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USPS Kwanzaa Stamp 1st Day Of Issue Ceremony
Senator John Heinz History Center 1212 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe event is free and open to the public but registration is highly recommended. The United States Postal Service is partnering with ASALH for the 1st Day of Issue for […]
ASALH Film Festival: The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesBillops and Hatch are catalysts at the center of the film, and like a modern Virgil and Dante, they drive, cajole and lead the film's cast through a tour of the contemporary landscape of racism.
ASALH Film Festival: Finding Christa
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThis documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman with her natural mother 20 years after being given up for adoption.
ASALH Film Festival: A String of Pearls
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCamille Billops turns the camera on four generations of men in her family and considers the ways in which urban violence, unemployment, and the early deaths of their own fathers have shaped their lives.
Place, Politics, and the Future of Black Pittsburgh History
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Authors Book Signing Event
Embassy Suites by Hilton Pittsburgh Downtown 535 Smithfield St, Pittsburgh, United States
ASALH Film Festival: Camille Billops Shorts Festival
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesCamille Billops started as a sculptor and painter, became a filmmaker, and amassed a treasure trove of books, documents, and photographs related to black culture.
ASALH Film Festival: August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesExplore the life and legacy of August Wilson, the playwright some call America's Shakespeare, who chronicled the 20th-century black experience.
ASALH Film Festival: Fences (2016)
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesTroy Maxson (Denzel Washington) makes his living as a sanitation worker in 1950s Pittsburgh. Maxson once dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player, but was deemed too old when the major leagues began admitting black athletes. Bitter over his missed opportunity, Troy creates further tension in his family when he squashes his son's (Jovan Adepo) chance to meet a college football recruiter.
A Soulful Urge: A Conversation about Black artistic expression in and beyond our National Parks
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Necrology (Remembrance) Program
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe event is free and open to the public but registration is highly recommended. Omni William Penn Hotel, William Penn level, Three Rivers room
ASALH Film Festival: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesTensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
ASALH Film Festival: Black Scranton Project: Preserving African American History in Northeastern PA
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe Black Scranton Project exposes our community to the historic narratives of the African American community of Scranton, PA and cultivates awareness and unity through arts and public history.
ASALH Film Festival: The Light of Truth: Richard Hunt’s Monument to Ida B. Wells
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe film weaves together the stories of Richard Hunt's life, his fabrication of the Light of Truth monument, and Ida B. Wells' heroic fight for justice as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster.
ASALH Film Festival: Tracing Our Path Through Bronzeville (2023)
Omni William Penn Hotel 530 William Penn Pl, Pittsburgh, PA, United StatesThe Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago has been a creative hub that cultivated the artistry of some of the most influential artists and authors of the twentieth century. To name a few, Margaret Burroughs, Richard Wright, William Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, and members from AfriCOBRA have all established a creative foundation in Bronzeville.
