P.J. Gibson
George Houston Bass: The Ideal Dramaturge

Elmo Terry-Morgan
Inheriting the Vision: The Legacy of George Houston Bass and
Rites and Reason Theater

Ramona Wilkins Bass
Through the Maze of Myth: Past and Present and Visionings of
George Houston Bass

Alice Childress
Just a Little Simple

Vinie Burrows
The Jazz and Blues Rhythms of Langston Hughes

Rawn Spearman
The Negro Speaks of Rivers: Margaret Bonds and Langston Hughes

Readings from the Works of Langston Hughes by Vinie Burrows
Fly Like the Eagle Flies

The Program
This Light I See
Aziza, Byron Utliey with Tuliva Donna Cumberbatch and Ensemble
In Your Image
Aziza, Byron Utliey, Laceine Owsley-Wedderburn with Tuliva Donna
Cumberbatch and Ensemble
For So Long I Have Known You
Diane McIntyre with Tuliva Donna Cumberbatch, Hannibal Peterson
and Ensemble
The Veil
Aziza, Laceine and Alexria Davis
I Remember
Aziza, Laceine and Hannibal
The Disbelievers
The Company
I Just Wanted to Thank You for the Rainbow
The Company

Sandra Ross, Lighting
Kathleen Sumler, Production Co-ordinator
Brenda Brunson-Bey, Costumes

Panel I
Islam in the African-American Community
Panel 1
Historical Perspectives
Commentary: Albert Raboteau
Moderator: C. Eric Lincoln
Panelists:
Akbar Muhammad,
A Survey of Islam Amongst African Americans to 1975

Ihsan Bagby,
Islamic Values in the African American Community

Aminah Beverly McCloud,
Women in Islam

Robert Dannin,
Ethnomethodological Approaches to Studying Islam in America

Panel II
Major Islamic Groups
Moderator: Sulayman Nyang
Panelists:
Abdullah Hakim Quick,
Islam and the African in America: The Sunni Experience

Adib Rashad (summarized by moderator)
Ideological Foundations of the Nation of Islam within the
African American Community

Oran Makin,
The Impact of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam on Religion and Identity

Saundra Weaver-Bey,
Through the Eyes of Moorish America

Commentary: Lawrence H. Mamiya

Panel III
New World African Religious Traditions and Syntheses
Moderator: Marta Morena Vega, Caribbean Cultural Center
Panelists:
Robert Farris Thompson,
The Medicines of God: Kongo New World Visual Impact

Angela Jorge,
The Element of Animal Sacrifice in Cuban Santeria: A Challenge
for the U.S. Supreme Court

Karen McCarthy Brown,
The Ezili Sisters: Race, Class and Gender Themes Among the Vodou
Spirits in Brooklyn

Closing Plenary: Albert Raboteau

A Tribute to Lawrence N. Jones
Misress of Ceremonies: Jualynne Dodson,
Presentation: Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center
Clarence Newsome, Dean, Howard University School of Divinity
M. William Howard, Jr., President, New York Theological Seminary
James A. Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister, Riverside Church
Wardell Payne, Director, Research Center on Black Religious Bodies,
Howard University School of Divinity

Welcome and Orientation: Victor Smythe, Archivist, Preservation of the
Black Religious Heritage Project, Schomburg Center
Introduction: Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center

Blacks in Judaism & Ancient Christian Traditions
Moderator: Albert Raboteau, Chairman, Professor, School of Religion,
Princeton University
Panelists:
Cyprian Davis, Professor, Church History, St. Meinrad School of Theology
Documenting Black Catholic History for Today and Tomorrow

Richard Newman, Consultant, The Encyclopedia of African American Culture
and History, The Center for Cultural Studies, Columbia University
Black Bishops: Some African American Old Catholic Churches

Curtis Caldwell, Rabbi, Fifth Tabernacle Beth El, Philadelphia
Our Doctrine May Seem Strange

Panel I
Blacks in Predominantly White Protestant Traditions and Other Faiths
Moderator: James Melvin Washington, Professor of Church History, Union
Theological Seminary, New York
Panelists:
Randall Burkett, Associate Director, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American
Research, Harvard University
Resources for Black Episcopal History

Gayraud S. Wilmore, Editor, Journal Interdenominational Center
Black Presbyterian: Middle Class Reforms in a Conservative White Church

Charles Shelby Rooks, Service in the Christian Ministry, Pastor, Administrator
Contradictions of the Spirit

Geenna Rae McNeil, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Autonomy and Interdependence: African Americans in the American Baptist
Churches in the USA

Panel II
Moderator: Wardell Payne, Director, Research Center of Black Religious Bodies,
Howard University School of Divinity
Panelists:
Melvin Hoover, Unitarian Universalist Associations' Advocate for Racial
Inclusiveness, Director, International Congregations
African American Unitarian Universalist: Pioneering a New Program

H. Malcolm Newton, Director, Institute for Black Evangelical Studies
Evangelical Heritage of the Black Church: Toward a Black Evangelical
Criticism

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Associate
Professor, African American Studies and Sociology, Colby College
Religion, Ethnicity and Social Changes: The Case of the Sanctified Church

Panel III
Moderator: Dennis Dickerson, Historiographer, African Methodist Episcopal Church;
Stanfield Professor of History, Williams College
Panelists:
Carolyn Johnson,
The United Methodist Church

William Edwards,
African-American Disciples: An Assessment, Assignment and Challenge

Richard W. Thomas,
The Black Baha'i Experience in the U.S. Baha'i Community, 1893-1992

Albert Pero,
Scope of African Scholarship Within Lutheranism and the Implications
for Post-Modernity

Contributing Writers:
Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Dadie
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston, Shauneille Perry
Dudley Randall, Carolyn Rodgers
Wole Soyinka, Margaret Walker
David Horton Black, Production Stage Manager

Carrie Smith

Vi Redd Quartet
Lisle Atkinson, bass; Randall Goldberg, drums; Richard Wyands, piano, keyboards
Dorothy Donegan Trio
Jon Burr, bass; Ray Mosca, drums

Spelman College Jazz Ensemble
Valerie Capers

Melba Joyce
Teri Lynne Carrington