2026 Teaching Black History Conference Program and Room Assignments
All sessions will take place at the University at Buffalo's South campus. The three main buildings you will be utilizing are pictured below. A campus map is also linked below.
Friday's keynote address will take place in the Pharmacy Building. 160 Hayes Rd, Buffalo, NY 14214.
Breakout sessions during the conference will take place in Hayes Hall. 250 Hayes Rd, Buffalo, NY 14214.
Breakout sessions during the conference will also take place in Foster Hall. 300 Hayes Road, Buffalo, NY 14214.
Parking
Please utilize the campus map above as an aid to identify the proper parking areas.
- Friday, 8:00–11:00 a.m. (Pharmacy Building):
Please park in the Parker Lot - Friday, 11:00 a.m. – Saturday, 6:00 p.m. (Foster Hall and Hayes Hall): Please park in the NFTA Park & Ride Lot or the Allen Lot.
Important:
- The Townsend Lot is reserved for UB faculty and staff only.
- Abbott lots are typically full, so please do not park there unless there is clear availability.
- Guests should only park in approved locations listed above. Parking in other lots may result in a ticket from campus police, and we are unable to assist with tickets or fines.
Go Directly To
| Registration 8:00-9:00 a.m. (Pharmacy Building, Room 190) | ||
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| Welcome and Introduction, LaGarrett King, PhD 9:00 a.m. (Pharmacy Building, Room 190) | ||
| Keynote Address: Michael Harriot 9:10 a.m. Everything I Know About Black History, I Learned From Cookie Monster (Pharmacy Building, Room 190) | ||
| Session One: 10:30-11:15 a.m. | ||
| Speaker(s) | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Taharra Battle-Taylor | Built in the Chair:Black Beauty Salons, Barbershops and the Creation of Community Freedom | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Candi Fulcher | It’s Something to Be Free?: Teaching Resistance Through Living, Legacy and Liberation | Foster Hall 301 |
| Malik Blyden | Historic Garveyite District of Buffalo | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Erica McBride | Uncle Tom University: From Plantation to Personnel—Black Institutional Labor and the Legacy of Slavery in Higher Education | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Tanishia Williams | Founders in the Footnotes: A Skills-Based Approach to Layered Black History | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Mike Brown | Teaching Beyond the Textbook: Resurrecting Black Marginalized Cultures in Educational Curriculum | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Lunch | ||
| Session Two: 1:00-1:45 p.m. | ||
| Speaker(s) | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Emmanuel Kulu | SANKOFA: Our Story, Before the Transatlantic | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Mike Brown | The Revolution Will Not Be Standardized | Foster Hall 301 |
| Tanea Robinson | Beyond the Textbook: Elevating the Legacy of Black Founding Mothers and Fathers | Foster Hall B44 |
| Anthony Michael and Edmond-Pinckney | Afro-Futurism in Literacy and Comic Books | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Kai Dupe | Black Computing History | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Karsten Barnes | When the Course Is the Institution: Teaching Black Founding Through AP African American Studies | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Daryl Rock | They Were Black. All Black : How Culture, Identity and History Drove Extraordinary Outcomes | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Session Three: 2:00-2:45 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Victoria Moten, Cortnie Belser, Nick Kennedy and Gretchen Rudham | The Search for Founding Black Mothers Continues: Countering Erasures through Archival Reclamation | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Njemele Anderson | The Dismantling of African Centered Schools in Philadelphia | Foster Hall 301 |
| Brian C. Morrison | “Education is the Sine Qua Non:” William J. Watkins, Sr. and the Watkins Academy | Foster Hall B44 |
| Lois Buchter | Noyes Academy: The First Integrated Abolitionist School | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Candi Fulcher | It’s Something to Be Free?: Teaching Resistance Through Living, Legacy and Liberation | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Latisha Jones | Dramatizing Black History | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Session Four: 3:00-3:45 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Collin Perryman | Black Founding Mothers and Fathers as Agents of Education and Health: Lesson Plans from the Post-Brown Life Course Framework | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Mike Brown | Teaching Beyond the Textbook: Resurrecting Black Culture in Educational Curriculum | Foster Hall 301 |
| Tricia Douglas | Before Brown: Black-Led Public Education as a Radical Founding Project | Foster Hall B44 |
| Anthony Michael and Edmond-Pinckney | Afro-Futurism in Literacy and Comic Books | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Alexander Pittman, Daniel Krutka and Danetra King | Do Inquiry Lessons Do Black History Justice? A Humanizing Approach to Teaching about Black Inventors | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Shenequa Foulks | From Founders to Frameworks: Teaching Black Institutional Builders Through Strategy, Literacy and Student Ownership | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Akil Parker | Math is Black: The History of The National Association of Mathematicians | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Session Five: 4:00-4:45 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Christine Woyshner and Ismael Jimenez | Teaching About Black Founding Mothers and Fathers with Primary Sources | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Jessie Hill Gillooly and Courtney Carreathers | Founders on Screen | Foster Hall 301 |
| Jessica Starks | Teaching Black History Through Generational Storytelling | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Ashanti Haynes | Dismantling Black Intellectual Inferiority Through a Culturally Responsive Paradigm | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Laura L. Gore | Black Baseball Teams: The Negro Leagues to Banana Ball | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Jordan K. Posey (Lanfair), PhD | From the Comet to the Parable: The Historical Wisdom Guiding Afrofuturism | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Session Six: 5:00-5:45 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Alysha Butler, Kamasi Hill and Daniel Pecoraro | Examining Black Founders in Context: Making Thematic Connections in AP African American Studies | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Joshua Clough | Romare Bearden and the Spiral Art Collective | Foster Hall 301 |
