In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
Martha's Vineyard Branch Business Meeting July 16, 2025 1:00 p.m. EST In-Person Event @ Edgartown Public Library
Online Via Zoom | Thursday July 17, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. CST Join President Kaye Wise Whitehead, Executive Director Sylvia Cyrus, other ASALH officers, and members of the […]
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In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
Save the Date for AAAM 2025. Charleston, SC
Live Digital Event | Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. CST ASALH Tampa Bay 2025 Lecture Series Overview The Tampa Bay chapter of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is proud to launch its 2025 Lecture Series. Rooted in the legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, […]
In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
ASALH PhilaMontco Branch Meetings Schedule and Locations Sunday, January 26, 2025- Black History Month Proclamation Ceremony (Arcadia University) February 1, 2025- Black Ballerina Community Screening and Recruitment Fair Sunday, March 23, 2025- Women’s History Month (Bala Cynwyd Library) Sunday, April 27, 2025- Business Meeting (virtual) Thursday, June 12, 2025- Voices of the Community Opening Ceremony […]
In-Person Event | July 30, 2025 | 4:00 p.m. EST A'Lelia Bundles is an award-winning journalist and the great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker. Ms. Bundles will present her newest biography, […]
In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
In-Person Event | August 18, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. EST to 1:00 p.m. EST Back by Popular Demand!! Join us Monday, August 18, 2025 @ 10:00 AM at The Mariposa Museum 57 Circuit Avenue Oak Bluffs MA 02557 NO REFUNDS. All Sales are final. Brunch Buffet Performances Meet the Authors Private Book Signing Join us […]
In-Person Event | June 14 through August 23, 2025 | 3:00 p.m. CST Learn the history they don’t want you to know. The W. M. Dulaney Branch of ASALH invites […]
In-Person Event | August 24, 2025 | 5:00 p.m. EST Please join us in honoring the recipients of the 2025 ASALH MV Distinguished Achievers Award: Kahina Van Dyke, owner of the Inkwell Haven Hospitality Family and co-founder of the MV Juneteenth Jubilee celebration, Roger Schilling, owner of the not-to-be missed "C'est la Vie" retail store, […]
In-Person Event | Saturday, September 6 2025 | 1:00 p.m. EST Book Talk by James B. Haile, author of The Dark Delight of Being Strange. Mr. Haile is an Associate Professor of Philosophy with a joint appointment in English at the University of Rhode Island. In a series of stories and essays, Mr. Haile traces […]
ASALH PhilaMontco Branch Meetings Schedule and Locations Sunday, January 26, 2025- Black History Month Proclamation Ceremony (Arcadia University) February 1, 2025- Black Ballerina Community Screening and Recruitment Fair Sunday, March 23, 2025- Women’s History Month (Bala Cynwyd Library) Sunday, April 27, 2025- Business Meeting (virtual) Thursday, June 12, 2025- Voices of the Community Opening Ceremony […]
ASALH PhilaMontco Branch Meetings Schedule and Locations Sunday, January 26, 2025- Black History Month Proclamation Ceremony (Arcadia University) February 1, 2025- Black Ballerina Community Screening and Recruitment Fair Sunday, March […]
110th Annual Conference September 24-28th, 2025 Use the form below to sign up for ASALH emails to stay updated about the conference.
Executive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 24, 2025 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please RSVP […]
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.
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 War Edda L. Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and was executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: […]
Chair: 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)
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 racism, urban poverty & inequality in America.
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 to examine the repercussions of that fateful encounter.
An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
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.
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 a master’s from Howard University, and a doctorate from Yale University. He began his teaching career at Howard and spent the majority of his career […]
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. of History) Moderator: Naomi R. Williams
All current members are encouraged to attend the Annual Members' Business Meeting. Details will be posted on the Member's Private page in September. https://asalh.org/members/membership-meeting/ President Kaye Wise Whitehead and the […]
A principal lovingly reflects on the 90-year legacy of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, the first Muslim private school system in the country.
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 […]