Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) & ASALH Presents “LIFT!: Music and Black Labor Series”
CAAPA Cultural Center (CCC) 1900 Tucker Road, Fort Washington
March On! Festival: Sunday’s Dark Tower/Joy Goddess Soiree
AutoShop 416 Morse Street Northeast, WashingtonWeek of Events
Executive Council Meeting – September 2025
The Nominating Committee shall plan the orientation meeting for new board members which should take place during the September meeting of the Executive Council. Final committee reports must be submitted to the President and Secretary within 15 business days of the Executive Council meeting and the Secretary will send out those reports within 10 business […]
Annual Business Meeting and Convention – September 2025
President’s Report of activity of the EC (page 5) The secretary shall prepare the minutes from the previous meeting for approval
Executive Council Meeting – September/October 2025
The Chair of the Nominating Committee shall introduce the new board members at the Executive Council meeting, the General Membership meeting, and the Branch Workshop meeting. Final committee reports must be submitted to the President and Secretary within 15 business days of the Executive Council meeting and the Secretary will send out those reports within […]
ASALH PhilaMontco Branch Membership Meetings 2025
ASALH PhilaMontco Branch Meetings Schedule and Locations Sunday, January 26, 2025- Black History Month Proclamation Ceremony (Arcadia University) February 1, 2025- Black Ballerina Community Screening and Recruitment Fair Sunday, March 23, 2025- Women’s History Month (Bala Cynwyd Library) Sunday, April 27, 2025- Business Meeting (virtual) Thursday, June 12, 2025- Voices of the Community Opening Ceremony […]
110th Annual Conference
110th Annual Conference September 24-28th, 2025 Use the form below to sign up for ASALH emails to stay updated about the conference.
The North Jersey Stamp Expo: A World Series of Philately Stamp Show
In-Person Event | September 26-28, 2025 The North Jersey Stamp Expo is just around the corner, taking place from Sept 26-28, 2025. We can't wait to see you there! Whether you can only make it for one day or you're free for all three, the North Jersey Stamp Expo is designed to fit your schedule. […]
Sunday, September 21, 2025
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September 21, 2025 -Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) & ASALH Presents “LIFT!: Music and Black Labor Series”
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September 21, 2025 -March On! Festival: Sunday’s Dark Tower/Joy Goddess Soiree
March On! Festival: Sunday’s Dark Tower/Joy Goddess Soiree
In-Person Event | September 21, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. EST Step into the glittering world of the Harlem Renaissance, where art, politics, and pleasure converged in a swirl of brilliance and defiance. Inspired by the legendary gatherings at A’Lelia Walker’s Dark Tower salon—the top floor of her Harlem townhouse on 136th Street—this closing celebration channels the glamour, intellect, […]
Monday, September 22, 2025
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September 22, 2025 -Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) & ASALH Presents “LIFT!: Music and Black Labor Series”
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September 22, 2025 -AACRN Members Only – Network to Freedom NPS Information Session
AACRN Members Only – Network to Freedom NPS Information Session
Webinar | September 22, 2025 | 1:30 p.m. EST | AACRN MEMBERS ONLY AACRN and Underground Railroad Network to Freedom (NTF) Information Session The African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) […]
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
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September 24, 2025 -Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA) & ASALH Presents “LIFT!: Music and Black Labor Series”
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September 24, 2025 -Workshop – Video Production for Historic Sites: Capturing the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
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September 24, 2025 -ASALH Executive Council Meeting
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September 24, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – If We Don’t Get It: A People’s History of Ferguson
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September 24, 2025 -Opening Plenary Session NPC – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 24, 2025 -ASALH 110th Annual Conference Opening Reception
Workshop – Video Production for Historic Sites: Capturing the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
Presenter: Linda Lamar, Founder & Ceo of Dickerson Civic Center. Presenter: Ryan Heathcock, Once Upon A Time Ryan Intl Legal Video Services.
