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Executive Council Meeting – September 2025

The Nominating Committee shall plan the orientation meeting for new board members which should take place during the September meeting of the Executive Council. Final committee reports must be submitted […]

Executive Council Meeting – September/October 2025

The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall introduce the new board members at the Executive Council meeting, the General Membership meeting, and the Branch Workshop meeting. Final committee reports must […]

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110th Annual Conference

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

110th Annual Conference September 24-28th, 2025 Use the form below to sign up for ASALH emails to stay updated about the conference.  

Annual Branch Members’ In-Person Meeting

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

The Annual Branch Meeting and Workshop will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. during the Annual Conference. All branch presidents are encouraged to […]

Ava Greenwell Festival

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025), Ava Thompson Greenwell (37 min) Mandela in Chicago. Ava Thompson Greenwell (55 min): Details the period during which […]

Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Chair and Commentator: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina. Presenter: Maria Esther Hammack. Presenter: Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist.

Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Chair: Darius J Young, Florida A&M University. Presenter: JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike. Presenter: Ibram X Kendi. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas-Austin. Presenter: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin.

Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Chair: Errin Haines, The 19th News. Presenter: William Jones, University of Minnesota. Presenter: Jane Berger, Moravian College. Presenter: Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies. Presenter: Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago.

Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Moderator: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage. Panelist: Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African […]

Remembrance Program

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

The Remembrance Program will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. during the Annual Conference. All branch presidents are encouraged to attend. All branch members and those […]

Film Festival: The Killing Floor (1984)

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city’s slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

Saturday Woodson Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Saturday Woodson Luncheon Speakers are Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge, authors of the book With Faith in God and Heart and […]

Black Radical Labor Documentary Festival

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

Finally Got the News! (1970) The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (57 min) A deep dive into the philosophy and organizing strategy of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during […]

Key Sessions – Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

Chair: Quito Swan, The George Washington University. Presenter: Adisa Vera L. Beatty, Independent Scholar. Presenter: Alhaji Conteh, Hunter College-CUNY. Presenter: Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University. Presenter: Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University.

ASALH Annual Member’s Business Meeting

Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta

The in-person Annual Members' Business Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 27, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Omni Centennial Park Hotel in Ballroom D. All current members are encouraged to attend the Annual Members' Business Meeting. Details will be posted on the Member's Private page in September. https://asalh.org/members/membership-meeting/ President Kaye Wise Whitehead […]

Film Festival: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022)

The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta

The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy […]