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March 24, 2023

Why We Are Going To Florida for Our Conference

ASALH is going to Florida with a purpose, and we invite all persons interested in sharing their scholarship, expertise and interest in the field of African American history and culture to join us.

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February 21, 2023

ASALH Remembers John Henry Bracey Jr.

John Henry Bracey Jr. was a lifetime member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)

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February 14, 2023

A Letter from the ASALH President on Black History Month, Black Resistance and Supporting ASALH

We need all members of ASALH to purchase tickets for the Black History Month Festival. We especially need you to purchase tickets for the Conversation with Dr. Lonnie Bunch and Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall...

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February 8, 2023

ASALH Response to Gov. DeSantis and the African American Studies AP Censorship

ASALH strongly condemns the actions of Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) to deprive students of accurate knowledge about the African American experience.

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February 6, 2023

Executive Summary

Read about this year's Black History Month Festival Executive Summary

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January 31, 2023

Black History Month Festival Souvenir Journal

View The 97th Annual Black History Month Festival Souvenir Journal

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Posted @withregram • @jaahistory Our latest Volu Posted @withregram • @jaahistory Our latest Volume 108, no 1 (Winter 2023) is out! Thank you Jacob Dorman, Walter Rucker, Tikia Hamilton, Charlies Nier, Nicholas Martin-Breteau, Clare Parfait, and Marie Jeanne-Rossignol! @jaahistory
#BlackHistory365: Poet, author, scholar, playwrigh #BlackHistory365: Poet, author, scholar, playwright Sonia Sanchez was a leader in the Black Arts Movement. Her second book, “We a BaddDDD People" was a significant highlight in the Black Arts Movement. #BlackResistance
#Repost @jaahistory with @use.repost ・・・ Con #Repost @jaahistory with @use.repost ・・・ Congratulations to Leslie Alexander!! FEAR OF A BLACK REPUBLIC is the winner of the 2023 #AAIHS Pauli Murray Book Prize!! 💃🏾🎉🔥🔥
#ASALH2023 #Jacksonville #CFP Early bird deadline #ASALH2023 #Jacksonville #CFP Early bird deadline is today! https://asalh.org/call-for-proposals
#BlackHistory365: Charlotta Bass was the first bla #BlackHistory365: Charlotta Bass was the first black woman to own and operate a newspaper “The California Eagle.” The publication highlighted housing inequity and championed local black owned business. In 1952, she became the first African American woman to be nominated as a Vice Presidential candidate for the Progressive Party. #BlackResistance
#BlackHistory365: Gwendolyn Brooks was an American #BlackHistory365: Gwendolyn Brooks was an American poet and teacher and was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her work “Annie Allen.” #BlackResistance
#BlackHistory365: A native of Chicago, Illinois Lo #BlackHistory365: A native of Chicago, Illinois Lorraine Hansberry is known as one of the most significant and influential playwrights of the 20th century. She wrote the landmark play “A Raisin in the Sun,” which opened at Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York City in 1959. #BlackResistance
#BlackHistory365: Nikki Giovanni is an American po #BlackHistory365: Nikki Giovanni is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. She was a prominent figure in the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s and her work was heavily influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. #BlackResistance
Posted @withregram • @w.marvindulaneydfwasalh Da Posted @withregram • @w.marvindulaneydfwasalh Dallas African American Museum and the W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), held an African American Heritage Quiz Bowl in February in the Honor of Black History Month. Over two dozen students from the Dallas Fort. Worth Metroplex participated in the event. W. Marvin Dulaney Branch of ASALH provided students with a study guide to assist in the knowledge and understanding of historians from the 1800s to the current that contributed to the history of America. The first and second place winners were from Dallas’ historic Booker T. Washington High School under the guidance of Ms. Brandi Barnett. All the participants should be congratulated for their efforts toward studying their heritage outside of their schooling. For information about the African American Heritage Quiz Bowl, please contact W. Marvin Dulaney Branch – ASALH at: 214-403-4216, visit our website wmdasalh.com or email us at wmdulaney.asalh@gmail.com #blackdallas #blackdallasevent #BlackDallasBloggers #blackhistoy #blackhistory365 #blackexcellence #TeachingBlackHistory #blackscholars #sayitloudimblackandimproud #ASALH #ASALH2023
#BlackHistory 365: In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker fou #BlackHistory 365: In 1903, Maggie Lena Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank – the first woman of any race to charter a bank in the United States. The bank had more than 50,000 members by 1924. #BlackResistance
#BlackHistory365: John Lewis was a civil rights ac #BlackHistory365: John Lewis was a civil rights activist and congressman who represented Georgia’s 5th congressional district. His guiding principle: “Good trouble, necessary trouble—It’s not only OK, but necessary to enact and inspire meaningful change.” #BlackResistance
Don’t miss our closing program for #BHM  on ASA Don’t miss our closing program for #BHM  on ASALH-TV. See link in the bio for more information.
#BHM Fact: Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rig #BHM Fact: Stokely Carmichael was a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the Black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black Power.” #BlackResistance
Join us for our virtual Author’s Book Talk start Join us for our virtual Author’s Book Talk starting at 630pm (ET) on ASALH-TV on February 27. See link in the bio for more information.
Posted @withregram • @bet The teaching of Black Posted @withregram • @bet The teaching of Black History matters today and EVERYDAY! Congratulations to @attorneycrump on winning the Social Justice Impact Award! ✊🏾🖤 Quotes #ASALH founder Carter G. Woodson! #NAACPImageAwards #BET
#Black Resistance” is the national theme of Blac #Black Resistance” is the national theme of Black History Month and ASALH’s Marketing and PR chair Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discuses this issue with ASALH multi-media journalist Andrea “Aunni” Young on how African Americans have had to push the United States to live up to its ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice for all. In Part 1 of this “fireside chat” they discuss slave breeding and the slave cotton industry that fueled the global economy through the lens of Black Resistance. See the full interview on ASALH’s Facebook page. #ASALHFestival #blackhistorymonth
#BHM: “Unbought and Unbossed” Shirley Chisholm #BHM: “Unbought and Unbossed” Shirley Chisholm made history in 1968 when she became the first black woman elected to the US House of Representatives serving New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman ever to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. ASALH will co-sponsor a “matinee” featuring the new critically-praised play Campaign 72, based on the life of Shirley Chisholm at the ARC Theater in Washington, DC on Saturday, Feb. 25. #BlackResistance
SPECIAL CONTEST GIVEAWAY: ASALH will co-sponsor a SPECIAL CONTEST GIVEAWAY: ASALH will co-sponsor a “matinee” featuring the new critically-praised play Campaign 72, based on the life of Shirley Chisholm at the ARC Theater in Washington, DC on Saturday, Feb. 25. In recognition of the play, we are sponsoring a special Facebook and Instagram trivia contest. The first person who can answer correctly “What is the name of the organization Shirley Chisholm co-founded with C. Delores Tucker?” will win a Black History Month gift from ASALH. See link in the bio to learn more about our #BHM festival.
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