For this occasion, a cohort of twenty-two educators, four lead professors, ten discussants, and Movement veterans selected from across the country will convene to build relationships and establish shared pedagogical practices. Our goal is to deepen our collective understanding of how the 1960s Freedom Movement and SNCC changed America. The days will be organized around interactive workshops, roundtable discussions, keynote lectures, and cultural excursions to ensure an engaging, meaningful, and generative experience. Our vision is to prepare today’s Movement educators to meet the demands of our current (hostile) political climate by recognizing how the work of SNCC in the past elevated and protected Black study.

The Summit facilitators are distinguished experts who have meticulously developed the SLP Movement Curriculum. This curriculum is comprised of six, 15-week courses that use primary source documents, first-account interviews, and audio/visual materials to provide professors, students, and community members with the materials and tools to support critical exploration of the 1960s and today’s freedom movements. The first five courses include:

1. Lowndes County and Black Freedom

2. Securing the Ballot: SNCC, MFDP, Political Power, and the Meaning of the Right to Vote in Freedom Summer

3. Power to the People!: Black Power at Home and Abroad

4. We Shall Not Be Moved: SNCC and the Power of Nonviolent Direct Action

5. The Highest Political Expression of Black Power: SNCC and the Sixth Pan African Congress

Additionally, the Summit will feature in-depth discussions on, a pilot Freedom School Course taught in the Summer of 2024 and the sixth course, a special course developed by the SLP for the UNCF entitled “So, You Want to Change the World.”
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DateS
Sunday, July 27 - Thursday, July 31, 2025
Location
Yours Truly Hotel
1143 New Hampshire Ave NW
Washington, DC 20037
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Amaka Okechukwu
Sociology & Africana Studies
Dr. Amaka Okechukwu is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar engaged in research on social movements, race, Black communities, urban politics, and digital humanities. She is the author of the awards-winning To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (Columbia University Press, 2019) and various articles. She has worked in public history and community engagement roles, as well as in social movement organizations. Her current book project concerns grassroots organizing and Black social life in Brooklyn during the 1970s and 1980s.
Berneece Herbert
Urban Regional Planning
Dr. Herbert is a dynamic and solutions-driven professional whose career spans over 25 years across academia, government, and the nonprofit sector. As an accomplished scholar and practitioner, she focuses on strengthening community resilience in the face of social, economic, and environmental challenges. As Chair and Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Jackson State University, she serves as a boundary-spanning expert, integrating natural sciences and social sciences to address complex societal challenges.

With expertise in environmental justice, urban resilience, and sustainable development, Dr. Herbert translates scientific research into policy-relevant, community-centered planning solutions. She empowers local leaders and communities to achieve sustainable outcomes. She has contributed to capacity-building initiatives, workforce development programs and resilience planning efforts that address systemic inequities and promote inclusive growth.

Her leadership has catalyzed multi-sector collaborations, securing and managing over $18M in extramural funding. Her extensive international experience, particularly in the Caribbean, reflects her commitment to global perspectives on equity and environmental advocacy.

Dr. Herbert is the founder and CEO of Community Solutions Group, co-creating innovative, data-driven solutions in partnership with communities and stakeholders. Her visionary approach prioritizes inclusion, equity, and innovation, equipping diverse teams to drive collective action. She holds a Ph.D. in Plant & Soil Science (specialty in GIS & Remote Sensing), a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning and a B.Sc. in Biology. She is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Public Administration & Policy.

At the core of her work is a commitment to advancing a culture of collaboration and empowering communities to create sustainable, people-first solutions for the future. Driven by a deep commitment to integrity, innovation, and collaboration, Dr. Herbert continues to inspire change agents to reimagine the future of urban spaces and community well-being.
Brian Kwoba
History & African American Studies
Dr. Brian Kwoba is an associate professor of history and Director of the African and African American Studies Program at the University of Memphis. While completing his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford, he co-founded the Oxford Pan-Afrikan Forum (OXPAF) and the #RhodesMustFall movement to decolonize education at Oxford. Over the past two decades, Dr. Kwoba has been an activist on issues including anti-imperialism, immigrant workers rights, climate justice, Falastin, and the movement for Black lives. His new book, Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism, is a ground-breaking intellectual biography for one of history's most under-appreciated political visionaries.

