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Session 1 Holiday Inn, Room
Psychological Impact of Katrina on African Americans
Presiding: Levie T. Robinson, Alcorn State Univ
The Long-range Effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in African American Survivors of Katrina
Patricia Jackson, Student, Texas Southern University
African American Spirituality: Then and Now
Mellany Patrong, Student, Texas Southern University
The Education Ramifications of Katrina
Vanessa Taylor, Student, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s): Audience
Session 2 Holiday Inn, Room
New Paradigm for African Nations
Presiding: Zuberi Mwamba, Texas Southern University
Ghana Beyond the Model Nation Image
Edward Opali-Dupaah, Win.-Sal. St. University
Toward A New Development Paradigm in Zimbabwe
Kenneth Mufuka, Lander University
Commentator(s): Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University
Johnson Adefila, Bennett College for Women
Session 3 Holiday Inn, Room
Sports in the Wake and Aftermath of Katrina
Presiding: Raphael Lewis, Philander Smith College
Coach Frederick C. Hobdy Competitive Companion
Jimmy McJamerson, Grambling State University
When the Saints Come Marching Back: The Usage of Sport
to Promote Hidden Agenda in New Orleans
Kelton R. Edmonds, California University of Pennsylvania
Commentator(s):
Raymond Lockett, Southern University
Audience
Session 4 Holiday Inn, Room
Race, Class and Katrina
Presiding: Ambrous Jacob, Bennett College for Women
Katrina: Self-portrait of Race, Class, Color, Poverty, Power, and Hatred in America
Barbara G. Blackwell, Augusta State University
Income Distribution Distribution and Poverty Revisited in the Aftemath of Hurricane Katrina
Leroy Davis, Southern University and A&M College
Behavioral Styles of Young African American Males
Irvine Epps, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s):
Mathew Hutcherson. Paine College
Channaine McKissick Melton. Bennett College
Session 5 Holiday Inn, Room
Expressive Culture and Katrina
Presiding: Hermine Pinson. William and Mary College
Shutter, Flutter, Bang: Photographic Images of Katrina
Toni Wynn, Independent Scholar/Poet
Poetic Responses to Katrina and Rita
Donna Kilgore-Kimble, Texas Southern University
For My People (Thirty Years Hence) an epic poem by the grandson
Ronald Samples, Texas Southern University
Discussant(s):
Adele Newson-Horst, Missouri College of Arts and Letters
Bolekaja Kamau, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Cyd Apellido, Miami, Florida
Dorothy Davis, Southern University
Session 6 Holiday Inn, Room
Crime and the Black Community, Before and After Katrina-I
Presiding: Don Hernandez, Southern University
"VIOLENCE IN AMERICA IS AS AMERICAN AS CHERRY PIE": The Decline and Systematic
Repression of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense
James T. Jones, Prairie View A&M University
Hidden Victims of Incarceration: An Insight
William A. L. Clay, III, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s): C. J. White, Metropolitan State College
Bertis English, Alabama State University
Jessica Domingo, Columbus, Ohio
Session 7 Holiday Inn, Room
Racism and tie American Dream
Presiding: Cynthia Bryant, Southern University
Edward J. Perkins: A Woman for Peace
Arthur Tolson. Southern University
Americo Pureda with a Pistol in His Hand and Toni
Morrison's Songs of Solomon
Rhonda Saldivar, Texas Southern University
The Female Slave: Commandeering Empowerment
Shirley Moore, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s): Macie King, Paine College
Evora Jones, Howard University
Kendric Coleman, Southern University
Session 8 Holiday Inn, Room
Responses and Reactions to Katrina: Oral History and Memory
Presiding: Merline Pitre, Texas Southern University
The Stories Go On and On: How Hurricane Katrina Helped Rediscover Oral History
Gene B. Preuss, University of Houston. Downtown
Exploring Reactions and Responses to the Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
Anna Ko Lee, Winston Salem State University
Commentator(s): Marcellus Barksdale, Morehouse College
Stacey Close, Eastern Conno St. Un.
