on the Floor: Popular Dance and the Liberation of the Black Female Spirit in 20th Century America Patricia Reid-Merritt, Stockton University Reaching Higher Ground; A Look at Blues and R&B Music Veronica Anita Redden, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Sampling as an Art Form and its Utility as a Tool for Intergenerational & Cross-Genre Black Resistance Uzoma Miller, Ohio University Chair: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University

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016. “1971- Present: Black Solidarity Day at SUNY New Paltz; A day of student led activism and workshops lead by the Black Student Union” Roundtable Discussion 2:45 to 4:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Chairs: Blair Proctor, SUNY New Paltz Cruz Caridad Bueno, SUNY-New Paltz Discussant: Joel Gooden, SUNY New Paltz 017. The Future Research Trends as Informed by Our Past Paper Session 2:45 to 4:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood

Participants: Digital Heritage: The Search for the Black Star Line Jewell Humphrey, UCLA Examining Black Cultural Resistance to White Supremacist Ideology Antoine K. Stroman, School District of Philadelphia Through the Lens of Holistic Liberation: An Operationalized African-Centered Orientation to African Art History Aigner Autry, Temple University Cultural Gentrification of the Civil Rights Movement: Evaluating the Romantic Lyrics over a Blues Beat in Atlanta’s Public Space Rhana Gittens, Oglethorpe University Chair: W. Denae Powell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 018. Hidden in Full View: The Case for Racial Justice and Reparations in Salisbury, Maryland Roundtable Discussion 2:45 to 4:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Presenters: Alexander Jones, George Mason University/Mitchell Program Isaac Jasper, George Mason University/Mitchell Program Kayiraba Toure, George Mason University/Mitchell Program Chair: Charles L Chavis, George Mason University Mitchell Program 019. Protect Ya Neck: Combating Issues of Gentrification and Preserving the History of Black Communities Panel 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: Digitizing Bronzeville: A Digital Project Examining Housing and Urban Community Brandon Stokes Legislating Action – The Reactionary Changes to State Law Creating Stricter Regulations for Protest and Free Speech Privileges in Black Communities Marshall Allen, Indiana University-Bloomington The Visual Aesthetic of Gentrification Ashley Hayes, Indiana University - Bloomington Hungry, Thirsty and Unhealthy: How Food Deserts and Liquor Stores Dominate Black Neighborhoods Jayden Nicole Flowers, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Chair: Taylor Duckett, Indiana University Bloomington 020. Capitalism and the Black Experience: Working Towards Economic Freedom Paper Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch 30

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020. Capitalism and the Black Experience: Working Towards Economic Freedom cont.

Participants: "From Greenwood to Rosewood: A Reappraisal in Black and White" Mark C. Grafenreed, Southern Methodist University Reconceptualizing Ujamaa in the Era of Platform Capitalism: Agency and Economics Savannah Winston, Temple University Social Inequality: The Pandemic’s Disparate Impact on Food Insecurity among Black Americans Monica Adams, Binghamton University Department of Social Work Unveiling New Strategies Employed by Real Estate Developers to Utilize Tax Sales for Dispossession of Heirs’ Property Owners Belay Alem, University of Florida Chair: Jonathon E. Stone, Howard University 021. Black Women Defining Beauty, Womanhood, and Wellness Paper Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Beautiful Black Futures: Resilient and Resistant Bodily Aesthetic Representations and Futurity in the Diaspora Amanda Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Black Women Artists Creating Art and Art Ecosystems as a means of Wellness Tanisha Jackson, Syracuse University Embodied Absence: Black Womanhood, Beauty, and Exploring “Body Neutrality” Kristin Rowe, California State University Fullerton Kinky: African Americans, Gender, Ideal Beauty, & Black Media Derrick Lanois, Norfolk State University Chair: Uzoma Miller, Ohio University 022. Black Beaches in America - Our Maroon Societies: The Short Media Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Discussant: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University 023. There are Multiples Ways to get to Freedom: Where have we been and where are we going?

Paper Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: African Consciousness through Linguistic Unity: A Juxtapositional Analysis of Terminology from Yurugu and The Island of Menes V Harrison Gaffin, Cheyney University of PA Is American Descendants of Slavery (ADOS) a Progressive Social Movement or Anti-Black Demagoguery? A Black Studies Pan-African Analysis Kevin Cokley, University of Michigan Sojourner’s Truth: An Interrogation of America’s History of Misogynoir Victoria Peters, University of Florida Coding While Black Kai Ajala Dupe, The Alhaven Group Chair: Tekla Ali Johnson, USC 024. Decolonizing the Colonized: Putting Theory into Practice Paper Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Aspects of the Pan African Response to Regional Crisis: A Case of Mozambique's Triple Threat: Neo Colonial Underdevelopment, Corruption and Islamic Jihad Gwinyai P. Muzorewa, Lincoln University Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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024. Decolonizing the Colonized: Putting Theory into Practice cont.

