Announcement of the Black History theme and Introduction of ASALH’s Inaugural Virtual Black History Month Festival
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, ASALH National President and Music from the HBCU Experience
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From the Continent to the Americas: Foodways, Culture and Traditions in the African American Family
ASALH TVThis 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.
Presentation of the Inaugural ASALH Book Prize
ASALH TVThe 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 2021.
Diving with a Purpose: Recovering and Reexamining Our Roots
ASALH TVThis 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
Dr. Charlene Dukes on the Black Family
ASALH TVPrince 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.
ASALH and PBS Books present A Special Conversation between Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Nubia Kai & Sundiata Cha-Jua
ASALH and PBS Books partner in presenting the final program of the 2021 Black History Month Festival , featuring renown author Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, author of The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi , in a conversation with 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.
The 106th Annual Meeting and Virtual Conference
ASALH will hold innovative virtual programming in the month of September celebrating the 2021 Black History Theme, The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity. Check back for schedules, times, and other updates.
107th Annual Meeting and Conference
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa Street, MontgomeryThe ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
108TH ANNUAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront 225 East Coastline Drive, JacksonvilleThe ASALH Annual Conference is an occasion to explore the history and culture of people of African descent. Our conference brings together more than one thousand people, including educators, students, community builders, business professionals, and others who share an abiding interest in learning about the contribution of African Americans to this nation and the world.
