ATLANTA, GA, March 14, 2024 /BPALiveWire/ – Members of the King family announce a service to celebrate the life of matriarch Mrs. Naomi Ruth Barber King, who passed away peacefully on March 7th, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 92. The Celebration of Life service will take place on Saturday, March 16th at Historic […]
Second-floor classrooms Explore More! in STEM is a pop-up program for ages 8 and older that focuses on a particular STEM concept and relates it to the museum. In this lesson, visitors will learn about sound, frequency, famous African American electric guitarists and how electric guitars work. More information
Second-floor classrooms Explore More! in STEM is a pop-up program for ages 8 and older that focuses on a particular STEM concept and relates it to the museum. In this lesson, visitors will learn about sound, frequency, famous African American electric guitarists and how electric guitars work. More information
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Sweet Home Café Chef Alexandra “Alex” Strong is the executive chef with Restaurant Associates (R/A) at the Mitsitam Café in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Before taking the helm at Mitsitam Café, she worked at a variety of R/A locations, including Capital One, the World Bank, the U.S. Senate, […]
Heritage Hall This program will feature live music, including Shared Voices, a program of the Denyce Graves Foundation. Other activities will introduce visitors to the lesser-known female artists from the museum’s collection.
The Black Women's Biography Collective invites you to Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives March 28th, 2024: 4 pm-6 pm and March 29th, 2024: 9 am-3 pm William T. Young Library Auditorium and Alumni Gallery, University of Kentucky Co-Sponsors: The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, University of Kentucky and African American Studies, Wake Forest University […]
The Black Women's Biography Collective invites you to Un-Bioed: Radically Reimagining Black Women's Lives March 28th, 2024: 4 pm-6 pm and March 29th, 2024: 9 am-3 pm William T. Young Library Auditorium and Alumni Gallery, University of Kentucky Co-Sponsors: The Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, University of Kentucky and African American Studies, Wake Forest University […]
Sweet Home Café Denise Jones is the woman behind Sweet Home Café’s successful operation. Jones earned Compass Group’s prestigious “Be A Star” award and served on the DIAC (Diversity, Inclusion, Action Counsel) committee for several years. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Jones joined R/A in March 1998 and contributed to the success of major […]
The Fulbright Scholar Program has this a new mentorship and advising initiative called the Mentoring and Advising Program (MAP) which was created to increase Fulbright award numbers among diverse and underrepresented faculty (all ranks), staff, administrators, and scholars. Our next webinar, Finding Your Fulbright is on Wednesday, April 3 from 3PM-4PM EST. Please register here. Applicants […]
The Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice invites you to join us on Wednesday, April 10 for our Third Annual Wilson Peace Symposium. The 2024 theme is Brown at 70: The Path Forward, a moment to celebrate and discuss the 70th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. This daylong event will […]
Self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet opens its book event season with the Book Confab Beverly Hills. The event, which is the company’s fifth book confab overall, will take place on April 17-18, 2024, at 276 La Cienega Blvd, Beverly Hills." After staging successful book confabs in Tribeca, San Francisco, San Diego, and Manhattan, ReadersMagnet […]
Hello all, We would like to extend invitation to others who may want to take this inaugural curated trip to South Africa with us in November. The last info session is May 2, at Noon and 6:00 PM PST. Thank you! ZOOM Topic: Trip to Southern Africa Time: May 2, 2024 12:00 PM Pacific Time […]
Join the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service on Tuesday, May 28, at 1PM ET for a virtual celebration in honor of National Historic Preservation Month. This virtual event will highlight recent additions to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and the African American Civil Rights grant program. Attendees will hear from senior Department of […]
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates the Juneteenth holiday early with a special Community Day and “A Seat at the Table” evening program Saturday, June 15. The public is invited to join the museum’s Juneteenth celebration - during the entire month of June - and embrace the rich history […]
The museum will present a special edition of a signature program that brings together two remarkable voices in a dynamic dialogue about food, culture and social justice. Bryant Terry, the James Beard Award-winning chef, food activist and author of the acclaimed Black Food, will sit down with NMAAHC’s director Kevin Young to explore the rich tapestry of African American […]
On Wednesday, June 19th, Ms. Opal Lee will complete her annual 2.5-mile walk @ the African American Museum of Dallas to recognize the 2.5 years it took for the news and enforcement of freedom to reach the enslaved people in Texas. Now a national holiday, Juneteenth celebrates the freedom gained when slavery was abolished […]
Juneteenth: 159 Years Later, State of Black Affairs Join us for insightful speeches at Busboys and Poets where Washington DC icon Rev. Willie Wilson and Professor John Brittain will shed light on the current State of Black Affairs 159 years after Juneteenth. This in-person gathering aims to celebrate the resilience of the Black community in the backdrop of the social cancer of White […]
Ayo Handy-Kendi Experience "Juneteenth Freedom Sagas," a one-woman, in-person, story-performance and “breath-shop,” which re-enacts the ending of enslavement and liberation for American Blacks, during D.C.’s Emancipation Day, April 16, 1862, and Juneteenth 1865, but also brings awareness to modern-day injustices. The “story sagas” are intended for racial and diversity healing, but are presented through the […]
Sixty years ago, there came from many quarters of our nation a youthful diversity of ethnicities, opinions, lifestyles, and persuasions, a cadre of risk-takers committed to lifting the last burden from the shoulders of the world’s last oppressed woman and man. Our coming together was more than idealism that has since been celebrated as the […]