ASALH Executive Council Meeting
Executive Council Meeting Wednesday, September 24, 2025 In-person only 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. EST This meeting will be held in-person at the Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park. Please RSVP below. The meeting location will be emailed to all members who RSVP by September 23rd at 12 pm EST.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
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September 25, 2025 -African American Heritage Bus Tour
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September 25, 2025 -Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making
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September 25, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Midwest Unrest: 1960s Urban Rebellions and the Black Freedom Movement
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September 25, 2025 -The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project
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September 25, 2025 -Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
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September 25, 2025 -Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
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September 25, 2025 -Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association
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September 25, 2025 -Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold
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September 25, 2025 -Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 25, 2025 -Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session
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September 25, 2025 -Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”
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September 25, 2025 -Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
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September 25, 2025 -Community Forum: Black Public High Schools, 1870-1970 – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 25, 2025 -Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years
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September 25, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Soldier’s Life: A Black Woman’s Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion
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September 25, 2025 -Virtual Presentation: “Black History at the Vassall Estate”
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September 25, 2025 -Webinar – Black History at the Vassall Estate
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September 25, 2025 -Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)
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September 25, 2025 -Thursday Night Out & Journal Of African American History Reception – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 25, 2025 -W.G.S M.A. Open House – the CUNY Graduate Center
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September 25, 2025 -Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)
Key Sessions – Remembering and Memorializing Black Labor: Public History as Preservation and Policy-Making
Chair: Nishani Frazier, Miami University of Ohio. Presenter: John Goncalves, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Liam McCandless, North Carolina State University. Presenter: Katie Boatner, North Carolina State University, Public History.
The Statue of Liberty is Black: Perspectives from a Volatile Research Project
Chair: Erick Jackson, Northern Kentucky University. Panelist: Samuel Collins, Towson University. Panelist: Matthew Durington, Towson University. Panelist: Chayanne Marcano, Independent Researcher.
Film Festival: 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
This movie documents Labor Union activist A. Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the Black Pullman porters of the Chicago Pullman Railroad Company in 1920s America.
Key Sessions – Building Harlem’s Global World: Lessons from Hubert Harrison and the Women of Universal Negro Improvement Association
Chair: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Brian Kwoba, University of Memphis. Presenter: Natanya P. Duncan, Queens College City University of New York. Presenter: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Presenter: Charisse Burden-Stelly.
Cynthia Spence Session – Scholars Transforming the Academy: Histories Created, Reimagined, and Retold
Moderator: Cinthya Neal Spence, Spelman College. Presenter: Nafeesa H. Muhammad, Spelman College. Presenter: Vincent Willis, New College of Florida. Presenter: Mahaliah A. Little, Spelman College. Presenter: Maurice Hobson, Georgia State University. Presenter: Kenton Rambsy, Howard University. Presenter: Tanya N. Clark, Morehouse College.
Thursday Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Thursday Luncheon Speaker is Dr. Edda Fields Black, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for her work Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black is the author of Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora and was executive producer and librettist of Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: […]
Towards a Theory of Liberation: The State of Black Radicalism Today – Thursday Plenary Session
Moderator: Ashley Howard, University of Iowa. Panelist: Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University. Panelist: Gerald Horne. Panelist: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University African American Studies. Panelist: Joy James, Williams College.
Presidential Sessions – Fourth Convening and Live Radio Broadcast: “Today with Dr. Kaye”
Presenter: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Panelist: Daryl Michael Scott, Former ASALH National President More speakers to follow!
Film Festival: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the rise & fall of the titular housing complex in St. Louis, examining racism & gov. Policies through interviews with former residents & historical footage. Ft racism, urban poverty & inequality in America.
Key Sessions – A’N’T I A Woman?: Reflections on Black Women’s Lives and Labors After Forty Years
Chair: Cinnamon Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presenter: Candice Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Presenter: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Olivia Johnson, Emory University.
Virtual Presentation: “Black History at the Vassall Estate”
Online Event | September 25, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. EST | Registration Required | Free A new research study, commissioned by the National Park Service and titled "Black History at the Vassall Estate," is nearing completion. This study documents and analyzes the Black experience at 105 Brattle Street (now known as Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site) […]
Webinar – Black History at the Vassall Estate
Live Digital Event | September 25, 2025 | 6:00 p.m. EST Join the authors of Black History at the Vassall Estate for a virtual presentation on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 6:00–7:00 pm ET. They’ll introduce the study, highlight key findings, and offer a behind-the-scenes look at their research and writing process. This free program […]
Film Festival: Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story (2012)
While filming a documentary in Mississippi in 1965, Frank De Felitta forever changed the life of an African-American waiter and his family. In 2011, Frank’s son returns to the Delta to examine the repercussions of that fateful encounter.
