Long-time friends, collaborators, and comrades are coming together to honor a living, breathing, creative testament to the Pan-African Dream at the Black Cultural Memory Lab & Library. This is about celebrating what we have in common and the diversity of our experience and expression through time and space from the Motherland, through the Diaspora and Black.

Charlotte Hill O'Neal is co-director of the United African American Community Center, now called the United African Alliance Community Center. The UAACC, a non-profit NGO, was founded in 1991 by O'Neal and her husband, Pete O’Neal, with the goal of empowering black urban and rural youth in Tanzania. Mama C is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, songwriter and traditional African instrumentalist.

Internationally acclaimed singer, percussionist, guitarist, and dancer, Okaidja Afroso creates modern African music that effortlessly flows between tradition and innovation; he “is an artist with staying power.” (Afropop Worldwide) With roots in the traditions of the Ga-Dangme people of Ghana and a spirit shaped by decades of global travel and collaboration, he invites audiences into a celebration of humanity’s shared rhythms with music that defies borders. Okaidja will perform with Janny Flow, his creative collborator and partner who is a world renowned Ghanaian singer and dancer.
Mic Crenshaw was born and raised in Chicago and Minneapolis and currently resides in Portland Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent Hip Hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator and activist. As the Lead U.S. Organizer for the Afrikan HipHop Caravan from 2013 - 2018, Crenshaw uses Cultural Activism as a means to develop international solidarity related to Human Rights and Justice through Hip Hop and Popular Education.