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  • ASALH Executive Council Meeting

    Online via Zoom

    Executive Council Meeting Friday, March 29, 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

    Online via Zoom

    Informational Meeting for Running for the Executive Council Friday, April 5, 2024 7:00 p.m. EST This meeting will be held online via Zoom. Access will be provided to ASALH members […]

  • ASALH Executive Council Meeting

    Loyola University Maryland MD, United States

    Executive Council Meeting Saturday, June 1, 2024 Location: Loyola University Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST This meeting will be held in Person. The full address will only be […]

  • ASALH Executive Council Meeting

    Online via Zoom

    Executive Council Meeting Thursday, September 12, 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 […]

  • President Dulaney’s All Member Update

    Online via Zoom

    President Dulaney’s All Member Update Thursday, September 19th, 2024 7:00-9:00 p.m EST/6:00-8:00 p.m. CST. This meeting will be held online via Zoom. See the Members Private page for more details.

  • Annual Business Meeting

    Online via Zoom

    Annual Business Meeting Monday, September 23rd, 2024 7:30-9:30 p.m EST/6:30-8:30 p.m. CST. The zoom webinar information will be emailed to all members. Please save the date. See the Members Private page for more details.

  • Save the Date for the 109th Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 25-29, 2024

    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 to observe this meeting.

  • 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 few minutes to review the proposed changes to the Constitution and By-Laws and submit any questions on the Members Private page.  The zoom webinar information […]

  • Giving Tuesday - Help us support our Woodson Ambassadors

    Giving Tuesday

    This year, we’re raising money for Woodson Ambassadors. But why support ASALH today? ASALH’s 2024 #GivingTuesday campaign is dedicated to increasing Woodson Ambassadors for next year’s Annual Conference. We want […]

  • 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 observe the meeting must be made using this form.

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    ASALH Prince George’s County Truth Branch

    Oxon Hill Branch Library 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD, United States

    You are invited to join the Prince George's County Truth Branch, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) as we honor and celebrate our Founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, on his birthday. Please meet us at the Oxon Hill Library on Saturday December 21, 1:30 pm. Political scientist and educator Dr. […]

  • Opening Ceremony and Culture for Service, Service for Humanity

    ASALH TV

    Join for a conversation highlighting the life and times of A. Philip Randolph, labor activist and freedom fighter. Randolph lived a life that embodied the message within “Culture for Service and Service for Humanity” the motto of Phi Beta Sigma, of which he was a member.

  • The Vice President’s Black Wife

    ASALH TV

    Join us for a conversation with Amrita Chakrabarti Myers about the interconnectedness of sex, gender, class, and economics during the antebellum period. Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard M. Johnson, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren.

  • 2025 ASALH Book Prize

    ASALH TV

    The winner(s) of the ASALH Book Prize will be announced on ASALH TV on February 11th at 6:00 p.m. EST.

  • The Reshaping of Racial Labor

    ASALH TV

    The implications and use of AI and GenAI has a pivotal impact on the lives and experiences of African Americans. Golden M. Owens will explore this through the lens of gender and labor.

  • The Annual Black History Month Luncheon

    The Westin Washington, DC Downtown 999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC, DC, United States

    The 99th Annual Black History Month Luncheon will be held on February 22, 2025 in Washington, DC

  • 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. […]

  • 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 […]

  • Save the Date for the 110th Annual Conference! Atlanta, GA. Sept. 24-28, 2025

    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 […]

  • 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.

  • Thursday Luncheon

    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 […]

  • 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 […]