109th Annual Conference

Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

109th Annual Conference September 25-29th, 2024

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Executive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Location: Omni William Penn Hotel Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST This meeting will be held in Person.

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

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

Executive Council Meeting Thursday, September 25, 2024 Location: Omni Hotel Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST This meeting will be held in person. All current ASALH members are welcome […]

Necrology (Remembrance) Program

Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The event is free and open to the public but registration is highly recommended. Omni William Penn Hotel, William Penn level, Three Rivers room

Annual Business Meeting

Online via Zoom

Annual Business Meeting Monday, October 21st, 2024 7:30-9:30 p.m EST/6:30-8:30 p.m. CST. The Sept 23 Annual Members business meeting was recessed until October 21 at 7:30 p.m. Please take a […]

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

Online via Zoom

Executive Council Meeting Thursday, December 19, 2024 7:00 p.m. EST This meeting will be held online via Zoom. Access will be provided to ASALH members who request it. Requests to […]

ASALH Executive Council Meeting – Virtual

Online via Zoom

Executive Council Meeting Thursday, March 20, 2025 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. EST This meeting will be held online via Zoom. Access will be provided to ASALH members who request it. […]

In Conversation with Victoria Rowell

Howard University School of Business Washington, DC, United States

In Conversation with Victoria Rowell March 25, 2025, 6:30 PM EST/5:30 PM CST Event Details In Conversation with Victoria Rowell is an initmate talk with the award-winning actress about the […]

All Members Informational Update

Online via Zoom

All Members Informational Update Thursday, April 10, 2025 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. CST This meeting will be held online via Zoom. All ASALH members are invited to attend an All […]

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

Online via Zoom

Executive Council Meeting Thursday, April 24, 2025 (PLEASE NOTE: This meeting has been moved from April 17th to April 24th) 7:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held online via […]

National Week of Action

In Person & Virtual Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY, United States

National Week of Action April 27 to May 3, 2025 12:00 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m. CST The National Week of Action will be held from April 27 to May 3, 2025. […]

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

Loyola University_ , United States

Executive Council Meeting Saturday June 7, 2025 2:00 pm – 4:00pm EST This meeting will be held in person. Details will be emailed for all members who RSVP by June […]

Meet ASALH President Kaye Wise Whitehead at Morehouse College

Morehouse College 830 Westview Dr. SW, Atlanta, GA, United States

In-Person Event | June 18, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. EST Join us at Morehouse College to hear from ASALH President Kaye Wise Whitehead. She and Executive Director Sylvia Cyrus will share information on ASALH's upcoming events and initiatives that will be of interest to all. ASALH has a number of initiatives and programs to support […]

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site 1411 W St. SE, Washington, DC, United States

In-Person Event | Saturday July 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. EST Frederick Douglass’s speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” continues to challenge and resonate with audiences, […]

AACRN and Reconstruction Era National Historic Network Information Session

Digital Los Angeles, CA, United States

Recorded Digital Event | Wednesday, July 16, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. EST/12:00 p.m. CST For AACRN (African American Civil Rights Network) and ASALH members who would like to learn more about how to join the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network and partnerships between AACRN and the Reconstruction Era Network. The network facilitates and reviews Reconstruction […]

AAPF x ASALH THIRD NATIONAL CONVENING: Beyond Dog Whistles: How Anti-Blackness is Destroying Our Democracy And What We Must Do to Resist

Union Chapel 55 Narragansett Avenue, Oak Bluffs, MA, United States

In-Person and Livestreamed Sunday, August 10, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. EST - 4:00 p.m. CST Union Chapel Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard Our residency on Martha’s Vineyard begins on Sunday! In addition to our Monday panel, AAPF is partnering on Sunday with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) for their timely […]

Lecture – The Crisis of Black Male Education: The Challenges and Opportunities

Online via Zoom

Live Digital Event | August 21, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. CST The Tampa Bay Branch of ASALH is pleased to invite you to attend the second event in our distinguished lecture series, titled “The Crisis of Black Male Education: Challenges and Opportunities.” This session will be held via Zoom on Thursday, August 21st, […]

Sankofa IMPACT “Unchartered Waters: Dimensions of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade and Prince George’s County, Maryland – Conference and Community Conversation”

University of Maryland College Park Stamps Student Union University of Maryland College Park Stamps Student Union 3972 Campus Drive, College Park, MD, United States

In-Person Event | Saturday, August 23, 2025 | 8:00 a.m. EST August 23, 2025, Sankofa IMPACT, Inc. will host the "Uncharted Waters: Dimensions of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade & Prince […]

2025 Conference Presenters Know Before You Go Session

Online via Zoom

Live Digital Event | Monday, September 1, 2025 | 6 p.m. EST/ 5 p.m. CST/ 4 p.m. MST/ 3 p.m. PST All individuals who are presenting at the conference are encouraged to attend. Gus Woods, the Academic Program Chair, and Vice President for Programs Aaisha Haykal will review important information regarding sessions. All session presenters, […]

ASALH South Florida Founder’s Day Event

Destination Sistrunk Cultural Center 1033 Northwest 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

In-Person Event | September 11, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. EST In honor of Founders Day, ASALH South Florida will host Dr. Maurice Hobson, author of "With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity", and honor local hero Florida Sen. Rosalind Osgood as a South Florida Culture Keeper. Highlights […]

ASALH Dorothy Turner Johnson 110th Anniversary Celebration Program

Eatonville Library 200 E Kennedy Blvd, Eatonville, United States

In-Person Event | September 13, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. EST 110th Anniversary Celebration presented by the Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch of ASALH. Address: Eatonville Library 200 E Kennedy Blvd, Eatonville, […]

110th Annual Conference

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

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

ASALH Executive Council Meeting

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

Executive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 24, 2025 In-person only 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in-person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please RSVP below. The meeting location will be emailed to all members who RSVP by September 23rd at 12 pm EST.

The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project

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

Chair: Erick Jackson, Northern Kentucky University. Panelist: Samuel Collins, Towson University. Panelist: Matthew Durington, Towson University. Panelist: Chayanne Marcano, Independent Researcher.

Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)

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

This movie documents Labor Union activist A. Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the Black Pullman porters of the Chicago Pullman Railroad Company in 1920s America.

Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association

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

Chair: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis. Presenter: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York. Presenter: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly.

Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold

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

Moderator: Cinthya Neal Spence, Spelman College. Presenter: Nafeesa H. Muhammad, Spelman College. Presenter: Vincent Willis, New College of Florida. Presenter: Mahaliah A. Little, Spelman College. Presenter: Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University. Presenter: Kenton Rambsy, Howard University. Presenter: Tanya N. Clark, Morehouse College.

Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

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

Thursday Luncheon Speaker is Dr. Edda Fields Black, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for her work Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and was executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice (with Emmy® Award-winning composer John Wineglass), reflecting her long involvement with the interconnective story of rice cultivation in pre-colonial West Africa and on antebellum Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia plantations. She has been a consultant at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American […]

Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)

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

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the rise & fall of the titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft racism, urban poverty & inequality in America.