“Who are you calling an African?” “Who are you calling Black?” Colonial Identities and the Specter of Decolonization. Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST Celestial Governance: An Examination of Kemetic Astronomical Sciences and their Relevance in the Present Era Louis Walee, Valdosta State University Black Internationalism and Pan-African Solidarity: Black Voices of Protest at the World Tribunal Aaron N Pride, Lafayette College Chair: Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST 025. The Black Athlete and Athleticism in Research on Race and Sports Paper Session 4:15 to 5:30 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: Game Over: The Apathy and Aftermath of Black Athleticism in The Collegiate and Professional Sports Arena Keahsun J Lawrence, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Humble Beginnings: The Depiction of Black Athletes’ Upbringings in Commercials between 2016 and 2019 Drew D. Brown, University of Florida “When I couldn’t bedazzle them with brilliance, I bamboozled them with bullshit”: Harry Edwards, Black Power, and Countering the Mainstream Media’s Repression of the Revolt of the Black Athlete Dexter Blackman, Morgan State University Chair: Aimee Glocke, California State University, Northridge

Reception (refreshments served)

6:00—7:30 pm Hilton Century Ballroom A Meet and Greet with Jade Powers Curator of Contemporary Art Following the reception the Harn Museum of Art invites NCBS Conference attendees (and any guests) to view the exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture, until 9pm. The entire museum will be open for exploration. Free entry.

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026. The Process of Law and Justice: Context Matters Paper Session 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: “Fascist, Whatever Name It Takes”: The Murder of Frank Bishop and Anti-Black Pogroms on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, 1931-1938 Charles L Chavis, George Mason University Mitchell Program; Alexander Jones, George Mason University/Mitchell Program Igbo Jurisprudence Nkuzi Nnam, Dominican University “Racial Justice and Reparations in Cuba: Afro-Indigeneity, Literature, and Settler Colonialism” Ebenezer Concepcion, Cleveland State University Resistance Strategies of the Bulsa Against Kidnapping and Enslavement in the 1890s in Northern Ghana Anbegwon Atuire; Dr. Jamal Ratchford, Colorado College Chair: Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST 027. Black Perception and Identity: How They Sees Us Paper Session 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Participants: Bill Past Due: What America Owes To Black Folk Samuel Maceno, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh Shopping While Black: A Qualitative Analysis of In-Depth Interviews Michelle R Dunlap, Dr Michelle Teaches African Immigrants’ perception of contested casting for lead roles in Hollywood-produced continental African history movies Adelaja Oriade, Ohio university You Won’t Break My Soul: Framing Beyoncé’s Renaissance Album as a Symbol of Liberation and Resistance Tira Jacquelyne Murray, Georgia State University Chair: Alexia P. Hammonds, Jackson State University 028. Black Mental Health from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Today Panel 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Modern Mental Issues and their Roots in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Olivia Bowman, East Tennessee State University Displays of Toxic Masculinity and Femininity: Why Gender Roles are Destructive Naomi Gates, East Tennessee State University Black Male Mental Health: Challenges and Triumphs Kevin Brooks Chair: Kevin Brooks 029. From Trauma to Healing and Catharsis in Literary and Social Reality Paper Session 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: “‘The words can give wings to your feet’”: An Examination of the Body as Black Borderland Consciousness in Breath, Eyes, Memory Fallon Nicole Holmes, North Carolina A&T State University "Trauma and Cartharsis in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber Georgene Bess Montgomery, Clark Atlanta Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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“Adventures as a Runaway Horse:” Dimensions of Black Self-Expression in The Brownies’ Book Sophia Lindner, Yale University Lòt Bó Dlo: The Other Side of the Water Joyce White, Georgia Southern University Chair: Georgene Bess Montgomery, Clark Atlanta 030. Polarization and Party Politics: African Countries and the United States in their battle against Covid-19.

Panel 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: Climate change impacts on water availability in Zimbabwe: Case study of Hippo Valley Estates in Chiredzi Beatrice Ndlovu, Midlands State University Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking the Narrative Brilliance and Cultural Implications of Hal’s Kingdom Kyle R. Fox, The College of Coastal Georgia Oil, neo-colonization and racial capitalism in Guyana- The long arm of US economic exploits Carolyn Walcott, Clayton State University COVID-19 and Community Health: Unorthodox Medical and Religious Practices Peter Ukpokodu, University of Kansas Chair: Veronica Nmoma Nwankwo, University of North Carolina, Charlotte NC 031. Performing Race, Place, and Space in Africana Research Paper Session 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Beyond the Blackest Landscapes: Placemaking Through Wessyngton Plantation & Africatown’s Descendants Jessica Hanson, Middle Tennessee State University/ Tennessee State University Black Towns & Settlements: Lessons in Environmental & Racial Justice Atyia Martin, Next Leadership Development Philly Elmo Rises: Black eccentric performance during the George Floyd Riots/Uprisings, May 2020 Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymount University Chair: Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymount University 032. Reparations, Recovery, and Freedom: 'Give Us Our Money' Paper Session 9:30 to 10:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: Reparations, Resilience and Restorative Justice Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts-Boston Reparations, resilience, and restorative justice will have a temporary effect for the diaspora without the Sankofa Process Anitra Butler-Ngugi, George Washington University Stepping Forward into the Payout: A Data Driven Anthropological Approach to Reparations Deneia Y. Fairweather, Ph.D., ESE Consulting, LLC Chair: Amilcar Shabazz 033. Self and Community-based Empowerment in Black Culture and Art Panel 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: Adichie and African Womanism Lauren McCormick, SUNY Geneseo Eradication of the Black Blight in Black Literature Makayla Williams, SUNY Geneseo 34

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033. Self and Community-based Empowerment in Black Culture and Art cont.

