37th National Conference
The Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations
Theme: The Classical African Worldview During Post-Pandemic Times: Leaving Footprints for the 21st Century and Eternity
Friday, April 9, 2021
- 7:45 PM Reading of the ASCAC Ancestors List and Musical Interlude
- 8:00 PM Conference Opening
Presiding Elder
Libations/Invocation
National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing”
- 8:15 PM Statements of Welcome
Dr. Mario Beatty, President, ASCAC
Dr. Kamau Rashid, President, Midwest Region
Nana Modell Gault, President, Eastern Region
Legrand Clegg, III, Esq., President, Western Region
Dr. Riba Kelsey, President, Southern Region
Baba Ron McCoy, President, Mid-Atlantic Region
Baba Moriba Kelsey, ASCAC Building Fund
- 8:45 PM ASCAC Video- Queen Nzingha Ratibisha Heru
- 9:00 PM ASCAC Community Conversation
- 9:30 PM Closing Comments
Saturday, April 10, 2021
- 1:00 PM Dr. Mario Beatty, ASCAC National President
“A New Discovery: Deciphering the Artistic Style of Akhenaten”
- 1:30 PM LaTrella Thornton, Chair, ASCAC Education Commission; High Priestess, Khepera Heru Healing and Learning Temple
“Broadening Education to Include the Spiritual Domain”
- 2::00 PM Question and Answer Session
- 2:15 PM Conference Break (ASCAC Video- Dr. Ben)
- 2:30 PM Stephanie Tisdale, Ph.D. Student, Temple University
“Visionary Leadership and Institution Building: Women of African Descent”
- 2:50 PM Sharon Whitney, Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School and Imhotep Charter High School
“An Ubuntu Collaborative Project”
- 3:10 PM Makeda Kumasi, University of California, Riverside
“Walking in Kuumba: Living through Maat”
- 3:30 PM Question and Answer Session
- 3:45 PM Angela Porter, Esq., Managing Editor, ASCAC Compass Journal; Attorney, Independent Scholar, Minneapolis, MN
“Kemetic Protocol: Core Ways of Knowing Governance as Shown in Selected Texts”
- 4:05 PM Question and Answer Session
- 4:15 PM Legrand Clegg, III, Esq., President, ASCAC Western Region
A Call to Action:
1. “Response to Urban Review Journal’s retraction of article promoting the “Black Olmec” Theory
2. Highlighting Protests against nationwide gentrification of Black communities through a case study of Crenshaw, Black Los Angeles
Sunday, April 11, 2021
- 1:00 PM ASCAC Mid-Atlantic Region Study Group Presentation
- 1:30 PM Brother Shomari Grimes, Independent Scholar, Philadelphia, PA
“For the Love of Black Children: RezEREKTing Exemplary Ideals for Village Building”
- 1:50 PM Dr. Rosalind Jeffries, Chair, ASCAC Creative Productions Commission
“Storming the Capitol with Greco Kemetic Symbols”
- 2:45 PM Question and Answer Session
- 3:00 PM Conference Break (ASCAC Video- Dr. Carruthers)
- 3:15 PM Dr. Leonard Jeffries, ASCAC Founding Director; Chair, ASCAC Council of Elders
“The African Renaissance: Significance and Future”
- 4:30 PM Question and Answer Session
- 5:00 PM Closing Comments
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
- 8:00 PM Dr. Amon Saba Saakana, Director, Karnak House Publications, UK, Trinidad & Tobago
“The Impact of the Philosophy of Kemet on the
Fundamental Concepts of Islamic Moral Philosophy”
- 8:30 PM Larry Crowe, ASCAC National 2nd Vice President; Chair, ASCAC Research Commission
“The Life and Public Health Services of Dr. Martin R. Delany: 19th Century African Genius and The Father of Black Nationalism”
- 9:00 PM Reggie Mabry, Independent Scholar, Harlem, NY
“A Mdw Ntr Tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York”
- 9:20 PM Question and Answer Session
- 9:30 PM Closing Comments
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
