This session will explore the historical legacies of major Black historical figures through their family members living today, featuring Michelle Duster of Columbia College Chicago and direct descendant of Ida B. Wells-Barnet, Madam C.J....
This roundtable panel will include Mia Bay of the University of Pennsylvania, Waldo Martin of the University of California at Berkeley, Brandi Brimmer of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Shawn Alexander of...
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Roundtable participants will offer a critical conversation on the first full-length biography of Mary Church Terrell; the first president the National Association of Colored Women and founding member of the NAACP
This session will examine the impact of historic and recent public policy decisions on today’s Black families featuring Andre Perry of The Brookings Institution, Noliwe Rooks of Cornell University, Dorothy Brown of Emory University,...
A Retrospective on Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Recipient of ASALH’s Inaugural Luminary Award.
The Howard University Social Justice Consortium (SJC) is a cross-organizational, cross-institutional, interdisciplinary partnership that is concerned with educating society and developing the critical consciousness people need to analyze injustice in their own communities and...
ASALH & PBS Books are pleased to present this Author Talk with Michelle Duster about her book Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells.
Designed in collaboration with NY Life and Archival Alchemy, the campaign encourages participants to host intergenerational Black family reunions—virtual or in person—to explore their unique African American heritage and family history.
On June 19, 1865 — nearly nine decades after our Nation’s founding, and more than 2 years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation — enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally received word that they...
