Participants

Bryant Keith Alexander, Associate Professor of Performance Studies, and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles.

Amiri Baraka, Poet, Playwright, Activist. Professor Emeritus at the State university of New York at Stony Brook, and the Poet Laureate of New Jersey

Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy, Director/ Actress/Producer and Founding Artistic/Producing Director of the Towne Street Theatre, L.A.'s Premiere African-American Theatre Company.

Signithia Fordham, Susan B. Anthony Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester.

E. Patrick Johnson, Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University

Angela Kupenda, Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law

Mary Pattillo, Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University

Greg Tate, Public Intellectual, Writer, Cultural Critic, Villege Voice, New York, and Musical Director for the fifteen-member conducted improvisation ensemble Burnt Sugar.

Lisa Thompson, Playwright & Assistant Professor of English, University at Albany, State University of New York

Bridget Harris Tsemo, Assistant professor of African American Studies and Rhetoric, The University of Iowa

Vershawn Ashanti Young, Assistant professor of Rhetoric and African American Studies, The University of Iowa

Michele Wallace, Professor of English at The City College and in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center. She also has affiliations with MLA, Society of Cinema Studies, Oscar Micheaux Society, and PEN.