The Unspoken Reality of Our Communities: How We Are Conditioned to Build Better Communities for All Those Except Us Genesis Flores, SUNY Geneseo Reform, Reframe, and Re-educate: Combatting The Erasure of the African Diaspora in The Dominican Republic Lidabel Avila, SUNY Geneseo Senegalese Perspectives: Redefining Progress Through the Lens of Afro-Identities Yarold Bautista Martinez, SUNY Geneseo Chair: Olaocha N. Nwabara, Ph.D., SUNY Geneseo 034. Africana Educational Methods for Liberation Roundtable Discussion 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Presenters: Kamari Andrews, Georgia State University Toivo Asheeke, Georgia State University Aminata Umoja, Kilombo Academic & Cultural Institute School Kofey Lomotey, Western Carolina University Chair: Makungu Akinyela, Georgia State University 035. Black Studies Beyond the Classroom: The Current and Future Uses of Black Studies Panel 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Black Like That – Applying Black Studies to My Future Career as a Higher Education Professional Trevon Smith, Northern Illinois University After School Studies - A Community Program Arianna Ramos, Northern Illinois University In Therapy We Trust Ashley Peet, Northern Illinois University Black Studies High School Outreach Program Princess Rogers, Northern Illinois University Chair: Taylor Duckett, Indiana University Bloomington 036. Wakanda and the Black Imaginary Panel 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: The Mothers of Wakanda: The Real Embedded in the Imaginary Riche JD Barnes, University of Florida Wakanda’s Lost Tribe: African-Americans in Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Jonathan Gayles, Georgia State University Say Their Names: The Dora Milaje…The Adored Ones and Protectors of Wakanda Grace Gipson, Virginia Commonwealth University Black Pasts, Black Futures, and Genealogies of Belonging: A Comparison of Ancestors in Black Panther and Traditional African Religions Yolanda Covington-Ward, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Chair: Riche JD Barnes, University of Florida 037. Student Engagement and Practice in the Struggle for Freedom and Liberation Paper Session 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory

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Participants: Combating Equity Suppression in Higher Education: Advancing Anti-Racism to Ensure Black Student Success Marquita Gammage, California State University, Northridge Engaging Student Voters in Democratic Learning through History, Media, and Service Crystal Harris, PhD, Governors State University It’s Time to Reopen the Shop: Fusing Cultural Factors, Developmental Research, and Practice at HBCUs Rodney Cunningham, NCCU Chair: Kevin Cokley, University of Michigan 038. Africana Studies as a Necessary Pedagogical Practice Paper Session 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Beyond Institutions: Promoting Afrocentric Education in African/Black Communities Naaja N Rogers, Temple University The Impact of African Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education Clarence George III, California State University, Sacramento Through Our Eyes: African American Educators' Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Preparation Katina L Thomas, Prairie View A&M University Chair: Tekla Ali Johnson, USC 039. Black Political Thought and Cultural Activism Paper Session 11:00 to 12:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: Between Pathology and Generativity: 'Black Paranoia,' Black Political Thought, and the Black Radical Tradition Nigel Cambridge, CUNY Graduate Center Insurgent Social Networks: Social Media as a Mobilizing Force John Quashie, Georgia State University The Past is Present: The Bellevue Passage Museum and Historic Preservation as Political and Cultural Activism Marcus Smith, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Political Edge of African Feminism: Explorations of African Gender Theory Amir Khalif Curry, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania Chair: Thekima Mayasa, San Diego Mesa College

Terry Kershaw Student Essay Awards Luncheon (tickets required)

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040. Reparative and Restorative Justice in K-12 Education: African-Centered Perspectives Panel 2:00 to 3:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: African American Studies as Reparative Justice Abul Pitre, San Francisco State University; Deon Martin Dismantling and Deconstructing Girl Bye: Restoring Black Girls with Restorative Justice Heidi Hill, Community Educators Dismantling a Culture of Oppression: The Power of African-centered Principals Kishia James, San Francisco State University Breaking Whiteness: Educator Preparation Programs and Black Racial Identity Development Tiffany Jackson, San Francisco State University Africana Social Justice Teacher Preparation Jocelyn Smith Gray, Fayetteville State University Chair: Abul Pitre, San Francisco State University

041. Africana Studies and Practice: Education for Liberation Paper Session 2:00 to 3:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Participants: Applied Africana Studies and the Challenges of Distance Education Deonte Hollowell, Spalding Black Studies in Brown Spaces: The Benefits and Challenges of Teaching Black Studies at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in Southern California Aimee Glocke, California State University, Northridge Critical Aesthetic Education: The Status of Black Aesthetics In American Education Van Anthoney Hall, North Carolina A&T State University Epistemological Reparations: An Afrocentric Approach within Black Studies Ifetayo Flannery, Temple University Chair: Amilcar Shabazz

