WORKSHOP

CONVENER/FACILITATOR

DESCRIPTION

Operation We Are Family

Convener: Dr. Oba T’Shaka

There has been an erosion of Black families and extended communities. Operation We Are Family addresses this through cultural revitalization and organizational empowerment of Black communities.

Health Care

Convener: Dr. Babakubwa Kweku

Participants: Darlene Allen, Clifford Ola Jordan

The health of African Americans faces constant challenge via faulty health care system, environmental factors (waste sites, dumping), economic conditions (poverty, joblessness), resource availability (clinics, stores, etc.) and personal choices (habits). Critical health and health care issues will be discussed and solutions proposed by workshop presenters and participants.

Martial Arts

Convener: Heru T’Gamba

Participants: Olu Jabari, Ken Moody, Michelle Bradford

Being equipped to defend ourselves as a people is critical to survival. Seasoned martial artists will discuss strategies for defense and survival as well as demonstrate what they consider to be African-centered martial arts.

Housing Crisis

Convener: Marian Kramer

Participants: Maureen Taylor, Eirtha C-Bey, General Baker

Although there has already been a housing crisis among African Americans, particularly for those who are poor and working class, it is intensifying as people loose jobs. Workshop presenters will discuss these problems further, as well as identify strategies for solving them.

Youth Workshop: Consciousness in the Arts

Convener: Camara Sankofa

Youth participants will learn strategies to create conscious art.

African Centered Education

Convener: Malik Yakini

Participants: Samori Grace, Imani Humphry, Marvis Cofield

In the current economic crisis, African-centered institutions face challenges that are unlike those in earlier periods. Learn more about these challenges, as well as solutions by seasoned African-centered educators.

Criminal Injustice

Convener: Nakpongi Reeder

Participants: Eugene McDonald, Seydou Njoya, Raphael Johnson

Black people are faced with a system of criminal injustice that favors the criminalization and incarceration of Black men, women and children. There are multiple problems that require manifold solutions. Join workshop presenters as they define the problems and discuss solution-oriented strategies.

Labor and Employment

Convener: Dr. Tdka Kilimanjaro

Participants: Dr. Ife Kilimanjaro, Al Lumpkin

Joblessness among African Americans is high and rapidly increasing, leaving people unable to provide for their families, maintain a home (via rent or home ownership), and purchase the necessities of life. Current labor and employment issues will be discussed, and solutions posed by workshop presenters.

Youth Workshop: Leadership Development

Facilitator: Moudou Ballaqui

Strategies for the development of leadership among youth will be presented, discussed and tested.

Food Crisis

Convener: Malik Yakini

Participants: Dr. Monica White

Access to quality food is a real problem for Black people, whether rural or urban. Join representatives from the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network to discuss the food crisis and solutions.

Economic Crisis

Convener: Dr. Ife Kilimanjaro

Participants: Ajamu Webster, Muata Mahluli

The economy is in crisis. The discussion will center on the meaning and characteristics of the economic crisis, as well as what can be done.

New African Morality

Convener: Dr. Tdka Kilimanjaro

Participants: Elder Heru, Bonotchi Montgomery, Talibah Worrill

Many Black people cannot conceive of morality without religion, however Ancient Kmt gave the world a moral system that in modernized form provides guidance for righteous thoughts, deeds and living, without the baggage of enslavement, racism, exploitation, and European/Arab influence. 

International Affairs

Convener: Dr. Norma Lozano Jackson

Participant: Jitu K. Weusi, Eunice Mina, Marcos Garcia

Throughout the world, African people are treated in the worst of ways. From the east to the west, the north to the south, Black people live under extremely difficult conditions. Workshop presenters provide specific examples of the issues.