Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Grace Jackson-Brown
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Grace Jackson-Brown discussing her book Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy.
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Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Holly A. Pinheiro Jr
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Holly A. Pinheiro Jr discussing his book The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Christopher Nelson
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Christopher Nelson discussing his book The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Cody McDevitt
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Cody McDevitt discussing his book Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania.
African American Music and the Struggle for Freedom
Online via ASALH TVThis event features panelist Fernando Orejuela, panelist Langston C. Wilkins, panelist Allie Martin, panelist Stephanie Shonekan, panelist Portia K. Maultsby, and moderator John Fleming.
Call & Response: Liberation Theology, Resistance and The Black Church
Online via ASALH TVThis event features the call John W. Kinney, respondents Yolanda Pierce, Terrence L. Johnson, Julia Robinson Moore, Earle J. Fisher and ASALH Richmond Branch President Michelle Evans-Oliver.
February National Branch Membership Meeting
Virtual via ZoomPresident Dulaney’s request The Zoom information will be emailed to ASALH Branch members. If you are a member who is not receiving member emails, please send a email with your name, email address, and phone number to [email protected].
Chat with 2022 National Parks Conservation Association’s Centennial Leader Awardees Sylvia Cyrus and Audrey Peterman
Virtual via ZoomSylvia Cyrus and Audrey Peterman were awardees of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Centennial Leader Award in 2022 and will be interviewed Saturday, February 11, 2023 @ 10 a.m. to 12 noon EST. There will be a Q&A after the first 45 minutes of the zoom meeting where questions can be posted in the Zoom chat […]
National Capital Parks-East Black History Month 2023 Event: Frederick Douglass Birthday Celebration
Capital Turnaround 770 M Street, SE, Washington, DC, United StatesThis annual program to celebrate Frederick Douglass includes music by the Jubilee Voices of the Washington Revels, performances by the student winners of the Douglass Oratorical Contest and a light-hearted debate style program that asks the question “What place did Frederick Douglass call home?”
The American Colonization Society: Back to Africa vs American Inclusion and the Struggle Over Identity
Seward Park Library 192 East Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesFormed in 1816 during a time of racial unrest, the American Colonization Society, with support from some Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and U.S. presidents such as Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, believed that freed enslaved people could not integrate into American society, and thus ought to seek their destiny in Liberia.
ASALH Rochester Branch Black History Month Event: A Moderated Discussion with the Honorable Malik D. Evans, Mayor of Rochester, New York
Virtual via ZoomThe honorable Mayor Malik Evans will join ASALH Rochester to discuss the importance of learning Black History and the legacy of his father, the late great Minister Lawrance Lee Evans Sr. who was a true foot soldier for equality and justice.
Morningside Players Theatre present We The People: A Montage of Reminiscences on Thurgood Marshall
The Morningside Players 100 La Salle Street Box #1, New York, NY, United StatesMorningside Players Theatre present We The People: A Montage of Reminiscences on Thurgood Marshall
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Mary L Romney-Schaab
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Mary L Romney-Schaab discussing her book, An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Ruben Britt Jr.
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Ruben Britt Jr. discussing his book, Black and Powerful: A Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Rohulamin Quander
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Rohulamin Quander discussing his book, The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy,
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Timothy E. Nelson
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Dr. Timothy E. Nelson discussing his book, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1900-1930).
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Tony Warner
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Tony Warner discussing his book, Black History Walks in London: Volume 1.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Virginia Summey
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Dr. Virginia Summey discussing his book, The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Brian Jones
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Dr. Brian Jones discussing his book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Elizabeth Eckford, Dr. Eurydice Stanley, & Grace Stanley
VirtualThis Festival Session features author Elizabeth Eckford discussing the book, The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
Black College Con Tour: Black College Gaming Summit & E-Sports Tournament
A summit consisting of conversations, connections, and tournaments; introducing Black College students to Black corporate partners & entrepreneurs in the gaming/esports industry.
Glasgow and Black Resistance
Glasgow has historically been a site of Black activism and resistance. From speeches by Black abolitionists and civil rights activists such as Frederick Douglass and Sarah Remond, to the establishment of abolitionist societies across the city and to the foundation of a trailblazing Black run football (soccer) club. Join CRER (BHM Scotland) for a talk […]
Poetry – Fighting with Words: Then & Now
Online via ASALH TVThis Festival Session features moderator Judi Moore Latta and panelists Shauna M. Morgan, Tony Medina and Frank X Walker.
Black Founders: Camden’s Hidden Figures
Cherry Hill Public Library 1100 Kings Highway North, Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH – Social Justice Workshop Wednesday: Black Resistance Across Time and Space
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH - This Festival Session features author Dr. Lisa Brock.
