Register for Day 2 of this Symposium on Tues., March 31, 9 a.m.

This symposium will examine what African American history scholar Peniel Joseph calls the “classical period” of the civil rights movement by placing it in the broader context of American and African American history.

9 a.m.  Opening remarks by Lonnie G. Bunch, III, founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, followed by a keynote address by Peniel Joseph, professor of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University.

10:15 a.m. to 12 noon  A panel discussion titled “People Get Ready, There’s a Change A’Comin: Civil Rights and Black Power: Rediscovering Their Distinctions and Intersections” examines the movement’s origins. The panel will feature poets Askia Muhammad Touré and Amiri Baraka, both veterans of the black power movement.

1:30 to 3 p.m.  A panel discussion with Kathleen Cleaver, who was communications secretary of the Black Panther Party from 1967 to 1971 and was married to party leader Eldridge Cleaver, will be among the panelists discussing “Nationalism and Pan-Africanism.”

3:15 to 5:30 p.m.  A panel discussion titled “To Be Young Gifted and Black: The Black Arts, Black Consciousness and the New Black Aesthetic” will feature poet Sonia Sanchez and playwright Woodie King.

6 p.m.  Day 1 of symposium ends.

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