Registration Sign-In (until 6:30PM)

Breakfast Buffet (until 10:30AM)

Beverage Service (until 5:00PM)

Welcome to #BlackCom2019

Darfurian Refugees in Baltimore

The Power of Creative Placemaking

Promoting African and American Women of the Diaspora Through Original Art and Stories

Lincoln Memorial Park: Jim Crow in Life and in Death

Community Narratives: African American Programming for Librarians, Archivists and Cultural Curators

Environmental Justice Scorecard: A Tool for Measuring Political Action Towards Environmental Justice

Environmental Injustice and Industrial Animal Production in the State of Mississippi

Panel Discussion: For the Witnesses Then and Now

Short Talk: First-Generation Black Student Success and Resources

Short Talk: Missed Opportunities: Using Culturally Responsive Computing for Implementing 1:1 Technology Programs

Short Talk: The Black Hospital Movement and the Leonard Medical Graduates of Shaw University

Panel Discussion: Creative Catalyst: The Cultural Restoration of Happy Hill

Workshop: Who Am I?

Panel Discussion: Systemic Obstacles to Black Wealth: How Predatory Lending Creates Barriers to Wealth for Black Communities

Workshop: Effectively Engaging While Empowering African American Communities

Panel Discussion: Race and Marketplaces: Crossing Critical Boundaries

Panel Discussion: Making The Connection: Connecting Duke Campus Resources to the Community

Panel Discussion: Community Voice in the Recognition and Interpretation of Historic Sites

Short Talk: Gender, Poverty and Race at the Intersection of Technology

Short Talk: Developing Technology to Improve HIV Linkage to Care

Short Talk: Utilizing Technology for Community and Political Advocacy

Short Talk: How to Research and Document Elders of Southern Black Cultural Heritage Using Digital Technology

Panel Discussion: Engaging Hidden Histories of African American Outdoor Recreation Sites

Workshop: Black-Only Spaces: Why and How, Yes Please!

Panel Discussion: Enhancing a Culture of Ethics in Research with Black Communities

Workshop: Culture, Community and Christ: Human Trafficking in the African American Community

Panel Discussion: We Are the Two Percent

Panel Discussion: Development Futures: Reimagining Neighborhoods Through Community Control

Panel Discussion: Improving Health Through Community Engagement, Partnership, Research, Education and Service

Panel Discussion: Black People Have the Answer to Reducing Gun Violence

Short Talk: How Black Women Experience the Built Environment in the City of Richmond

Short Talk: The Role of the Black Church in the Domestic Violence Prevention and Intervention

Short Talk: When Hip-Hop Hears the Home Girls: Using Black Feminist Hip- Hop Rhetoric in the First-Year Composition Classroom

Dramatic Performance: Performatively Unpacking the Race Talk

Workshop: Strengthening Local Communities Through Partnerships With Higher Education

Workshop: Self-Care Workshop for Community

Panel Discussion: Integrating Soul Care Into Community and Economic Development

Live Podcast: Podcast Episode: Live Recording

Keynote: Arlan Hamilton

Africana Market & Food Truck Rodeo

Music: Lena Jackson, Oace Spade & DJ Complex (BNB19)

Panel Discussion: North Carolina Black Farmers After the Pigford Settlements

Short Talk: Creative Placemaking as a Tool of Social Change and Social Justice

Short Talk: Producing Quality Black Public History on Social Media Channels

Short Talk: Technology and Participation in Black Communities

Short Talk: Delali Awards for the Black Entrepreneurial Spirit and the 1 Million - 2030 Project

Panel Discussion: Young, Black and Counseling

Walking Tour: Hayti to Haiti: A Global Black Consciousness

Workshop: Respectfully Collaborating with Skinfolk and Kinfolk: What We Not Finna Do!

