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Opening Program

Amadou Shakur, Director of Development and Marketing, IMMC
Dr. Loye Ashton, Project Director,Tougaloo College
Dr. Beverly Hogan, President,Tougaloo College
Emad Al-Turk, Co-founder & Chairman of IMMC
Honorable Mayor Harvey Johnson, City of Jackson
Okolo Rashid, Co-founder & Executive Director of IMMC

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Islam and the Promotion of Literacy

Moderator: Audrey Shabbas
Dr. Beverly Mack, Author, University of Kansas
Imam Faheem Shu'aibe, Islamic Thinker & Leader
Tariq Beard, Owner, Omar Ibn Said Manuscript

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Keynote: Literature and Ancient African Manuscripts

Sheikh Abdel Kader Haidara, Mamma Haidara Memorial Library

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Panel: Islamic West Africa’s Cultural Impact on America and the World

Moderator: Dr. Vibert White
Dr. Ali Mazrui, Author, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Dr. Babacar Mbengue, DePaul University
Marietta Harper, African Specialist, Library of Congress

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Panel: Islam in Early America and Present Day Influence

Moderator: Aisha Waheed
Dr. Sylviane Diouf, Author, Schomburg Center, New York (Not recorded)
Dr. Allan Austin, Author, Emeritus Prof. Springfield College
Dr. Aminah McCloud, Author, DePaul University

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Muslim Roots of the Mississippi Blues TO HIP HOP — Part 1

Moderator: Dr. Marvin Haire
Jonathan Curiel, Journalist/Author

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Muslim Roots of the Mississippi Blues TO HIP HOP — Part 2

Moderator: Dr. Marvin Haire
Ambassadar, Ghanaian Musician

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Muslim Roots of the Mississippi Blues TO HIP HOP — Part 3

Moderator: Dr. Marvin Haire
Abdul Rasheed, Blues Musician

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Muslim Roots of the Mississippi Blues TO HIP HOP — Part 4

Moderator: Dr. Marvin Haire
Q & A and Panel Discussion

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Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil Rights Movement and American Muslims

Moderator: Fawad Siddiqui
Imam Zaid Shakir, Zaytuna College

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Lies My Teacher Told Me

Reflect on distortions of African American history

Moderator: Dr. Chris Harth
Dr. James Loewen, Author: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Dr. Marvin Haire, Director of the Delta Research & Cultural Institute, Mississippi Valley State University
Dr. Aminah McCloud, Author, DePaul University

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Measures by Slave Owners and Traders to Stamp Out Literacy and Cultural Identity Among Enslaved Africans

Moderator: Dr. Sakinah Abdur-Rashied
Dr. Allan Austin
Imam Faheem Shu’aibe, Islamic Thinker & Leader

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Faith and Learning

the Islamic heritage of cultivating Learning and how religion has helped And hindered advancement in learning in the American contex

Moderator: Dr. Steve Smith
Imam Plemon El-Amin, Director of World Pilgrims Atlanta, GA
Rabbi Debra Kassoff, Hebrew Union Congregation
Jeremy Tobin, Norbertine Priest, Priory of St. Moses the Black, Raymond, MS

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Scholars of Peace, Islamic Jurisprudence: A Pathway to Alternative Dispute Resolution For African Americans

Moderator: Judge Ali ShamsidDeen
Attorney Musa Dan-Fodio
Judge Denise Owens
Attorney Isaac Byrd
Attorney Chokwe Lumumba

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Tougaloo College Choir

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Medicine

Preserved manuscript on medicine and medical practices of the period, written in the early 1700's by a scholar of Timbuktu.

LEGACY OF TIMBUKTU

"In the last millennium an important global legacy was uncovered—the literate culture of AFRICA!"

This legacy lives in the extraordinary richness of historical manuscripts that still survive.

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