Africans, African Americans, Academia, and Activism Conference Program

Nicholas M. Creary Announcement
Location
Maryland, United States
Subject Fields
African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Race Studies
Africans, African Americans, Academia, and ActivismThe Gloria Richardson Humanities InitiativeBowie State UniversityBowie, MD 20715April 6-7, 2018 Friday, April 6Student Center Theater9:00-10:30      Arts and ActivismChair: Gina Lewis, Department of Fine & Performing Arts Pauline Hopkins and Advocacy JournalismRhone FraserBowie State University Treat Em Right: The Role of Rap Artists in the Late 1980’s and Early 1990’s in Advocating for the Pursuit of Higher Education and the Support of Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesRalph E. GodboltPenn State University Radical Curator (as inspired by Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Ranikine)Yulia TikhonovaSt. John’s University 10:45-12:15    Reinterpreting ActivismStudent Center TheaterChair: Roger Davidson, Department of History & Government “A Morning of Unbelievable Horror”: The Police Siege at Texas Southern UniversityDavid Ponton IIIUniversity of South Florida High Black Pressure! Racial Tension, Political Friction, and Jimmy Carter’s 1980 Creation of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesCheryl E. MangoGrambling State University A Lesson in Protest: A Historical Overview of Black Student Demonstrations at PWIs From the 1980s to TodayJayne CubbageBowie State University 12:15-2:00 Lunch on your own  2:00-3:30        Pan-African ActivismBusiness 1209Chair: David Reed, Department of History & Government Le Pouvoir Noir: The Politics of Identity, Pan-Africanism, and Social JusticeKishauna SoljourSyracuse University Pan-African Feminist Praxis and Venezuela’s Bolivarian RevolutionLayla D. Brown-VincentBucknell University The Whiteness in Mathematics Education and the Realities of Urbanicity: #WokeRolonda L. PayneMorgan State University 3:45-5:00        Activism in the Baltimore-Washington AreaBusiness 1209Chair: Tony Gass, Department of History & Government The Prophets and the Ivory Tower: The Federated Colored Catholics of the United States and the Struggle to Reintegrate the Catholic University of America, 1919-1938Nicholas M. CrearyDepartment of History & GovernmentBowie State University We Bring Thee Our Laurels: A History of Morgan Student-led ProtestSimone R. BarrettMorgan State University 5:00-7:00        Reception Saturday, April 7MLK 102 9:00-10:30      Living History: A Conversation with Bowie State College Student ActivistsChair: Dorothy McFarland, Class of 1969 10:45-12:15    Keynote Address: “Towards an Antiracist Higher Education”Dr. Ibram X. KendiAmerican University
Contact Information

Dr. Nicholas Creary

Department of History & Government

Bowie State University

Contact Email
Humanities@bowiestate.edu