Confirmed Presenters
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Temple University Professor Department of Africology & African American Studies Author | Father of Afrocentricity |
Dr. Joseph Vogel Biographer | James Baldwin Michael Jackson & Prince Rogers Nelson |
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University of Richmond and VCU Folklorist, Professor of English Emerita |
James Madison University Founding Executive Director Furious Flower Poetry Center |
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Dr. Clenora Hudson (Weems) UM-Columbia | Professor of English U of Iowa | Ida Beam Distinguished V Prof, 21-22 Creator | Theory of Africana Womanism Establisher| Emmett Till, Catalyst of the Civil Rights Mvt
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Chicago State University Retired Professor BAM Poet (Don L. Lee) & Founder Third World Press |
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Cal State University, Long Beach Professor | Chair Department of Africana Studies Creator of Kwanzaa Founder of Kawaida Philosophy |
 Convenor
Dr. Pamela D. Reed, Associate Professor Languages & Literature Preed@vsu.edu
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Professor MK Asante, Jr. Morgan State University Associate Prof | Screenwriting & Animation Poet | Memoirist | Filmmaker |
Professor Herb Boyd City College of New York Baldwin & Malcolm X Biographer Author | Associate Editor James Baldwin Review |
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Mahogany L. Browne Lincoln Center | New York Inaugural Poet-in-Residence Executive Director | JustMedia |
Sankofa Dance Theater Professor LaWanda S. Raines | Director Dr. Billy Taylor Jazz Studies Program Ensemble Prof James “Saxsmo” Gates | Director | Coordinator |
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Dr. Latorial Faison Virginia State University Lecturer | Poet | Author Virginia Humanities Fellow |
Dr. Liseli Fitzpatrick Wellesley College Lecturer | Poet Val Gray Ward Confidante & Biographer |
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Professor Nikki Giovanni Virginia Tech U Distinguished University Professor Emerita BAM Poet | Author | Baldwin Friend |
Dr. Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Princeton University James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies Baldwin Biographer | Associate Editor James Baldwin Review |
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Dr. Carol E. Lee (Safisha Madhubuti) Northwestern University Edwina S. Tarry Emerita Professor Education and Social Policy Chair | Board of Directors Betty Shabazz International Charter School |
Dr. Eleanor W. Traylor Howard University Former Humanities & English Chair Emerita Professor | Literary Critic Longtime Baldwin Family Friend & Confidante |
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Dr. Molefi Kete Asante
Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance
Dr. Joanne Gabbin
Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti
Dr. Maulana Karenga
Virginia State University’s
