Conference Presentations

2023 Black Music Symposium, ‘Lest Our Feet Stray,’  Lecture “Ultrasonic Tastemakers: A Critical Gastromusicology” given by Alisha Lola Jones “This year’s theme, ‘Lest Our Feet Stray,’ aims to invoke a spirit of remembrance of Black music genres that were integral to the survival of Black Americans during slavery, the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Movement,” […]

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Video from the 99th Annual Alumni Convocation at Howard University Divinity School in 2015.

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James Cone on Tavis Smiley’s State of the Black Church. “The Black Church is more interested in the Gospel of Success.”

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This symposium will be the first gathering for the Lilly Endowment Initiative to Build Capacity for Sustainability in Historic Black Theological Schools.

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This symposium will be the first gathering for the Lilly Endowment Initiative to Build Capacity for Sustainability in Historic Black Theological Schools.

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From Jena 6 to Freddie Gray, social media has played an integral part in how we organize and galvanize the masses. #MLK2BAKER: BeyondReActivism, OrganizingForPower examines the role of social media in social justice organizing and raises a couple questions.
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15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAMUEL DEWITT PROCTOR CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE THEME: STAYING IN THE STRUGGLE UNTIL THE END

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Opening Plenary of the 101st Annual Alumni Convocation at Howard School of Divinity School featuring Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas with responses by Rev Dr. Oscar Brown, Joseph Harris, Dr. Renee K. Harrison and Dr. Ron Hopson.

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What is desperately needed in the social justice and civil rights communities is a theory of change that addresses the foundational mechanisms of our monetary system that cause social and economic injustice. In response to the civil and social unrest of his day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. responded, “If a soul lives in darkness […]

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Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of Obery Hendricks’ “The Politics of Jesus” November 19, 2016 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting San Antonio, Texas Panelists: Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University Jesse Jackson, Operation Push, Chicago, IL Nyasha Junior, Temple University Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary Keri Day, Brite Divinity School Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown […]

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