CRUCIAL CONVO: VA BENEFITS
Please join us for a conversation about veterans benefits. If you are an active duty member, veteran, or dependent, especially if your family member had troubles with veteran administration claims.
Please join us for a conversation about veterans benefits. If you are an active duty member, veteran, or dependent, especially if your family member had troubles with veteran administration claims.
Program begins at 1pm Topic: Black Healthcare Organization’s What are the Obstacles and Barriers to equal healthcare for Blacks? How do we eliminate them? Saturday August 13, 2022 12:30pm
Executive Council Meeting Thursday, August 18, 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 held online via Zoom. All members of ASALH are encouraged to attend. Zoom details will be emailed to all members in August.
National Annual Conference Thursday September 1, 2022
Executive Board Meeting 12:30 pm Founders Day Celebration begins at 1pm Topic: The School to Prison Pipeline. A Global Crisis affecting our Black Youth. Saturday September 10, 2022
Smithsonian Channel™ announced today a new documentary titled Picturing the Obamas, premiering September 10th. Viewers will learn from curators, journalists, and art critics about the ways in which President Barack and Mrs. Michelle Obama’s portraits commissioned by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery disrupt traditional presidential portraiture and spur museums to reach new audiences. The special will follow the unveiling of the White House portraits of the Obamas on September 7th.
Executive Council Meeting Thursday, September 15, 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 held online via Zoom. All members of ASALH are encouraged to attend. Zoom details will be emailed to all members in September.
Mosaic on the Road: Library of Congress Join Mosaic on Thursday, September 22 at 7PM as we partner with the Library of Congress for a free community event, Live! at the Library. Enjoy rare insight into the legacy of Emmett Till, beginning with a preview of the auspicious Till Trilogy with playwright Ifa Bayeza and a performance from the […]
Meeting topic: The Quarterly National Branch Membership Meeting All Branch members and those interested in branch membership are invited to attend the annual branch workshop. ASALH members can secure the Zoom information from the Branch Private page. Password will be emailed to all ASALH members.
Annual Members Meeting Monday, September 26, 2022 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. EST Registration is required 24 hours prior to the meeting for all voting members This meeting will be held online via Zoom. All members of ASALH are encouraged to attend. Zoom details will be emailed to all members in September. RSVP for The Annual […]
The ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
Hidden in Full View introduces the story of the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland. The story of townspeople who stole a life, terrorized Black residents, destroyed the Black business district, listened to the testimony from 124 witnesses to the brutal lynching, and yet held no one accountable. To this day.
This Plenary Session, sponsored by the Howard/Mellon Social Justice Consortium, features panelists Fred Gray, Orville Vernon Burton, Armand Derfner, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Hilary N. Green, and Robert L. Harris, Jr.
Finding Liv
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861
Struggling to Learn: An Intimate History of School Desegregation in South Carolina
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.