- 8:00 PM Dr. Burnett Gallman, Independent Scholar, Columbia, SC
“Analyzing Our Oppression: Understanding the Mechanisms”
- 8:20 PM Dr. Joshua Myers, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Howard University
“A Worthy Ancestor: W.E.B. DuBois, A Black Life”
- 8:40 PM Debra Johnson, Independent Scholar, Buffalo, NY
“Early 20th Century Progressive Movements in Buffalo, NY”
- 9:00 PM Tarik Richardson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Africology, Temple University
“The Great African Thinkers Series: A Literary Celebration of our Intellectual Heroes”
- 9:20 PM Question and Answer Session
- 9:30 PM Closing Comments
Thursday, April 15, 2021
- 8:00 PM ASCAC Eastern Region Study Groups of New Jersey, Harlem, NY, Buffalo, NY and Rochester, NY
“Toward a Research Strategy: The African Origin of Kemetic Civilization focusing on Cheikh Anta Diop, Civilization or Barbarism
- 8:20 PM Question and Answer Session
- 8:30 PM Otiana Thompson, Emerging Scholar, Claflin University
“Undergraduate Research in Africana Studies”
- 8:42 PM Savannah Joyner, Emerging Scholar, Claflin University
“Undergraduate Research in Africana Studies”
- 8:54 PM Shawn Brooks, Emerging Scholar, Morehouse College
“Sekhepera: Student Transformation under an
Africana Studies Curriculum (Morehouse College)”
- 9:06 PM Rodney Gross, Emerging Scholar, Morehouse College
“Sekhepera: Student Transformation under an
Africana Studies Curriculum (Morehouse College)
- 9:18 PM Question and Answer Session
- 9:30 PM Closing Comments
Friday, April 16, 2021
- 8:00 PM Dr. Valethia Watkins, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Howard University
“Standing in Their Own Truth: Black Women and the Fight to Vote, Then and Now”
- 8:30 PM Dr. Kamau Rashid, President, ASCAC Midwest Region
“Capoeira finds order in the chaos: African fighting arts as African-centered education”
- 8:50 PM Da’mon Stith, Founder & President, Historic African Martial Arts Association (HAMA)
“To Walk as a Lion”: The Warrior Way in the African Context
- 9:10 PM Question and Answer Session
- 9:30 PM Closing Comments
Saturday, April 17, 2021
- 1:00 PM Yvonne Jones, Chair, ASCAC Spiritual Development Commission; Director, Kemetic Institute; Priest, Temple of the African Community of Chicago
“Those Netcherut, What Can They Do? Give Life, Give Health, Empower, Restore, and More”
- 1:30 PM Dr. W. Joye Hardiman, Co-Chair, ASCAC Creative Productions Commission
“Finding Abundance in Pandemics: A Retrospective
on 22 episodes of Let the Ancestors Speak, a virtual
YouTube Salon”
- 2:00 PM Question and Answer Session
- 2:15 PM Muriel Balla, Kemetic Institute, Chicago, IL
“Paheri: A National Story”
- 2:35 PM Bonotchi Montgomery, Mdw Ntr Study Group of Detroit
“Understanding Maat as Functional Symmetry, Nature/Reality, Organized as a Living Interactive Process”
- 2:55 PM Mfundishi Djhutymes Hassan Salim, Jhuty Heru Neb-Hu Per Ankh
“Developing Kemetic Spiritual Material for Teaching Our Children”
- 3:15 PM Question and Answer Session
- 3:30 PM Conference Break (ASCAC Video- Asa Hilliard)
- 3:45 PM Akil Parker, Adjunct Math Professor, Cheyney University
“W.E.B. DuBois the Mathematician”
- 4:05 PM Kwame Ture Society for Africana Studies, Howard University
“Kwame Ture Society: The Way of Companions”
- 4:25 PM Question and Answer Session
- 4:40 PM Dr. Greg Kimathi Carr, ASCAC National 1st Vice President; Chair, Africana Studies, Howard University
“Whm Msw, Changing Sames and New Normals: African Survival in the Worlds to Come”
- 5:15 PM Question and Answer Session
- 5:30 PM Closing Comments and Call to Action