Bruce James
Business & Economics
Bruce James is a native of Little Rock Arkansas and currently serves as the Executive Director of Social Justice and Assistant Professor of Business and Economics at Philander Smith University where he has served the institution since 2006. As a faculty member, he has served in various capacities ranging from the Interim Chair of the Division and Director of the Philander Smith Management Institute (PSMI) a degree completion program that allows working adults and non-traditional students to complete their Bachelor of Business Administration in as little as 18 months. He has also served as the President and Vice President of the Faculty Senate in his tenure. Prior to joining Philander as Full-Time Faculty, Bruce served as the Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs at Arkansas Baptist College and has taught at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, The University of Phoenix, and the University of New Orleans.

Prior to academia, he worked as a Consultant with the UALR Small Business Development Technology Center (SBDTC), and as a private consultant for Non-Profit Organizations and provided consultation service to many Churches across the country. He has studied at the University of Houston, completed his graduate studies at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Post Graduate Studies in Financial Economics at the University of New Orleans as an SREB Doctoral Scholar in Financial Economics, and is currently studying in the Ph.D. Leadership program at the University of Central Arkansas. He is also the cofounder of Group 6-22 an organization designed to empower individuals to explore their creative potential, engage in meaningful dialogue, and cultivate holistic well-being.

Bruce is a seasoned expert in finance, economics, and social justice advocacy, bringing a wealth of strategic insight and experience to the table. With a background that includes higher education, entrepreneurship, and as Executive Director of Social Justice of an HBCU’s Social Justice Institute, he has been at the forefront of initiatives that drive societal change and community development.
Charles W. McKinney Jr.
History
Charles W. McKinney, Jr. is Professor of History at Rhodes College in Memphis. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Morehouse College, and his Ph.D. in African American History from Duke University. He is a scholar of the African American experience and teaches a wide range of courses on Black life, race, politics, activism and the African American intellectual tradition. His specific area of research is movement building in the Civil Rights/Black Power Era.

McKinney is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina. His second book, co-edited with Aram Goudsouzian, is An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee. His third book, co-edited with Françoise Hamlin, is titled From Rights To Lives: The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle. McKinney has also written essays on Martin Luther King, Jr., Black women’s civil rights narratives, Freedom Summer, and Reconstruction. His writing and commentary have appeared in newspapers and information venues across the country, including the Memphis Commercial Appeal, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Black Perspectives, The History Channel, Vanity Fair, and MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. He has provided commentary on radio programs across the country and news outlets in the United Kingdom, Europe, China and Australia, and has appeared on CNN.

McKinney serves as an Academic Advisor on the National Civil Rights Museum Redesign Team. He regularly conducts professional development workshops on teaching the civil rights movement for public school teachers across the nation. He is a former board member of the Institute for Southern Studies and currently serves on the Advisory Committee for Labor South: The Center for Working Class Studies. McKinney has conducted trainings and workshops on movement building and grass-roots activism for union members and organizers in California, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.




Doris J. Ward
Academic Affairs
Dr. Herbert is a dynamic and solutions-driven professional whose career spans over 25 years across academia, government, and the nonprofit sector. As an accomplished scholar and practitioner, she focuses on strengthening community resilience in the face of social, economic, and environmental challenges. As Chair and Associate Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at Jackson State University, she serves as a boundary-spanning expert, integrating natural sciences and social sciences to address complex societal challenges.

With expertise in environmental justice, urban resilience, and sustainable development, Dr. Herbert translates scientific research into policy-relevant, community-centered planning solutions. She empowers local leaders and communities to achieve sustainable outcomes. She has contributed to capacity-building initiatives, workforce development programs and resilience planning efforts that address systemic inequities and promote inclusive growth.

Her leadership has catalyzed multi-sector collaborations, securing and managing over $18M in extramural funding. Her extensive international experience, particularly in the Caribbean, reflects her commitment to global perspectives on equity and environmental advocacy.

Dr. Herbert is the founder and CEO of Community Solutions Group, co-creating innovative, data-driven solutions in partnership with communities and stakeholders. Her visionary approach prioritizes inclusion, equity, and innovation, equipping diverse teams to drive collective action.