W.G.S M.A. Open House – the CUNY Graduate Center
Online via Zoom | September 25, 2025 | 6:30 p.m. EST | Free and Open to the Public Please join the Women's and Gender Studies M.A. Program on Thursday, September 25, at 6:30 PM EST on Zoom for our Open House! Prospective students are encouraged to attend this virtual open house to hear from current students, faculty, and our staff about the program. Attendees […]
Film Festival: Killer of Sheep (1978)
An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.
Friday, September 26, 2025
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September 26, 2025 -Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.
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September 26, 2025 -Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
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September 26, 2025 -Poster Sessions – 110th Annual Conference
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – Labor History Meets Black History: A Conversation Between LAWCHA and ASALH
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century
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September 26, 2025 -Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 26, 2025 -Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963
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September 26, 2025 -The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session
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September 26, 2025 -Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)
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September 26, 2025 -Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
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September 26, 2025 -Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor
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September 26, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
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September 26, 2025 -Teaching Black History as Resistance
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September 26, 2025 -Authors’ Book Signing – 110th Annual Conference
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September 26, 2025 -Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)
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September 26, 2025 -Boots on the Ground Friday Night In Reception
Key Sessions – The Life & Legacy of Robert L. Allen
Moderator: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Participant: Charisse Burden-Stelly. Participant: Ula Yvette Taylor, University of California Berkeley. Participant: Lia T Bascomb.
Key Sessions – Black Women’s Work: Understanding Local Organizing Traditions Within the Civil Rights Movement
Chair: Beatrice J Adams. Presenter: Allison Mashell Mitchell, University of Notre Dame. Presenter: Jessica A. Rucker, University of Maryland College Park. Presenter: JoCora Moore, Elizabeth City State University. Presenter: Christina J Thomas.
Key Sessions – A Discussion on the History of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s Freedom Schools with Charles Cobb, Jr.
Chair: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. Presenter: Charles Cobb, SNCC Veteran. Presenter: Augustus Wood. Presenter: Leslie Etienne, Joseph T. Taylor Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Faith Golden, African American Museum of Dallas
Film Festival: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, which propels him into a macabre universe.
Key Sessions – Crusaders for Justice: Robert & Mabel Williams’ Memoirs and Their Value for the Twenty-First Century
Chair: Edward Onaci, Ursinus College. Presenter: Akinyele Umoja, Georgia State University. Presenter: Claude Marks, Freedom Archives. Presenter: Gloria House, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Friday Blassingame Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
The John Blassingame Luncheon is named after one of ASALH’s stalwart members. Born on March 23, 1940, in Covington, Georgia, the future historian graduated from Fort Valley State College, received a master’s from Howard University, and a doctorate from Yale University. He began his teaching career at Howard and spent the majority of his career […]
Presidential Sessions – Framing the “Freedom Season”: A Meditation on 1963
Chair: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University. Discussant: Candace Cunningham, University of Arkansas. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas at Austin. Presenter: Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Manhattan Branch of ASALH. Presenter: Kellie Carter Jackson, Wellesley College.
The Legacy and Scholarship of Joe William Trotter, Jr. – Friday Plenary Session
Participant: Augustus Wood Participant: Sundiata Kieta Cha-Jua Participant: Blair LM Kelley (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Participant: Leslie M. Harris (Northwestern University) Commentator: Joe W. Trotter (Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of History) Moderator: Naomi R. Williams
Film Festival: Clara’s Fruit (2025)
A principal lovingly reflects on the 90-year legacy of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta, the first Muslim private school system in the country.
Film Festival: Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film “Jivetime Jimmy’s Revenge.” When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals […]
Key Sessions – Howard Mellon Workshop: Social Justice and Labor
Leader: Lisa Brock, Mellon Foundation.
Film Festival: Union (2024) (With Guest Chris Smalls)
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
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September 27, 2025 -Exhibitors at the 110th Annual Conference
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September 27, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power and Repression Under Gentrification
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September 27, 2025 -Annual Branch Members’ In-Person Meeting
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September 27, 2025 -Ava Greenwell Festival
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma
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September 27, 2025 -Film Festival: The Killing Floor (1984)
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September 27, 2025 -Remembrance Program
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September 27, 2025 -Saturday Woodson Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – Grit & the Ground We Stand On: History of Black Working-Class Resistance
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September 27, 2025 -Black Radical Labor Documentary Festival
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September 27, 2025 -Key Sessions – Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
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September 27, 2025 -Hine-Horne Book Roundtable – A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs
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September 27, 2025 -Presidential Sessions – #SAYHERNAME: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
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September 27, 2025 -ASALH Annual Member’s Business Meeting
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September 27, 2025 -ASALH Annual Awards Banquet
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September 27, 2025 -Film Festival: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022)
Annual Branch Members’ In-Person Meeting
The Annual Branch Meeting and Workshop will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. during the Annual Conference. All branch presidents are encouraged to attend. All branch members and those interested in ASALH branches are encouraged to attend
Ava Greenwell Festival
Hearing Silences: 50 Years of Black Women Faculty at Northwestern University (2025), Ava Thompson Greenwell (37 min) Mandela in Chicago. Ava Thompson Greenwell (55 min): Details the period during which Nelson Mandela toured Chicago.