042. The Racialization of Higher Learning: Redefining Black Humanism Paper Session 2:00 to 3:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Archives of Resistance: Methodologies for the “De-construction” of Ableist and Racist norms Kenya Loudd, Yale University Assata Shakur's Movement Toward a New Black Humanism J.E. Young, Pan-African Studies/ University of Louisville History and Colonial Imaginations: Sarkozy and the Perpetuation of Historical Darkness in African Historiography Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University "The Black Abolitionist Vision for Higher learning and a Long History of Black Studies" Michael Jirik, Amherst College Chair: Jennifer Williams, Loyola Marymount University

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Restorative Justice through the Preservation of Black History and Culture Sites Roundtable Discussion 2:00 to 3:15 pm

Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne

Discussants:

Kate Brown Trust for Public Land Florida Office

Staci Bertrand Duke Energy Foundation

Chair: Dr. Jocelyn Imani Trust for Public Land

Lizzie Robinson Jenkins The Real Rosewood Foundation Inc.

JoHanna “J” Thompson, MPA, Florida Restorative Justice Association

044. The Black Church and Capitalism: The Role of Black Women and Economically Supporting the Community Paper Session 2:00 to 3:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: Black Religion and Reparations: Pragmatic Trajectories and Widening Support R. DREW SMITH, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Where Do We Go from Here?: Examining Black Americans’ Relationship with Capitalism in the United States Khadijah Edwards, Pew Research Center - Washington, DC Black Female Pastors: Superwoman meets God Venise Berry, University of Iowa; Denise Ewing-Aikoriegie, Nashville Rescue Mission Chair: Tara Mock, The University of Alabama

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NCBS Presidential Plenary 3:30 to 4:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Century Ballroom A

Defeating the Attack on Africana/Black Studies: Building Resilience, Resistance and Reparations Presenters:

Melina Abdullah California State University, Los Angeles

Dexter Blackman

Morgan State University

Gregory Carr

Howard University/ Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization

Ifetayo Flannery Temple University

Chairs: Valerie Grim, Indiana University/Department of American and African Diaspora Studies Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts Amherst 046. DNA-Using Genealogy To Change My Slave Last Name Media Session 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Discussants: Nware Burge, Kean University Molefi K. Asante, Temple University 047. Teaching While Black (television pilot) Media Session 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Discussants: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University Aaron Moss, Stockton University

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048. "Who Yo' People?"

Media Session 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Discussants: Jennifer Gardner, DePaul University Lindsay Gary, Temple University 049. Overcoming Isolation - Navigating the Transitions from Student, to Candidate, to Doctor Roundtable Discussion 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Chair: Alicia Fontnette, Spelman College Discussants: Taylor Duckett, Indiana University Bloomington Brea Stevenson, Clark Atlanta University W. Denae Powell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 050. Cultural War: Focus on Black Youth Media Session 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory 051. Riots, Rebellions, Revolutions, and Uprisings of the 20th Century Media Session 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak 052. "Making a Way out of No Way” as a Theory and Praxis of Black Women’s World-Making in the Americas Panel 5:00 to 6:15 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: Black Strategic Mothering and the School-Choice Market-Place Riche JD Barnes, University of Florida "Fight fi Life": Black Motherhood as A Humanitarian Public Jallicia A. Jolly, Amherst College "Like Our Mothers Taught Us: The Maternal Makings of Black Diaspora in Twenty-First Century America" Channon Miller, University of San Diego Dr. Dorothy Jenkins Fields: The Mother Who Ignited Black Miami Studies Mysia Anderson, Brown University Chair: Riche JD Barnes, University of Florida

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Student Reception (professional DJ and light refreshments served)

7:00—10:00 pm Hilton Century Ballroom A

"Calling all Poets and Wordsmiths!"

053. Spiritual Agency as Resilience and Reparation: Examples from the Field (Caribbean, Southern US, East Africa, Global Africa) Panel 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participant: Spiritual Agency as Resilience and Reparation: Examples from the Field (Caribbean, Southern US, East Africa) Marimer Berberena, Lehman College; Tarik Richardson, Xavier University of Louisiana; Lindsay Gary, Temple University Chair: Louis Walee, Valdosta State University

054. Global Black Studies of the Decolonial and Post-Colonial Africana World Paper Session 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Participants: Rethinking Decolonized Universities: A Case for Dika le Diema (Proverbs) and Ubuntu in Humanizing South African Universities Lesiba Tumishang "Tumi" Ledwaba, North West University “Into the Metaphysics of Africana Studies:” What do we do with the Question of Ufology? Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST Keeper of the Fire: An Igbo Metalsmith From Awka by Teresa R. Kemp Teresa Renee Thomas Kemp, SC Wild's Heritage Center of Plantation Quilts, Inc. Performing the Third Chimurenga: Popular expressions of nationalism in the context of Zimbabwean land reform Shingi Mavima, University of Toledo Chair: Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST 055. Remembering Resistance: An Analysis of Progress and Struggle Paper Session 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Participants: Machinations of Whiteness: Exploring White Fragility As A Precursor To Mob Violence and Identity Development Brian Ragsdale, Visionary Scientists Research Group Racial Injustices in Emergency Management: Opportunities for Individual & Collective Action Atyia Martin, Next Leadership Development Resistance, Preservation, and Black Cultural Traditions: Remembering Geechees as Black Warriors in the Three Seminole Wars J. Vern Cromartie, Contra Costa College A Poetic Study of Afropessimism Zorina Frey, Converse University Chair: Uzoma Miller, Ohio University 056. Education and Empowerment: Remembering the Impact of our Youth Paper Session 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: MDG 3, The role of education in Girlchild empowerment, case of George Emmanuel High School Mitch Chakanetsa, Sedibeng School