She holds a Ph.D. in Plant & Soil Science (specialty in GIS & Remote Sensing), a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning and a B.Sc. in Biology. She is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Public Administration & Policy.

At the core of her work is a commitment to advancing a culture of collaboration and empowering communities to create sustainable, people-first solutions for the future. Driven by a deep commitment to integrity, innovation, and collaboration, Dr. Herbert continues to inspire change agents to reimagine the future of urban spaces and community well-being.
Erica Shannon
History
Mrs. Erica Shannon is an Assistant Professor of History at Talladega College. She also serves as an Academic Advisor for the School of Humanities and Fine Arts and as a Junior Class Advisor for the Student Government Association.

Professor Shannon teaches African American History, History of the Civil Rights Movement, United States History, World History, and Ancient Civilizations. Before teaching in higher education, she worked in the early childcare industry for several years. Initially, she served as a Pre-K instructor for four years until she became the Assistant Director of Education for Primrose School of Meadowbrook, a private school in Birmingham, Alabama.

Ultimately, Professor Shannon left her post in early education and moved back to her original love for history and her alma mater, becoming an Assistant Professor of History. She holds a bachelor's degree in history from Talladega College and two master's degrees, one in early childhood education and the other in history education, both from Grand Canyon University. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in history at Liberty University, slated for completion in 2026. She is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

James Pope
Africana Studies & Political Science
James is an educator who researches continuities in Black radical thought and resistance as it relates to understanding the interaction between human rights, labor/social movement and critical consciousness formation.

He currently teaches at Winston Salem State University [Associate Professor & Program Coordinator, Africana Studies] and Howard University [Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Political Science].

He has published on topics ranging from race & human rights to consciousness formation & identity. James is author of An Africana Reader: An Anthology of Sociopolitical Thought and Cultural Resistance with other work appearing in the Journal of African American Studies; ROAR Magazine; A Gathering Together: Literary Journal; Poverty & Race Journal to name a few.

He is a founding member and co-curator of the Africa World Now Project Collective, member, IWW & Co-coordinator, Education Workers Council & Political Education Committee, Southern Workers Assembly.

Jared Anthony Loggins
Black Studies & Political Science
Jared Anthony Loggins is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Political Science at Amherst College. With Andrew Douglas, he is the co-author of Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (UGA Press, 2021). He is currently working on two projects: one that traces the idea of heroes and the heroic in the black radical literary imagination; and another, a collection of critical essays, on prosperity gospel. He has written for magazines such as Dissent, Boston Review, and The Nation. He also serves on the board of Western Mass CORE and the Amherst College chapter of American Association of University Professors.

Jasmin Young
African American Studies
Dr. Jasmin A. Young is a historian of Black women’s history, intellectual history, resistance, and radical Black feminism. She is currently working on a book project that examines Black women’s responses to state and white vigilante violence as they organized for Black liberation.

Her latest article, “Armed Self-Defense, Gloria Richardson, and the Struggle for Black Liberation in Cambridge, Maryland,” appeared in the Journal of African American History. Her work has also appeared in Souls, the Journal of African American Studies, and the Black Scholar.

She co-edited the Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings (Greenwood Press, 2018). This two-volume reference offers a cross-disciplinary and broad approach to the movement and explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States.

Dr. Young holds a B.A. in Pan African Studies from California State University, Northridge, an M.A. in African American Studies from Columbia University, and an M.S.c in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Young received her Ph.D. in History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2018. After earning her Ph.D. she was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA.
Jodi Hall
Social Sciences
Dr. Jodi Hall is the Department Head of Social Sciences and Director of the Evelyn Lane Sanders Social Work Program at Shaw University. A committed health disparities researcher, her community-engaged scholarship focuses on improving the well-being of individuals, families, and communities through interdisciplinary and socio-politically informed approaches.

With a background in social work practice, Dr. Hall brings rich, real-world experience into the classroom and her research. Her teaching emphasizes the role of civil discourse, particularly around emotionally charged or controversial topics, helping students engage critically and compassionately with complex social issues. Her work explores how social environments influence health and equity, creating space for collaborative, inter-professional responses to community needs.