Charles Tatum, Texas Southern Uno (Ret)
Session 9 Holiday Inn, Room
Katrina's Diaspora and Inner City Neighborhoods
Presiding: Alfred Young Georgia, Southern University
Katrina's Diaspora: Dispersal and Displacement of Black
New Orleanians
Anita Harris, University of Louisville
Applying Lessons Learned for Natural Disasters to
Revitalize Declining Inner City Neighborhoods
Lena Jones and Joan M. Wesley, Jackson St. Uno
Rebuilding New Orleans: Serving Certain Political Interest
Riad Rehya, Southern University
Commentator(s):
Thessalonia Ford. St. Louis Comm. College [Ret.]
Eunice Matthews-Armstrong, Eastern Conn. St. Un.
Session 10 Holiday Inn, Room
Crime and the Black Community, Before and After Katrina-ll
Presiding: Robert Baker, Tuskegee University
A Review of Relevant Socio-Factors Attributed to Criminal
Incivility During the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Warren Dukes, Saint Augustine's College
The Killing of Clyde Kennard: Mississippi's Forgotten Martyr
Monte Piliawsky, Wayne State University
Crime Before and After Katrina
Alvin Mitchell, Winston Salem State University
Commentator(s): Bertis English, Alabama State University
C. J. White, Metropolitan State College
Jessica Domingo, Columbus, Ohio
Session 11 Holiday Inn, Room
Katrina: Allocation of Resources In Human and Monetary Terms
Presiding: Earl Wright, Texas Southern University
After Hurricane Katrina: An Examination of Race, Social
Class and Attribution of Style on the Fair Allocation of Resources
Karen Holmes, Norfolk State University
What Can We Do After Hurricane Katrina? Service: Name of the Game
Mary Alice Gray Darby, Southern Un.-Baton Rouge
Commentator(s): Earl Wright, Texas Southern University
Augustine Konneh, Morehouse College
Session 12 Holiday Inn, Room
Blacks and Education in Katrina's World, I
Presiding: Stanley Johnson, Fayetteville State University
What Happened to African American Higher
Education Faculty Impacted by Hurricane Katrina?
Rosaline Pijeaux Hale, Miles College
Jill Thompson, Clark Atlanta University
The ReBirth of Public Education in New Orleans: The Charter School
Lurelia Hardy and Charles Jackson, Augusta State University
A Struggle for Quality Education in the Public Schools of New Orleans
Wanda Faye Jackson, Southern University
Commentator(s):
Louis Williams, St. Louis Community College
Elmim Wicker, Southern University
C. Calvin Smith, Arkansas State University [Ret.]
Session 13 Holiday Inn, Room
Internationalism, I
Presiding: Franklin Jones, Texas Southern University
a-Jazirah and Katrina
Hasan Joballa, Texas Southern University
Katrina: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Jerry K. Domatob, Alcorn State University
Discussant(s): Roosevelt Butler, College of New Jersey, [Ret.]
Session 14 Holiday Inn, Room
Cultural Airlift and the Politics of Dominance
Presiding: Ronald Dorris, Xavier University
Cosmopolitan New Orleans and the Shadow of Peonage:
From the Slave Uprising of 1811 to Federal Airlift, 2005
Ronald Dorris, Xavier University
African American Critical Consciousness: A Sense of Home as Place
DeReef Jamison, Xavier University
Cultural Contradiction: New Orleans, A Diamond in the Rough
E. Jerry Persaud, State University of New York
Commentator(s): Audience
Session 15 Holiday Inn, Room
ROUNDTABLE: Katrina: Implications and Impact on Black Americans
Presiding: Charles Vincent, Southern University
Troy Allen, Southern University
Lionel Llyes, Southern University
John White, Louisiana State University
Commentator(s): Audience
Session 16 Holiday Inn, Room
Leading Black Clubwomen and the Tuskegee Machine
Presiding: Anthony E. Dixon, Florida A&M Un.
