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Video “December 3: 1831 | 2024”
Carol Lynn Maillard
Singer, Sweet Honey in the Rock
“Ella’s Song”
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Janus Adams
Event Producer and Host, We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest
Historian, Publisher, Producer
Author, Sister Days: 365 Inspired Moments in African American Women’s History,
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Janet Dewart Bell, PhD
Author, Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Founder & CEO, LEAD InterGenerational Solutions, Inc.
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Karen Falcon
Founder, Jubilee School
Students: Noah Lindo, Benjamin Lindo
“A Letter to Sarah Mapps Douglass”
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Janus Adams
Host, December 3, 1831 | December 3, 2024: Sarah Mapps Douglass, the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia, and the Possibility of Us”
Latorial Faison, PhD
Poet, Author, Scholar
Author, Mother to Son: Poems
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Joanne V. Gabbin, PhD
Poet, Author, Scholar
Editor, Furious Flower: African American Poetry From the Black Arts Movement to the Present
Founder, Furious Flower Poetry Center
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Brenda Greene, PhD
Author, Scholar
Editor, The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas
Founder, Center for Black Literature
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Nya Patrinos
Artist
Catalyzing a Conversation in Cloth: Mother Atlantic is the Ocean of Sorrows
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Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon, PhD
Author, Playwright, Director, Scholar
Performance Poem, Braiding #3
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Lois Moses, Esq.
Actress, Filmmaker, Playwright, Lawyer
Poem, Will They Clone Little Black Girls
Author, My Daddy & Me: A Poetic Legacy
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MaryAnne Howland
Entrepreneur, Communications Specialist
Author, Warrior Rising: How Four Men Helped a Boy on his Journey to Manhood
Founder & CEO, Ibis Communications
Founder, BlackMitzvah.org
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Chip Williford
Technical director, Stage manager, Editor, Poet
Director, Poetry Street
Executive Board Member, Eastern Long Island NAACP
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Matthew L. Mixon
Digital Storyteller, Photographer, “History-Chaser,” Director, Producer
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Janus Adams
Reading from Sister Days: “I’d write a book, but who would read it?”
Johnnetta B. Cole, PhD
Anthropologist, College President, Museum Director, Past President NCNW
Author, Speechifying: The Words and Legacy of Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Books
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Irma McClaurin, PhD
Anthropologist, College President, Poet
Editor, Black Feminist Anthropology
Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive
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Elle Cole
Advocate for Families of children with Disabilities and Sickle Cell Anemia
Author, 90-Days For Me: A Self-love Guided Journal for Parents
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Helen Higginbotham, Esq.
Attorney, MBA, Workspace Specialist
Founder, When Black Women Gather
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Sonia Sanchez
Poet, Activist, Scholar
Books
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Janus Adams
Closing Remarks