Key Sessions – 1776 and the Revolt Against British Rule
Chair and Commentator: Gerald Horne. Presenter: Sean Gallagher, University of South Carolina. Presenter: Maria Esther Hammack. Presenter: Andrew Lawler, Author and Journalist.
Key Sessions – Our Black Shining Prince: Malcolm X at 100
Chair: Darius J Young, Florida A&M University. Presenter: JoAnna LeFlore-Ejike. Presenter: Ibram X Kendi. Presenter: Peniel E. Joseph, University of Texas-Austin. Presenter: Ashley Farmer, University of Texas-Austin.
Key Sessions – Black Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor
Chair: Errin Haines, The 19th News. Presenter: William Jones, University of Minnesota. Presenter: Jane Berger, Moravian College. Presenter: Marc Bayard, Institute for Policy Studies. Presenter: Elizabeth Todd-Breland, The University of Illinois at Chicago.
Key Sessions – A Pipeline of Black History Connecting Alaska and Oklahoma
Moderator: Ian Hartman, University of Alaska Anchorage. Panelist: Hannibal B. Johnson, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Jewel Jones, 400 Years of African American History Commission. Panelist: Eleanor Andrews, 400 Years of African History Commission.
Film Festival: The Killing Floor (1984)
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city’s slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Remembrance Program
The Remembrance Program will take place on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. during the Annual Conference. All branch presidents are encouraged to attend. All branch members and those interested in ASALH branches are encouraged to attend. During the Remembrance Program, ASALH will honor our members and loved ones whose lives have been lost […]
Saturday Woodson Luncheon – ASALH 110th Annual Conference
Saturday Woodson Luncheon Speakers are Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge, authors of the book With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Topic for the Luncheon Talk: "An Unusual Emphasis on Scholarship: Carter G. Woodson. Omega Psi Phi, and […]
Key Sessions – Grit & the Ground We Stand On: History of Black Working-Class Resistance
Presenter: Chelsea Birchmier. Presenter: O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, Winthrop University. Presenter: Darius Caleb Smith. Presenter: Jonathan Dayan. Presenter: Erleen Ellis, The University of New Orleans.
Black Radical Labor Documentary Festival
Finally Got the News! (1970) The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (57 min) A deep dive into the philosophy and organizing strategy of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during the Black Power Movement in Detroit. Wildcat At Mead (1972) The October League (50 min) A documentary of the 1972 Mead Strike in Atlanta, where […]
Key Sessions – Global Ties, Radical Struggles: Pan-Africanism, Labor and Anti-Imperialism in the 20th Century
Chair: Quito Swan, The George Washington University. Presenter: Adisa Vera L. Beatty, Independent Scholar. Presenter: Alhaji Conteh, Hunter College-CUNY. Presenter: Kimberly Monroe, Trinity Washington University. Presenter: Latif Ashanti Tarik, Elizabeth City State University.
Presidential Sessions – #SAYHERNAME: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence
Moderator: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, Loyola University Moderator: Kimberle Crenshaw, AAPF
ASALH Annual Member’s Business Meeting
The in-person Annual Members' Business Meeting will be held on Saturday, September 27, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Omni Centennial Park Hotel in Ballroom D. All current members are encouraged to attend the Annual Members' Business Meeting. Details will be posted on the Member's Private page in September. https://asalh.org/members/membership-meeting/ President Kaye Wise Whitehead […]
Film Festival: Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (2022)
The film explores and celebrates the lesser-known life of a Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist and one of the Civil Rights Movement’s greatest leaders. Throughout the 1960s, Fannie Lou Hamer established a legacy of civil rights and human rights activism that remains relevant to this day – especially among Black youth.