Preserving the historic ‘Negro Mountain’

This article first appeared in the New Pittsburgh Courier, June 3, 2019 by Alonna J. Carter, For New Pittsburgh Courier On May 11, members of the Edna B. McKenzie branch of the Association for the...

2019 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Winners Announced

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, one of the nation’s most prominent historians, is the Victor S....

Executive Council Member Selection

The Nominating Committee of ASALH seeks nominations for the Executive Council, Class of 2022. The Executive Council and the Executive Officers set the policy direction for ASALH and are responsible for carrying out the...

Special Authors Event featuring “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics” signing

First 100 Annual Black History Luncheon ticket purchasers will get entrance to this special event where Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore will sign the new book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics....

ASALH Announces 2019 Black History Theme, Black Migrations

ASALH’s 2019 theme Black Migrations emphasizes the movement of people of African descent to new destinations and subsequently to new social realities. While inclusive of earlier centuries, this theme focuses especially on the twentieth...

Carter G. Woodson Birthday Commemoration

Presented by the National Park Service and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Carter G. Woodson Birthday Commemoration SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 | 2:00PM Seaton Elementary School 1503 10th Street...

Become and Featured Author at the Annual Black History Luncheon

Saturday, February 16, 2018 – 10 a.m. – Noon Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street, NW, Washington D.C. Free and open to the public.

Contact your Representative to pass the Hidden Figures legislation

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with 44 of their colleagues, introduced a bipartisan bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine...

Tampa Bay School Named for Dr. Woodson

Hillsborough County School Board Members voted unanimously at Tuesday’s School Board meeting to name a new PreK-8 school, opening for the upcoming 2018-2019 school year, for Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Hillsborough County Public Schools...

ASALH Announces 2018 Black History Theme, African Americans in Times of War

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...