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  • September 2025
  • Wed 24
    September 24 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT

    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 […]

  • Wed 24
    September 24 @ 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm EDT

    Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Wed 24
    September 24 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

    Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Wed 24
    Opening Reception - Wednesday, Sept. 24 | 6 pm EST. Sponsored by the National Parks Conservation Association
    September 24 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    Bus Tours - Explore Historic Atlanta
    September 25 @ 7:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT

    African American Heritage Bus Tour

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am EDT

    Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making

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

    Chair: Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio. Presenter: John Goncalves, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 8:30 am - 9:50 am EDT

    Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 8:30 am - 9:50 am EDT

    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.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm EDT Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

    Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 9:30 am - 11:50 am EDT

    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.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    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.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    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 […]

  • Thu 25
    Thursday Luncheon
    September 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT

    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 […]

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm EDT

    Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session

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

    Moderator: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa. Panelist: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University. Panelist: Gerald Horne. Panelist: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies. Panelist: Joy James, Williams College.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

    Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”

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

    Presenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Panelist: Daryl Michael Scott, Former ASALH National President More speakers to follow!

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 3:50 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

    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 […]

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

    Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years

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

    Chair: Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presenter: Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Presenter: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Olivia Johnson, Emory University.

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

    Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

    Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 6:15 pm - 8:15 pm EDT

    Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)

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

    While 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 […]

  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT

    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
  • Thu 25
    September 25 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm EDT

    Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)

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

    An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 8:00 am - 9:00 pm EDT Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

    Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am EDT

    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 States

    Chair: 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.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 am EDT

    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 States

    Chair: 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

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 8:30 am - 9:30 pm EDT

    Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen

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

    Moderator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly. Participant: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Participant: Lia T Bascomb.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am EDT

    Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)

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

    In 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.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    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 States

    Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College. Presenter: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University. Presenter: Claude Marks, Freedom Archives. Presenter: Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn.

  • Fri 26
    Poster Sessions - Friday, Sept. 26 | 10:15 AM EST
    September 26 @ 10:15 am - 11:45 am EDT

    Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 10:15 am - 11:45 am EDT

    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
  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

    Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963

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

    Chair: 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.

  • Fri 26
    Friday Blassingame Luncheon - Friday, Sept. 26 | 12:00 PM EST | Chris Smalls
    September 26 @ 12:00 pm - 1:45 pm EDT

    Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference

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

    The 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 […]

  • Fri 26
    The Legacy & Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. - Friday, Sept. 26 | 2:15 PM EST
    September 26 @ 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm EDT

    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 States

    Participant: 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. […]

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT

    Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor

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

    Leader: Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

    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
  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

    Teaching Black History as Resistance

    Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT

    Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)

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

    A principal lovingly reflects on the 90-year legacy of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, the first Muslim private school system in the country.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT

    Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

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

    Aspiring 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 […]

  • Fri 26
    Authors' Book Signing. Friday, September 26, 7:00 pm
    September 26 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

    Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

    Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)

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

    Up 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.

  • Fri 26
    September 26 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

    Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception

    The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

    Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 8:30 am - 9:50 am EDT

    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
  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 9:00 am - 10:45 am EDT

    Ava Greenwell Festival

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

    Hearing 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 […]

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule

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

    Chair and Commentator: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina. Presenter: Maria Esther Hammack. Presenter: Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist.

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100

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

    Chair: 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.

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor

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

    Chair: 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.

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 10:15 am - 11:00 am EDT

    Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma

    Moderator: 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 […]

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT

    Film Festival: The Killing Floor (1984)

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

    During 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.

  • Sat 27
    September 27 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

    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 States

    Presenter: Chelsea Birchmier. Presenter: O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Winthrop University. Presenter: Darius Caleb Smith. Presenter: Jonathan Dayan. Presenter: Erleen Ellis, The University of New Orleans.

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