Michigan Black Summit

09/10/2026

The Michigan Black Summit is bringing together an extraordinary team of leaders, professionals, advocates, and change-makers from across Michigan!

Meet Leah Mills-Chapman, LMSW-C—a clinical therapist, leadership coach, trainer, speaker, and Ypsilanti Township precinct delegate representing Washtenaw County.

Leah brings experience, passion, and a powerful commitment to strengthening our communities. She is joining an all-star team ready to move beyond conversation and into BLACK ACTION!
This is only the beginning—stay tuned as we introduce more members of the Michigan Black Summit 2027 team!

Michigan Black Summit 2027
“What’s Going On?”
✊🏾 From conversation to BLACK ACTION!

09/09/2026

09/05/2026

🚨 TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE! 🚨

Celebrate five incredible years of grit, determination, leadership, and Black excellence at the 2027 Michigan Black Summit Gala, A Soul Train Celebration!

Get ready for an unforgettable evening inspired by the music, fashion, energy, and cultural impact of the 1970s. We are trading the traditional black tie gala for a vibrant Soul Train party featuring dinner, dancing, a Motown tribute, special performances, and exciting surprise guests.

🎤 Featuring Michigan’s own R&B icon Adina Howard and the Gerald Levert Experience, a powerful celebration of Gerald Levert’s timeless music and soulful legacy.

Put on your best 1970s inspired outfit and get ready to sing, dance, and step into the Soul Train line!

🎟️ Limited Early Bird Tickets: $85
🎟️ Regular Admission: $100
🎟️ VIP Tables: $900
🍽️ Dinner is included with admission.

Space is limited. Purchase your tickets today:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michigan-black-summit-gala-soul-train-gala-tickets-1999854759420?aff=oddtdtcreator

Celebrate 5 years of the Michigan Black Summit with Adina Howard, the Gerald Levert Experience, dinner, dancing and Soul Train fun!

08/27/2026

Interested in Becoming a Sponsor?

Celebrate the 5th Year of the Michigan Black Summit with us! Your partnership will help inspire, educate, and empower leaders from across Michigan.

Contact us today to become a sponsor and leave your mark on this historic milestone.

Contact us at 269-861-2861

08/25/2026

For five years, the Michigan Black Summit has brought Black voices together from across Michigan. But in 2027, we’re taking it a step further.

This year is about BLACK ACTION.

Black communities are often among the most dependable voting blocs in this country. We show up. We organize. We vote. We help determine elections.

But after Election Day, what happens to Black issues?

What happens to Black education? Black economic development? Black healthcare? Housing? Black leadership? Our businesses? Our neighborhoods?

Too often, we are told what we need to fight against, but we haven't spent enough time developing a collective strategy for what we're fighting FOR.

The 5th Michigan Black Summit is about changing that.

We are bringing Black Michigan together not just to talk, but to ORGANIZE. DEVELOP STRATEGIES. BUILD POWER. AND CREATE ACTION.

What does a real Black agenda for Michigan look like?

How do we hold elected leaders accountable after the election is over?

How do we build stronger Black institutions and develop the next generation of Black leadership?

How do we turn our voting power into economic, educational and political power?

For five years, we've gathered.

Now it's time to move.

Michigan Black Summit 2027

WHAT’S GOING ON?

From Conversation to Black Action.

08/24/2026

We’ve been to the conferences. We’ve attended the gatherings. We’ve heard the speeches, sat through the panels, and talked about the issues facing Black communities.

But for the 2027 Michigan Black Summit, we’re doing something different.

This year, we’re focused on BLACK ACTION.

Our theme is “WHAT’S GOING ON?” because there is A LOT going on in Black America and right here in Black Michigan.

But we don’t just want to ask, What’s going on?

We want to ask: WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

For two days, we’re bringing people from across Michigan together to talk about Black education, healthcare, economic development, housing, leadership, voting rights and the future of our communities.
And this time, the conversation has to lead to a PLAN.

How do we galvanize Black Michigan?

What does our agenda look like?

What are our priorities?

And when we leave the Summit, what are we actually going to DO?
We’ve talked long enough.

2027 is about BLACK ACTION.

🔥 Michigan Black Summit 2027

WHAT’S GOING ON?

We’re not just gathering.

We’re building a blueprint for Black Michigan.

08/23/2026

WHAT’S GOING ON?

When we look at the state of Black rights in America today, we have to ask the question Marvin Gaye asked more than 50 years ago: What’s Going On?

What’s going on when Supreme Court decisions have reshaped affirmative action and weakened tools that helped open doors for Black students and other historically excluded communities?

What’s going on when voting-rights protections continue to be fought over in courtrooms across this country?

What’s going on when DEI programs, Black history, Black institutions, and even the language we use to address racial inequality are under attack?

And what’s going on when Black leadership is being challenged, dismantled, defunded, or pushed out of spaces where our voices are desperately needed?

This moment requires more than outrage. It requires Black action.

That is why the 5th Michigan Black Summit matters.

We cannot simply talk about what is happening to Black America. We have to organize around Black education, Black healthcare, Black economic development, housing, leadership, voting rights, and the future of our communities.

The Michigan Black Summit was created to bring our people into one room not just to discuss the problems, but to build solutions, strengthen leadership, connect resources, and develop an agenda for action.

Five years later, the question is even more urgent:

WHAT’S GOING ON?

And more importantly:

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

The 5th Michigan Black Summit is not just another conference.

It is a call to action.

08/22/2026

🚨 WE'RE GOING LIVE! 🚨

Next Wednesday, Trenton Bowens and Dashuna Robinson are launching the Michigan Black Summit Live Podcast, and you don't want to miss it.

We're pulling back the curtain on the 5th Annual Michigan Black Summit, talking about what's coming, who's coming, the vision, the movement, and why Year 5 is shaping up to be our biggest year yet.
This isn't just another podcast. It's real conversations, real leadership, and real talk about where we're headed as a community.

📅 Next Wednesday
🎥 LIVE on Facebook
Tap in. Ask questions. Join the conversation. Be part of the movement.

Five years. One movement. Bigger vision. Greater impact. The work continues. See you live! 🔥✊🏾

08/22/2026

If you know of any representatives from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) who may be interested in participating in an upcoming HBCU College Fair, please let me know!

One of our Michigan Black Summit committee members is organizing the fair, and we would love to help connect them with HBCU admissions representatives, recruiters, alumni associations, and other college representatives who can bring information and opportunities directly to our students.

If you have a connection to an HBCU or know someone we should contact, please send their information my way or tag them below.

Let’s make sure our young people know that HBCUs are an option, an opportunity, and a pathway to excellence.

08/21/2026

Whew!!! We’ve been waiting to drop this one! 🔥

The 5th Michigan Black Summit speakers and panelists are coming, and all I can say is… SEPTEMBER!

We got some BIG names coming. Nationally recognized folks, some familiar faces and a few names that might really surprise y’all.

Five years ago we had a vision for what the Michigan Black Summit could become, and every year we’ve pushed it a little further.

This year we taking it up another level.

September we start dropping names. 👀🔥

Benton Harbor, get ready. The 5th Michigan Black Summit is coming!