Chesterwood announces the second roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study […]
Self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will open its book event season with LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience (LLX). The said event will run from January 27 to 30, 2023, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.
Join staff from the historic Virginia Key Beach Park to explore the history of the park and its role in the African American community in Miami during the Jim Crow Era. Registration is required.
About the event Connecting professional women in a one day comprehensive leadership opportunity for women seeking to connect and collaborate, like minded individuals. Women will leave with enhanced leaderships skills, […]
Sylvia Cyrus and Audrey Peterman were awardees of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Centennial Leader Award in 2022 and will be interviewed Saturday, February 11, 2023 @ 10 a.m. to 12 […]
This annual program to celebrate Frederick Douglass includes music by the Jubilee Voices of the Washington Revels, performances by the student winners of the Douglass Oratorical Contest and a light-hearted debate style program that asks the question “What place did Frederick Douglass call home?”
Formed in 1816 during a time of racial unrest, the American Colonization Society, with support from some Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and U.S. presidents such as Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, believed that freed enslaved people could not integrate into American society, and thus ought to seek their destiny in Liberia.
Morningside Players Theatre present We The People: A Montage of Reminiscences on Thurgood Marshall
A summit consisting of conversations, connections, and tournaments; introducing Black College students to Black corporate partners & entrepreneurs in the gaming/esports industry.
Glasgow has historically been a site of Black activism and resistance. From speeches by Black abolitionists and civil rights activists such as Frederick Douglass and Sarah Remond, to the establishment […]
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH - This Festival Session features author Dr. Lisa Brock.
Nurses from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, c. 1940. Photo courtesy of Temple University, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital is about two […]
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 […]
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.
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
A dialogue with an intergenerational group, to include youth from Phokeng Village, South Africa, Bafokeng Nation, and youth from Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, Prince George's County Truth Branch of ASALH, discussing this year's Black History Theme: Black Resistance, relative to the similarities faced by Black youth around the world and the solutions they envision.
Tony Warner author of Black History Walks Volume 1 will detail Black British Civil Rights, a US to UK timeline comparison. The term ‘Civil Rights’ automatically triggers images of the […]
We're doing it big in 2023! Come celebrate with us and enter the Embrace Africa Sweepstakes for the chance to win a FREE TRIP TO AFRICA! Meet the company Co-founders Dr. Gina Paige and Dr. Rick Kittles, and the rest of the AA Team.
Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD’s new book Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston and provides a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city.
Join us as we celebrate Black History Month by sharing the legacy of Julius Rosenwald and his partnerships with Booker T. Washington and nearly 5,000 African American communities that led to the building of 5,357 Rosenwald School facilities in 15 states
The Great Depression and early years of World War II represented a transformative historical moment. For African Americans, particularly those in southern cities like Washington, D.C., these years presented newfound opportunities to press vigorously (and in new ways) for equality and end to racial discrimination.
In the nation that declared 'Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights' during the French Revolution in 1789, France has shown grievous disdain for the rights […]
What role does gender play in your daily experiences? How does race, gender and women's equality impact socio-economic status, access to education, child care and home ownership?
e have CONFIRMED our date, APRIL 8, 2023, for the KICK-OFF OF OUR PEACE CONCERT AND RALLY CAMPAIGN. We selected this date in remembrance of the extraordinary sacrifice and God-inspired service of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose life was taken on April 4, 1968, through an act of GUN VIOLENCE.
UPO is committed to improving the lives of the District’s residents. One way is to bring together thought leaders to address major concerns. Among the most important is inequity in […]
Dr. Jon Willen will deliver a “Civil War Medicine Primer”, an overview of all aspects of Civil War-era medicine, including care of the wounded, surgery, nursing, infectious diseases, innovations in the transportation of the wounded, and the history and operations of the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) -- a forerunner of the American Red Cross.
Join as we discuss the meaning of freedom in people's lives and liberty in their community with a lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Director of the Public History Program at Howard University.
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association of the Study of African American Life and History, is pleased to host a program in celebration of Poetry Month with best-selling and award-winning writer Clint Smith, author of his newly released book of poetry “Above Ground.” Join us and learn about Clint’s new collection of poetry, his inspiration, his creative process, and more.
Dr. Terry Anne Scott is an expert on the history of anti-lynching activism and the dreadful events that gave rise to it. As she uses primary sources to explore this narrative, she will also share her advice for parents and teachers about how to broach topics that are historically and emotionally challenging.
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
Founded on October 28, 2020, the Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice provides a scholarly space for professors, students, social justice workers, and activists to come together to […]
Join Georgia State University for Robert G. Stanton's lecture on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Sites.
April 17, 2023, DC Emancipation Day weekend activities will culminate with the Reading of the Names of the First Freed at the African American Civil War Memorial on Vermont Ave. […]
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