Trenna Banks and the Black Women's Club Movement in Mississippi
David H. Jackson, Jr., Florida A&M University
Margaret Murray Washington and Her Influence on the Black Women's Club Movement
Sheena Harris, Florida A&M University
Adella Hung Logan and the Tuskegee Women's Club
Daria Joseph, Florida A&M University
Commentator: Anthony Dixon, Florida A&M University
Session 17 Holiday Inn, Room
Katrina and Literature: Natural Wrath and Symbols
Presiding: Cynthia D. Manson, Southern University
From Homer to Houston: Storms, Gods and Human Agencies
Rita Saylors, Texas Southern University
ARMAGEDDON IN PERSPECTIVE: Literary Response to Black and White Experience of the First World War
Thorpe Butler, Texas Southern University
The Cult of Self-Sufficiency in American Literature, with a Coda for Katrina
Ronald C. Samples, Texas Southern University
Uprooted: Narrative Accural, Community and the Deep
Ecology osteinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
Michael Zeitler, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s):
Hennine Pinson, William and Mary College
Vonsha Henderson, Southern University
Session 18 Holiday Inn, Room
Katrina and the World of Music Plus "Morality"
Presiding: Nan Spicer, Savannah State University
The Evaluation of African American Music
Eddie Hughes, Southern University
Musicians' Responses to Katrina
Gayle Murchison, The College of William and Mary
Moral Accountability, Needs, Nature and Foundation
William Horton, Grambling State University
Commentator(s):
Nan Spicer, Savannah State University
Marcellus Barksdale, Morehouse College
Session 19 Holiday Inn, Room
SYMPOSIUM: BREAKING THE CHAINS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SLAVERY: the Willie Lynch Syndrome
Audrey T. Grant, Spartanburg, South Carolina
(In charge)
Session 20 Holiday Inn, Room
Blacks and Education in Katrina's World II
Presiding: Tunde Adeleke, Iowa State University
Breaking Down Racial Barriers in Higher Education at Tennessee Tech. University, 1966-1985
Wali R. Kharif. Tennessee Tech. University
A Catholic Negro Child Living in the Segregated South: New Orleans
Collette Madeline Bloom, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s):
Dennis Canterbury, Eastern Conn. State University
Francis Danquah, Southern University
Session 21 Holiday Inn, Room
Katrina's Wrath
Presiding: Ramona Houston, Morehouse College
A Bible for Hurricane Katrina
Darryl Scriven, Purdue University
Feeling Katrina's Stress (a Power Point presentation)
Dashiel J. Geyen, Lendell W. Braud and Janice M. Beal, Texas Southern University
Commentator(s) :
Ramona Houston, Morehouse College
Session 22 Holiday Inn, Room
Hurricane Katrina and the Greening of Black Politics
Presiding: James Conyers, Jr., University of Houston
Reynaldo Anderson, Harris-Stowe State University
Clyde Robertson, University of Houston
James Conyers, Jr., University of Houston
Commentator(s) Audience
Session 23 Holiday Inn, Room
ROUNDTABLE: Katrina's Impact on New Orleans' Political Organizations
Albert Samuels, Southern University
Huey Perry, Southern University, (In Charge)
Wayne Parent, Louisiana State University
Commentator: Audience
Session 24 , Holiday Inn, Room
ROUNDT ABLE: A voiding the Tragedies of a New Katrina
Presiding: Riad Yehya, Southern University
Eva Baham. Southern University
Christopher Hunte, Southern University
Diane Keithly, Southern University
Alma Thornton, Southern University
Commentator(s): Audience
Session 25 Holiday Inn, Room
In Katrina's Wake: African American Narratives of Destruction and Reconstruction
Presiding: Demetria R. Shabazz, Oklahoma State Univ.
Aubra Augustus, Healthcare Prof. & New Orleans resident
Joe Augustus, Entrepreneur and New Orleans resident
Andrea Augustus, LSU law student, & New Or. resident
Commentator: Arnilcar Shabazz, Oklahoma State Univ.
Session 26 Holiday Inn, Room
Uncommon Command Grounds, HISD and Katrina
Presiding: Rosette Holmes, Texas Southern University
The Response to Katrina Victims in the Houston Independent School District
Gwendolyn Samples, Houston ISD
HISD and Katrina: What We Have Learned
Carol D. McCree, Southern University
Commentator(s): Joyce K. Jones, Texas Southern Univ.
Audience
Session 27 Holiday Inn, Room
Film
Presiding: Vanessa Vann, Urea, CA
After Shocks: Traumatic Experiences of the Civil Rights Movement on Children and the Residual Effects
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