The 49th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) will be held in Chicago, Illinois, March 14-17, 2018, at the W Chicago-Lakeshore Hotel. NCOBPS was founded in 1969, and is an academic non-profit association of scholars and other specialists of African and African American politics. Throughout its existence, the organization has critically challenged institutional racism, and other systemic inequities inside and outside the academy.
The 49th Annual Meeting of NCOBPS will attract several hundred participants in over 50 panels, forums and roundtables centered on the theme, “Race and the Environment: Agency, Survival, and the Continuing Challenges of Black Inequalities.” The meeting will feature three community forums:
Thursday, March 15, 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
The Black Environment: Gentrification, Community Development, and the
Obama Library
Great Room, 6th Floor, W Chicago Lakeshore Hotel, 644 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
Panelists Include:
Dr. Carol Adams, University of Chicago Community Advisory Board
Harold Lucas, Historic Bronzeville Chicago Black Metropolis Convention & Tourism Council
- Anton Seals, Director of Grow Greater Englewood
Calvin Holmes, Director of the Chicago Community Loan Fund
Moderators: Ruthie Moore, Mikva Challenge and WVON, and Robert Starks, Northeastern Center for Inner City Studies
Friday, March 16, 9:00 a.m .- 10:15 a.m.
The New Black Chicago Politics
Great Room, 6th Floor, W Chicago Lakeshore Hotel, 644 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
Panelists Include: Todd St Hill, Black Youth Project100
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jonathan Jackson, Chicago State University and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Robert Starks, Northeastern University, Center for Inner City Studies
Moderator: Valerie C. Johnson, DePaul University
Saturday, March 17, 2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Redistricting and the 2018 Midterm Election
The Drs. Charles V. and Dona C. Hamilton Institute for Research and Civic Involvement, DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place, Chicago, Illinois
Khalilah Brown-Dean, Quinnipiac University
Niambi M. Carter, Howard University
Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Stanley Watkins, Former Chief of Staff, Congressman Bobby Rush
Moderator: Valerie C. Johnson, DePaul University
