Notice from ASALH’s President In Memoriam: Sterling Stuckey The Association for the Study of African American Life and History mourns the recent passing of Sterling Stuckey, the groundbreaking historian whose interdisciplinary focus launched the serious study...
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.
A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories Hardcover – October 9, 2018 ($19.95) By Bettye Collier-Thomas (Editor) A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century...
On Tuesday, as breezes blended with the shade of magnolias to insulate the crowd at Memphis National Cemetery from the summer heat, some wondered whether that comfort came courtesy of the ancestors. That wasn’t...
The James Weldon Johnson Branch held its annual membership luncheon on June 23rd at the River Club. The Honorable State Senator Audrey Gibson was the keynote speakers. The program was on the theme “African...
