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Event Series: CACE Conference

CACE: Day 2 Schedule

February 25 All day

Wednesday, February 25 CACE Conference Schedule

CACE 2026 Program Cover
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9:00 AM : Community and Communion
Historical Legacies and Enduring Significance of the North Carolina Rosenwald Schools
Jocelyn Rangel and Madison Cruze
A Family Legacy Across Generations: Turner Yarborough’s Memory as Archive
Nakayla Hill
Location: EUC Alexander

10:00 AM : Origin and Reclamation
Afrocentricity
Mario Howard and Ashleighn White
Reclaiming the Voice of the Black Man in a Silenced America
Rakeem Spearman
The Heat Was Always On: Feeding the Movement
Judaiycia High
Location: EUC Alexander

11:00 AM : The Politics of Memory
She Who Remembers, She Who Speaks: Black Women Poets, Prophecy, and the Politics of Memory
Brianna Yancey
The Deep Dark Sea: African Americans’ Relationship with the Sea
Serena Henderson
Location: EUC Alexander

11:00 AM : The Carceral State
The School-to-Prison Pipeline and Police Brutality
Austin Brewer
Adversarial Injustice: Mass Incarceration and Structural Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
Na’Kenya Braddy
Location: EUC Claxton

12:00 PM : Roundtable
Leading with Care: Advancing Mental Health Advocacy for Faculty in Academia
Angela Jacobs, Camia Rhodes, and Candace Jacobs
Location: EUC Alexander

1:00 PM : Violence and Inequality
Between Bullets and Bodies: Unequal Lessons of Violence in American Culture
Tabitha Omanano
The Cruelty of Christian Nationalism
Michaela Ysabela Fitch Nelson
Location: EUC Alexander

1:00 PM : Understanding Race
Race and Education
Michael Cauthen, Emeritus Professor, AADS
Location: EUC Claxton

2:00 PM : Panel Discussion
Representation Matters: How Casting, Storytelling, and Production Practices Shape Performance and Media Education
North Carolina Black Repertory Theater, Mya Brown, and Juanita Thacker
Location: EUC Alexander

3:30 PM : Roundtable
30 Hands-on Black History: Preservation, Policy and Practice at the Efland Home and Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Facilitator: Juanita Thacker
Panelists: Rhonda Jones, Arnetta Girardeau, and Michelle Lanier
Location: EUC Claxton

5:00 PM : The Centrality of Black Life and Culture
Art Decentering the White Narrative
Delany Hart
Embodied Performances
Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Ella Baker, Shirley T. and Henry E. Frye
Location: EUC Alexander

507 Stirling Street
Greensboro, North Carolina 27412 United States
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