Dr. Hall has served as principal investigator on numerous federally funded projects and has an extensive record of peer-reviewed publications. Her academic career has taken her across the globe—from Cuba to Israel, Germany to the United Kingdom—where she has contributed to and learned from international dialogues in social justice and public health.

In addition to her academic leadership, Dr. Hall serves on the Board of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, a nonprofit dedicated to investigating and litigating credible claims of wrongful conviction in North and South Carolina.

Before joining Shaw University, Dr. Hall retired from NC State University, where she was an associate professor and inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty in Extension and Engagement. Her career reflects a deep commitment to justice, education, and transformative community impact.
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry
Equity & Inclusion
Dr. Kijua Sanders-McMurtry serves as the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at Mount Holyoke College. Originally from Altadena/Pasadena, California, Sanders-McMurtry was inspired to become a full-time diversity educator after the deaths of Sakia Gunn and Matthew Shepard. Both individuals were targeted and killed because of their gender and sexual identities. Since that time, she has become a nationally recognized advocate for diversity and inclusion. Her research focuses on Black women's activism and engagement in civil and human rights movements.

Sanders-McMurtry holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology from Georgia State University. A high school dropout, she credits her non-traditional academic journey to her mentors at Pasadena City College, where she completed an associate’s degree in social sciences.
LaTasha Levy
Africana Studies
Dr. LaTaSha Levy is an Associate Professor in Africana Studies at Howard University who specializes in Black intellectual traditions, African American politics, and racism and resistance in the United States. She earned degrees in African American Studies from the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia, the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, and her Ph.D. at Northwestern University. In 2015, TaSha served as the academic liaison for the Civil Rights South Seminar organized by civil rights veteran Julian Bond. That same year, she taught one of the first college courses on #BlackLivesMatter at UVA and has since expanded resources for educators to understand and teach recent movements in historical context.

TaSha co-designed a course on the Freedom Summer Project with Dr. Nicole Burrowes, which was offered at the University of Virginia and the Telluride Summer Program in Black Studies. She is a contributor to Discourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge; The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century, and Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement in which she co-authored a chapter on teaching Freedom Summer. Prior to graduate study, TaSha was a humanities teacher at Maya Angelou Public Charter High School in D.C., co-founded by James Forman, Jr. She also served as the director of the Luther P. Jackson Black Cultural Center at the University of Virginia. TaSha is the founder and executive director of Black Star Rising, a Black Studies curricula and consulting enterprise focused on expanding access to Black Studies beyond the ivory tower.

Latif Tarik
History
Latif A. Tarik graduated from Howard University and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in African Diaspora History. He works as an Associate Professor of History and Director of University Honors at Elizabeth City State University. His publications include journal articles, book chapters, and digital humanities. His academic research interests are radical protest movements, African Diaspora communities, history and popular culture, public history, and African centered scholarship.

Tarik’s publications as a contributing writer are Race and Ethnicity in America: From Pre-contact to the Present (Volumes 1-4), African Religions: Beliefs and Practices through History, Islam and the Black Experience African American history reconsidered, Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, “Travel Notes: Pan Africanism (Re)Visited: From Sankofa to Afrofuturism—Summary of the 2nd Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Intellectual & Cultural Festival” and chief editor of the course reader Black Freedom Struggles: Africana Reader (Kendall Hunt. Latif likes all things that are Afrofuturistic and graphic novels.
Lawren Long
Political Science
Dr. Lawren M. Long is a native of Jackson, Mississippi, a proud mother, public servant, and millennial scholar-leader committed to justice, equity, and institutional transformation. She is a two-time graduate of Jackson State University, earning a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration. She also holds a Master of Public Administration and a Graduate Certificate in Leadership from Belhaven University.

Dr. Long currently serves as Interim Chair and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tougaloo College, where she also directs the Eric H. Holder Public Policy Program. A skilled coalition builder, policy strategist, and educator, Dr. Long co-leads several research and community initiatives addressing food insecurity, labor rights, and public health disparities across the Deep South. Her leadership helped establish the EmpowerHub, the Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Initiative, Advocacy Training Program, and the Coalition of Clubs and Organizations at Tougaloo. She also serves as National Policy Coordinator for the National Black Worker Center, where she leads national campaigns such as the Black Worker Bill of Rights.
 