Workshop: Catawba Trail Farm: Charting a Pathway

Workshop: Strategies for Increasing the Effectiveness of Academic and Black Community Research Partnerships

Panel Discussion: Alternative Archives: Black Digital Humanism as Anecdote to Cultural Erasure

Film: From Whence We Came: Using Documentary Film to Preserve Gullah Geechee Heritage

Panel Discussion: Include Me as I Grow

Short Talk: The Greatness of a Slave Child's DNA

Short Talk: How Can We PrEP?: Using Photovoice to Understand PrEP Experiences Among Black LGBTQ+ Men in Durham

Short Talk: A Tool for Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures in Addressing Disproportionate Risks Through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI Administrative Complaints

Short Talk: Health Interventions With a Black Feminist Lens

Panel Discussion: Wakanda and Its Discontents: Exploring the Problematics of "Black Panther" as a Cultural Phenomenon

Workshop: Where Are You, Harriet?

Dramatic Performance: Performance Poetry - "I, John de Conqueror"

Workshop: Black Women and Self-Care: An Interactive Workshop Using Five Principles

Panel Discussion: Changing Black Communities: A Promise of Progress for All

Film: A Love Supreme: Black, Queer and Christian in the South

Short Talk: Teaching Black Psychology in a Predominantly White Undergraduate Institution

Short Talk: The Fight for Equality in Legal Education in North Carolina Institutions of Higher Learning

Short Talk: Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Short Talk: Assessing Impact of Policies and Practices on College Admissions and Campus Climate

Short Talk: Burdened, Not Broken: Reclaiming the Narrative on Black Women's Health

Short Talk: Experiences of Home Births and Birthing Center Births Among Black Women

Short Talk: Addressing Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality through Policy and Systems Change

Panel Discussion: Black Celebrations: Building Identity, Enacting Resistance and Evoking Transformative Healing

Workshop: Mamas of Color and Mental Health: The Harm of State Intervention via the Child Protection System

Workshop: The Identity and Social Location Room

Workshop: The Advantage in the Disadvantaged Communities: Empowerment

Workshop: From Tragedy to Strategies: Turning Your Tragedy Into Empowering Moments

Panel Discussion: Black August in the Park

Film: Mama Africa

Concession Stand (until 8:00PM)

Film: Crown the County of Lowndes

Film: The Rosenwald Connection (Trailer) and "St. George Rosenwald School Revival" (Trailer)

Film: Strength of Story in the Era of Climate Uncertainty: Oral Tradition for Black Farmers and Fishermen

Film: Earnest Expectations: The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Public Policies

Registration Sign-In (until 6:30PM)

Breakfast Buffet (until 10:30AM)

Beverage Service (until 5:00PM)

Pop-Up: Facilitating the Healthy Psychological Development of Black Women's Racial and Gender Identity

Pop-Up: Social Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

Pop-Up: Implementation of a Neighborhood Level, Resident-Led Lifestyle Intervention

Pop-Up: Planning (In)equity: Analyzing Land Use Planning Through an Environmental Justice Lens Using a Participatory and Multi- disciplinary Approach

Pop-Up: Environmental Justice and Historic Preservation

Pop-Up: North Carolina Hip-Hop Artists and Concert Photographers

Short Talk: HBCUNomics: The Positioning of HBCUs as Economic Ecosystem

Short Talk: African American Banking History

Short Talk: Using Environmental Justice as a Tool for Community Revitalization

Short Talk: Racial Wealth Gap of North Carolina at the County Level

Short Talk: Facing the Stereotypes of Mental Illness in the Black Community

Short Talk: Activism, Advocacy and Black Mental Health

Short Talk: Sickle Cell Disease: Self-Management, Health-Related Quality of Life and Stigma

Short Talk: Syphilis Reemergence and the Vulnerability of Blackness

Panel Discussion: Addressing Black Hair Racism Through the Lens of Law, Equity, Social Justice and Health

Workshop: Keeping it 100: Being and Becoming Authentic

Workshop: Saving Our Families, Saving Our Future

Workshop: Building Diasporic Solidarity in Colombia, Brazil and Beyond

Workshop: Wellness Check: Overcoming Barriers to Goal Attainment and Professional Achievement

Panel Discussion: Black Scientists and Environmental Justice: Diversity and Inclusion in Environmental Sciences

Panel Discussion: Increasing Awareness of Mental Health in the African American Community

