ASALH Bethel Dukes Branch Annual Pilgrimage and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the graves of Bethel Dukes and Carter G. Woodson

Lincoln Cemetery 4100 Suitland Rd., Suitland, MD, United States

Bethel Dukes Branch paying homage to Dr. Woodson for his birthday, December 10, 2022. Members in picture are Sybil Williams, Ardie Myers, Miramba Williams, and Lavonda Broadnax. Join us at the annual Pilgrimage and Wreath Laying Ceremony at the graves of Bethel Dukes and Carter G. Woodson! December 10, 2022 11:00am EST Lincoln Ceremony 4100 […]

ASALH Tampa Bay Branch Dr. Carter G. Woodson Birthday History Walk & Luncheon

The ASALH Tampa Bay, Fla. Branch and the St. Petersburg, Fla. ASALH Branch will hold a joint celebration of Dr. Woodson's birthday with a 10:30 a.m. Monday December 19, 2022 Black History tour and lecture at the Robert W. Saunders Public Library, 1505 N. Nebraska Avenue, followed by a 12 noon lunch at the Columbia […]

Carter G. Woodson Louisville ASALH Branch Meeting – “Legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson for Today”

Virtual via Zoom

The Carter G. Woodson Louisville, Kentucky ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History) Branch is pleased to announce that Dr. Craig Woodson will be the speaker at its zoom December meeting to celebrate the birthday of our founder Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of Negro History Week, now African American History […]

PBS Books: Author Talk: ZORA NEALE HURSTON with Genevieve West, Ph.D., & Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ph.D.

  PBS Books, in collaboration with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is pleased to host the program about Zora Neale Hurston's latest book "You Don't Know Us Negroes & Other Essays" with co-editor Genevieve West, Ph.D. in conversation with Monica Miller, Ph.D., in connection with AMERICAN EXPERIENCE episode Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space. Co-editor Henry Louis Gates, […]

ASALH W. Marvin Dulaney D/FW Branch Watch Party Event, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Reads His “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Virtual via YouTube

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, sitting in the Jefferson County Jail, in Birmingham, Alabama, 11/3/67. Everett/CSU Archives. In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) celebration we want to take this time on Saturday January 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. CST. To observe one of our profound members during the Civil Rights Movement. The W. […]

Documentary Film: THE BIG PAYBACK Airs on PBS

Online/PBS Television

ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY A rookie alderwoman from Evanston, Illinois, led the passage of the first tax-funded reparations for Black Americans. While she and her community struggle with the burden to make restitution for its citizens, a national racial crisis engulfs the country. Will the debt ever be addressed, or is it too late for this […]

Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture (Session 1)

Chesterwood announces the first roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People, By the People: Transforming National Trust […]

Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture (Session 2)

Virtual

Chesterwood announces the second roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People by the People: Transforming National Trust […]

ReadersMagnet at LibLearnX 2023: Making a Festival out of Literature and Books

LouNew Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center 900 Convention Center Blvd, New Orleans, LA, United States

Self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will open its book event season with LibLearnX: The Library Learning Experience (LLX). The said event will run from January 27 to 30, 2023, at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA.

ASALH James Weldon Johnson Branch Program & Meeting

903 West Union Street Jacksonville, Florida 32204 903 West Union Street, Jacksonville, FL, United States

The history of the branch will be presented by our Local Historian Khamil L. Ojoyo. Other presentations are "The Power & Science of Positivity" by Elaine Sugar and "Parliamentary Procedure" by Linda Butner.