ASALH Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group Branch Monthly Meeting April 19, 2022 6pm CST
On April 14th, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and AASLH released a first-of-its-kind report on the prevalence of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in history organizations in the United States. Significant findings include: Seventy-six percent of respondents reported experiencing gender discrimination and/or sexual harassment personally and 61% reported they know someone who had. […]
Topic: Traditional Chinese, Chiropractic and Osteopathic Medicine What can we learn?
A presentation from 2021–2022 Radcliffe Fellow Ladee Hubbard Ladee Hubbard is a writer whose most recent novel is The Rib King (Amistad, 2021). She is writing a novel that examines the implications of the ways in which Black people in the United States have historically been represented as an internal threat to both public health […]
Thank you for your interest in Preserve the Past, Build For the Future, a four-part webinar series presented by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. We hope for those of you who have attended, you found the programs to be interesting and beneficial. You can view the recordings of the first three webinars on the […]
Immersive, Moveable Feasts starting in the Mt. Zion - Female Union Band Cemeteries at: 27th Street off Q Street Then processing to Dumbarton United Methodist Church 3133 Dumbarton St. NW Immersive performances will be offered starting at 7 pm Friday May 6 & Saturday May 7 Friday May 13 & Saturday May 14 Friday May […]
In an awards ceremony held May 7, 2022, at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, local Branch President Attorney Jacqueline Hubbard was present to deliver a 'check' in the amount of […]
Dr. Deirdre Foreman, Manhattan Branch president will present on early 19th century concept of the medicalization of race and black biological inferiority in southern cities. This event will be held […]
Join us virtually on May 12, 2022, for the 27th Annual Studs Terkel Community Media Awards! Begun in 1994, the Community Media Awards honor storytelling that centers Chicago's people. This is a night for community leaders, advocates, journalists and Public Narrative partners to come together and celebrate the stories that made a difference in our […]
The Liberty African American Legacy Memorial honors more than 750 African Americans buried in the segregated sections of cemeteries in Clay County, including several WWI veterans. Learn about the sacrifice […]
Program begins at 1pm Topic: Financial Wellness in the Black Community How do we {The black family} build Legacy Wealth?
Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Despite claims that midwives contributed to high infant mortality rates. Local women servicing as midwives were […]
ASALH Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group Branch Monthly Meeting May 17, 2022 6pm CST
ASALH & Howard University's Social Justice Consortium present the 3rd edition of our Social Justice Reading Room series. Sponsored by Mellon Just Futures Initiative. ASALH Members & Extended Community, We're […]
A forum by ASALH Dorothy Turner Johnson Branch and Chi Tau Chapter Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. This forum will feature a panel of Doctors speak on current Health and Wellness Topics. The moderator is Dr. Kevin Pruitt.
Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members.
The role of midwives played in caring for, not only young mothers, but the entire family as well.
Madge Allen will present "The History of Midwifery." This event will be held online via Zoom. Zoom link
We have been doing a lot of great work in our program to tell a fuller and inclusive interpretation at our sites...especially around the enslaved. Riversdale would love to have volunteers who want to help and support this endeavor. Please see attached flyer for details. June 4, 2022. Please consider registering to learn more about being […]
Branch Members Meeting for Treasurers (All members are invited to attend this meeting focusing on treasurers.) June 9, 2022 8 p.m. EST Zoom Meeting Branch Members have received the link […]
Program begins at 1pm Topic: Who is responsible for Health care provisions? Is it the government? What are the Obstacles and Barriers to equal healthcare? Saturday June 11, 2022 12:30pm
Linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and […]
Robert G. Stanton Former Director National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior, the first African American appointed Director of the National Park Service will discuss the role of green spaces and cultural sites in building communities, establishing historical memories, and creating a cultural consciousness.
We continue our series on the life and legacy of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. On June 16, our in-person event at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park will feature Dr. Ashley Preston of Howard University, who is the author of "Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State" and previously served as Director […]
Executive Council Meeting Thursday, June 16, 2022 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will be […]
In commemoration of Juneteenth, celebrating the liberation of enslaved people in the Confederate states, and in conjunction with the display of the original Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln, […]
Juneteenth: A Celebration National Archives Museum Dallas/Ft. Worth Branch of ASALH The Dallas African American Museum Friday, June 17, 2022 - 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT Online In commemoration of Juneteenth, celebrating the liberation of enslaved people in the Confederate states, and in conjunction with the display of the original Emancipation […]
Do you have a drive to use social science, data science, data analytics, and evidence to improve public well-being within underrepresented communities? From June 18th to July 1st, 2022, Howard University and Mathematica will once again partner on the only Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) at a Historically Black College and University. SICSS-Howard/Mathematica […]