Virtual Author’s Talk with Reporter Jonathan Abrams and Reporter Angela Idowu: Celebrating Black History: Music As Resistance
VirtualThis Festival Session features reporter Jonathan Abrams of the New York Times and reporter Angela Idowu of WTTW.
The Carter G. Woodson Home Grand Re-Opening Preview
Online via ASALH TVThis Festival Session features presenters W. Marvin Dulaney, Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Vince Vaise, and Michael Chambers.
The Story of Mercy-Douglas Hospital Airing on PBS
VirtualNurses from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, c. 1940. Photo courtesy of Temple University, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital is about two Philadelphia hospitals founded by African Americans to provide medical care for African Americans is scheduled to air Thurs., Feb. 16th at 7:30 pm and 11 […]
ASALH Julian Baltimore County Branch Event: A Sample Collection of Art by Baltimore Artist Reva Goodwin Lewie
The Peale Center 225 Holiday St., Baltimore, MD, United StatesReva Goodwin Lewie has been a pioneer for not only the Baltimore area as a native, but including her activism in the Civil Rights Movement. As an art educator, Mrs. Lewie thrived in connecting with the youth.
The 1619 Project Education Conference (2023)
VirtualOn February 18 and 19, The 1619 Project will host the second 1619 Education Conference. This free, virtual, two-day event will feature a stellar lineup of keynote speakers and panelists, including Ibram X. Kendi, Martha S. Jones, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kimberly Henderson, Cornelius Eady, A. Van Jordan, and Tim Seibles. It will also offer participants the opportunity […]
“Walk in the Footsteps of Dr. Carter G. Woodson!”
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House 1318 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., DC, United StatesVisitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. In this spellbinding first person delivery "Dr. Woodson" will take visitors from the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site on an interpretive journey to Dr. Woodson's residence in the Shaw Neighborhood.
National Capital Parks-East Black History Month 2023 Event: Walk with Woodson
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
ASALH Rochester Branch Black History Month Event: A Discussion with Youth Ambassador Farrell Carey
Virtual via ZoomFarrell Carey, a Youth Ambassador at the Levine Center to End Hate and sophomore at Vertus High school in Rochester, New York, will discuss his research on the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground.
Preserving Black Resistance
Online via ASALH TVThis Festival Session features moderator Omar Eaton-Martinez and panelists Nathaniel Moore, Cheylon Woods, and Felicia Bell.
South Africa Youth Dialogue Black Resistance Theme
Virtual via ZoomA dialogue with an intergenerational group, to include youth from Phokeng Village, South Africa, Bafokeng Nation, and youth from Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, Prince George's County Truth Branch of ASALH, discussing this year's Black History Theme: Black Resistance, relative to the similarities faced by Black youth around the world and the solutions they envision.
Black British Civil Rights: The Fight for Equality 1820-2020
VirtualTony Warner author of Black History Walks Volume 1 will detail Black British Civil Rights, a US to UK timeline comparison. The term ‘Civil Rights’ automatically triggers images of the American fight for equality and freedom even in Britain. This illustrated talk details Black resistance against British racist oppression from; the 19th century Jamaican who […]
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ASALH Rose Family Cleveland Branch Event: Audacious & Courageous Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Cleveland Public Library, Louis Stokes Wing, Room B 525 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH, United StatesPlease join the Rose Family Cleveland ASALH Branch & Gaidi Nkruma, the ASALH Regional Coordinator, presenting an engaging and informative discourse on the fearless leadership of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune & Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
African Ancestry @20 Celebration and World Tour Launch
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co 641 D Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United StatesWe're doing it big in 2023! Come celebrate with us and enter the Embrace Africa Sweepstakes for the chance to win a FREE TRIP TO AFRICA! Meet the company Co-founders Dr. Gina Paige and Dr. Rick Kittles, and the rest of the AA Team.
ASALH 2023 Book Prize
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Virtual Marquee Event: A Conversation with Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution
ZoomThis Festival Session features Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution.
Professor Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD to deliver Annual John Hope Franklin Distinguished Lecture
Virtual via ZoomZebulon V. Miletsky, PhD’s new book Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston and provides a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city.
Resistance and the Black Press
Online via ASALH TVThis Festival Session features moderator Clint C. Wilson II, panelists Denise Rolark-Barnes, Frances Murphy, Tamara M. Saunders, Constance Chiogor Ikokwu, Rod Doss and E. James West.
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Discover the Legacy of The Rosenwald Schools
Ridgeley Rosenwald School 8507 Central Avenue, Capitol Heights, MD, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate Black History Month by sharing the legacy of Julius Rosenwald and his partnerships with Booker T. Washington and nearly 5,000 African American communities that led to the building of 5,357 Rosenwald School facilities in 15 states