| Tiffany Herndon | The 10-Point Tradition: Black Founders from Garvey to Malcolm X to Huey P. Newton—and a Living Declaration for Educational Equity | Foster Hall B44 |
| Gloria Rosario Wallace, PhD, Ja'Dell Davis, PhD, Jacqueline Forbes, PhD and Darnese Daniels | A Focus Group Could Never: Honoring Black Wisdom and Experience Through Community Dinners. | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Sheree Rainbow | Black Business Development After Slavery | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Kalimah Muhammad | Self-Determined Schooling: Black Educational Founders and the Legacy of the One-Room Schoolhouse | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Jennifer Howard | Steptoe to Steptoe: Black Creative Lineage and the Founding of Black Childhood in Literature | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Breakfast and Registration 8:00-8:30 a.m. (Foster Hall Room 135) | ||
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| Session One: 9:00-9:45 a.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Tiffany Herndon | Black Black Teachers as Founders: Woodson, Fugitive Pedagogy and Protecting Black Educators in Hostile Institutions | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Bruce Bridges, PhD | African Contributions to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Foster Hall B44 |
| Brian C. Jackson | All Things Black Boys: An Affinity Group to Racially Socialize Adolescent Black Boys for Impact and Success Beyond the Classroom | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Sonya Sampson | Resisting the Urge to Conform | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Kai Dupe | Black Founders of the Digital Age: Building Institutions for Survival and Success in Computing, The Story of Earl Pace and the Founding of BDPA | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Session Two: 10:00-10:45 a.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Kristie W. Smith, PhD, and Johnathan J. White, PhD | Educating Our Own: Storying a Historical Black School and Community | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Derrick D. McKisick | In the Midst of the "Nadir": Carter G. Woodson and African American History | Foster Hall 301 |
| Latif A. Tarik, PhD | “The Making of Black History Month Radical Black Thinkers from Dr. Carter G. Woodson to Malcolm X.” | Foster Hall B44 |
| Crystalyn Thomas-Davis | Rooted Wisdom: How Black Teaching Traditions Align with Brain Science and Best Practices | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Jermaine Carl Robinson | Postmarked Philatelic Pedagogy: Black Educators and Scholars Who Built a Nation and Reached the Mail | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Nicholl Montgomery, PhD and Tiffeni Fontno, PhD | For the Children of the Sun: Examining the Foremothers and Forefathers of African American Youth Literature | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Micro-Credential Participants | Micro-Credential Panel | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Anitra Butler-Ngugi | Founders of Peace: Teaching Maʿat Through Ancestral Narratives | |
| Session Three: 11:00-11:45 a.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Jada Bradley | Reclaiming Historical Narratives: A Publishing Perspective | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Stephen G. Hall, PhD and Travis Armstrong, EdD | 'The Training of the Head, Heart and Hands:' Black Educators and Racial Advancement in the Deep South (Mississippi) in the 20th Century | Foster Hall 301 |
| Bruce Bridges | Life and Legacy of Charlotte Hawkins Brown | Foster Hall B44 |
| Brian C. Jackson | Increasing Interest and Literacy: A Project-Based Learning Approach to Black History | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Keziah S. Ridgeway | Verses and Vanguards: Unearthing Black Women’s Agency Through Primary Sources and Poetry | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Jessica Chatonda | Reimagining the Schomburg Legacy: Educational Mobility Through Archival Memory, Archival Opportunity and Black Historical Consciousness | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Monica Reed | America's B.L.A.C.K., Building Black Leaders And Creative Kids | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Lunch | ||
| Micro-Credential Poster Session 1:00-1:30 p.m. Foster 128/101B: Learning Landscape Lounge | ||
| Session Four: 1:30-2:15 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Building/Room |
| Latif A. Tarik, PhD | Gullah-Geechee Diasporas Knowledge, Culture and Black Lowcountry Legacies | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Norman L. Merrifield | Black History HOOKS for Cognitive Equity | Foster Hall 301 |
| Clarence Hogan | Don't Make Me Laugh: Laughter as a Form of Resistance | Foster Hall B44 |
| Tara Cox | Leading through Identity, Choice and History: A Leadership Institute | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Malcolm Reed | More Than Narratives: Antislavery Literature as Persuasion and Protest | Hayes Hall 327 |
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| Get Literate or Die Trying: Channeling Mary S. Peake and the “Contrabands” to Reclaim the Revolutionary Black Literacy Legacy | Hayes Hall 401 |
| Erica Buddington | Before The Father of Black History, There Were Mothers | Hayes Hall 402 |
| Session Five: 2:30-3:15 p.m. | ||
| Speaker | Presentation Title | Room |
| Esheonn Conner | Storytelling: Black Founding Mothers and Fathers | Foster Hall 229/230 |
| Aisha Booze-hall and Donovan McLean | Hard Working Legs: An Exploration of Authenticity and Southern Heritage | Foster Hall 301 |
| Ashley Charwood | Sankofa: An Afrocentric Social Work Perspective | Foster Hall B44 |
| Anthony Downer II | We Shall Not Be Moved: Preserving Power and Place Through Walking Tours | Hayes Hall 302 |
| Genevieve Caffrey and Kara Pranikoff | Sequencing Black Historical Consciousness in Elementary Classrooms: The P.O.W.E.R. Framework for Integrative Critical Curriculum Design | Hayes Hall 327 |
| Dessert Hour Foster 134/135 | ||