The Fifth Annual
MARIO A.J. BENNEKIN
BLACK HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
“Echoes of Resilience: Black Artistry, History and Identity”
Feb. 17-21, 2025
With Education Comes Tolerance
Keynote Speaker - Tim Fielder
2025 Presenter Recordings
Mr. Alvin Blount
Bridges to Spirituality and Education: How Spirituals and the Church Developed Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Yolanda J. Franklin, Ph.D
Sleight of Hand: Unlocking Genealogy in Toni Morrison’s Tetralogy
Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Ph.D
Stranger to the City: Urban Slavery and Photographic Memory
Ms. Kim Smith
Musical Composers of the African Diaspora: Classical Music in Service of Black Culture from the 18th to the 21st Century
Ms. Angela Tharpe
What’s Your Perspective on That?: Processes of Racial Reckoning in Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly
Pablo Valenzuela, Ph.D
I Ain’t Got No Quarrel with Them Vietcong: The Black Antiwar Art of Emory Douglas