Sylvia Cyrus and Audrey Peterman were awardees of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Centennial Leader Award in 2022 and will be interviewed Saturday, February 11, 2023 @ 10 a.m. to 12 […]
This annual program to celebrate Frederick Douglass includes music by the Jubilee Voices of the Washington Revels, performances by the student winners of the Douglass Oratorical Contest and a light-hearted debate style program that asks the question “What place did Frederick Douglass call home?”
Formed in 1816 during a time of racial unrest, the American Colonization Society, with support from some Supreme Court justices, members of Congress, and U.S. presidents such as Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, believed that freed enslaved people could not integrate into American society, and thus ought to seek their destiny in Liberia.
The honorable Mayor Malik Evans will join ASALH Rochester to discuss the importance of learning Black History and the legacy of his father, the late great Minister Lawrance Lee Evans Sr. who was a true foot soldier for equality and justice.
Morningside Players Theatre present We The People: A Montage of Reminiscences on Thurgood Marshall
This Festival Session features author Mary L Romney-Schaab discussing her book, An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German.
This Festival Session features author Ruben Britt Jr. discussing his book, Black and Powerful: A Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders.
This Festival Session features author Rohulamin Quander discussing his book, The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy,
This Festival Session features author Dr. Timothy E. Nelson discussing his book, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1900-1930).
This Festival Session features author Tony Warner discussing his book, Black History Walks in London: Volume 1.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Virginia Summey discussing his book, The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Brian Jones discussing his book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
This Festival Session features author Elizabeth Eckford discussing the book, The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
A summit consisting of conversations, connections, and tournaments; introducing Black College students to Black corporate partners & entrepreneurs in the gaming/esports industry.
Glasgow has historically been a site of Black activism and resistance. From speeches by Black abolitionists and civil rights activists such as Frederick Douglass and Sarah Remond, to the establishment […]
This Festival Session features moderator Judi Moore Latta and panelists Shauna M. Morgan, Tony Medina and Frank X Walker.
POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH - This Festival Session features author Dr. Lisa Brock.
This Festival Session features reporter Jonathan Abrams of the New York Times and reporter Angela Idowu of WTTW.
This Festival Session features presenters W. Marvin Dulaney, Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Vince Vaise, and Michael Chambers.
Nurses from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, c. 1940. Photo courtesy of Temple University, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital is about two […]
Reva Goodwin Lewie has been a pioneer for not only the Baltimore area as a native, but including her activism in the Civil Rights Movement. As an art educator, Mrs. Lewie thrived in connecting with the youth.
On February 18 and 19, The 1619 Project will host the second 1619 Education Conference. This free, virtual, two-day event will feature a stellar lineup of keynote speakers and panelists, including […]
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. In this spellbinding first person delivery "Dr. Woodson" will take visitors from the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site on an interpretive journey to Dr. Woodson's residence in the Shaw Neighborhood.
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
Farrell Carey, a Youth Ambassador at the Levine Center to End Hate and sophomore at Vertus High school in Rochester, New York, will discuss his research on the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground.
This Festival Session features moderator Omar Eaton-Martinez and panelists Nathaniel Moore, Cheylon Woods, and Felicia Bell.
A dialogue with an intergenerational group, to include youth from Phokeng Village, South Africa, Bafokeng Nation, and youth from Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, Prince George's County Truth Branch of ASALH, discussing this year's Black History Theme: Black Resistance, relative to the similarities faced by Black youth around the world and the solutions they envision.
Tony Warner author of Black History Walks Volume 1 will detail Black British Civil Rights, a US to UK timeline comparison. The term ‘Civil Rights’ automatically triggers images of the American fight for equality and freedom even in Britain. This illustrated talk details Black resistance against British racist oppression from; the 19th century Jamaican who […]
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Please join the Rose Family Cleveland ASALH Branch & Gaidi Nkruma, the ASALH Regional Coordinator, presenting an engaging and informative discourse on the fearless leadership of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune & Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
We're doing it big in 2023! Come celebrate with us and enter the Embrace Africa Sweepstakes for the chance to win a FREE TRIP TO AFRICA! Meet the company Co-founders Dr. Gina Paige and Dr. Rick Kittles, and the rest of the AA Team.
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This Festival Session features Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution.
Zebulon V. Miletsky, PhD’s new book Before Busing: A History of Boston’s Long Black Freedom Struggle tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston and provides a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city.
This Festival Session features moderator Clint C. Wilson II, panelists Denise Rolark-Barnes, Frances Murphy, Tamara M. Saunders, Constance Chiogor Ikokwu, Rod Doss and E. James West.
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Join us as we celebrate Black History Month by sharing the legacy of Julius Rosenwald and his partnerships with Booker T. Washington and nearly 5,000 African American communities that led to the building of 5,357 Rosenwald School facilities in 15 states
The Great Depression and early years of World War II represented a transformative historical moment. For African Americans, particularly those in southern cities like Washington, D.C., these years presented newfound opportunities to press vigorously (and in new ways) for equality and end to racial discrimination.
This Festival Session features Dominique Brown, Odell Ruffin, Lyn Dyson and Charlotte Plummer
Program which includes an audio of Fannie Lou Hamer speaking before the credential committee and short video of her life. Two speakers will address the historical period this take place and the voting right act of 1963. Also, there will be "brief discussion at the end of the program. Zoom link
Join us for a conversation with trailblazer Dr. Allie Latimer. Dr. Allie B. Latimer was the first woman and the first African American to serve as General Counsel of a major United States federal agency. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton Institute (Hampton University), Master of Legal Letters degree from The Catholic […]
Barbara S. Dunn will lead a discussion of Carter G. Woodson book, "The Miseducation of the Negro".
Celebration honoring African Americans educated and empowered in Rosenwald Schools, with keynote speaker, Dr, Alvin Thornton -Academician, Educator, Author.
