A powerful docuseries chronicling Mamie Till-Mobley’s life and historic fight, as a Black woman in America, for justice for her son, Emmet Till; sparking the Civil Rights Movement airs tonight […]
Note: Branch members will have a brief business meeting from 11:00AM to 11:30AM. Dr. Johnson’s lecture will begin at 11:30 AM.
Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the […]
The Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group is pleased to join as a sponsor with the Clay County African American Legacy and the Liberty Martin Luther King Jr. Program […]
¡Hola! America250 is kicking off the new year with a Community Conversation with members of Latino, Hispanic, and Chicano communities. January 19, 2022 3-4:15pm This event will be held online. […]
Young Learners can meet Fannie Lou Hamer, an activist in the 1960s and 1970s for voting rights, civil rights, and women’s rights (as portrayed by Sheila Arnold). Fannie Lou Hamer […]
PBS Books, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to interview Dr. Randal Maurice Jelks, author of “Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America”. His book contains 12 meditations on contemporary political struggles for our society. The moderator of the conversation will be Venise Wagner.
This branch meeting starts at 10:00 a.m. and the program on Mental Wellness" The Science & A salute to our Ancestors" will begin at 10:30 a.m. Participants are asked to […]
Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into […]
Topic: Alternative Healthcare and Religion What is the Role of Religion in Healthcare? 1pm part 1 of a (4 Part) Series on Alternative Medicine
The theme for 2022 focuses on the importance of Black Health and Wellness. This theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but […]
Darnall’s Chance House Museum - Black History Month Virtual Book Discussion: "Stolen" with Richard Bell. Meet author Richard Bell, Professor of History at the University of Maryland, as he discusses his […]
The first African American Heritage Month (AAHM) Celebration in LA began in 1949 when Mayor Fletcher Bowron issued the first proclamation calling for all citizens to celebrate the accomplishments of […]
As written by Norma Cavazos Staff Writer ncavazos@dallasnews.com Black history takes the spotlight this month with a series of programs that use visual art, dance, music and even cooking […]
The opening session will describe the month-long celebration of the 2022 Black History theme, Black Health and Wellness, and will invite viewers to join with ASALH in acknowledging the legacy of Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, and other ways of knowing throughout the African Diaspora.
You don't want to miss this fascinating lecture about the Dismal Swamp and African American Freedom Seekers! Join AARP Virginia and attendees from across the U.S. for a FREE virtual […]
The presenter will examine the Effects of 1918 Plague vs the Plague in 2020 on African Americans in Weeksville, Brooklyn and Staten Island, NY. This event will be held online […]
The Manhattan Branch will host a panel discussion on health care disparities in urban African American communities. The panel will explore ways in which race has shaped African American health throughout American history and how it paralleled, reinforced or contradicted the ways in which racialized conceptions of Blacks have shaped healthcare opportunities and/other discourses.
Some of the songsters of the 301st Labor Battalion, which was the first labor organization to go to the great Q.M. Depot at Gievres, France, 1918. This orientation session will […]
Join us for a conversation about the anti-slavery movement centered on the biographies and portraits of Wendell Phillips and Edmonia Lewis. Known for her medallion busts, sculptor Edmonia Lewis often portrayed abolitionists, African Americans and Native Americans, in addition to biblical and mythological figures.
An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German is the true story of how Lionel Romney experienced the Nazi era as told to his daughter, Mary L. Romney-Schaab. He was one of relatively few Black people to be imprisoned in the concentration camp system and even fewer who lived to tell about it.
Although programs and webinars discuss cultural competency, these initiatives often lack an assessment resource to determine the growth and progress of an individual. This is a scholarly resource that offers the guidance and resources to evaluate an individual or entity’s cultural competency and identify areas of development.
As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women’s cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Chaplain & Civil Rights Activist, Dr. Eve Taylor, Pens Her Provocative Book on America’s Troubling History with Race, The Torn Fabric of America: The Racial Divide, Black and White writes in her book, HOW over the ages, slavery has evolved into what can be called modern-day slavery.
Your walk with God: A daily testimony of faith, trust, and belief? A weekly routine of doctrine, tradition, and customs? Or nonexistent? Every person's story is a microcosmic enactment of God's eternal story, a portrayal of His relationship with humanity. Written with a cathartic tone, this sibling story reveals an adventurous testimony to the presence of God over the entire course of a lifetime.
You wont want to miss this fascinating lecture about the Richmond 34! Join AARP Virginia and attendees from across the U.S. for a FREE virtual event on Wednesday, February 9, […]
John McFall was born 15 years after Emancipation. He was the first of eleven children born to a freed couple in Charleston, South Carolina.
In the 1860s, Lloyd Earl was an African American entrepreneur disguised as an enslaved carpenter who traveled nationwide with freedom papers forged by his own hand. Collector of the “comebacks,” Lloyd Earl built the first Negro Kitchen Library in the USA. His family and others like it were found on a list called The Curiously Successful Negro. A list kept in secret for more than 100 years by Harvard University!
