A Proclamation on Black Music Month, 2023

During Black Music Month, we pay homage to legends of American music, who have composed the soundtrack of American life. Their creativity has given rise to distinctly American art forms that influence contemporary music worldwide and sing to the soul of the American experience.

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

ASALH Tampa Bay Branch USF Juneteenth Festival

On Saturday, June 17, 2023, the Tampa Bay Branch of ASALH participated in the University of South Florida (USF) Black Alumni Society Juneteenth Celebration. This multidisciplinary celebration was a free […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses

Virtual & In-Person

National Museum of African American History and Culture Offers Juneteenth Programming Sure To Tantalize the Senses     To celebrate the day when more than 200,000 enslaved African Americans in […]

Diving with a Purpose Recovering and Reexamining Our Roots

Virtual

A special re-broadcast of this event featuring a panel discussion with divers who seek to preserve the heritage of Black people through discovering and investigating wreckages of slave ships and […]

2023 Ida B Wells Festival

Ida B. Wells National Monument 3729 S Langley Ave., Chicago, IL, United States

“Meet the Candidates” Forum

Virtual via Zoom

Join us online where ASALH members and candidates can meet, July 6th from 7-9pm EST. This event will be hosted by David Walton via Zoom. Members will receive the Zoom […]

“Meet the Candidates” Forum

Virtual via Zoom

Join us online where ASALH members and candidates can meet, July 7th from 7-9pm EST. This event will be hosted by David Walton via Zoom. Members will receive the Zoom […]

African American Civil Rights Network Information Session

Virtual

On Thursday, July 13th at 3:00 pm, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the Park History Program will host an information session on the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN). Created by the African American Civil Rights Act of 2017, and coordinated by the National […]

Truman Civil Rights Symposium: To Secure These Rights

Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC, United States

The Truman Civil Rights Symposium opens with a dramatic program featuring Rep. James E. Clyburn, and Judge Richard Gergel, United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring, and, Dr. Carla Hayden, 14th Librarian of Congress.

Truman Civil Rights Symposium: Evening at the National Archives

National Archives Washington, DC, United States

This public program is offered in conjunction with the Truman Civil Rights Symposium, a three-day national commemoration honoring the 75th anniversary of President Truman’s executive order to desegregate the U.S. Armed Forces.

Truman Civil Rights Symposium: The Future of Inclusion: Equal Opportunity in Today’s Military – and Tomorrow’s

National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, DC, United States

Moderated by Theodore “Ted” R. Johnson, the final program of the Truman Civil Rights Symposium looks ahead to ask where we are going as a nation pledged to human rights and equality, in light of the history of E.O. 9981 and the experiences of African American veterans.