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"Pipeline to Power" A Creative Exploration of My Journey to Black Youth Empowerment Junichi Bomani Lockett, University of Texas at Austin Voices of a Generation: The Political Lives of Black Young Adults in Los Angeles Karl Lyn, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chair: Mitch Chakanetsa, Sedibeng School 057. Criminalization and the Black Body: The Cost of the Black Body and Mind Paper Session 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: A Historical Overview of Mass Incarceration and Its Connections to Black Family Structures Paris Jordan McKnight, University of Florida "Badge of Slavery:" Clothing and Enslaved Teenage Girls' Identify Formation Courtney Taylor, University of Florida Bars and Bookings: The Criminalization of Black People in the United States Makaylee Catherine Stewart, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Black Pregnant and Incarcerated LEILLA BELONY, University of Florida Chair: Alphonso Simpson, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh 058. Are you sure you want to major in that?

Roundtable Discussion 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Chair: Patricia Reid-Merritt, Stockton University Discussants: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University Kimoni (Wilbert) Yaw Ajani (St. Hilaire), Stockton University/Arts Humanities Olutoyosi Aboderin, Temple University Patricia Reid-Merritt, Stockton University Lillian Nickens, Stockton University Alicia Jenkins, Stockton University 059. Educational Systems and the Black Body's Place Paper Session 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Educational Justice for Black Girls: A Call for Radical Transformational Pedagogy Dr. Shemariah J. Arki Higher Education in Africa: Mis-Education or Nation Building? Gaidi Faraj, Grambling State University Hip Hopcentricity: A theoretical shift from Culturally Relevant to Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy Ife Akinyela, 1982 What Happens to a Dream Deferred?: Black Studies and the Promises and Perils of Institutionalization AJ Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara; Olaocha N. Nwabara, Ph.D., SUNY Geneseo Chair: Jonathon E. Stone, Howard University 060. Black Artistic Imaginaries as Critical Sankofa Praxis Roundtable Discussion 9:00 to 10:15 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Presenters: Imani Wallace, University of Massachusetts Amherst Chanel Prince, University of Massachusetts Amherst Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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060. Black Artistic Imaginaries as Critical Sankofa Praxis cont.

Chair: Justin Coles, University of Massachusetts Amherst 061. Rosewood and Florida: The Long Road to Truth and Reconciliation Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: Critical Race Theory: Rejection and Racial Politics: The White Idealization of Florida Historical Education Madison Grace Stauffer, University of Florida Resounding Resistance: Historical and Mediated Resistance in John Singleton’s Rosewood (1997) W. Denae Powell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Rosewood: Were the Reparations Enough? Selora Langston, University of Florida Rosewood: Anticipated and Realized Pat Young, Western Illinois University-Dept of English Chair: Anthony Dandridge, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz 062. Global Black Studies at Western Carolina University Roundtable Discussion 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Birch Presenters: David Walton, Western Carolina University Asha Asha, Western Carolina University Khadija Davis, Western Carolina University Jordan Copper, Western Carolina University Chair: David Walton, Western Carolina University

063. Race Still Matters: The Black Experience and Mobilization Towards Freedom Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Participants: Black Assimilationism Paul Mocombe, West Virginia State University/The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc. Cultural Genocide as a Framework for Unpacking the US Black Experience and Mobilizing Towards Liberation Eletha Thompson, na Debunking the Myth of a Post-racial Society in Latin America John Tovar-Cortes, University of Houston Jim Crow and The Third Reich What American Race Law taught Nazi Germany Ari McCaskill, Albion College-School of Public Purpose Chair: Uzoma Miller, Ohio University

064. Being Black, Africana, and Resilient in Higher Education Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Cultural Taxation: An Occupational Hazard for Black women at PWIs Shedia Regina Laguer, Stockton University Horace Mann Bond and Pan-African Education in American Universities, 1945-1972 Emmanuella Amoh, Purdue University Privileging Harassment in the City by the Bay, and State: Dorothy Tsuruta, San Francisco State University Chair: Marquita Gammage, California State University, Northridge 44

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065. Africana Feminism, Africana Womanism in Cultural, Literary and Political Studies Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: Becoming, Writing Home: Culturally Determined Freedom in the Writings of Nigerian Diaspora Women Olaocha N. Nwabara, Ph.D., SUNY Geneseo Call Me a Devil, Call Me an Angel: Claudia and Shuri’s Maturation in Black Girlhood Maya Singleton, California State University, Northridge Black Feminist Movements in Latin America: The case of Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Costa Rica Luz E Rodriguez, Clark Atlanta University Pote’m Sekou: Imagining Haitian Women and Community Beyond the “Poto Mitan” Joashilia Jeanmarie, University of Florida Chair: Jordon R Crawford, UMASS AMHERST

