Schedule for the Day

Opening Ceremony **

Beautiful Blackbird Children's Book Festival **

SESSION A: Local Leadership and Racial Equity (Greater Portland Council of Governments)**

SESSION B: The Dr. King Legacy: Kids Edition (AmeriCorps)**

SESSION C: The Content of Our Character: Moving Forward as a Community (Krystal Williams)**

SESSION D: The Poor People's Campaign (Poor People's Campaign, Maine)

SESSION A: BIPOC Consumerism (Black Owned Maine)**

SESSION B: Creating equitable pathways to academic and lifelong success through social and emotional intelligence (Lewiston Public Schools)**

SESSION C: Racial Disparity, Structural Violence, and COVID-19 in Maine (Bates College)

Session D: Social Justice in 2021 for BIPOC in Maine (Racial Equity and Justice)**

SESSION A: Diaspora’s Homage to MLK Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement (Black P.O.W.E.R.)

SESSION B: Unity of Black Voices in the Midst of Black Uniqueness (It is Time)**

SESSION C: Committed to Listen: a public online reading of Dr. King's Letter From a Birmingham Jail (Maine Council of Churches and The BTS Center) **

SESSION A: The “Unavoidable Impatience” for Justice: Opportunities in the Wake of the BLM Protests to Dismantle Systemic Racism in Maine (ACLU of Maine)

SESSION B: Dying to be Free (Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition)

SESSION C: Prioritizing Cross-Sector Networks for Building Economic Agency and Representation in BIPOC Communities (The Third Place)

SESSION A: Counting from 13 | Art + Activism (Indigo Arts Alliance and the Southern Maine Workers Center)

SESSION B: Building Black Worker Power: Equity in the Workplace (Maine Center for Economic Policy)

SESSION C: Elevating and Centering Immigrant Leadership: Resiliency, Collective Organizing, Covid-19 (Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition)

SESSION D: Juvenile Justice Updates in Maine (Maine Youth Justice)**

SESSION E: We Shall Overcome: Protests, Riots, & Humanity (South Portland Human Rights Commission)

SESSION A: Sustainable Activism in 2021 and Beyond (USM Women and Gender Studies)

SESSION B: Rematriation: A Call Into Community, Strengthening Black & Indigenous Solidarity (Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective) **

SESSION C: Reviewing Resistance Language (The Telling Room)

SESSION D: Advancing Racial Equity at the Legislature (Coalition on Racial Equity)**

SESSION A: An Embodied Practice for Moving Through Racialized Emotional Fragility & Fatigue (Ready, Set, THrive!)

SESSION A: Being Black in Maine: Lived Experience and Prospects for Change (Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACP and the University of Maine Alumni Association)**