Her research and advocacy span non-profit management, food justice, public budgeting, economic development, workplace democracy, and childhood obesity. She is a 2025 fellow of the HEAL Food Alliance’s School of Political Leadership and was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated through the Jackson (MS) Alumnae Chapter in Spring 2025.

 Dr. Long is a recent graduate and proud alumna of the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute, National Labor Leadership Initiative (NLLI), and the Mississippi Women’s Policy Institute. She was also an Emerging Leader through Rutgers University’s prestigious Women in Labor Leadership Program. Deeply committed to service beyond the classroom, she offers strategic guidance as a member of the Advisory Board for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers (SDFR) and the Delta GREENS Food Policy Council.

Her work is grounded in the belief that policy is not just a mechanism of governance but a powerful tool for liberation. Dr. Long resides in her hometown with her daughters Leah and Zuri.
Mark  Henderson
Speech Communication & Theater
Dr. Mark G. Henderson serves as Chair in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS. Dr. Henderson received a Bachelor of Art degree in Speech Communication Studies and Dramatic Art from Jackson State University, a Master of Art in Communications and Urban Studies from Michigan State University, a Master’s in Theatre from Texas A&M University, and Ph.D. in Communications from The University of Southern Mississippi. Henderson is the Founder/Artistic Director of MADDRAMA (Making A Difference Doing Respectable and Meaningful Art, a theatre troupe of Jackson State University performers who tour nationally with an extensive repertoire of original plays and specialized performances that are highly requested. Dr. Henderson’s students refer to him as the “Star Maker”, that is due in part to the fact that you can find students he has mentored on local, regional and Broadway Stages, as well as the big screen. As a theater director, motivational speaker, and performer, Dr. Henderson stays busy utilizing his skills to 'entertain and educate the masses'. He holds membership in numerous professional groups, to include the, National Communication Association, National Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts, Inc., and the Rho Xi Lambda chapter (Canton, MS) of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.
Miriam Gray
English Composition & Civic Engagement
Miriam Gray is an Instructor of English Composition and Civic Engagement at Jackson State University. Gray strives to ensure her students are prepared to impact society and make positive change through effective writing and speech. Gray understands the significance and necessity of movement history and literature within curricula, because what we learn can impact how we see the world and choose to coexist.

Inspired by her commitment to education, equity, and combating internalized anti-Blackness among youth, Gray founded Servant Leaders Institute (SLI) in 2019. Servant Leaders Institute supports and encourages meaningful leadership throughout communities. To date, SLI has graduated two cohorts of all-girl youth leaders, conducted book giveaways for six consecutive years, spotlighted local authors, and supported various causes to advance equity.

Gray also serves as the NAACP Jackson Branch secretary and the Mississippi NAACP Youth and College advisor. Both roles require Gray to lean upon the wisdom of our elders and ancestors while centering civic engagement and civil rights. Gray credits her upbringing in Fayette, Mississippi and her teaching experience as catalysts for her commitment to equity.

Gray will begin her Ph.D. studies in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Jackson State University this fall. She earned her Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary Education at Belhaven University and her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a minor in Political Science at Millsaps College.
Rachelle Williams
Humanities
Rachelle L. Williams is the Director of the Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb Honors Program and an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Talladega College. Williams earned a BA in History from Talladega College, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MFA in Narrative Media Writing from the University of Georgia. Her research and scholarship focus on Black Women's art and culture, African American history and culture, representations of race and gender in popular culture, and gender politics in hip-hop and jazz.