066. African/Black Mental Health: Collectivism, Spirituality, and Afrocentricity Panel 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: The Potential Effects of a Psychology Project-Based Learning Program in High School on Afrikan Students Amere Wofford, California State University, Los Angeles The Impact of Religion and Spirituality on African American Mental Health and Identity Rachael Adeniran, California State University Los Angeles Collectivistic Cultures, Prosocial Behaviors, and Mental Health Heather Ford, The Pan African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles Chair: Dr. Serie McDougal, CSU Los Angeles

067. Violence and the Black Body: The Power of Images Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: A Model for Black Adolescents' Media Use and Sexual Behavior Magaela C. Bethune, Loyola Marymount University An analysis of the contributing factors to offending behavior and the perpetrator-victim power dynamics in sexual offences- A South African perspective. Khomotjo Lekgau, University of Limpopo; Leandre Christina Geoffrey, University of Limpopo Gender Violence In the Dominican Republic: Racialized Bodies & Sexual Violence Cruz Caridad Bueno, SUNY-New Paltz Lights! Camera! Oppression!: How Black People are offensively Portrayed in Hollywood Jaiah Q Jones, Grand Valley State University Chair: Donnetrice Allison, Stockton University 068. Centering Blackness in the Ivory Academy Paper Session 10:30 to 11:45 am Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Participants: Read it, Write it, Talk about it: The impact of African Centered Education in Higher Learning Amongst Diverse Student Body Populations Clarence George III, California State University, Sacramento Traditional Leadership Theories Reframed: Moving African American Women Experiences From “Margin” To “Center” Ronicka Harrison Briscoe, University of Holy Cross - Department of Education Promoting Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility

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Effective Teaching Skills Kofi Baruti, Year Chair: Paulo Polanah, Virginia Tech - AFST 069. Black Creativity in Theory, Thought, Performance, and Ideology Paper Session 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Azalea Participants: Black Studies and the Power of Creative Thought Donja Thomas, Gahanna Jefferson Schools Ideological Subject Formation of African American Students: African-Centered Education and Afrocentric Counter Narratives Prince Terence Gumbi, California State University Los Angeles The Production of Power in the Black Creative Imagination: Discourse and the Performative Rodney Fitzgerald Hughes, Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA Africana Studies and Sport: Memory, Resilience, and Theory Christel N Temple, University of Pittsburgh Chair: Kevin Cokley, University of Michigan 070. Against the Current: Considerations for Developing a Program of Black Studies in the American South Roundtable Discussion 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Cedar Presenters: Abul Pitre, San Francisco State University Crystal Edwards, San Francisco State University Chairs: Felicia Harris, University of Houston - Downtown Vida A. Robertson, University of Houston-Downtown

071. Africana Studies, Resistance, Resilience and Reparations: Marking Off the Fields of Our Continuing and Evolving Concerns Panel 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Dogwood Participants: Resilience and Resistance in the Spiritual Activism and Philosophical Thought of Howard Thurman Eva Bohler, California State University, Long Beac Internal Reparations and the Task of Africana Studies M. Keith Claybrook, CSU, Long Beach Rising from the Ashes: An Exploration of Resilience and the Struggle for Reparations Alice Nicholas, Ph.D., California State University, Long Beach Resistance Scholarship and Africana Studies: Revisiting and Reaffirming Its Roots in Liberatory Struggle Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach Chair: Maulana Karenga, California State University, Long Beach 072. Counterpoints and Cataclysms in Global Black Studies Research Paper Session 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hawthorne Participants: An Intimate Cataclysm: AfroAsian Literary Explorations in the Black Pacific Alex Brickler, Florida A&M University The Struggle For an Afro-Indigenous Identity: the Cherokee Freedmen controversy Jacob Klanke, Grand Valley State University

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The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics Sureshi Jayawardene, San Diego State University Chair: Bertis English, Alabama State University 073. The Rosewood Massacre: Dismantling the Racial Ladder Panel 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Hickory Participants: Rosewood as a Metaphor for White Racial Thinking: Being Human Being as an Antidote Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University The Limits of Race Thinking: Revolutionary Keys to Cultural Encounter Nah Dove, Temple University Chair: Dr. Serie McDougal, CSU Los Angeles 074. Black Identity, Sexuality, and Family: Conversations We Need to Have Paper Session 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Live Oak Participants: Black Male Youth and The Constant Impact of Oppression Imagine Rose Manders, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Experiences of caregivers amongst Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. A Case study of Leonard Cheshire Disability Trust in Harare Caroline Zvikomborero Manhopi, Africa University Symbolic Racism and Perceptions and Misperceptions of a Black Family among Social Service Providers Michelle R Dunlap, DrMichelleTeaches "Nah Play Numba Two": An Analysis of Queer Citizenship in Jamaica Jordon R Crawford, UMASS AMHERST Chair: W. Denae Powell, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 075. SAAADHI to Decolonize Representations in the Curriculum and Evoke the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida with Eastside High School Students Roundtable Discussion 1:30 to 2:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Magnolia Presenters: Dr. Amanda Concha-Holmes, University of Florida, Center of Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship (CAME) Kiara Thompson, Sankofa African American Arts and Digital Humanities Initiative Dr. Alana Jackson, University of Florida, CAME Chair: Amanda Concha-Holmes, University of Florida, CAME

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NCBS Sponsor Plenary 4:30 to 5:45 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center: Floor 1st - Century Ballroom A

Teaching Black While Living In The Red: African American Studies at the University of Florida

Participants from the University of Florida African American Studies Program (l to r): Riche’ Barnes, "Wake Up! Black Strategic Mothering, Public Education, and the Florida Stop W.O.K.E. Act" Drew Brown, Africana Studies Methodology in the Study of Black Sporting Culture.

