Who's Coming to the Summit?

There is an impressive list of speakers at the 10th Annual Black Land Loss Summit. Some are confirmed and others are tentative, but it ought to be more than interesting.

Look at this roster of professionals:

Spencer Wood, Kansas State University
Sarah Warren, North Carolina State University
Gary Grant, BFAA
Jerry Pennick, Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Waymon Hinson, Abilene Christian University
Alton Thompson, North Carolina A & T
Marcus Tillery
Paul Reeves
Barack Obama (invited)
Thomas Walker (invited)
John Raye
Margo M. McKay, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, USDA
Alva Y. Waller, Pigford Class Monitor's Office
Robert Wynn
John Pollock, Heirs Property Retention Coalition
Cynthia Brown

Goals and objectives for the summit include: make continued progress to stop and reverse African American agricultural land loss, make continued progress toward increasing the number of Black farm family operations, continue to assist petitioners in the appeals process under the Pigford Consent Decree, work to increase awareness of reparations issue, continue efforts to develop an inventory of what farm families produce, work to create a directory of all Black landowners in both rural and urban areas, continue to influence and/or impact agriculture education at the secondary and collegiate levels, continue to help farmers diversify for success, and work with groups on the international land and farm issue.

The summit will be held at the historic Franklinton Center at Bricks and at the Tillery Community Center.