Our ASALH national president, Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, was newly elected as a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in fall 2018, became the first African American chair of Harvard...
For Immediate Release Contact: Joe DioGuardi (914)-671-8583 New York – In an effort to correct a longstanding racial injustice, former Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Mickey Leland, and I introduced two bills on October 20,...
‘Deborah Willis, the newly appointed director of the Institute of African-American Affairs at NYU discusses the program’s fall 2018 programming, The Black Portraiture conference, and the growth of black representation in the media. Deborah...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with 44 of their colleagues, introduced a bipartisan bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Katherine Johnson and Dr....
Ronald V. Dellums served as the first Visiting Fellow at the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center during the 2013-2014 school year. The Visiting Fellowship is designed to bring former public officials...
I learned at an early age that my great-grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was a force to be reckoned with. Born a slave in Mississippi, she became a leading civil rights activist when she sued...
It is a pleasure to invite you to join the public celebration of the life and legacy of a national civil and human rights icon, Dr. Dorothy Cotton, in her adopted hometown of Ithaca,...
Tera W. Hunter is the Recipient of the Inaugural Prize for Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century Boston—The Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket (MAAH), today...
The Charleston Remembrance Committee conducted The 21st Annual Charleston Middle Passage REMEMBRANCE Program, paying homage and tribute to the millions of Africans who perished in the Middle Passage.
