ASALH - The Founders of Black History Month | 2024 Schedule of Events

2024 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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Save the Date for the 109th Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Sept. 25-29, 2024

Sep 25

September 25 - September 29

109th Annual Conference

Sep 25

7:00 am - 8:00 am

Zumba with CC

USPS Kwanzaa Stamp 1st Day of Issue Ceremony

Sep 25

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

USPS Kwanzaa Stamp 1st Day Of Issue Ceremony

Welcome Happy Hour

Sep 25

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Welcome Happy Hour

Opening Reception

Sep 25

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Opening Reception

Bus Tour - Pittsburgh African American Heritage Bus Tour. Thursday, Sept. 26 | 7 am - 11:45 am

Sep 26

7:00 am - 11:45 am

Pittsburgh African American Heritage Bus Tour

Sep 26

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival: The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks

Free

Sep 26

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Emerging Frontiers In Pittsburgh’s Higher Education Leadership Luncheon

Sep 26

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival: Finding Christa

Free

ASALH Freedom School Initiative

Sep 26

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

ASALH Freedom School Initiative

The Making of the August Wilson House

Sep 26

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

The Making of the August Wilson House

Sep 26

3:50 pm - 5:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival: A String of Pearls

Free

Thursday Plenary

Sep 26

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Place, Politics, and the Future of Black Pittsburgh History

Authors Book Signing Event - Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 | 7:30 pm - 9 pm EST. In-person at Embassy Suites by Hilton Pittsburgh Downtown

Sep 26

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Authors Book Signing Event

Sep 26

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

JAAH Reception

Sep 26

8:45 pm - 10:00 pm

ASALH Film Festival: Camille Billops Shorts Festival

Free

Roundtable thumb

Sep 27

8:30 am - 9:40 am

Unpacking HBCU Students’ Fear When Encountering Police

Sep 27

9:00 am - 11:00 am

ASALH Film Festival: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)

Free

Many rivers to cross

Sep 27

10:00 am - 11:40 am

Many Rivers to Cross: Bridging Black studies and Black Theater and Performance

Poster Sessions - Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 | 10am EST

Sep 27

10:00 am - 11:50 am

Poster Sessions

Sep 27

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

Carter G. Woodson Luncheon

Sep 27

1:30 pm - 3:50 pm

ASALH Film Festival: Fences (2016)

Free

An Efficient Womenhood

Sep 27

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

An Efficient Womenhood

William Strickland

Sep 27

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

The Life, Thought, & Activism of William Strickland

Resistance DrBrock

Sep 27

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

Black Resistance and Arts Across Time & Space

NCPA Plenary Session

Sep 27

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

A Soulful Urge: A Conversation about Black artistic expression in and beyond our National Parks

Necrology (Remembrance) Program

Sep 27

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Necrology (Remembrance) Program

Guided Tour of August Wilson The Writer's Landscape

Sep 27

6:00 pm - 7:15 pm

Guided Tour of August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape

Friday Night In Reception

Sep 27

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Friday Night In Reception

Sep 27

7:30 pm - 9:45 pm

ASALH Film Festival: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

Free

Sep 28

9:00 am - 10:30 am

ASALH Film Festival: Black Scranton Project: Preserving African American History in Northeastern PA

Free

Sep 28

11:00 am - 1:30 pm

ASALH Film Festival: The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells

Free

Blassingame Luncheon

Sep 28

12:00 pm - 1:45 pm

John Blassingame Luncheon

The ASALH Freedom School Plan

Sep 28

2:00 pm - 3:40 pm

The ASALH Freedom School Plan

Sep 28

2:00 pm - 3:50 pm

ASALH Film Festival: Tracing Our Path Through Bronzeville (2023)

Free

Saturday Plenary

Sep 28

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Hollywood and Black Histories

Sep 28

7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Awards Banquet

Bus Tour - VIP August Wilson Tour. Sunday, Sept. 29 | 9am

Sep 29

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

VIP August Wilson Tour

The 110th Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. The Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park

Sep 24

September 24, 2025 @ 8:00 am - September 28, 2025 @ 5:00 pm EDT

110th Annual Conference

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