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ASALH Mourns the Passing of Legal Giant & Activist Vernon Jordan

Close adviser to former President of the United States Bill Clinton, business executive, lawyer and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan has passed away at the age of 85. ASALH mourns

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ASALH member Alondra Nelson receives a Biden Administration Appointment

This Black History Month, LCV and the entire environmental movement celebrates Black leaders who are at the forefront of advancing environmental and climate justice.

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View “Charlene Dukes on the Black Family and Education” festival event presented by ASALH Prince George’s County Truth Branch on the February 28

Prince George’s County Truth Branch and Maple Springs Baptist Church Cultural Education Experience Ministry (CEEM) host a joint ASALH Branch program on the Black Family.

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View “Diving with a Purpose: Recovering and Reexamining Our Roots” Presented on February 24

This event will feature a panel discussion featuring divers who seek to preserve the heritage of Black people through discovering and investigating wreckages of slave ships and salvaging artifacts

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ASALH Thanks Our 2021 Black History Month Festival Sponsors

ASALH invites you to learn more about the 2021 Black History Month Festival Sponsors. Thanks to generous support, ASALH can promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to...

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View February 10 Presentation of the Inaugural ASALH Book Prize

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) will award an annual prize to recognize an outstanding book in the field of African American history and culture beginning in February...

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A Proclamation on National Black History Month, 2021

FEBRUARY 03, 2021 • PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS This February, during Black History Month, I call on the American people to honor the history and achievements of Black Americans and to reflect on the

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View “From the Continent to the Americas: Foodways, Culture and Traditions in the African American Family” that was Presented on February 6

This event will feature a panel of authors, chefs and historians who will share their work and discuss the important role that food has played in Black family life throughout the diaspora.

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View “A Celebration of African American Life and History: Trailblazer Mae Jemison” Presented on February 3

Encourage young people to join this conversation with the first African American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour!

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Statement by President Joe Biden On Black History Month

This February, during Black History Month, I call on the American people to honor the history and achievements of Black Americans and to reflect on the centuries of struggle that

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Mark your calendar! We are partnering with @asalh_bhm to present the final program of the 2021 Black History Month Festival. Tune in to hear from renowned author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi, on February 28 at 7:00 PM ET via Facebook Live. 

The conversation will include retired Howard University Professor, Nubia Kai and Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Cha-Jua @sundiatachajua will also moderate the conversation. 

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The #BlackChurchPBS, a two-night series from @henrylouisgates, premiered Tues Feb 16th at 9pm ET I 8pm CT. Check the @pbs app to watch it again— and come ready to trace the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, with interviews featuring Oprah Winfrey, John Legend, Bishop Michael Curry and more.

Readers, the companion book of the same name is also available today.

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#ASALHFamily: Black families played an integral pa #ASALHFamily: Black families played an integral part in the fight for civil rights and education such as leaders like Barbara Rose Johns Powell. 

At the age of 16, she coordinated a strike at her school in Prince Edward County, Virginia which became one of the five cases that led to the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. 

In 1951, the teen led the strike at her school after the county board of education refused to build a new high school for black students. 

Activism ran in her family. Her uncle was Vernon Napoleon Johns, an outspoken minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church‌ in Montgomery, Alabama and civil rights activist. #ASALH #ASALHFestival
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ASALH 2020 Virtual Festival. Thanks to the modera ASALH 2020 Virtual Festival. Thanks  to the moderator and speakers Joe Madison, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Rev. William H. Lamar IV. #asalh #asalhfestival #asalhfamily
Legendary playwright August Wilson is the 2021 Bla Legendary playwright August Wilson is the 2021 Black Heritage Forever Stamp, honoree.

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