Annual Business Meeting
Online via ZoomAnnual 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 […]
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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 ZoomExecutive 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 […]
ASALH Prince George’s County Truth Branch
Oxon Hill Branch Library 6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon Hill, MD, United StatesYou 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. […]
Opening Ceremony and Culture for Service, Service for Humanity
ASALH TVJoin 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.
Pen to Screen: Writing and Telling Black History, A Conversation with Julian Breece and Valerie Maholmes
ASALH TVJulian Breece will discuss his career as writer-director, the development of the film, "Rustin" and the role history has played in shaping his work. Breece wrote the original screenplay for the Netflix original film "Rustin" about gay Civil Rights strategist Bayard Rustin and the March on Washington.
The Vice President’s Black Wife
ASALH TVJoin 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 TVThe 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 TVThe 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.
Panel Discussion: President Grant: An Inclusive President
Prince Hall Masonic Temple 1000 U Street NW, Washington, DC, United States
PBS Books Conversation with Mary Frances Berry
ASALH TVPBS Books Conversation with Mary Frances Berry
The Annual Black History Month Luncheon
The Westin Washington, DC Downtown 999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC, DC, United StatesThe 99th Annual Black History Month Luncheon will be held on February 22, 2025 in Washington, DC
ASALH Executive Council Meeting – Virtual
Online via ZoomExecutive 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. […]
First ASALH Virtual Convening
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All Members Informational Update
Online via ZoomAll 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 ZoomExecutive 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 […]
A National Town Hall Meeting: Report Card on Trump – First 100 Days
Shiloh Baptist Church 1500 Ninth Street, DC, United States
National Week of Action
In Person & Virtual Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY, United StatesNational 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 StatesExecutive 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 […]
AAPF x ASALH THIRD NATIONAL CONVENING: Beyond Dog Whistles: How Anti-Blackness is Destroying Our Democracy And What We Must Do to Resist
Union Chapel 55 Narragansett Avenue, Oak Bluffs, MA, United StatesIn-Person and Livestreamed Sunday, August 10, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. EST - 4:00 p.m. CST Union Chapel Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard Our residency on Martha’s Vineyard begins on Sunday! In […]
110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States110th 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 StatesExecutive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 24, 2025 In-person only 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in-person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please […]
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
Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United States
ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
African American Heritage Bus Tour
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
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 StatesChair: 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.
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
Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United States
Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThis 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 StatesChair: 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.
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 StatesModerator: 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 […]
Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St. Northwest, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThursday 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 […]
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 StatesChair: Ashley Farmer (University of Texas-Austin) Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly Presenter: Gerald Horne (University of Houston) Presenter: Akinyele Umoja (Georgia State University African American Studies)
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 StatesPresenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University.
Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 190 Marietta St., NW, Atlanta, GA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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 StatesChair: 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.
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
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
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 […]
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.
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.