She has taught in the African American and Women’s Studies departments at the University of Maryland and has taught general arts and humanities courses to adult learners at the University of Phoenix. She has also served as an academic advisor and coach for college and K-12 students. As a former contributing writer for East City Art, an online magazine covering visual arts events in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, her writing appeared in two editions of the anthology CONFLUENCE: Two Rivers, One City, the DC region’s annual publication of critical art writing. Williams serves on the Reading List Committee for the national book club Go On Girl! and is a certified instructor of Kathleen Adams’ Journal to the Self through the Center for Journal Therapy in Denver, Colorado. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Samuel T. Livingston
Africana Studies
Dr. Samuel T. Livingston is an African-centered researcher of Black culture, Diasporic liberation movements and an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Morehouse College. He is a Gullah native from the North Santee Community of Georgetown, South Carolina who earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies at Temple University (1998). Combining research and service learning, he teaches a range of courses including, Introduction to Africana Studies, Africana Studies Theory, Black Liberation Movements, and The Black Aesthetic of Hip Hop. He is also engaged in the design and research of the Global Africana Ethical Text Digital Mapping project, which traces African social justice thinking from its Ancient African Roots to the Black Lives Matter Movement. His recent publications include the essays, “The African Freedmen of San Miguel de Gualdape: Mapping the Chicora Lowcountry Foundations of African American History and Culture, 1520–1526” (Journal of the African American Historical and Genealogical Society, 2019) and “An Unbroken Bond: The Place of Africa in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Liberation Thought and Praxis” (The Compass: Journal of the ASCAC, 2017). Two book projects are under revision, including the “Centering 1526: Africana Studies and the Gullah-Geechee Origins of African American History and Culture,” and “A Black Forge of Freedom: African-centered Ethical Thought and the Foundations of Diasporic Liberation Movements.” A dedicated scholar-activist, Livingston serves with the Atlanta chapter of Friends of the Congo, an organization working for justice in and just policies toward the Democratic Republic of the Congo and all of Africa.
Theodore R. Foster III
History & Black Studies
Dr. Theodore R. Foster III is a scholar trained in Black Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Black Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Foster’s research, writing and teaching explores how Blackness informs the politics of civil rights memory within museums, commemorative events, civil rights tourism in the U.S. South, post 1960s social movement activism, political campaigns, popular culture and Black visual culture. He is completing a book manuscript titled The Firehose Next Time: Civil Rights Memory, Blackness and Neoliberalism. Dr. Foster works closely with the Chicago SNCC History Project which is a public history initiative and non-profit organization documenting the Chicago Area Friends of SNCC through archival collections, oral history interviews, conferences and a summer internship program for students. In addition, Dr. Foster is the principal author of A Map to Black Studies which is a three-year $101,000 library collections development project and libguide housed in the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the Edith Garland Dupré Library at UL adding more than 1,200 books in the field to date. From Fall 2025-2027 Dr. Foster will be a Civil Rights Studies post doctoral research fellow with the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina.
Zalika U. Ibaorimi
Black Sexualities
Zalika U. Ibaorimi, PhD (she/they), also going under the artist’s name n0humaninv0lved (N.H.I.), is an antidisciplinary artist, Assistant Professor of Black Sexualities in the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University and a 2021-2023 Carter G. Woodson Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. She engages Black material and digital publics as landscapes to trace the Human sexual geographies between the relation of the Black femme and spectator. Their relationality is tethered to the logics of shame, desire, and pleasure. Additionally, they consider the discursiveness of critical and revolutionary Humanism as modes to chart the (de)figuration of the Black wh0re vis-à-vis the counter and anti-Human. They are currently working on two book projects, Haunted Femmes, Haunting Spectators, which is under contract with Duke University Press, and (BE)CUM(ING): N.H.I. in Three Acts. Her performance, a crit-p0rno titled (be)cum(ing): on humanist edging screened in 2024.
AGENDA
DAY 1 | SUNDAY, JULY 27, 2025 | LOCATION: ROOM 11
3:00PM-5:00PM
Hotel Check-In | Conference Check-In
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)

Sunmolu Hamilton-Samuel
Sharlene Kranz
Kim Johnson
6:00PM-7:30PM
Evening Reception w/ Dinner & Talks
Evening Reception w/ Dinner & Talks

