USPS Kwanzaa Stamp 1st Day Of Issue Ceremony

Senator John Heinz History Center 1212 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

The event is free and open to the public but registration is highly recommended. The United States Postal Service is partnering with ASALH for the 1st Day of Issue for the 2024 Kwanzaa Stamp. Join ASALH Executive Council and ASALH members for this historic event. Encourage your networks to register and attend this Free and Open […]

ASALH Film Festival: The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks

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

Billops and Hatch are catalysts at the center of the film, and like a modern Virgil and Dante, they drive, cajole and lead the film's cast through a tour of the contemporary landscape of racism.

Free

ASALH Film Festival: Finding Christa

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

This documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her natural mother 20 years after being given up for adoption.

Free

ASALH Film Festival: A String of Pearls

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

Camille Billops turns the camera on four generations of men in her family and considers the ways in which urban violence, unemployment, and the early deaths of their own fathers have shaped their lives.

Free

Authors Book Signing Event

Embassy Suites by Hilton Pittsburgh Downtown 535 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh, United States

ASALH Film Festival: Camille Billops Shorts Festival

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

Camille Billops started as a sculptor and painter, became a filmmaker, and amassed a treasure trove of books, documents, and photographs related to black culture.

Free

ASALH Film Festival: Fences (2016)

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

Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) makes his living as a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Maxson once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was deemed too old when the major leagues began admitting black athletes. Bitter over his missed opportunity, Troy creates further tension in his family when he squashes his son's (Jovan Adepo) chance to meet a college football recruiter.

Free

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

ASALH Film Festival: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

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

Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.

Free

ASALH Film Festival: Tracing Our Path Through Bronzeville (2023)

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

The Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago has been a creative hub that cultivated the artistry of some of the most influential artists and authors of the twentieth century. To name a few, Margaret Burroughs, Richard Wright, William Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, and members from AfriCOBRA have all established a creative foundation in Bronzeville.

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