ASALH Bethel Dukes Branch Annual Pilgrimage and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the graves of Bethel Dukes and Carter G. Woodson

Lincoln Cemetery 4100 Suitland Rd., Suitland, MD, United States

Bethel Dukes Branch paying homage to Dr. Woodson for his birthday, December 10, 2022. Members in picture are Sybil Williams, Ardie Myers, Miramba Williams, and Lavonda Broadnax. Join us at the annual Pilgrimage and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the graves of Bethel Dukes and Carter G. Woodson! December 10, 2022 11:00am EST Lincoln Ceremony 4100 […]

ASALH Charleston Area Branch Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday Commemoration

Avery Research Center 125 Bull St, Charleston, SC, United States

The Charleston Area Branch ASALH celebrates the 147th birthday of Dr Carter G. Woodson, " the Father of Black History".The celebration will include tributes to the life and legacy of Dr. Woodson, Charleston Remembrance Committee Recognition and a panel discussion entitled " Black Health, Wellness and Resistance - Remembering the 1969 Hospital Strike".

ASALH Savannah Yamacraw Branch 5th Grade Reading & Birthday Party

The branch will host a birthday party for Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Branch members will read the book "Carter Reads the Newspaper," by Deborah Hopkinson for two 5th grade classes at Hodge Elementary School in Savannah, GA. The illustrated book will be discussed by the students. Branch members will then host a birthday party for […]

Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH & the Pittsburgh Chapter of AAHGS Present: Celebration of Carter G. Woodson’s 147th Birthday

Virtual via Zoom

"How Well Do You Know Dr. Carter G. Woodson?" This program will also feature Carl Redwood, Chair, Hill District Consensus Group, Projector Director, Pittsburgh Black Worker Center and a Descendant of Carter G. Woodson. Mr. Redwood will be giving a presentation on Dr. Woodson. The Hill City program located in the historic Hill District was […]

ASALH Dr. Carter G. Woodson Greater Trenton Branch Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday Commemoration

The 1719 William Trent House Museum 15 Market Street, Trenton, NJ, United States

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson Birthday Commemoration Program Sunday, December 18 2:00 PM 2:00pm Opening Prayer 2:10pm Occasion 2:20 pm President, Gerald Truehart (President’s Welcome) 2:30pm Book Synopsis 3:30pm Closing - Membership drive (How, upcoming programs and meeting dates and time)

ASALH Tampa Bay Branch Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday History Walk & Luncheon

The ASALH Tampa Bay, Fla. Branch and the St. Petersburg, Fla. ASALH Branch will hold a joint celebration of Dr. Woodson's birthday with a 10:30 a.m. Monday December 19, 2022 Black History tour and lecture at the Robert W. Saunders Public Library, 1505 N. Nebraska Avenue, followed by a 12 noon lunch at the Columbia […]

Carter G. Woodson Louisville ASALH Branch Meeting – “Legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson for Today”

Virtual via Zoom

The Carter G. Woodson Louisville, Kentucky ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) Branch is pleased to announce that Dr. Craig Woodson will be the speaker at its zoom December meeting to celebrate the birthday of our founder Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of Negro History Week, now African American History […]

Event Series Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Virtual

The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]

Event Series Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Virtual

The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]

Event Series Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Network to Freedom Applications Open House

Virtual

The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]

PBS Books: Author Talk: ZORA NEALE HURSTON with Genevieve West, Ph.D., & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.

  PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host the program about Zora Neale Hurston's latest book "You Don't Know Us Negroes & Other Essays" with co-editor Genevieve West, Ph.D. in conversation with Monica Miller, Ph.D., in connection with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE episode Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. Co-editor Henry Louis Gates, […]

ASALH W. Marvin Dulaney D/FW Branch Watch Party Event, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reads His “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Virtual via YouTube

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, sitting in the Jefferson County Jail, in Birmingham, Alabama, 11/3/67. Everett/CSU Archives. In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) celebration we want to take this time on Saturday January 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. CST. To observe one of our profound members during the Civil Rights Movement. The W. […]

Documentary Film: THE BIG PAYBACK Airs on PBS

Online/PBS Television

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY A rookie alderwoman from Evanston, Illinois, led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for this […]

Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture (Session 1)

Chesterwood announces the first roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People, By the People: Transforming National Trust […]

Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture (Session 2)

Virtual

Chesterwood announces the second roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People by the People: Transforming National Trust […]

ReadersMagnet at LibLearnX 2023: Making a Festival out of Literature and Books

LouNew Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA, United States

Self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will open its book event season with LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience (LLX). The said event will run from January 27 to 30, 2023, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.

ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch Program & Meeting

903 West Union Street Jacksonville, Florida 32204 903 West Union Street, Jacksonville, FL, United States

The history of the branch will be presented by our Local Historian Khamil L. Ojoyo. Other presentations are "The Power & Science of Positivity" by Elaine Sugar and "Parliamentary Procedure" by Linda Butner.