Brown & Associates

Speaker Topics

Cheryl Brown Henderson

  • Brown v the Board of Education – history, impact and significance
  • Brown v the Board of Education – genesis and contemporary relevance
  • The role of women in civil rights and social movements
  • Diversity – its meaning and importance
  • Teacher workshops – Teaching Brown v. Board of Education

Carl Boyd

  • Tools for teaching hard to reach students - lecture and teacher workshop
  • Strategies to ensure academic success
  • Academic Patriotism
  • Straight talk for our youth

Steven Brown

  • School Law – legal responsibility of school boards and administrators
  • Public Radio – the peoples broadcast network
  • Theatrical performances and plays
    • “Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren: A Conversation”
    • “And on the Eighth Day: Bryan and Darwin”
    • “Fireside Chat: A Conversation with Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Venlda Chenault

  • The role of Indigenous studies programs on university campuses
  • Factors contributing to the phenomenon of violence and abuse against Indian women
  • Impact of violence and abuse against Indigenous college students
  • The importance of indigenous representation within non-tribal organizations

Phoebe Ferguson

  • Plessy v. Ferguson – 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision resulting in the doctrine of “Separate but Equal”
  • The power of film making
  • Capturing the past – documentary films
  • Writing about the past

Lynne M. Jackson

  • Dred and Harriet Scott: The Rest of the Story
  • Family Secrets: The Genealogy of Dred Scott
  • The Power of One: Dred Scott and His Fight for Freedom
  • Faith & Fire: Harriet Scott, A Woman of Faith and Determination
  • Turning Points of the Dred Scott Case
  • Dred Scott Decision and the Power of Perseverance
  • Dred Scott and Beyond
    *Most offerings are accompanied by a customized PowerPoint presentation and array of physical documents. .

Stogie Kenyatta

  • Theatrical performance – A One man show – “The World is my home: The Life of Paul Robeson”

Carolyn Maul McKinstry

  • Surviving the Bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama
  • Remembrance and Reconciliation
  • Forgiveness in the of bias and bigotry
  • Living with purpose

Keith Weldon Medley

  • Plessy v. Ferguson – the legal fight against legal racial segregation

Keith Plessy

  • Capturing our past with murals and other forms of art
  • Plessy v. Ferguson – 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision resulting in the doctrine of “Separate but Equal”

Terrence Roberts

  • Inside the story of the “Little Rock Nine”

Joy Speaks

  • Davis v Prince Edward County School Board one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board

Ambassador Charles Stith

  • The Challenges and opportunities of global business
  • The U.S. and leadership for developing countries
  • Post September 11 policy and politics
  • The U.S. role in human global rights struggles

John Stokes

  • Davis v. Prince Edward County School Board one of the cases consolidated with Brown v. Board

Carmaletta Williams

  • Creative writing – a tool for capturing the past
  • The life and legacy of poet Langston Hughes
  • American Indians and African Americans shared histories
  • Harlem Renaissance –its importance and influence
  • Why Teach Africa
  • Theatrical performance – Portraying Zora Neal Hurston