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North Carolina A&T State University

Tuesday, February 26, 2008


   
    9:30 am - 11:00 am Workshop #3
Kerner Report: The Last Great Liberal Public Policy
It took scores of riots in the 1960s to create the Great Society programs. Did the "southern strategy" and white flight cripple the effort to use public policy to solve the problems of blacks?

Moderator:
  • Dr. Robert "Bob" Davis, chair,
    Department of Sociology and Social Work, NC A&T State University

Panelists:
  • Henry E. Frye,
    retired chief justice, NC Supreme Court

  • Julianne Malveaux, president,
    Bennett College

  • Les Payne,
    Pulitzer-Prize winner & columnist, Newsday

  • Dr. Julius Chambers,
    former director-general, NAACP Legal Defense Fund





   
    11:15 am - 12: 45 pm Workshop #4
Protest Music, Rap and the Civil Rights Struggle
In the '60s black singers produced songs in support of the Civil Rights Movement and marched side-by-side with black activists in civil rights demonstrations. Today black activists march in opposition to some forms of black music. What happened to black protest music and the old partnership between black singers and black activists?

Moderator: Dr. James Steele,
associate professor, Department of Political Science, NC A&T State University

Panelists:
  • Bryon Turman,
    Lecturer of Hip Hop, Department of English, NC A&T State University

  • Tony Welborne,
    general manager, Radio Station WNAA 90.1, NC A&T State University Eric Deggans, TV/Media Critic, St. Petersburg Times





 		   
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Workshop#5
The Color-line: Is it the problem of the 21st Century?
Is race as big of a problem for today's generation of blacks as it was for W.E.B. Dubois at the dawn of the 20th Century?

Moderator:
Dr. Teresa J. Styles,
Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication, NC A&T State University

Panelists:
  • Mr. David Street, President,
    Student Government Association, NC A&T State University Student government officers from other universitie





 		   
    3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Workshop #6
Kerner Plus-40: Where Do We Go From Here?
It's been four decades since the publication of the Kerner Commission report. In what direction are we headed? Has the nation's leaders taken the high road toward racial reconciliation or are they traveling the low road that is hurdling us towards the creation of an American apartheid?

Moderator:
Allen Johnson,
Editorial page editor, News & Record, Greensboro

Panelists:
  • Dr. Tukufu Zuberi,
    Director, Center for Africana Studies and Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations at the University of Pennsylvania

  • Walter Latham,
    Latham Productions, Greensboro

  • Dr. Millicent Brown,
    Associate professor, History, NC A&T State University

  • Cynthia Brown,
    Principal consultant, The Sojourner Group, Durham, NC





   
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Race Relations and Hollywood: To Be Is To Be Perceived

From Stepin Fetchit to Denzel Washington, how has Hollywood portrayed black in film and television - and how has this contributed to our racial divide. What is Hollywood's role in a race conscious nation?

Speaker:
Tim Reid,
actor, producer and director



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