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A 5-day conference to assess the condition of Black people in the U.S. and globally with working sessions around key issues.
A 5-day conference to assess the condition of Black people in the U.S. and globally with working sessions around key issues.
*Early registration discounts ends April 1, 2023
SOBWC V to be held April 19 – 23, 2023 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD. Theme: Global Africans Rising – Empowerment, Reparations and Healing.
Adjacent to the Baltimore Convention Center the Hilton Inner Harbor Hotel is located in the center of Baltimore’s beautiful inner-harbor at 401 West Pratt St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Book Online NowConvened by the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, the State of the Black World Conference is an international gathering of people of African descent to assess the condition of Black people in the U.S. and globally with working sessions around key issues.
Pan African Institute
National/International Town Hall Meetings
Issue Area Plenary and Working Sessions
Special Sessions
Opening and Closing Ndaba Plenary Sessions
Legacy Award and Cultural Extravaganza
African Market Place
*This partial list of speakers, panelists and resource persons is a representative sample of those who are being invited to participate in these roles at SOBWC IV. Most are friends, allies, supporters with whom we have excellent relationships. Therefore, we fully anticipate that the majority of them will confirm their participation.
Some items are subject to be revised.
Invited Keynote Presentations:
Meeting of selected U.S. and global Civil Rights, Human Rights, Civil Society Leaders and Mayors, Elected Officials and Members of the Diplomatic Corps. for a Dialogue on the State of Black America and the Pan-African world with invited Special Guests Hon. Nana Addo Danka Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, PM Barbados, Hon. Francia Marquez, Vice-President of Colombia, Hon. Dickon Mitchell, PM Grenada and Hon. P.J. Patterson, Former PM Jamaica
Host/Facilitator: Marc Morial, President/CEO, National Urban League
Facilitators: Baba Greg Akili, Corporate Accountability and Jacqueline Patterson, Founder/Executive Director. The Chisholm Project (invited).
Facilitators: Damien Goodman, Crenshaw Subway Coalition and Assata Richards, Sankofa Institute.
Facilitators: Dr. George Fraser, President/CEO, FraserNet and Dr. Stacie Grant, Chief Brilliance Officer, C&G Enterprises Unlimited, LLC. (invited).
Facilitators: Ronald Hampton, Convener, IBW Police Justice and Accountability Task Force and Dr. Taiwan Lovelace, Co-Convener, IBW D.C. Justice Collaborative.
Panel of U.S. and Global Civil Rights, Human Rights, Civil Society Leaders.
Moderator(s) TBA
Meeting of selected U.S. and global women Civil Rights, Human Rights, Civil Society Leaders, Congressional Black Caucus, Mayors other Elected Officials and Members of the Diplomatic Corps. with Honored Guest Hon. Francia Marquez, Vice-President of Colombia to discuss Supporting the Struggle for Justice and Reparations for Afro-Descendants in Colombia
Hosts/Facilitators: Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, Congressional Black Caucus and Lead Sponsor, HR-40 and Melanie Campbell, President, Black Women’s Roundtable, Executive Director, National Coalition for Black Civic Participation
Facilitators: Dr. Melina Abdullah and Angela Austin, Black Lives Matter Grassroots.
A discussion of the multidimensional character and potential of IBW’s Pan African media network with U.S. and global journalists, communications specialists, talk show hosts and producers.
Facilitator: Don Rojas, IBW’s Director of Communications and International Relations.
Facilitators: Pastor Michael McBride, Director, LIVE-Free Campaign and Dorothy Johnson-Speight, Founder/President of Mothers in Charge.
Facilitators: Kamm Howard, Founder/Executive Director, Reparations United and Dr. Amara Enyia, Executive Director, Global Black.
Moderators: Rick Adams, IBW Board Chairman and Dr. Taiwan Lovelace, IBW Board Member
Meeting with Mayors from the U.S., Africa, Caribbean and Global Black Diaspora to discuss Building Bonds of Global Power, with Special Guests: Hon. Johnny Ford and Hon. Jean Pierre Elong Mbassi, Secretary General, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa
Invited Facilitators: Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard and Mayor Brandon Scott
Facilitators: Jocelyn McCalla, CEO, JMC Strategies and Haiti Expert and Monique Clesca, Monitoring Office, The Montana Accord
International Honorees include: Hon. P.J. Patterson, Former Prime Minister, Jamaica; Hon. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, First Woman President of Liberia; Akon, Senegalese American Global Singer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Entrepreneur
MC TBA
Moderator: TBA