The 2022 Black History Month Festival
Online via ASALH TVThe theme for 2022 focuses on the importance of Black Health and Wellness. This theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but […]
The theme for 2022 focuses on the importance of Black Health and Wellness. This theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but […]
The opening session will describe the month-long celebration of the 2022 Black History theme, Black Health and Wellness, and will invite viewers to join with ASALH in acknowledging the legacy of Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, and other ways of knowing throughout the African Diaspora.
The Manhattan Branch will host a panel discussion on health care disparities in urban African American communities. The panel will explore ways in which race has shaped African American health throughout American history and how it paralleled, reinforced or contradicted the ways in which racialized conceptions of Blacks have shaped healthcare opportunities and/other discourses.
An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German is the true story of how Lionel Romney experienced the Nazi era as told to his daughter, Mary L. Romney-Schaab. He was one of relatively few Black people to be imprisoned in the concentration camp system and even fewer who lived to tell about it.
Although programs and webinars discuss cultural competency, these initiatives often lack an assessment resource to determine the growth and progress of an individual. This is a scholarly resource that offers the guidance and resources to evaluate an individual or entity’s cultural competency and identify areas of development.
As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women’s cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Chaplain & Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Eve Taylor, Pens Her Provocative Book on America’s Troubling History with Race, The Torn Fabric of America: The Racial Divide, Black and White writes in her book, HOW over the ages, slavery has evolved into what can be called modern-day slavery.
Your walk with God: A daily testimony of faith, trust, and belief? A weekly routine of doctrine, tradition, and customs? Or nonexistent? Every person's story is a microcosmic enactment of God's eternal story, a portrayal of His relationship with humanity. Written with a cathartic tone, this sibling story reveals an adventurous testimony to the presence of God over the entire course of a lifetime.
John McFall was born 15 years after Emancipation. He was the first of eleven children born to a freed couple in Charleston, South Carolina.
In the 1860s, Lloyd Earl was an African American entrepreneur disguised as an enslaved carpenter who traveled nationwide with freedom papers forged by his own hand. Collector of the “comebacks,” Lloyd Earl built the first Negro Kitchen Library in the USA. His family and others like it were found on a list called The Curiously Successful Negro. A list kept in secret for more than 100 years by Harvard University!
GET A GGRIPP, the ground-breaking new book by holistic wellness coach, consultant and educator Tanya Leake, presents a new approach to wellness – a culturally, targeted, mind and body movement towards health empowerment.
From freedom fighter, Sojourner Truth, to relentless US vice-president, Kamala Harris, a remarkable poetic thread weaves through the inspiring pursuits and accomplishments of many stunning women throughout human history.
This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
International Event Concepts of beauty and identity will be raised as well as the impact of these on academic experience for African Canadian youth. What can heal the harms? Saturday […]
The first session will examine the history of medicine, clinical practice, and policies that have impacted African American health and contributed to disparities. Discussion will include the origins of American gynecology, Henrietta Lacks HeLa cells, and the Lyles Station radiation experiments.
**This event will premiere on ASALH-TV at 7PM on Wednesday February 23rd.**
PBS Books Presents Black History Month: African American Health and Inequities Author Talk with Harriet Washington
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) awards an annual prize to recognize an outstanding book in the field of African American history and culture.
This year’s Festival includes a moderated conversation with ASALH President W. Marvin Dulaney and Presidents of Black professional health organizations and institutions.
International Event Understanding Black heritage, the legacy and impact of indigenous medicines and traditional foods; and how to maintain this legacy in younger generations. Sunday February 20, 2022 7:30 a.m. […]
International Event "Racism and Public Health in Scotland" Tuesday February 22, 2022 1230pm EST This event will be held virtually via ZOOM. Attend here. **This event will premiere on ASALH-TV […]
Benjamin Bowser, a sociologist, will explore the social and cultural legacies; and George Woods, a Forensic Psychiatrist, will explore the psychological and psychiatric legacies. Regina Mason, a descendant of freedom seeker William Grimes, will discuss the impact of the surveillance and enforcement practices of slavery on her ancestor.
In Generations of Freedom Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779-95), through American acquisition (1795) and eventual statehood (established in 1817), and finally to slavery’s legal demise in 1865.
Author Kimberly A. Morrow is on a mission to empower parents to become better advocates for their children. Parents often are confronted with issues of not knowing essential study skills for children, technology, preparing their child for college and tackling their child's learning deficiency and more.
In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism.
Benevolent Orders, the Sons of Ham, Prince Hall Freemasons—these and other African American lodges created a social safety net for members across Tennessee. During their heyday between 1865 and 1930, these groups provided members with numerous resources, such as sick benefits and assurance of a proper burial, opportunities for socialization and leadership, and the chance to work with local churches and schools to create better communities. Many of these groups gradually faded from existence, but their legacy endures in the form of the cemeteries the lodges left behind.
An African American Philosophy of Medicine examines race, medical knowledge, and history in the United States. The book further addresses meaning and purpose in medicine deriving from the author’s life as an African American physician in Harlem, New York and West Africa.
Join ASALH for our second installment of our virtual Reading Room series on social justice, "How Far Have We Come?", a collaborative effort presented by ASALH & the Howard University […]
Join ASALH for our second installment of our virtual Reading Room series on social justice, "How Far Have We Come?", a collaborative effort presented by ASALH & the Howard University […]
ASALH & Howard University's Social Justice Consortium present the 3rd edition of our Social Justice Reading Room series. Sponsored by Mellon Just Futures Initiative. ASALH Members & Extended Community, We're […]
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