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Webinar – Black History at the Vassall Estate
Online via ZoomLive Digital Event | September 25, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. EST Join the authors of Black History at the Vassall Estate for a virtual presentation on Thursday, September 25, 2025, […]
Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesWhile filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank’s son returns to the Delta […]
W.G.S M.A. Open House – the CUNY Graduate Center
Online via ZoomOnline via Zoom | September 25, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. EST | Free and Open to the Public Please join the Women's and Gender Studies M.A. Program on Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 PM EST on Zoom for […]
Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Clark Atlanta University, University Student Center 223 James P. Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, United States
Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesAn African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Allison Mashell Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. Presenter: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park. Presenter: JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University. Presenter: Christina J Thomas.
Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. Presenter: Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran. Presenter: Augustus Wood. Presenter: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Faith Golden, African American Museum of Dallas
Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly. Participant: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Participant: Lia T Bascomb.
Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesIn an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe.
Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College. Presenter: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University. Presenter: Claude Marks, Freedom Archives. Presenter: Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Key Sessions – Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between LAWCHA and ASALH
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Discussant: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin. Presenter: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College.
Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe John Blassingame Luncheon is named after one of ASALH’s stalwart members. Born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia, the future historian graduated from Fort Valley State College, received […]
The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesParticipant: Augustus Wood Participant: Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua Participant: Blair LM Kelley (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Participant: Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) Commentator: Joe W. Trotter (Carnegie Mellon University Dept. […]
Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesLeader: Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Teaching Black History as Resistance
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesA principal lovingly reflects on the 90-year legacy of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, the first Muslim private school system in the country.
Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesAspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film “Jivetime Jimmy’s Revenge.” When Tinseltown […]
Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesUp against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power and Repression Under Gentrification
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
Ava Greenwell Festival
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesHearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025), Ava Thompson Greenwell (37 min) Mandela in Chicago. Ava Thompson Greenwell (55 min): Details the period during which […]
Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair and Commentator: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina. Presenter: Maria Esther Hammack. Presenter: Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist.
Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Darius J Young, Florida A&M University. Presenter: JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike. Presenter: Ibram X Kendi. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas-Austin. Presenter: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin.
Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Errin Haines, The 19th News. Presenter: William Jones, University of Minnesota. Presenter: Jane Berger, Moravian College. Presenter: Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies. Presenter: Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage. Panelist: Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African […]
Remembrance Program
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe Remembrance Program will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. during the Annual Conference. All branch presidents are encouraged to attend. All branch members and those interested in ASALH branches are encouraged to attend. During the Remembrance Program, ASALH will honor our members and loved ones whose lives have been lost […]
Film Festival: The Killing Floor (1984)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesDuring World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city’s slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Key Sessions – Grit & the Ground We Stand On: History of Black Working-Class Resistance
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesPresenter: Chelsea Birchmier. Presenter: O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Winthrop University. Presenter: Darius Caleb Smith. Presenter: Jonathan Dayan. Presenter: Erleen Ellis, The University of New Orleans.
Saturday Woodson Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesSaturday Woodson Luncheon Speakers are Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge, authors of the book With Faith in God and Heart and […]
Black Radical Labor Documentary Festival
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesFinally Got the News! (1970) The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (57 min) A deep dive into the philosophy and organizing strategy of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during […]
Key Sessions – Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesChair: Quito Swan, The George Washington University. Presenter: Adisa Vera L. Beatty, Independent Scholar. Presenter: Alhaji Conteh, Hunter College-CUNY. Presenter: Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University. Presenter: Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University.
Presidential Sessions – #SAYHERNAME: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesModerator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Moderator: Kimberle Crenshaw, AAPF
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
ASALH Annual Member’s Business Meeting
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe in-person Annual Members' Business Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 27, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Omni Centennial Park Hotel in Ballroom D. All current members are encouraged to attend the Annual Members' Business Meeting. Details will be posted on the Member's Private page in September. https://asalh.org/members/membership-meeting/ President Kaye Wise Whitehead […]
ASALH Annual Awards Banquet
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy […]
Post-Conference Atlanta Westside & 1906 Race Massacre Tour
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Class Action Reads! Model Schools in the Model City
DC History Center 801 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United StatesIn-Person Event | October 23, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. EST Join the DC History Center and Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives for a book talk about the history of […]
International Conference on Gynecology, Obstetrics and Women’s Health
2 27th St - Port Saeed - Deira District Dubai, United Arab EmiratesScientex conferences welcomes attendees, presenters, and exhibitors from all over the world to Dubai. We are glad to invite you all to attend and register for the International Conference on Gynecology, Obstetrics and Women's Health which is going to be held on NOVEMBER 03-04, 2025 in Dubai, UAE.
2025 Frederick Douglass Oratorical Contest
Frederick Douglass NHS Visitor Center 1411 W Street, S.E., Washington, DC, United StatesIn-Person Event | November 18-22, 2025 | 12:00 p.m. EST It's that time of year again—announcing the 2025 Frederick Douglass Oratorical Contest!!! If you know a student aged 6-18 years […]
ASALH Executive Council Meeting
Virtual via ZoomExecutive Council Meeting Thursday, November 20, 2025 7:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held online via Zoom. Access will be provided to ASALH members who request it. Requests to […]
111th ASALH Annual Conference
Marriott Norfolk Waterside 235 E Main St, Norfolk, VA, United States111th ASALH Annual Conference September 23-27, 2026 9:00 a.m EST/8:00 a.m. CST The 111th ASALH Annual Conference will take place from September 23 to 27, 2026.
SAVE THE DATE! The National Montford Point Marine Association 62nd Annual National Convention Hosted by Chapter 29 in Jacksonville, FL
Jacksonville FlSAVE THE DATE! The National Montford Point Marine Association 62nd Annual National Convention Summer 2027 Jacksonville, Florida, Chapter 29 has officially won the bid to host the 2027 NMPMA National […]