Dr. Josh Meyers
Dr. Geri Augusto
7:30PM-9:00PM
The unique course developed by the SLP for the UNCF
“So, You Want to Change the World”
Dr. Josh Myers
Sunmolu Hamilton-Samuel
Dr. Geri Augusto
Bunmi Samuel
Julian Thompson
DAY 2 | MONDAY, JULY 28, 2025 | LOCATION: ROOM 11
8:00AM-9:00AM
Breakfast
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
9:00AM-10:30AM
Roundtable: Teaching Freedom Summer
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Frank Smith (discussant)
9:00AM-10:30AM
Roundtable: Teaching Freedom Summer
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Frank Smith (discussant)
10:30AM-10:40AM
BREAK
10:40AM-12:10PM
Roundtable: Teaching Black Power
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Courtland Cox (discussant)
12:15PM-12:30PM
Housekeeping
Sharlene Kranz
Kim Johnson
Sunmolu Hamilton-Samuel
12:30PM-1:30PM
LUNCH
1:30PM-3:15PM
Exchanges & Co-creation
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Geri Augusto
3:15PM-3:25PM
BREAK
3:25PM-5:00PM
Publishing for Movement Scholars and Elders
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Maurice Jackson (discussant)
5:00PM
ADJOURN
6:30PM-8:30PM
DINNER
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
DAY 3 | TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025 | LOCATION: ROOM 11
8:00AM-9:00AM
BREAKFAST
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
9:00AM-10:30AM
Roundtable: Teaching Direct Action
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Josh Myers
Jennifer Lawson (discussant)
10:30AM-10:40AM
BREAK
10:40AM-12:10PM
Roundtable: Teaching Lowndes County
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Jennifer Lawson (discussant)
12:15PM-12:30PM
Housekeeping
Sharlene Kranz
Kim Johnson
Sunmolu Hamilton-Samuel
12:30PM-1:30PM
LUNCH
1:30PM-3:00PM
Exchanges & Co-creation
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Geri Augusto
3:00PM-3:10PM
BREAK
3:10PM-4:00PM
Transitioning the SLP DMP into the Movement History Initiative
Bunmi Samuel
Bruce Hartford (discussant)
4:00PM-4:10PM
BREAK
4:10PM-5:00PM
The SNCC Digital Gateway Our Stories, Our Terms
John Gartrell (discussant)
5:00PM
ADJOURN
5:30PM-7:00PM
DINNER
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
6:30PM-9:00PM
Eyes on the Prize w/ Judy Richardson
Location: Eaton Hotel

SLP
Project STAND
Judy Richardson
DAY 4 | WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025 | LOCATION: ROOM 11
8:00AM-9:00AM
BREAKFAST
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
9:00AM-10:30AM
Roundtable: Teaching 6PAC
Location: Room 11

Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Geri Augusto
Dr. Sylvia Hill (virtual discussant)
10:30AM-10:40AM
BREAK
10:40AM-12:10PM
Roundtable: Teaching Music of the Movement
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Excerpts from the SNCC 50th and 60th Anniversary Concerts
12:15PM-12:30PM
Housekeeping
Sharlene Kranz
Kim Johnson
Sunmolu Hamilton-Samuel
12:30PM-1:30PM
LUNCH
1:30PM-3:00PM
Exchanges & Co-creation
Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Geri Augusto
3:00PM-3:10PM
BREAK
3:10PM-4:00PM
Activists, Academicians and Archivists:
Creating Trusting Relationships
Dr. Geri Augusto
John Gartrell (discussant)
Dr. Wesley Hogan and
Charlie Cobb (virtual discussants)
4:00PM-4:10PM
BREAK
4:10PM-5:00PM
Archival Resources for Movement History
Location: Room 11

Micha Broadnax
Jason Ajiake (virtual discussant)
5:00PM
ADJOURN
6:30PM-8:30PM
DINNER
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
DAY 5 | THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025 | LOCATION: ROOM 11
8:00AM-9:00AM
BREAKFAST
Location: Room 11 (Hotel Lower Level)
9:00AM-10:30AM
Where do we go from here?
• 30-minute breakout group
• 1 hour collective feedback and proposals for action

Dr. Josh Myers
Dr. Bedour Alagraa
Dr. Felicia Denaud
Dr. Geri Augusto
10:30AM-12:30PM
Our History is our Heritage
Building an information infrastructure and strong bonds in an increasingly hostile political environment

Dr. Geri Augusto
Courtland Cox
Dr. Josh Myers
 Join us July 27 - July 31 
We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest
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