Named after the pioneering abolitionist and women’s rights activist-intellectual, the Maria Stewart Prize recognizes the best journal article concerning black intellectual history published in 2017. The winner receives $500, an award certificate, and a featured spot on Black Perspectives....

The 2018 ASALH Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, films, round-tables, workshops, conversations, or alternative formats dealing with the 2018 theme, “African Americans in Times of War,” which commemorates...

The 2018 ASALH Program Committee invites submissions for posters that address the conference theme, “African Americans in Times of War,” but any timely subject of interest to African American history will be considered

ASALH Luncheon online photo album by Photographer Milton Williams has recently been published by the photographer.

92nd Annual Black History Month Luncheon Feb. 24th Hosted by the Founders of Black History Month WASHINGTON —In February, more than 1000 educators, students, and community members from all walks of life will gather...

The 2018 theme, “African Americans in Times of War,” commemorates the centennial of the end of the First World War in 1918, and explores the complex meanings and implications of this international struggle and...

The United States Postal Service announced last week that Lena Horne is featured on the annual Black Heritage Stamp for 2018. The stamp will be unveiled at the ASALH 92nd Annual Luncheon. 

Tell Them We Are Rising:  The Story of Black Colleges and Universities will broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2018!  Follow the film here   CLICK HERE FOR  A LIST OF UPCOMING SCREENINGS – http://www.hbcurising.com/screenings/   INTERESTED IN...

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Carter Woodson, the author/ historian who founded the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in 1915, knew the key to ending racial oppression was education, its scope...