In-person Event | September 9, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. EST | Open to the public The Manasota Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History […]
In-Person Event | September 10, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green. Presented by Hill Center in conjunction with the Benjamin Drummond Emancipation Day Celebration. Hill Center’s At Issue series continues […]
Live Digital Event | September 13, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m. CST There will be a brief business meeting (election of officers) and a tour of the museum. The […]
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 […]
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 In-person only 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in-person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please […]
Chair: Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio. Presenter: John Goncalves, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History.
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.
Chair: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis. Presenter: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York. Presenter: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly.
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 […]
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)
Presenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University.
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 […]
Chair: Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presenter: Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Presenter: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Olivia Johnson, Emory University.
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 […]
An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Chair: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Allison Mashell Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. Presenter: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park. Presenter: JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University. Presenter: Christina J Thomas.
Chair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. Presenter: Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran. Presenter: Augustus Wood. Presenter: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH.
Moderator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly. Participant: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Participant: Lia T Bascomb.
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.
Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College. Presenter: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University. Presenter: Claude Marks, Freedom Archives. Presenter: Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Chair: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Discussant: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin. Presenter: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College.
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 […]
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. […]
Leader: Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation.
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 Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals […]
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
