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ASALH Margaret and Robert Garner Branch of Cincinnati Executive Board Meeting & Founders Day Celebration
Executive Board Meeting 12:30 pm Founders Day Celebration begins at 1pm Topic: The School to Prison Pipeline. A Global Crisis affecting our Black Youth. Saturday September 10, 2022
Smithsonian Channel™ to Debut Picturing The Obamas Special Premiering Saturday, September 10 At 8/7c
VirtualSmithsonian Channel™ announced today a new documentary titled Picturing the Obamas, premiering September 10th. Viewers will learn from curators, journalists, and art critics about the ways in which President Barack and Mrs. Michelle Obama’s portraits commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery disrupt traditional presidential portraiture and spur museums to reach new audiences. The special will follow the unveiling of the White House portraits of the Obamas on September 7th.
ASALH Executive Council Meeting
Online via ZoomExecutive Council Meeting Thursday, September 15, 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 […]
ASALH The Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group Founder’s Day Program-Birthing While Black
Bluford Conference Center 3050 Prospect Ave., Kansas City, TX, United States
Live! at the Library Free Performance at the Library of Congress, Mosaic’s Till Trilogy Reflection Series
Thomas Jefferson Building - Coolidge Auditorium 10 1st Street SE, Washington, DC, United StatesMosaic on the Road: Library of Congress Join Mosaic on Thursday, September 22 at 7PM as we partner with the Library of Congress for a free community event, Live! at the Library. Enjoy […]
National Membership Committee Annual Branch Workshop
VirtualMeeting topic: The Quarterly National Branch Membership Meeting All Branch members and those interested in branch membership are invited to attend the annual branch workshop. ASALH members can secure the […]
ASALH Tampa Bay Branch Event, Slavery by Another Name Movie & Panel Discussion
C. Blythe Andrews Library 2607 E Dr. MLK Jr. Blvd, Tampa, FL
ASALH Annual Members Meeting
Online via ZoomAnnual Members Meeting Monday, September 26, 2022 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will be held […]
107th Annual Meeting and Conference
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThe ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
Social Justice Thursday: How Do We Get Healthy?
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Thursday Luncheon
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Social Justice @ ASALH: Equal Justice Today & Beyond
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
On-site Exhibitor Booths and Marketplace
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Social Justice Thursday: First Aid To Free US
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
ASALH Film Festival: Hidden in Full View
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesHidden in Full View introduces the story of the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland. The story of townspeople who stole a life, terrorized Black residents, destroyed the Black business district, listened to the testimony from 124 witnesses to the brutal lynching, and yet held no one accountable. To this day.
Plenary Session: A Round Table Discussion of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session, sponsored by the Howard/Mellon Social Justice Consortium, features panelists Fred Gray, Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Hilary N. Green, and Robert L. Harris, Jr.
Justice Deffered Roundtable: Race & the Supreme Court
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Timetra White
VirtualFinding Liv
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Jesse Olsavsky
VirtualThe Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: June Manning Thomas
VirtualStruggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
BELLY OF THE BEAST
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBelly of the Beast: When a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California’s women’s prisons, they wage a near-impossible battle against the Department of Corrections.
In-Person Author’s Book Signing
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesAttend in the In-Person Author’s Book Signing at the 107th Annual Meeting and Conference on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Steven Xavier Lee
VirtualThe Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dante King
VirtualThe 400-Year Holocaust
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Mary L. Romney-Schaab
VirtualAn Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Wendy Reed-Randall
VirtualThe Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Kimberly A. Matthews
VirtualImages of America: The Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Sonya Ramsey
VirtualBertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
BLACK FEMINIST
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesBLACK FEMINIST is a lively and illuminating documentary that explores the double-edged sword of racial and gender oppression that Black Women face in America.
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Greg Wiggan
VirtualThe Healing Power of Education: Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation
Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Kimberly D. Hill
VirtualA Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa
On-site Exhibitor Booths and Marketplace
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesFANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, a documentary producer by her grand-niece Monica Land, is a portrait of a civil rights activist and the injustices in America that made her work essential.
The Black Women’s Agenda, Inc. Save-the-Date
Willard Intercontinental Hotel 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965 by Cherisse Jones Branch
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis panel explores Jones-Branch's 2021 publication, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965.
Felix Armfield Series: Career Pathways Outside of Academia
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis roundtable will discuss career pathways outside of academia including archival work, the National Park Service, and museum work.
ASALH Film Festival: The SixTripleEight
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesIn February 1945, the U.S. Army sent 855 black women from the Women’s Army Corps (WACs) to England and France to clear the backlog of mail in the European Theater of Operations. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the SixTripleEight, was the only all-black female battalion to serve in Europe during WWII. Confronted with racism and sexism from their own leadership and troops, they served with honor and distinction completing their mission in six months.
Felix Armfield Series: Learning Lunch: “And who are you? What do you do?”
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis roundtable/workshop/discussion involves questions and responses from preeminent scholars who are mentors and academic leaders in their fields.
Friday Woodson Luncheon
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
ASALH Film Festival: A Crime on the Bayou
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesA CRIME ON THE BAYOU chronicles the legal fight as it goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the process enshrines the Constitutional right to a jury trial at the state level.
Key Session: A Conversation on the Role, Legacy, and Future of HBCUs in Higher Education
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Bertis D. English, Eddie R. Cole, Crystal R. Sanders, Adam Harris, and Jelani M. Favors.
Hine-Horne Book Roundtable: America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice by Treva Lindsey
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Roundtable explores Treva Lindsey's publication, America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice.
Key Session: Remembering the Roots of Funk: An Oral History with Fred Wesley & Dr. Scot Brown
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United States
Felix Armfield Series: Dissertation Pitch Lightening Round
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesSign up to give a three minute presentation on your dissertation topic. Top three will get prizes.
Key Session: I Fear For My Life
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Cheryl T. Grills, Veronica T. Watson, Lewis H. Rogers Jr., and Joseph L. Green.
STORMING CAESARS PALACE
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesStorming Caesars Palace challenges the pernicious lie of the “Welfare Queen,” and highlights the visionary leadership of low-income grassroots organizers whose courage, tenacity and dreams could not be quashed, against all odds.
Plenary Session: The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area: Healing Through History & Culture
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, Montgomery, AL, United StatesThis Plenary Session features panelists Eboni Preston Goddard, Tina Naremore Jones, Josephine Bolling McCall, Phillip Howard, Joshua Jenkins, and Meg Ford.