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| Friday, March 25, 2022 | In-person location | Virtual Registration |
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| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Check-In for In-Person Participants | ||
| 8:50 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Matoaka Woods | |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Plenary Panel | Matoaka Woods | Join Plenary Panel webinar |
| 10:30 a.m. | Brief Remarks by Provost Peggy Agouris | Matoaka Woods | |
| 10:35 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Breakout Rooms | Matoaka Woods, Dogwood, and Holly | |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Future of Ethnic Studies Panel, co-sponsored by the Asian Centennial
*This panel will take place virtually and be broadcast in Dogwood. |
Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Matoaka Woods & Holly | |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 1: African American History – Oral history, Genealogy, and Performance | Holly | Zoom registration |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2: Identity, Transformation, Reclamation | Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Panel 3: Black Male Well-Being | Holly | Zoom registration |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Panel 4: Justice, Belonging, Autonomy | Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Break | ||
| 6:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m. | Keynote Speaker Dr. Tommy Curry | Matoaka Woods | Join Dr. Tommy Curry webinar |
| Saturday, March 26, 2022 | In-person location |
Virtual Registration |
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| 8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Check-In for In-Person Participants | Lobby | |
| 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome | Matoaka Woods | |
| 9:00 a.m.- 10:15 a.m. | Keynote Speaker Kiese Laymon | Matoaka Woods | Join Kiese Laymon webinar |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 5. Black Men Navigating and Shattering Stereotypes | Holly | Zoom registration |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 6. African American History – Freedom, Ingenuity, Legacy | Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Breakout Rooms and Lunch | Matoaka Woods, Dogwood, & Holly | |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Panel 7. Roundtable with Highland’s Council of Descendant Advisors | Holly | Zoom registration |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Panel 8. Trauma, Truth and Triumph: The Journey of Black Professionals in Corporate America | Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 9. (In)Valuable: Black Boys at the Williamsburg Bray School, 1762 |
Matoaka Woods | Zoom registration |
| 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | Panel 10. Interrogating the Narrative of “the Fear of Black Men” as a Defense for the Unjust Killing of Black Males in America | Dogwood | Zoom registration |
| 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. | Panel 11. Black Male Supervisors Navigating Racial Battle Fatigue in the Workplace | Holly | Zoom registration |
| 3:15 pm – 3:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Matoaka Woods | |
| 7:00 p.m. | Spoken Word event | Reveley Garden (Rain location: Sadler Center Lodge 1) |
(B)MEN is an inclusive group of Black men working to mobilize all Black men regardless of class, national origin, immigration status, age, sexual orientation, sexual identity, and gender expression. Our network provides support groups, conferences, and community action for black men, allowing them space to respond to their own experiences, as well as those in their community.