Belly 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.
Attend 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
The Story of Mr. Thomas Carney: A Maryland Patriot of the American Revolutionary War
The 400-Year Holocaust
An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Images of America: The Richmond 34 and the Civil Rights Movement
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
BLACK FEMINIST is a lively and illuminating documentary that explores the double-edged sword of racial and gender oppression that Black Women face in America.
The Healing Power of Education: Afrocentric Pedagogy as a Tool for Restoration and Liberation
A Higher Mission: The Careers of Alonzo and Althea Brown Edmiston in Central Africa
FANNIE 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.
This panel explores Jones-Branch's 2021 publication, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965.
This roundtable will discuss career pathways outside of academia including archival work, the National Park Service, and museum work.
In 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.
This roundtable/workshop/discussion involves questions and responses from preeminent scholars who are mentors and academic leaders in their fields.
A 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.
This Plenary Session features panelists Bertis D. English, Eddie R. Cole, Crystal R. Sanders, Adam Harris, and Jelani M. Favors.
This Roundtable explores Treva Lindsey's publication, America, Goddam: Violence, Women, and The Struggle for Justice.
Sign up to give a three minute presentation on your dissertation topic. Top three will get prizes.
This Plenary Session features panelists Cheryl T. Grills, Veronica T. Watson, Lewis H. Rogers Jr., and Joseph L. Green.
Storming 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.
This Plenary Session features panelists Eboni Preston Goddard, Tina Naremore Jones, Josephine Bolling McCall, Phillip Howard, Joshua Jenkins, and Meg Ford.
Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History
Growing Up in the United States of America
This roundtable explores Julius Fleming's publication, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and The Unfinished Project of Emancipation.
The ruling that rendered more than 200,000 people stateless, without nationality, identity or a homeland, a young attorney named Rosa Iris mounts a grassroots campaign, challenging electoral corruption and advocating for social justice.
BARBARA LEE: SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER is an intimate and inspiring portrait of Representative Barbara Lee, a champion of civil rights and a steadfast voice for human rights, peace, and economic and racial justice in the U.S. Congress.
This Presidential Session features panelists W. Marvin Dulaney, Chastity Bradford, DeWayne Ellis, and Tom Ellison
This Key Session features panelists Daina Ramey Berry, Tanisha Ford, Ashley Farmer, KT Ewing, and Anastasia Curwood.
This Key Session features panelists Maranda C. Ward, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Valin S. Jordan, and Dr. Yolanda Lewis-Ragland.
Two films on Africatown, Alabama
This Plenary Session features panelists Ameenah Shakir, Michelle Browder, Stephanie Y. Evans, Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, and Deirdre Cooper Owens.
In this BAFTA award-winning film, America's War on Abortion, two-time Emmy and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan examines the erosion of reproductive rights in the United States, foregrounding the stories of those often forgotten in this ‘war’ who nonetheless find themselves on its frontline: impoverished women and women of color.
FRUIT tells the story of how the power of mentoring can shift the narrative of the young black male.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. […]
Program begins at 1pm Topic: Mental Health illnesses and Healthcare What are the Socioeconomic Disparities in Black Mental Healthcare? Saturday October 15, 2022 12:30pm
ASALH Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group Branch Monthly Meeting October 18, 2022 6pm CST
Join us @ The “Meeting Room” of Valley Forge NHP, or attend live (via Zoom): This presentation represents the culmination of a year’s work examining African American participation during the […]
Executive Council Meeting Thursday, October 20, 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 […]
