Unapologetic: The John Lewis Legacy and the Fierce Urgency of the Now

Program Schedule: AGENDA-IN-BRIEF

• Thursday, July 08

  Thursday sessions are free and open to the public via YouTube Livestream. All times listed are ET.

  Location:

  • Event Time:4:15 pm

    Conference Launch/Welcome Remarks by Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen

  • Event Time:4:30 pm

    Documentary Film Screening: “John Lewis: Good Trouble”

  • Event Time:6:00 pm

    Post-Film Discussion: “Reflections on a Remarkable Life: John Lewis’ Congressional Director Tuere Butler in conversation with Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen”

  • Event Time:6:30 pm

    Concert: “Movement Music from the Selma Road to the BLM Protest Summer of 2020”, led by artistic director Rev. Dr. Dwight Andrews, Senior Pastor of First Congregational and a renowned music scholar

  • Event Time:7:30 pm

    Post-Concert Dialogue: “Afterword: Reverend Dwight Andrews in conversation with Dr. Kali-Ahset Amen”

• Friday, July 09

  Sessions will occur on the Zoom platform. Pre-registration is required. Times listed are ET.

  Location:

  • Event Time:8:00 am

    Meet and Greet: “John Lewis Fellows - Early Birds & European Reunion”

  • Event Time:9:00 am

    Official Conference Welcome: “John Lewis Fellows ‘Roll Call’”

  • Event Time:9:15 am

    Spoken Word Performance: “An Ode to Lewis” presented by 2015 Senior Fellow Antonio Lopez

  • Event Time:9:30 am

    Panel Discussion: “Elders Forum: Reflections on the Atlanta Student Movement,” presented by Dr. Roslyn Pope and Charles Black in dialogue with Tanya Washington, Fmr. John Lewis Fellowship Director (2016-2018)

  • Event Time:10:30

    Fellows Only Networking Space: “What Good Trouble are you in?”

  • Event Time:12:00 pm

    Lunch Break: with virtual yoga led by Irijah Stennett, Kemetic Yoga master

  • Event Time:1:00 pm

    Afternoon Keynote: “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America” by veteran JLF program speaker Professor Carol Anderson

  • Event Time:2:15 pm

    Artistic Presentation: “Coming Home: The Life & Legacy of John Lewis,” presented by 2020 Senior Fellow Dorothy Mukasa and Company

  • Event Time:2:55 pm

    Artistic Presentation: “float free // singing as liberation work,” presented by 2019 Senior Fellow Leilani Douglass

  • Event Time:4:00 pm

    Evening Keynote: “The Future of Atlanta Activism: Activist-Artist Killer Mike with Historian Maurice Hobson”

• Saturday, July 10

  A full day of presentations, workshops and networking sessions curated by John Lewis Fellowship alumni. All sessions will occur on the Zoom platform. Pre-registration is required. Times listed are ET.

  Location:

  • Event Time:9:00 am

    Introduction to the Day’s Program

  • Event Time:9:15 am

    Session 1: Dr. Karcheik Sims-Alvarado, Inaugural John Lewis Fellowship Director (2014 - 2015)

    • “Discovering the Past, Transforming the Present through Social Justice Education: Designing a Fellowship to Teach the Structure and History of America’s Social Movements”

  • Event Time:10:00 am

    Session 2: Interactive Talks

    • 2018 Senior Fellow Gino Nuzzolillo, “The Neighborhood Union and Visions of the New South in Black Atlanta”

    • 2015 Senior Fellow Devon Crawford, “Achieving our Country: Creating Justice in Real Time”

    • 2019 Senior Fellow Ishan Sharma, “Emerging Surveillance Technologies & 21st Century Democracy”

  • Event Time:11:30 am

    Session 3: Concurrent Workshops

    • 2017 Senior Fellow Alex Mabanta and Dr. Karen Korematsu, Founder and Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Institute, “Educational Equity: Implementing an Ethnic Studies Curriculum”

    • 2018 Senior Fellow Jasmine Rashid, “Moving Money: A Financial Activist Playbook for Racial Justice”

  • Event Time:12:30 pm

    Lunch Break: With virtual yoga led by Irijah Stennett, Kemetic Yoga master

  • Event Time:1:15 pm

    Session 4: Concurrent Workshops

    • 2019 Senior Fellows Jess Pires-Jancose and Momo Wilms-Crowe, “Organizing as Abundance: Building New Worlds Through Pleasure”

    • 2019 Senior Fellows June Thalin-Worm and Hoangtran “Hany” Hieu Hanh, “Building community solidarity and amplifying Asian voices in times of Covid-19”

  • Event Time:2:00 pm

    Fellows’ Social Meetup: Network and reconnect with your fellowship cohort in breakout rooms

  • Event Time:2:30 pm

    Session 5: Interactive Talks

    • 2017 Senior Fellow Emily McDonnell, “Federal Indian Policy in the Age of Deb Haaland”

    • 2017 Senior Fellows Trey Walk and Emily McDonnell, “Black and Indigenous Solidarity”

  • Event Time:4:00 pm

    Session 6: Interactive Talks - “Forging Racial Equity: Transforming Institutions and Communities”

    • 2020 HIA Racial Equity Grant recipient and 2017 (Berlin) Senior Fellow, Michael Scott and 2017 (Berlin) Senior Fellow, Helen Kramer: "Racial Dialogues: Breaking Bread"

    • 2020 HIA Racial Equity Grant recipient, Jalyn Radziminski #BuildBlackIndiana: Our Voices & Our Votes Matter

    • 2020 HIA Racial Equity Grant recipient and 2008 (Berlin) Senior Fellow, Samson Lim: Human-Centered Lawyering at the California Law Review

  • Event Time:5:15 pm

    Closing the Day’s program

• Sunday, July 11

  Sunday sessions are free and open to the public via YouTube Livestream. All times listed are ET.

  Location:

  • Event Time:10:00 am

    Going Home Remembrance Ritual at Oakland Cemetery: “Song and Silence in the Praise House: Journeys from the Rural South to Freedom” created by conceptual artist Charmaine Minniefield, 2021 Curator of Atlanta’s Flux Art Festival

  • Event Time:11:30 am

    Closing of Conference Program: Reflections by past and present John Lewis Fellowship staff, Fellows and HIA Executive Director Judy Goldstein