2022 Black New England Conference Schedule

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CONFERENCE TOUR #1

The Changing Faces of Manchester: Black Entrepreneurship Then and Now

Thursday, October 20 | 3:30 PM | Bus Tour | Cost $45

Tour Guide: Anthony Poore

In response to the constraints of racism and a history of enslavement, African Americans and other people of color have built a tradition of overcoming obstacles and employing creative strategies to make a living, develop businesses, and succeed. 

This tour focuses on Manchester’s enterprising African Americans who, from the early 1800s, established businesses from barbershops to dry cleaners to the multicultural shops of today. We will also highlight some of New Hampshire’s first entrepreneurs, descendants from an African culture of great traders, merchants, and craftsmen.

Tour meets at the Currier Museum. Tour cost includes a casual dinner at the Hop Knot, a Black-Owned eating establishment. 

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2022 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE, DAY #1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022

VIRTUAL & IN-PERSON  PRESENTATIONS

8:45 AM WEBINAR WAITING ROOM OPENS 

OPENING CEREMONY 

9:00 – 9:10 AM

WELCOME, OPENING REMARKS, AND SONG

Rev. Robert Thompson

In The Beginning

Panelists

Marcus Nevius, Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island, South Kingstown, RI "Tracing Clandestine Informal Economy in Slavery's Primary Records"

Karlos Hill, Associate Professor and Chair of the Clara Luper Department of African-American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK "The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History"

Najee Brown, Founder Theatre for the People,  Eliot, ME "The Historical Role Black Theatre Plays in Building Wealth in Community"

Often, wealth, land, and property are passed down through generations, effectively giving each subsequent generation more of an advantage. However, for many African Americans, explicit government policies dramatically reduce their earning potential and ability to acquire wealth. For this panel, presenters will explore how federal, state, and local governments have enacted laws and policies that have had a profound and lasting impact on Black families’ ability to accumulate wealth. 

Panelists

Richard Rothstein, Author, Distinguished Fellow the Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC & Co-author, Leah Rothstein  "Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America"

Karen A. Spiller, Professor in Sustainability Food Systems, UNH, Durham, NH "Black Wealth: What Does Land Have To Do With It?"

Moderator

Shelley Walcott, Media Specialist and Former Anchor WMUR-TV, Manchester, NH. 

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12:30 PM

LUNCHTIME KEYNOTE ADDRESS FEATURING

Mehrsa Baradaran

The Color of Money

When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Black community owned less than one percent of the United States’ total wealth. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. 

The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: Black banks. Studying these institutions over time, Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the myth that Black communities could ever accumulate wealth in a segregated economy. Instead, housing segregation, racism, and Jim Crow credit policies created inescapably, but hard-to-detect, an economic trap for Black communities and their banks.

Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that Black banking and community self-help are the solutions to the racial wealth gap. These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Examining the fruits of past policies and the operation of banking in a segregated economy, she makes clear that only bolder, more realistic views of banking’s relation to Black communities will end the cycle of poverty and promote Black wealth. 

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1:40 – 3:00 PM

PANEL #3,In Honor of J. Hamilton

There is a long history of Black people building prosperity and wealth that is often unknown or misunderstood. The Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa was a thriving Black neighborhood having earned the nickname, “Black Wall Street” because of the high concentration of prosperous, African-American-owned businesses. But this is just one of many examples where ingenuity, persistence, hard work, and self-reliance brought prosperity to Black individuals and communities. In this panel, we will hear about different and, at times divergent, paths to economic power – and consider the obstacles and challenges encountered along the way. We will learn that these successes were not limited to a few “exceptional” individuals or communities – but were far more prevalent than is commonly recognized

Panelists 

Ray Diamond, Alumni Professor, Louisiana State Law Center, Baton Rouge, LA "Black Conservatism, Black Radicalism, and False Dichotomy: Paths to Black Economic Power"

Renel Domond, Owner of Juice Kings, Stamford, CT  "Masks of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals and a Path Forward"

Marlene Kim, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, "Racialized Access and Historic Exclusion: Asians, Violence, and Resilience in America"

Moderator

Chris Matthews, Associate Professor of Business Administration & Management Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester NH 

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