Alyssa Cole, "Organizing for Medical Equity: Black Newspapers in the West, 1900-1940" Julia Mollenthiel, "Candyman and the Afterlives of Slavery."

Rik Stevenson, Jumping Overboard: Suicide By Drowning as a Form Resistance During The Middle Passage Chairs: David Canton, University of Florida

W.E.B Du Bois Awards Banquet NCBS Special Session 8:00 to 11:00 pm Hilton University of Florida Conference Center Century Ballroom A

Abdullah, Melina, 045 Aboderin, Olutoyosi, 058 Adams, Monica, 020 Adeniran, Rachael, 066 Ajani (St. Hilaire), Kimoni (Wilbert) Yaw, 006, 058 Akinyela, Ife, 059 Akinyela, Makungu, 034 Alderman, August, 007 Alem, Belay, 020 Ali Johnson, Tekla, 011, 023, 038 Allen, Marshall, 019 Allison, Donnetrice, 047, 058 Allison, Donnetrice, 015, 022, 067 Amoh, Emmanuella, 064 Anderson, Mysia, 052 Andrews, Kamari, 034 Arki, Dr. Shemariah J., 059 Asante, Molefi K., 046 Asha, Asha, 062 Asheeke, Toivo, 006, 034 Atuire, Anbegwon, 026 Autry, Aigner, 017 Avila, Lidabel, 033 Barnes, Riche JD, 036, 052 Baruti, Kofi, 068 Bataille, Sarah, 009 Bautista Martinez, Yarold, 033 Belony, Leilla, 057 Berberena, Marimer, 053 Berry, Venise, 044 Bertrand, Staci, 043 Bess Montgomery, Georgene, 029 Bethune, Magaela C., 067 Blackman, Dexter, 025, 045 Bohler, Eva, 071 Bowman, Olivia, 028 Brickler, Alex, 072 Brigham, Cathy, 014 Briscoe, Ronicka Harrison, 068 Brooks, Kevin, 008, 028

Brown, Drew D., 025 Brown, Kate, 043 Buell, Aaliyah, 008 Bueno, Cruz Caridad, 016, 067 Burge, Nware, 046 Butler-Ngugi, Anitra, 032 Cambridge, Nigel, 039 Campbell, Graham, 003 Canton, David, 002, 076 Canty, Khamil, 013 Carr, Gregory, 045 Chakanetsa, Mitch, 056 Chavis, Charles L, 018, 026 Chioneso, Nkechinyelum, 007 Clarkson, Octavia, 002 Claybrook, M. Keith, 071 Cokley, Kevin, 023, 037, 069 Coles, Justin, 060 Concepcion, Ebenezer, 026 Copper, Jordan, 062 Covington-Ward, Yolanda, 036 Crawford, Jordon R, 065, 074 Cromartie, J. Vern, 055 Cunningham, Rodney, 037 Curry, Amir Khalif, 039 Dandridge, Anthony, 002, 061 Davidson, Jeanette, 003 Davis, Khadija, 062 Davis, Sarita K., 007 Duckett, Taylor, 019, 035, 049 Dunlap, Michelle R, 027, 074 Dupe, Kai Ajala, 023 Edwards, Crystal, 070 Edwards, Khadijah, 044 Eley Kelly, Latasha, 014 English, Bertis, 072 Ewing-Aikoriegie, Denise, 044

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Fairweather, Ph.D., Deneia Y., 032 Faraj, Gaidi, 059 Flannery, Ifetayo, 012 Flannery, Ifetayo, 012, 041, 045 Flores, Genesis, 033 Flowers, Jayden Nicole, 019 Fontnette, Alicia, 006, 049 Ford, Heather, 066 Fox, Kyle R., 030 Frey, Zorina, 055 Gaffin, V Harrison, 023 Gaines, Rondee J., 008 Gammage, Marquita, 025, 037, 064 Gardner, Jennifer, 048 Gary, Lindsay, 048, 053 Gates, Naomi, 028 Gayles, Jonathan, 010, 036 Geoffrey, Leandre Christina, 067 George III, Clarence, 038, 068 Gibson, Ebony, 010 Gipson, Grace, 036 Gittens, Rhana, 017 Glocke, Aimee, 041 Gooden, Joel, 016 Gooptar PhD, Cassandra, 003 Grafenreed, Mark C., 020 Grim, Valerie, 045 Gumbi, Prince Terence, 069 Hall, Van Anthoney, 041 Hammonds, Alexia P., 027 Hanson, Jessica, 031 Harris, Felicia, 070 Harris, PhD, Crystal, 037 Hayes, Ashley, 019 Hill, Heidi, 040 Hollowell, Deonte, 041 Holmes, Fallon Nicole, 029 Hughes, Rodney Fitzgerald, 069 Humphrey, Jewell, 017 Idoko, Ene Priscilla, 007

