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Schedule

All events occur at McGrew Towers Hampton University, Hampton, VA

Wednesday, September 16th
8:00 a.m. Bus transportation begins from Norfolk State University to Hampton University. Bus leaves from Lot 4 (near the President’s House) approximately every 90 minutes. The last bus will return by 9 p.m.
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Opening Session

  • Greetings and Welcome
    • Eric Claville, Director of the Civil Rights Institute and Assistant Professor of Political Science and History, Hampton University
    • Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Conference Chair and Director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for African Diaspora Studies, Norfolk State University
    • Councilman, W. H. “Billy” Hobbs Jr., City of Hampton
    • Calvin Pearson, President, Project 1619
    • Dr. Linda Malone-Colon Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Hampton University
    • Dr. Belinda Anderson, Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Norfolk State University
9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS – “LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA”
Eric Claville, Assistant Professor of Law, Political Science, and History, Hampton University
10:00 a.m.
Room A-B: Roundtable – Images of Blackness and Criminality and America’s Media
Moderator:   Cathy Jackson, Associate Professor of Mass Communications and Journalism, Norfolk State University

  • Mavis Carr, Assistant Professor, Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communication, Hampton University
  • James Curiel, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Norfolk State University
  • Tim Reid, Emmy-Nominated Actor, Director and Producer
  • Larry Rubama, Sports reporter, The Virginian-Pilot
  • Karen Wilson, President, Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals
 Room C-D:  Being Black in Britain:  Is Racism on the Rise in the United Kingdom?
Moderator:  Stephanie Richmond, Assistant Professor of History, Norfolk State University

  • Andrika Crawley, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Dana Owens, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Johnnie Watkins, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
11:30 a.m. Lunch Break
12:30 p.m. AFTERNOON PANEL – “The Arc of Social Justice:  Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer”
Room A-B
Moderator:   Maureen Elgersman Lee, Associate Professor/Chair, Department of
Political Science, History & International Studies, Hampton University

  • Frank Edgecombe, Former Hampton University Library Director and Civil Rights Activist
  • Mamie Locke, Professor of Political Science, Hampton University
  • Robert Watson, Assistant Professor of History, Hampton University
2:00 p.m.
Room A-B: The Quest for Social Justice
Moderator:  Patrick Mbajekwe, Associate Professor of History, Norfolk State University

  • Olusoji Akomlafe, Professor of Political Science, Norfolk State University, “Hidden in Plain Sight:  The Plight of Foreign-Accented Speakers and the Quest for     Equality”
  • Elsie Barnes, Professor of Political Science, Norfolk State University, “America’s Pro-Highway Bias:  Impact on Minority Homeowners”
  • Scott Debb, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Carol Pretlow, Professor of Political Science, Norfolk State University, “Have We Come Full Circle on Civil Rights? Political Science and Psychological Perspectives on Social Injustice in a Color-Blind Post-Racial Society”
  • Kay Wright Lewis, Assistant Professor of History, Norfolk State University, “The Place for Which our Fathers Sighed”
 Room C-D:  African American Expatriate Artists in France:  Influence Cuts Both Ways
Moderator:  William Alexander, Professor of History, Norfolk State University

  • Tylar Barnes, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Diamond Giles, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Tyla Morris, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
 Room Atrium:  Dying to Get Out and Dying to Get In:  Afro-Germans Then and Now
Moderator:  Page Laws, Professor of English and Dean of the Honors College, Norfolk
State University

  • Tyron Bailey, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Uwem Etuk, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
  • Ezinne Nnawulezi, Honors College Student, Norfolk State University
3:30 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m.
Room A-B:  Roundtable – Black Lives Matter, Policing Minorities, and the Arc of
History
Moderator:  Kay Wright Lewis, Assistant Professor of History, Norfolk State
University

  • Jeffery Davis, Professor of Sociology, Hampton University
  • Colita Fairfax, Associate Professor of Social Work, Norfolk State University
  • Nashid S Madyun, Director, Hampton University Museum & Archives
  • Mariah McClain, President of Generation Forward, Hampton University
  • Robert Perkins, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal  Justice, Norfolk State University
 Room C-D:  Unlikely Alliances
Moderator:  Robert Watson, Assistant Professor of History, Hampton University

  • Charles Ford, Professor of History, Norfolk State University, “The Unlikely Partnership:  Joseph Jordan, Evelyn T. Butts, and the Poll Tax Struggle in Norfolk, Virginia”
  • Kevin DePew, Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Tutorial Services, Old Dominion University, “The Tension between Linguistic and Social     Realities:  An Examination of Social Justice within Literary Education”
  • E.M. Rose, Princeton University, “A New Look at Pocahontas’s Trip to England (1616-1617)”
5:15 p.m. Reception at Hampton University Museum and Archives
6:30 p.m Round Table Session – “The Arc of Social Justice:  The 1965 Voting Rights Act and Beyond”

McGrew Towers, Room A-B
Free and open to the public

Moderator:  Lisa Godley, Radio Personality and Producer

  • Eric Claville, Assistant Professor of Law, Political Science, and History, Hampton University
  • Henry Chambers, Professor of Law, Richmond University School of Law
  • Frank Edgcombe, Former Hampton University Library Director and Civil Rights activist
  • Amos Jones, Professor of Law, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Campbell University
  • Carol Pretlow, Professor of Political Science, Norfolk State University

Comments:  Colita Fairfax, Associate Professor of Social Work, Norfolk State University
7:30 p.m. Return to hotel and parking areas