Short Talk: Beyond Reactivism: Building Black Futures Together

Short Talk: Creating Our Own Community: Exploring Black Women’s Use of Virtual Spaces

Short Talk: Tourism in Historically Black Towns

Short Talk: #future4th: Community Economic Development in Bham's Historic 4th Avenue Business District

Short Talk: Addressing Mental Health, HIV and Human Trafficking Issues in the Black Community

Short Talk: The C.H.A.M.P. (Church/Community Health Awareness and Monitoring Program): Advancing Health Equity

Short Talk: Intersectionality of Multiple Chronic Conditions and Multiple Roles of African American Women

Panel Discussion: The State of Our Communities: Education, Cities, Housing, Environmental Justice and Health

Panel Discussion: Community Capital Strategies Panel 1

Workshop: The Playing Field: Personal and Public Health Practices Through the Power of Play

Workshop: #Resist: Using Expressive Arts Therapy to Foster Psychopolitical Well-being for Black Youth

Panel Discussion: Public Art and Public Memory

Panel Discussion: Project Heal: Black Mental Health Matters

Panel Discussion: Duke as a Community Resource: Partnerships Impacting the Health of the Black Community

Short Talk: Seeds of Promise: Recreational Cannabis Tax Dollars as a Tool for the War on Drugs Reparations

Short Talk: Effects of Incarceration on Employment and Marriage Among African American Males

Short Talk: Black Fathers Matter: The Role of Fathers in Adolescent Sexual Health

Short Talk: Presenting Work on the Metahistorical Re-Reading of the Haitian Revolution and Its Profound Significance

Short Talk: Black Guns Matter: Armed While Black

Short Talk: Ex-Offender Rehabilitation

Short Talk: Building Bridges of Trust Between Law Enforcement and The Black Community

Dramatic Performance: Jet Fuel

Panel Discussion: Community Capital Strategies Panel 2

Workshop: Black Land and Power

Workshop: Southern Foodways to Health

Panel Discussion: Call and Respond: Collaborations between HBCUs and HBTSA

Dramatic Performance: Reimagining The Purpose of Black Performance

Panel Discussion: Collaborations in the Struggle for Black Lives: Reviewing Our Social Justice and Health Symposium

Keynote Panel: Researching, Preserving and Exhibiting Black History and Culture

Africana Market & Food Truck Rodeo

Music: Tha Materials featuring Dasan Ahanu and Glory & DJ Complex (BNB19)

Short Talk: The Impact of the Sitcom "A Different World" on College Choice in the 90s and Early 2000s

Short Talk: Creating Positive Spaces and the Empowering Black Narrative

Short Talk: L'environnement, L'éducation Selon L'objectif D’un Organisation De Jeunesse (The Environment and Education According to the Objective of a Youth Organization)

Short Talk: Présenter Quelques Initiatives De Jeunes Haïtiens Pour L'affirmation De Leur Identité

Short Talk: Multisector Collaboration on San Antonio’s Eastside: Hope House Ministries and SAAACAM

Short Talk: Black Freedom Struggles in Houston, TX

Panel Discussion: The Politics of Black Music Aesthetics

Walking Tour: Pauli’s Durham: History of Racial Segregation in the West End

Workshop: Black Adolescents in Foster Care: Building Support Networks for the Invisible Population

Workshop: The Black Reparations Revival

Workshop: Current Events: Monuments, Violence and Continued Narratives of the Confederacy

Workshop: Resilient Connections

Panel Discussion: Minority Student Performance in the “Obama-Era”

Film: The Story of New Orleans Creole Cooking: The Black Hand in the Pot

Short Talk: Representation of Black Female Academics

Short Talk: Beyond Bold and Brave: The Black Lesbian Conferences Project in New York City

Short Talk: Underrepresentation of Black Women and Femmes

Short Talk: Community Organizing, Feminist Difference Theory, Postmodernism, Black Feminism and Public Philosophy

Panel Discussion: Faire Comprendre L'importance De L'acceptation De Soi (Understanding the Importance of Self Acceptance)

