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Thursday

Saturday 

 

Friday
8:30 a. m. - l0:00

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

10:15 a. m. - 11:45

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.]

12:00 noon
Luncheon

2:00 p. m.- 3:30

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
3:30 p. m.- 5:00

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

6:00 p. m. - 7:30

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