Community Events

Network to Freedom Event to Announce Award Recipients and Highlight New Listings Date: September 20, 2021 Contact: Amanda Pollock Church Creek, MD – On September 29, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program will host a virtual “Closing Ceremony for International Underground Railroad Month.” […]

On January 30, 1913, Ida B. Wells founded the Alpha Suffrage Club, which was located at 3005 South State Street. The goal was to make African-American women feel more comfortable in the realm of politics and then to “use the vote for the advantage of ourselves and our race,” as Wells said. The former site of […]

Join us for an encore rebroadcast of the Master Class featuring Tanya McKinnon. Sunday, October 10 2pm PST/5pm EST If you registered for the original event on May 27, 2021, you will receive a Zoom link on Saturday to view the rebroadcast. Please check the email that you used for your original Eventbrite registration. Questions? […]

Panelists: L’Merchie Frazier, artist, poet, Director of Education for the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, and member of the Boston Middle Passage Committee; Byron Rushing, a long-time civil rights activist, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1983 to 2018, former President of the Museum of African American History, Co-Chair of the Boston Middle Passage Committee, […]

Queens College Africana Studies will host its second Publish & Floruish Professional Development Workshop with Prof. Nadine Naber. October 15, 2021 10am EST In support of tailoring the workshop for our audience, Dr. Naber requests that those interested register by October 10. For the sake of ease, here is the registration link. Topic: LIBERATE YOUR SCHOLARSHIP: […]