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Imani, Dr. Jocelyn, 043 Jackson, Hope, 009 Jackson, Tanisha, 021 Jackson, Tiffany, 040 James, Kishia, 040 Jasper, Isaac, 018 Jayawardene, Sureshi, 072 Jeanmarie, Joashilia, 065 Jenkins, Alicia, 058 Jenkins, Lizzie Robinson, 043 Jirik, Michael, 042 Jolly, Jallicia A., 052 Jones, Alexander, 018, 026 Jones, Jaiah Q, 067 Kamara, Jemadari, 032 Karenga, Maulana, 071 King, Cameo, 008 Klanke, Jacob, 072 Kuhl, Michelle M, 004 Laguer, Shedia Regina, 064 Langa, Neema, 005 Langston, Selora, 061 Lanois, Derrick, 002, 021 Lawrence, Keahsun J, 025 Ledwaba, Lesiba Tumishang "Tumi", 054 Lekgau, Khomotjo, 067 Leslie, Aliza, 010 Lindner, Sophia, 029 Lockett, Junichi Bomani, 056 Lomotey, Kofey, 034 Loudd, Kenya, 042 Lovett, Dr. M. Denise, 013 Lovett, Marilyn, 013 Lyn, Karl, 056 Maceno, Samuel, 027 Manders, Imagine Rose, 074 Manhopi, Caroline Zvikomborero, 074 Martin, Atyia, 031, 055 Martin, Deon, 040

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Mavima, Shingi, 001, 054 Mayasa, Thekima, 004, 039 McCaskill, Ari, 063 McCormick, Lauren, 033 McDougal, Dr. Serie, 066, 073 McKnight, Paris Jordan, 057 Miller, Channon, 052 Miller, Uzoma, 005, 015, 021, 055, 063 Mills, Janell, 013 Mock, Tara, 005, 044 Mocombe, Paul, 063 Moss, Aaron, 047 Mullen PhD, Stephen, 003 Murray, Tira Jacquelyne, 027 Muzorewa, Gwinyai P., 024 Mwaniki, Munene F., 001 Myers, Joshua, 012 Ndlovu, Beatrice, 030 Nicholas, Ph.D., Alice, 071 Nickens, Lillian, 058 Nnam, Nkuzi, 026 Nwabara, Ph.D., Olaocha N., 033, 059, 065 Nwankwo, Veronica Nmoma, 030 Oriade, Adelaja, 027 Oyebade, Adebayo, 042 Peet, Ashley, 035 Peters, Victoria, 023 Pitre, Abul, 040, 070 Polanah, Paulo, 024, 026, 054, 068 Ponton III, David, 011 Powell, W. Denae, 017, 049, 061, 074 Pride, Aaron N, 024 Prince, Chanel, 060 Proctor, Blair, 005, 016 Quashie, John, 039 Ragsdale, Brian, 055 Ramos, Arianna, 035 Ratchford, Dr. Jamal, 026

Redden, Veronica Anita, 015 Reed, Teresa L, 014 Reid-Merritt, Patricia, 015, 058 Rice, AJ, 059 Richardson, Tarik, 053 Roberts, Christopher, 012 Robertson, Vida A., 070 Rodriguez, Luz E, 065 Rogers, Naaja N, 038 Rogers, Princess, 035 Rowe, Kristin, 021 Shabazz, Amilcar, 032, 041, 045 Shehada, Sohail, 005 Simmons, Matthew Ellis, 004 Simpson, Alphonso, 007, 057 Singleton, Maya, 065 Smith, Amanda, 021 Smith, Chalyn, 009 Smith, Marcus, 039 Smith, R. Drew, 004, 044 Smith, Tiffany, 010 Smith, Trevon, 035 Smith Gray, Jocelyn, 040 Stauffer, Madison Grace, 061 Stevenson, Brea, 049 Stewart, Armani, 001 Stewart, James, 012 Stewart, Makaylee Catherine, 057 Stokes, Brandon, 019 Stone, Jonathon E., 020, 059 Stroman, Antoine K., 017 Taylor, Courtney, 057 Temple, Christel N, 069 Thomas, Donja, 069 Thomas, James M, 011 Thomas, Katina L, 038 Thomas Kemp, Teresa Renee, 054 Thompson, Eletha, 063 Thompson, MPA, JoHanna "J", 043 Tinoco, Kenneth, 002 Toure, Kayiraba, 018 Tovar-Cortes, John, 063

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Tsuruta, Dorothy, 064 Ukpokodu, Peter, 030 Umoja, Aminata, 034 Walcott, Carolyn, 030 Walee, Louis, 013, 024, 053 Wallace, Edward, 007 Wallace, Imani, 060 Walton, David, 001, 062 White, Joyce, 029

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Williams, Jennifer, 031, 042 Williams, Makayla, 033 Winstead, Kevin C, 004 Winston, Savannah, 020 Wofford, Amere, 066 Young, Darius, 014 Young, J.E., 042 Young, Pat, 061 Zunguze, Jeremias, 006

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