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Hello - Plan to include the Harris-Stowe symposium (details below) in your coverage of reflections on Ferguson this week. News Harris-Stowe State University For Immediate Release Contact: Pier Scott (314) 340-3391 scottp@hssu.edu Harris-Stowe State University Holds Ferguson Symposium Panel Focuses on the Ongoing Movement for Justice and Social Change ST. LOUIS, MO (August 4, 2015) - On Sunday, August 9, one year since the death of Michael Brown, Jr., Harris-Stowe State University will hold "Ferguson, The World, One Year Later," a symposium to explore the historical and ongoing dimensions of the movement for justice and social change from an academic perspective. Harris-Stowe and the St. Louis community observe this occasion with an intellectual assessment of the events of the past year including the immediate unrest, the global displays of activism and the calls for peace in recent weeks. The event, which will take place at 4 p.m. in the Bank of America Theatre in the Emerson Performance Center on the campus of Harris-Stowe State University (3026 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, 63103), will consist of four consecutive panels moderated by Dr. Reynaldo Anderson, associate professor of Communications at Harris-Stowe. "Historically and over the past year, Harris-Stowe has played an integral role in petitioning for positive change in the region," said Dr. Dwaun J. Warmack, president, Harris-Stowe. "This symposium will take an unapologetically academic examination of the issues and challenges surrounding our community and provide some concrete solutions for a productive way forward." The symposium panelists, representing four distinct constituent groups, include: Political Panel: Michael Butler, Missouri state representative, 79th district; Mike W. Jones, retired senior policy advisor for St. Louis County; Dr. Sudarsan Kant, an assistant professor of Political Science at Harris-Stowe and Jamilah Nasheed, Missouri state senator, 5th district Civic Panel: Johnetta Elzie, co-creator of "Mapping Police Violence;" Miranda Jones, vice president of youth, family and clinical services for Better Family Life; Tishaura O. Jones, treasurer, city of St. Louis and Shira Truitt, general partner of The Truitt Law Firm Activist Panel: Yah Ammi, health, literacy and human rights poet, activist, motivational speaker and health educator; Larry Fellows, activist; Jazminique Holley, student leader and recent Harris-Stowe graduate and Nyrota Uhuru of HandsUp.com Faith-based Panel: Reverend Ronald L. Bobo, Sr., pastor, Westside Baptist Church; Dr. Andre E. Johnson, associate professor of Rhetoric & Religion and African American Studies at Memphis Theological Seminary and Reverend Anthony Witherspoon, pastor, Washington Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church Over the past year, Harris-Stowe State University held several events to provide the St. Louis community a place to express the range of sentiments surrounding the Ferguson aftermath. In addition, when school resumed in Ferguson, Mo., Harris-Stowe's male faculty, staff and students welcomed school children to Griffith Middle School and established an ongoing mentoring relationship with the Ferguson School District. About Harris-Stowe State University Harris-Stowe State University, located in midtown St. Louis, is a fully accredited four-year institution that offers 31 majors, minors and certificate programs in education, business and arts & sciences. In 2014, HSSU ranked No. 1 in the state of Missouri and No. 47 in the nation in granting degrees in mathematics and statistics to African-Americans according to Missouri Department of Higher Education and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education, a newsmagazine that has ranked institutions conferring the most degrees to minority students for the past 30 years. The university, which has origins dating back to 1857, offers the most affordable bachelor's degree in the state of Missouri. # # #