Update on the Land Loss Summit

Here is a sprinkling of topics scheduled for the Black Land Loss Summit, February 15-17, 2008, in Whitakers and Tillery, North Carolina:

Research on the Decline of Black Farmers and Farmland
Community Building to Protect Black-Owned Farmland
An Overview of the Growth of Incarcerated African Americans
No Snitch and Racial Injustice: Learning to Distrust the Police and Protect Community
"We Shall Not Be Moved: A History of the Tillery Resettlement Farm"
Getting to Know -- Farmers Raise Issues
The History of the Black Farm/Land Movement
Psychological Impact of the Black Farm Crisis
1890's Value to Black Farmers and Landowners
Alternative Energies
"Man Called Matthew Award"
Black Men's Health and Cancer
10 Years After Pigford
Reconciliation and Healing

It ought to be more than interesting and challenging.

I am excited about going, listening, learning, participating, growing, and being challenged.