ascac 2014 conference program #2

“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.”

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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.”

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


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.”

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.”


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


9:00 -‐ 10:00 A.M. Mid-‐Atlantic Region Business Meeting

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

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“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.