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8:00 AM:  Jewell Parker Rhodes is the award-winning author of Voodoo Dreams, MagicCity, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, Hurricane, and the children’s book, Ninth Ward. Her writing guides include: Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors and The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfiction. Jewell is the Virginia G. Piper Chair in Creative Writing and Artistic Director of Piper Global Engagement at Arizona State University. 8:30 AM: Remembering Attica 40 Years Later with Yusufu L. Mosley has a BA in sociology & a MA in political science with an emphasis on social ethics. Currently, Yusufu works in the social justice field and is a member of several professional organizations related to the criminal justice field in the Chicagoland area. Yusufu is a trained and certified as a Circle Keeper in Restorative Justice (RJ) field. He is joined by Claude Marks, a former anti-imperialist political prisoner and is the Project Director of The Freedom Archives, a political, cultural oral h