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8:00 – 5:00 Registration 3rd floor Grand Ballroom Registration Booth
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome! -3rd floor Grand ballroom
Prayer: Danny Buggs
Spoken Word: Princess
9:30 – 11:30 Plenary 1
The Family as a System and Introducing Strengths-Based Approach
Objectives:
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Families are systems and not merely people sharing the same roof and biology
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Families can be healed using the strengths based approach
Presenter: Baba Wakesa and Mama Afiya Madzimoyo, AYA Educational Institute
11:30 – 12:30 Break/Lunch (on your own)
12:30 – 2:00 Interfaith Congregation (Jumu'ah) Prayer Level 1, Georgia Hall, 2-6
2:00 – 2:30 Break
2:30- 4:00 Plenary 2
Street Violence: Prevention Starts in the Home
Objectives:
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Identify how dysfunctions in the home can lead to street violence
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Introduce utilizing CBOs (community based organizations) to reach families in crisis through case management and mentorship
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What parents, neighborhoods and communities can do to build a true village with the same values
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Tools to address mental health crisis in our Families
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Understanding the effects of internalized oppression at the DNA level and reversing it
Presenters
Derrick Boazman, Radio host (WAOK), Business Owner, Community Activist, Former Atlanta City Councilman
Gary Talib Wright, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President for Student Development, Morehouse College
Asad Shabazz, Director of Young People in Action International
David Muhammad, Local Representative, Atlanta 10K Fearless Headquarters of the South
Brother Zacharias, Unite or Die Campaign and 360 We God
4:00 – 5:35 Plenary 3
The Family as our Wealth and Power Base
Objectives:
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Define Wealth, Legacy and how Family and Marriage are the Basis of Wealth
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How to Build Wealth
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What to do when the “bootstraps” are broken and you’re down and out
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How we can connect our people with our own business owners/entrepreneurs & creating our own economies to employ our people, particularly those who are deemed unemployable
Presenters
Evan Richmond Gregory Jeffery, CEO of ERGJ Enterprises/ERGJ Black Bazaar/ERGJ Black Bookstore, New Black Wall Street (Founder), Author
Haqq Andre Muhammad, CEO Nu Republic
Steve Ewing, CEO Wade Ford
Professor Devin Robinson, Author, Urban Business Institute & Beauty Supply Institute, Founder/CEO
5:30 – Until Market Place/Dinner (on your own)
6:00 – 9:00 Banquet Level 1, Capital Ballroom
Closing the Gaps and Building Unity Among the Indigenous People
Objective:
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To dialogue on how the Indigenous people as a whole (African-American, Native American, African, Latino, Asian) can overcome White supremacy ideology and internal obstacles that keep us apart
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To share methods of building operational unity politically, socially, economically
Moderated by Student Min. Abel Muhammad (Mexican descent)
Presenters:
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Quese IMC, (Pawnee/Seminole)
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Yonasda Lonewolf-Hill (Lakota Sioux/Black)
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Americos X Perez (Puerto Rican)
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Sadia Nuhu (Ghana)
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Asad Shabazz (Black)
Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor
8:00 – 12:00 Registration Booth, 3rd floor
8:45 – 9:00 Guided Meditation
Welcome/Prayer
Spoken Word: Sister Shariem
9:00 – 11:00 Plenary 1 Grand Ballroom
Strengthening and Preserving Our Families: An Intergenerational Conversation
Objectives:
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Present participants with the most productive approaches to properly establish relationships from birth to senior; dating vs courtship
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Tools on how can youth set the stage for future success through relationships
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Conflict is Natural in any Relationship. How do Families Properly Manage & Resolve Conflicts to Avoid Crisis; How do we support families in distress
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The function of parenting in shaping healthy relationships
Presenters
L’Dia Men-Naa, Wholistic Health Educator, Consultant
Min. Nuri Muhammad, Nation of Islam Student Minister, Author of “Before You Say I Do”
Diane Jahfari Milner, (Family Therapy) M.S., ICADC II, RM, CHHC
11:00 – 12:00 Break/Lunch (On your own)
12:00 - 2:00 Plenary 2
Countering the Effects & Impact of the Civil/Criminal Justice Courts on our Families
Objectives:
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Understand how the Justice System impacts our family economy, our mental health, and our relationships with; bail, fines, child support and police violence
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Present strategies on combatting police violence in our community including legislative, boycott, establishing our own community police force, our own 911 communications system, referral system for mental health crisis
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Present best practices on how we can address issues of child support, sustaining mental health while preserving family strength and integrity
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The role of the Arts in changing street culture
Presenters:
Nia Sade Akinyemi w/ guest Jessie Murray, Coalition for Justice & Police Accountability
Mary-Pat C Hector, National Action Network, National Youth Director
Nuri Muhammad, Nation of Islam Student Minister, Author
Hassane Muhammad, Esq., Founder, Justice Law; COO of Black Lawyers for Justice
2:00 – 2:30 Break
2:30 – 4:00 Plenary 3
Health Care and Caring for Our Health
Objectives:
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Understand the Present HealthCare System and Current Transitions
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Learn how we can we support our families by collectively building an Independent Continuum of Care
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Establish Benchmarks to Improve our Own Personal Health
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Insurance Considerations
Presenters:
Baba Leonard Dunston, IBW Board Member, former President of the
National Association of Black Social Workers, Convener of the Black Family Summit
Dr. Akili Muhammad, Physician
Representative of “Vaxxed” (tba)
4:00 – 4:05 Break
4:05 – 5:00 Family: Let’s Take it International Plenary 4
International Affairs in Uniting Families and Wealth
Bro. Akbar Muhammad, International NOI Representative for Africa
Bro. Americos X Perez, Reporting on current affairs in the Americas
5:00 – 7:30 Dinner (on your own)
7:30 – 8:00 Doors open (Ballroom)
8:00 – 10:00 Saturday Nite Swag – Entertainment
2:00 PM
Family Day Address
Processional: Giwayen Mata
Prayer
Minister Tavares Stephens, Spoken Word
Presentations
Words from Indigenous Family
Music Selection
Family Day Address: Honorable Min. Louis Farrakhan
Closing/Prayer





