Today, the White House will be hosting two Black History Month events featuring Taraji P. Henson, Nneka Ogwumike, Sloane Stephens and six Black leaders in the President’s historic cabinet. Please

Each February, National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing...

The Reading Room series on social justice is a collaborative effort presented by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and The Howard University Social Justice Consortium.

Winner to be announced during The Black History Month Festival

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This session will feature Jada Wright-Greene of Florida's Historic African American Homes, Brandon Knightingale of Bethune-Cookman University, Charlene Farrington of South Florida Branch, and Rodney Hurst, Jr. of ASALH Florida James Weldon Johnson Branch....

This session will feature Stephanie Y. Evans of Georgia State University, Vanessa Northington Gamble of George Washington University, Dr. Thaddeus Bell, M.D. of Closing the Gap in Healthcare, Inc., David Williams of Harvard University.

A Retrospective on Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Recipient of ASALH’s Inaugural Luminary Award.

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...