Join us @ The “Meeting Room” of Valley Forge NHP, or attend live (via Zoom): This presentation represents the culmination of a year’s work examining African American participation during the Valley Forge encampment of 1777 to 1778. Justin B. Clement has written a Historic Resource Study funded by the National Park Service and facilitated through […]
In this session, Dr. Brock will introduce community members to the history of the Black Diaspora. This includes Africa, the Americas, Europe and various Asian and Pacific islands and nations. Participants of this workshop will gain an understanding of how racism and colonialism have impacted the entire world, and how the Haitian Revolution, African Independence and the Civil Rights/Black Power movements and Black Feminism have inspired transnationally.
Dr. Brock will share the ASALH Social Justice Toolkit with workshop attendees. She will review issues such as White Supremacy, Reparations, Abolition, and the Black Radical Tradition. Those who attend will gain access to a digital version of the toolkit, complete with Glossary, Resources for Workshop Leaders, and questions and prompts to pose to community members for reflection. The goal: to train all of us in the art of teaching and learning social justice.
PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host the program about Zora Neale Hurston's latest book "You Don't Know Us Negroes & Other Essays" with co-editor Genevieve West, Ph.D. in conversation with Monica Miller, Ph.D., in connection with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE episode Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. Co-editor Henry Louis Gates, […]
This Festival Session features Ibram X. Kendi discussing the book, Magnolia Flower.
This Festival Session features author Phyllis Biffle Elmore discussing her book Quilt of Souls: A Memoir.
This Festival Session features author Desiree Cooper discussing her book Nothing Special.
This Festival Session features author Kristin Waters discussing her book Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought.
This Festival Session features author Grace Jackson-Brown discussing her book Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy.
This Festival Session features author Holly A. Pinheiro Jr discussing his book The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.
This Festival Session features author Christopher Nelson discussing his book The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939.
This Festival Session features author Cody McDevitt discussing his book Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania.
This Festival Session features author Mary L Romney-Schaab discussing her book, An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German.
This Festival Session features author Ruben Britt Jr. discussing his book, Black and Powerful: A Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders.
This Festival Session features author Rohulamin Quander discussing his book, The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy,
This Festival Session features author Dr. Timothy E. Nelson discussing his book, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1900-1930).
This Festival Session features author Tony Warner discussing his book, Black History Walks in London: Volume 1.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Virginia Summey discussing his book, The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Brian Jones discussing his book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
This Festival Session features author Elizabeth Eckford discussing the book, The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH - This Festival Session features author Dr. Lisa Brock.
This Festival Session features reporter Jonathan Abrams of the New York Times and reporter Angela Idowu of WTTW.
On February 18 and 19, The 1619 Project will host the second 1619 Education Conference. This free, virtual, two-day event will feature a stellar lineup of keynote speakers and panelists, including Ibram X. Kendi, Martha S. Jones, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kimberly Henderson, Cornelius Eady, A. Van Jordan, and Tim Seibles. It will also offer participants the opportunity […]
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. In this spellbinding first person delivery "Dr. Woodson" will take visitors from the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site on an interpretive journey to Dr. Woodson's residence in the Shaw Neighborhood.
This Festival Session features author Keith Holmes discussing his book, Black Inventors Crafting Over 200 Years of Success.
This Festival Session features author Margaret Seidler discussing her book, Ukweli - Searching for Healing Truth - South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism.
This Festival Session features author Denys Davis discussing her book, Unheard Melodies.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Dan Berger discussing his book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
This Festival Session features author Bernice Alexander Bennett discussing her book, Black Homesteaders of the South.
This Festival Session features author Charlene Hampton Holloway discussing her book, Whitlock's Compositions.
This Festival Session features author Frederick Williams discussing his book, Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement.
This Festival Session features author Michelle R. Scott discussing his book, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America.
Join ASALH for a special encore presentation of "African American Music and the Struggle for Freedom"
Join us online where ASALH members and candidates can meet, July 6th from 7-9pm EST. This event will be hosted by David Walton via Zoom. Members will receive the Zoom link via email to attend these events.
Join us online where ASALH members and candidates can meet, July 7th from 7-9pm EST. This event will be hosted by David Walton via Zoom. Members will receive the Zoom link via email to attend these events.
On Thursday, July 13th at 3:00 pm, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the Park History Program will host an information session on the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN). Created by the African American Civil Rights Act of 2017, and coordinated by the National […]
Celebrating America 250 Unfinished Revolutions through Visions of America All stories, all people, all places. Presented by IMLS 250, PBS BOOKS, and ASALH Virtual Conversation A tribute to the 75th Anniversary of the Desegregation of the Armed Forces Featuring: Matthew Delmont, Ph.D., Jeffery Sammons, Ph.D., BGen Terry V. Williams Moderated by IMLS Director […]
