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The Schedule

September 9, 2026

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Opening

Star Spangled Banner
Marvin Gaye Version
Lift Every Voice
Delaware State University Choir

9:15 - 9:35

Opening / Welcome /Introduction of the DSU President

Dr. Fran Franklin

Welcome - Dr. Tony Allen
President, Delaware State University

Video Welcome Messages from

- U.S. Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester
- U.S. Congresswoman Sarah McBride

9:35 - 9:40

Purpose of the Black Agenda Group and Black Summit

Dr. Akwasi Osei

9:40 - 10:00

Introduction of Keynote Speaker

Dr. Akwasi Osei

Opening Keynote

Dr. Marlene A. Saunders

10:00 - 10:10

Break

10:10 - 12:00

Panel Presentation for a Black Agenda

Dr. Elijah Mickel

“African Underpinnings of Agency: Whispers from the Ancestors”.
African traditions, values, philosophies that still tie Africans in Delaware together.

Dr. Akwasi Osei
“Making the Partial Whole: The Correct Interpretations of the African Experience in These United Stated”
Understanding how global events, e.g., European domination in Africa

explains equality Africans in the diaspora in Delaware experience

inequality now and how this understanding provides strategies and

tactics represented in a Black agenda that focuses on the best interests

of African Americans in Delaware.

Natasha Mullen

“ You Are Not Broken: Honoring Survival and Moving Toward Wholeness”
The relevance of the Maafa (enslavement) to African Americans’ mental health; interventions to

sidestep the after effects of human bondage and oppression; positive

impacts when alternative practice methods are used to psychological

heal African American adults and children.

Wanda Russell
“Building Wealth Within Our Community”.

Hustling for business and economic stability and pwer. African traditions and values present in Black enterprise, the impacts on Black businesses and economic growth; why they need to be practiced every day.

Rev. Dania Griffin
“God Got Dis”
Faith as an essential element repelling racism while not dismissing the progress that has occurred to faith, self-determination and resilience.

Delaware Senator Marie Pinkney
Voting Works!
Voting works if we vote and engage

in the political process in ways besides voting. Examples of impacts for the best interests of African Americans when we vote and are engaged involved.

Q & A

12:00 - 1:15

Lunch (provided)

If I Can Help Somebody
Soloist Rev. Aaron Moore
Manna Felowship Church, Wilmington, DE

Remarks
Senator Darius Brown
Senate District 2

1:15 - 1:20

Transition for Strategy Sessions

1:30 - 3:15

Strategy Sessions

Table Group Strategy Sessions will identify strategies and action steps. Groups will:

1.) Identify issue/probem/concern to discuss

2.) Identify strategy(ies) to address the concerns.

3.) Develop two action steps for each strategy.

4.) How will actions steps be implemented.

Strategy Session Reports

Review of strategies and action steps

Closing Remarks:
Outcomes, Sustainment, and Our Future