Session Two (Friday)
Baraka's Drama
Moderator: Kalamu ya Salaam
Panelists:
Eleanor Traylor, Chairman, Department of English Howard University
Amiri Baraka

Session Three (Friday)
The Fiction of Baraka
Moderator: Kalamu ya Salaam
Panelists:
Aldon Nielsen, Professor, Department of English, San Jose State University

Session Four(Friday)
A Literary Tribute to Amiri Baraka
William J. Harris, Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Sonia Sanchez, Professor, English Department, Temple University
Askia M. Toure
Haki Madhubuti, Publisher and Editor, Third World Press

Special Performance: Amiri Baraka and the Blue Ark

Session Five(Saturday)
Musical Criticism and Recordings
Moderator: Ethelbert Miller, Director, African American Resource Center,
at Howard University
Panelists:
Lorenzo Thomas, Professor, Department of English, University of Houston-Downtown
Kalamu ya Salaam; Amiri Baraka

Session Six(Saturday)
The Poetry of Baraka
Moderator: Ethelbert Miller
Panelists:
Sonia Sanchez; William J. Harris; Amiri Baraka

Session Seven(Saturday)
Baraka: A Poetry Retrospective
Readings by Amiri Baraka

The Inaugural Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society,
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Professor, Harvard Law School

Collection Presentation to Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center
To Honor a Giant II, Warrington Hudlin, The Hudlin Bros. Production Company
Janet A. Bell, sister of honoree
Derrick A Bell, 3D, son of honoree
Douglass Du Bois Bell son of honoree
Carter Robeson Bell, son of honoree
Presentation, the Geneva Crenshaw Society Award given to Ada Childress Bell,
mother of honoree.
Introduction of the honoree by The Honorable Robert L. Carter,
Senior Judge, Federal District Court, Southern District, New York
Remarks, Derrick A. Bell, Professor, New York University, School of Law
Musical Selection, T. Ray Lawrence;
Gwendolyn Bynum, accompanist
Benediction, Rev. Dr. Lenton Gunn, Jr, Pastor, St. James Presbyterian Church,
Harlem, New York

Performance:
Musical tribute to Philippa Duke Schuyler
Don Shirley, piano
J.S. Bach/Godowsky , Andante in C Major (Aria from Sonata
in A Minor for solo violin)
Chopin, Prelude in G Minor, op. 28, no. 22
Rachmaninoff, Vocalise, op. 34, no. 14
Rachmaninoff, Etude Tableau in E Flat Major, op. 33, no. 7
Shirley, Homage a William (Billy) Strayhorn
Gershwin, The Three Preludes:
-Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
-Andante con moto e poco rubato
-Allegro ben ritmato de deciso
Ellington/Shirley, Divertimento
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

Max Roach, drums

Garderner C. Taylor Leadership Award presented to State Senator
Velmanette Montgomery
Distinguished Service Award presented to Megan McLaughlin, DSW

The Uptown String Quartet:
Diane Monroe, violin; Lesa Terry, violin; Maxine Roach, viola; Eileen M. Folson, cello

Session Two:
How Museums are Interpreting Racial and Ethnic Groups
Moderator: Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center
Panelists:
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Director, Asian-American Center, Queens College
Cheryl McClenney Brooker, Vice President, External Affairs, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Susana Torruella Leval, Director, El Museo del Barrio
W. Richard West, Director, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian
Institution
Tom Freudenheim, Assistant Secretary for Museums Programs, Smithsonian Institution
Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, Professor and Director, Museums Studies Program,
Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University

Session I/Opening Plenary (Friday)
Libraries and the New Technology
Moderator:
Hiriam L. Davis, Deputy Librarian
of Congress, Library of Congress

Panelists:
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director,
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American
Studies, Harvard University
Challenges Facing Librarians in Africa
and the Caribbean

Larry Irving, Assistant Secretary of
Communications and Information, and
Administrator, National Telecommunication and
Information Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, The Importance of Libraries and
Librarians to the Information Superhighway

Paul Evan Peters, Executive Director, Coalition
for Networked Information, What the
Information Age Means to Scholarship

Session II (Friday)
The Status of Documentation of the Global
Black Experience
Moderator:
Thomas C. Battle, Director,
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center,
Howard University

Panelists:
Beverly Gray, Chief, African and Middle
Eastern Division, Library of Congress. Africana
Collections in the Library of Congress and
in Other United States Libraries

E. J. Josey, Professor, School of Library and
Information Science, University of Pittsburgh.
Black Studies Collections in Public Libraries
in the United States and Cooperative Efforts
Among Black Librarians in the United States

Jessie Carney Smith, University Librarian,
Fisk University. Black Studies Collections
in Academic Libraries in the United States

Session III (Saturday)
Electronic Resources for Africana Studies
and a Live Internet Session
Moderator: Stanton Biddle, President, Black Caucus,
American Library Association

Panelists:
George Thornton, President, Electronic Publishing
Division, Blackface Books Company.
The Importance of Getting Black Publications
into Electronic Form

Ken Granderson, President, Inner City Software
Searching and Accessing Text and Images via
Black Multimedia Products

Gladys Smiley Bell, Assistant Professor,
Library and Media Services, Kent State University.
Navigating the Internet's Gopher Sites

James Briggs Murray, Curator, Moving Image
and Recorded Sound Division, Schomburg Center
Black Images and Data on the Internet and World Wide Web

Session IV (Saturday)
Prospects for an Africana Virtual Library
Moderator:
Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center

Panelists:
Robert L. Smith, Director, African American
Archives Initiative, Wayne State University,
Preserving the Records of Historically Black
Colleges and Universities and Other
Collaborative Efforts

Rosemary Stevenson, Afro-Americana
Bibliographer, University Library,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
and Kathleen Bethel, African-American
Studies Librarian, Northwestern University
Library. Collaborative Collections
Among the Committee on Institutional
Cooperation and Other Universities

Frederick Stielow, Director, Amistad
Research Center, Tulane University,
Pioneering Collections on the
Information Superhighway: the Amistad
Research Center and Tulane University

Screening of videotape of memorial service, Sunday, 15 January 1995
Joe Stauch, Consul General of
South Africa to introduce Franklin Sonn,
South African Ambassador to the
United States
Danny Schechter, Personal friend of Joe Slovo
Charlene Mitchell, National Coordinator
of Correspondence
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative
of Nigeria to the United Nations,
His Excellency Professor
Ibrahim A. Gambari
Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition
Sybil Wong, Coalition for a
Democratic South Africa
Cleveland Robinson, Chairman, New York
State Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Commission
Donna Katzin, Fund for a Free
South Africa
Nomazizi Sokudela, Former Regional
Chairperson, ANC
Closing Remarks, Dennis Mumble