Panel Discussion: Hip-Hop at 45: a Critical Look at What Hip-Hop Always Was, is and Could Be

Workshop: Do Justly, Love Mercy and Walk Humbly: Academic and Black Church Collaborations

Workshop: Historically Black Colleges and Universities Community Development Action Coalition Partnership

Workshop: Deconstructing the Power of Internalized Racial Oppression Through Sankofa Service

Workshop: Souled Out: Debunking Black Health Myths

Panel Discussion: Constructing Resistance Strategies for Black Youth in the U.S. Education System

Workshop: Listening House: Stories of Buildings, Belonging and Being Black

Panel Discussion: Communauté Noire et Intégration Socio-politico-économique (Black Community and Socio-Political-Economic Integration)

Panel Discussion: Modern-Day Environmental Slavery: The Fight for Environmental Justice in Black Communities

Workshop: Radical Organizing: Understanding the Black Queer Feminist Lens and Building Black Futures

Workshop: The Faith-Based Organization's Role in Economic Development & Sustainability in Historic Black Communities

Workshop: Digitally Mapping the International Travel of Dr. James E. Shepard, 1900-1930

Workshop: Trauma, Transformation and Liberation

Panel Discussion: The Value of Global, Digital Black Knowledge

Film: Our Beauty Matters

Film: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blueprint

Film: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going? ENCORE Speaks

Film: Back Home Foods(Infused)

Film: Black Wall Street Rising

Film: Negro Terror

Film: The Cycle

Registration Sign-In (until 12:00PM)

Breakfast Buffet (until 10:30AM)

Beverage Service (until 5:00PM)

Pop-Up: #SEXYNOTSILENT: A Visual Art Exhibit

Pop-Up: Summer Lunch Programs in the Beatties Ford Road Corridor

Pop-Up: The Urban Planner's Role in Planning for Prosperous Black Communities

Pop-Up: History and Heritage of a Muslim African American Community in Durham, North Carolina and Beyond

Pop-Up: Health Disparities: A Needs Assessment of Persons with Sickle Cell Disease in North Carolina

Pop-Up: Population Health Improvement Initiatives Focusing on the African American Population in Durham

Short Talk: The Language of Lynching: Exploring the Roots of Racial Violence Through the Digital Humanities

Short Talk: Homophobia in the Black Community

Short Talk: Pwoblematik, Vi, Reyalite Entèsèks, Trans E Kominote LGBTI an Haiti (The Problems and Reality of the Intersex, Trans and LGBTI Community in Haiti)

Short Talk: Community Food Access

Short Talk: Food Apartheid and the Curriculum That Saves It

Short Talk: The Raising of Strong Black Hands: The Males Place Community Garden as a Mechanism for Growth Among Black Male Youth

Short Talk: Analysis of the Relationship Between Environmental Equity and Urban Ecology

Panel Discussion: Amplifying Rural Grassroots Voices to Advance a Healthy, Inclusive and Equitable McDowell County

Workshop: Am I Still Black Enough?: Examining the Success Guilt of the Black Student

Workshop: Community Development with Economic Impact of Tourism

Workshop: The Perception of Excessive Use of Force in Disenfranchised Communities

Panel Discussion: Black Experience in Higher Education: Orientation and Netflix

Panel Discussion: Researcher-Community Collaborations: On Trust, Tension and Memory

Short Talk: Equitable Development

Short Talk: Les Quatre Conférences Internationales Sur Les Droits Des Femmes, Un Tournant Décisif Pour L’égalité (The Four International Conferences on the Rights of Women, a Decisive Turn for Equality)

Short Talk: The Importance of Black Communities

Short Talk: A Community Partnership to Remember a Southern College Town’s Historically Black Neighborhoods

Short Talk: Reflections on the Processing of the Grace DeLorme Papers

Short Talk: Examples of and Strategies for Neighborhood Planning and Development

Short Talk: Approaches to Narrative Histories of African Americans

Panel Discussion: Authentically Engaging Faith-Based Organizations in Community Development

