Black History Month Virtual Festival Schedule

Feb 1

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Opening Program and Exploring Aspects of Black Resistance Session

Feb 2

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Author’s Talk with Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D: Celebrating Black History: Zora Neale Hurston

Feb 4

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

D.C. Black History Committee Annual Black History Celebration Kick-Off

Feb 4

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Black Landowners and Farmers: Reclaiming Land and Civil Rights

Feb 4

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Mt. Pleasant Library Screening Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice

Feb 5

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Warrior Queen Nzingha: Tell Them We Fought Back

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Phyllis Biffle Elmore

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Desiree Cooper

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Kristin Waters

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Grace Jackson-Brown

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Holly A. Pinheiro Jr

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Christopher Nelson

Feb 6

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Cody McDevitt

Feb 7

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

African American Music and the Struggle for Freedom

Feb 9

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Call & Response: Liberation Theology, Resistance and The Black Church

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Mary L Romney-Schaab

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Ruben Britt Jr.

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Rohulamin Quander

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Timothy E. Nelson

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Tony Warner

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Virginia Summey

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Brian Jones

Feb 13

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Elizabeth Eckford, Dr. Eurydice Stanley, & Grace Stanley

Feb 15

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Poetry – Fighting with Words: Then & Now

Feb 15

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH – Social Justice Workshop Wednesday: Black Resistance Across Time and Space

Feb 15

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Author’s Talk with Reporter Jonathan Abrams and Reporter Angela Idowu: Celebrating Black History: Music As Resistance

Feb 16

6:30 pm - 8:15 pm

The Carter G. Woodson Home Grand Re-Opening Preview

Feb 18

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

“Walk in the Footsteps of Dr. Carter G. Woodson!”

Feb 19

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Preserving Black Resistance

Feb 21

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

ASALH 2023 Book Prize

Feb 22

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Marquee Event: A Conversation with Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution

Feb 23

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Resistance and the Black Press

Feb 25

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Odell Ruffin’s Campaign 72

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Keith Holmes

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Margaret Seidler

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Denys Davis

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Dr. Dan Berger

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Bernice Alexander Bennett

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Charlene Hampton Holloway

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Frederick Williams

Feb 27

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Virtual Author’s Book Talk Event: Michelle R. Scott

Feb 28

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Festival Closing Program