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.
This Festival Session features W. Marvin Dulaney, Sylvia Cyrus, Shively T. J. Smith, moderator Martha Biondi, panelist Charisse Burden-Stelly, and panelist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
Join staff from the historic Virginia Key Beach Park to explore the history of the park and its role in the African American community in Miami during the Jim Crow Era. Registration is required.
Mayor Karen Bass and Our Authors Study Club cordially invite you to the City of Los Angeles African American Heritage Month Roundtable Discussion "Black Resistance."
This Festival Session features Ibram X. Kendi discussing the book, Magnolia Flower.
Commissioner Mike Davis, the Lura Daniels-Ball, President, Our Authors Study Club, Michael Lawson, President & CEO Los Angeles, Urban League, and other City officials will honor Living Legends at this year's City of Los Angeles African American Heritage Month virtual celebration.
About the event Connecting professional women in a one day comprehensive leadership opportunity for women seeking to connect and collaborate, like minded individuals. Women will leave with enhanced leaderships skills, better equipped to lead in their business, in their community, their organization, and their personal life. Aside from the remarkable lineup of keynote speakers, we […]
This Festival Session features moderator Shirley Sherrod.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Opening Lecture for Black History Month by Dr. Betis English of Alabama State University: "Resisting Revanchism: African American Challenges to Educational Subordination in the Unreconstructed South, 1865 to the Present"
Panel discussion and opening of series exploring violence and music of Black America , co-sponsored with The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts.
This Festival Session features moderator Gloria Browne-Marshall, panelist Vladimiro Fortuna, and panelist Joao Laurenco.
This Festival Session features author Grace Jackson-Brown discussing her book Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy.
This Festival Session features author Holly A. Pinheiro Jr discussing his book The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.
This Festival Session features author Christopher Nelson discussing his book The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939.
This Festival Session features author Cody McDevitt discussing his book Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania.
This Festival Session features author Kristin Waters discussing her book Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought.
This Festival Session features author Desiree Cooper discussing her book Nothing Special.
This Festival Session features author Phyllis Biffle Elmore discussing her book Quilt of Souls: A Memoir.
This event features panelist Fernando Orejuela, panelist Langston C. Wilkins, panelist Allie Martin, panelist Stephanie Shonekan, panelist Portia K. Maultsby, and moderator John Fleming.
This event features the call John W. Kinney, respondents Yolanda Pierce, Terrence L. Johnson, Julia Robinson Moore, Earle J. Fisher and ASALH Richmond Branch President Michelle Evans-Oliver.
President Dulaney’s request The Zoom information will be emailed to ASALH Branch members. If you are a member who is not receiving member emails, please send a email with your name, email address, and phone number to membership@asalh.org.
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 noon EST. There will be a Q&A after the first 45 minutes of the zoom meeting where questions can be posted in the Zoom chat […]
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 Tony Warner discussing his book, Black History Walks in London: Volume 1.
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 Dr. Virginia Summey discussing his book, The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts.
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 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 of abolitionist societies across the city and to the foundation of a trailblazing Black run football (soccer) club. Join CRER (BHM Scotland) for a talk […]
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 Philadelphia hospitals founded by African Americans to provide medical care for African Americans is scheduled to air Thurs., Feb. 16th at 7:30 pm and 11 […]
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 Ibram X. Kendi, Martha S. Jones, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kimberly Henderson, Cornelius Eady, A. Van Jordan, and Tim Seibles. It will also offer participants the opportunity […]
Visitors will get a rare chance to honor Black History Month by literally walking in the footsteps of its founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
This Festival Session features author Charlene Hampton Holloway discussing her book, Whitlock's Compositions.
This Festival Session features author Frederick Williams discussing his book, Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement.
This Festival Session features author Michelle R. Scott discussing his book, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America.
This Festival Session features author Bernice Alexander Bennett discussing her book, Black Homesteaders of the South.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Dan Berger discussing his book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
This Festival Session features author Denys Davis discussing her book, Unheard Melodies.
This Festival Session features author Margaret Seidler discussing her book, Ukweli - Searching for Healing Truth - South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism.
This Festival Session features author Keith Holmes discussing his book, Black Inventors Crafting Over 200 Years of Success.
In the nation that declared 'Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights' during the French Revolution in 1789, France has shown grievous disdain for the rights of the peoples it enslaved and colonized. At the same time, it has provided a space where the former colonized and African-American expatriates would strive […]
The Tampa Bay Branch of ASALH in collaboration with the Hillsborough County Teachers Association and the West Central Florida Labor Council present the film, "The Killing Floor". A panel discussion will follow.