Short Talk: Policing Officer-Caused Fatalities

Short Talk: Education: Charter Schools and Black Communities

Panel Discussion: Nuevos Paradigmas De La Lucha Contra El Racismo, Políticas Reparatorias Y Acciones Afirmativas (New Paradigms of the Fight Against Racism, Reparation Policies and Affirmative Actions)

Panel Discussion: Brown Skin or a Yellow Bone: Deconstructing Colorism and Gender in The Hip-Hop Community

Panel Discussion: Facilitating the Demise of White Supremacy in the Archives at PWIs

Short Talk: Mapping African American Cultural Values and Natural Resource Values of Land in North Carolina

Short Talk: Community Preservation and Engagement in the Midst of Gentrification

Short Talk: Descendant Voices at a Plantation Site: From Stagville to Braggtown and Back Again

Short Talk: The History and Heritage of African American Funeral Homes in Durham, North Carolina

Participatory Performance: A Negro Woman Named Beck: Slavery and Murder in an Early American North Carolina Family

Dramatic Performance: Finding Me

Workshop: The Impact of American Socialization on Black Education

Workshop: Responsive Philanthropy in Black Communities

Workshop: History You: How to Advocate for Archives

Workshop: S.I.P.s Tea: Sexuality in Progress

Workshop: Using Technology to Document African American Cemeteries

Panel Discussion: Contingent Collaborations: Who’s Telling Black Stories?

Keynote: William A. Darity, Jr.

Africana Market & Food Truck Rodeo

MUSIC: Professor X, Slums & DJ Complex (BNB19)

Short Talk: Geopolitics, Authoritarianism and Refugee Crises in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia in Focus

Short Talk: El Devenir Histórico De La Afromexicanidad en Costa Grande, Estado De Guerrero (The Historical Development of Afromexicaness in Costa Grande, Guerrero State)

Short Talk: A Community of Conflict?: Africans and East Indians in Guyana

Panel Discussion: The Federal Reserve Bank's Activities on Broadband, Digital Equity and Economic Mobility

Panel Discussion: HBCU Wall Street Presents Rebuilding a Black Wall Street Mindset: Entrepreneurship, Technology and Innovation

Walking Tour: Black Wall Street: The Price of Progress

Workshop: Civic Tech for Community Organizing

Workshop: Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs

Workshop: Technology for Sharing History and Heritage: "Minimal Computing" as a Method

Workshop: The Art of Change: Art-Based Initiatives

Panel Discussion: We All Gotta Eat (WAGE) Podcast: A Live Recording of Black Foodways

Short Talk: Black Women's Decision-Making Processes for or Against Motherhood in Present-Day Germany

Short Talk: Afro American Plus Student Organization at Mississippi State University

Workshop: Community Reinvestment Act

Panel Discussion: The Dinner Table at Canterbury Court: Kinship as a Catalyst for Social Activism and Community

Panel Discussion: Finding Soul in Tragic Spaces: (Black) Self-Affirmation, Endurance, and Performance

Workshop: Enhancing Grant Writing for Community Leaders

Workshop: #BlackCom2019 Collaboration Session 1

Panel Discussion: Places for the Spirit: African American Garden Clubs in North Carolina

Panel Discussion: Redefining Manhood

Film: Processing Homicide and Trauma in the Black Community Using Experimental Documentary Films

Short Talk: Prince Rogers Nelson and the Great Migration

Short Talk: Three Churches in Lincoln City, North Carolina

Short Talk: From the Enslavement of Many, to Freedom for All: The Unique Slave Reparation Paradigm of AASRT

Workshop: #BlackCom2019 Collaboration Session 2

Panel Discussion: Impacting STEM With the Black Community

Workshop: Mapping Black Durham: A Community Engaged Digital History Project

Workshop: Development of Environmental Benefits Districts: An Approach to Addressing Environmental Injustice

Workshop: The Anti-Black Roots of Our Legal Systems

Panel Discussion: Collaborating for a Just Florence Recovery in Eastern North Carolina

Panel Discussion: Precision Medicine and Black Communities: Health Innovation for All?

Film: "Testify, Beyond Place"

Closing Plenary: Building a Black Communities Conference