The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
Please join us for a webinar designed to teach applicants how to successfully complete a federal job application on: May 1, 2023 at 1PM EST or May 4, 2023 at 5PM EST The webinar is scheduled for 90 minutes. Please register for the webinar via the link below: Link for May 1st session at 1PM […]
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
The Institute for Common Power strives to facilitate the creation of a just and inclusive democracy while working to eliminate racial inequity. Education can and must lead to action. To this end, the Institute offers a series of courses taught by award-winning scholars who are widely recognized experts in their fields of study.
Join as we discuss the meaning of freedom in people's lives and liberty in their community with a lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Director of the Public History Program at Howard University.
In the nation that declared 'Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights' during the French Revolution in 1789, France has shown grievous disdain for the rights of the peoples it enslaved and colonized. At the same time, it has provided a space where the former colonized and African-American expatriates would strive […]
This Festival Session features author Michelle R. Scott discussing his book, T.O.B.A. Time: Black Vaudeville and the Theater Owners' Booking Association in Jazz-Age America.
This Festival Session features author Frederick Williams discussing his book, Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement.
This Festival Session features author Charlene Hampton Holloway discussing her book, Whitlock's Compositions.
This Festival Session features author Bernice Alexander Bennett discussing her book, Black Homesteaders of the South.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Dan Berger discussing his book, Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
This Festival Session features author Denys Davis discussing her book, Unheard Melodies.
This Festival Session features author Margaret Seidler discussing her book, Ukweli - Searching for Healing Truth - South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American Racism.
This Festival Session features author Keith Holmes discussing his book, Black Inventors Crafting Over 200 Years of Success.
Tony Warner author of Black History Walks Volume 1 will detail Black British Civil Rights, a US to UK timeline comparison. The term ‘Civil Rights’ automatically triggers images of the American fight for equality and freedom even in Britain. This illustrated talk details Black resistance against British racist oppression from; the 19th century Jamaican who […]
On February 18 and 19, The 1619 Project will host the second 1619 Education Conference. This free, virtual, two-day event will feature a stellar lineup of keynote speakers and panelists, including Ibram X. Kendi, Martha S. Jones, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Kimberly Henderson, Cornelius Eady, A. Van Jordan, and Tim Seibles. It will also offer participants the opportunity […]
Nurses from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School, c. 1940. Photo courtesy of Temple University, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. The Story of Mercy-Douglass Hospital is about two Philadelphia hospitals founded by African Americans to provide medical care for African Americans is scheduled to air Thurs., Feb. 16th at 7:30 pm and 11 […]
This Festival Session features reporter Jonathan Abrams of the New York Times and reporter Angela Idowu of WTTW.
This Festival Session features author Elizabeth Eckford discussing the book, The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High
This Festival Session features author Dr. Brian Jones discussing his book, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Virginia Summey discussing his book, The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts.
This Festival Session features author Tony Warner discussing his book, Black History Walks in London: Volume 1.
This Festival Session features author Dr. Timothy E. Nelson discussing his book, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1900-1930).
This Festival Session features author Rohulamin Quander discussing his book, The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African American Legacy,
This Festival Session features author Ruben Britt Jr. discussing his book, Black and Powerful: A Career Guide for Tomorrow's Top Leaders.
This Festival Session features author Mary L Romney-Schaab discussing her book, An Afro-Caribbean in the Nazi Era: From Papiamentu to German.
This Festival Session features author Cody McDevitt discussing his book Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania.
This Festival Session features author Christopher Nelson discussing his book The C.R. Patterson and Sons Company: Black Pioneers in the Vehicle Building Industry, 1865-1939.
This Festival Session features author Holly A. Pinheiro Jr discussing his book The Families' Civil War: Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice.
This Festival Session features author Grace Jackson-Brown discussing her book Promoting African American Writers: Library Partnerships for Outreach, Programming, and Literacy.
This Festival Session features author Kristin Waters discussing her book Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought.
This Festival Session features author Desiree Cooper discussing her book Nothing Special.
This Festival Session features author Phyllis Biffle Elmore discussing her book Quilt of Souls: A Memoir.
This Festival Session features Ibram X. Kendi discussing the book, Magnolia Flower.
Chesterwood announces the second roundtable session for “Casting Identities: Race and American Sculpture”, an ongoing digital humanities project led by Emily Burns, Director, Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma. The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s project “For the People by the People: Transforming National Trust […]
The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]
The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]
The January 15, 2023 deadline to submit Network to Freedom Applications is rapidly approaching! Recently, the Network to Freedom shifted to an online application system. The Network to Freedom Program recently hosted a series of online trainings to explain how to use the online application system. To view a recording of this training, you can check out our Online Application Resources and Training Page. If […]
National Park leaders Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich, Jon Jarvis, Alan Latourelle, and Robert Stanton will discuss the role that national parks play in the stewardship of the majority of North American World Heritage Sites. join this virtual gathering of leaders with combined decades of national and international heritage and conservation experience. This webinar is free/contribution optional. Panel […]
Dr. Brock will share the ASALH Social Justice Toolkit with workshop attendees. She will review issues such as White Supremacy, Reparations, Abolition, and the Black Radical Tradition. Those who attend will gain access to a digital version of the toolkit, complete with Glossary, Resources for Workshop Leaders, and questions and prompts to pose to community members for reflection. The goal: to train all of us in the art of teaching and learning social justice.
ASALH Greater Kansas City Black History Study Group Branch Monthly Meeting November 15, 2022 6pm CST
In this session, Dr. Brock will introduce community members to the history of the Black Diaspora. This includes Africa, the Americas, Europe and various Asian and Pacific islands and nations. Participants of this workshop will gain an understanding of how racism and colonialism have impacted the entire world, and how the Haitian Revolution, African Independence and the Civil Rights/Black Power movements and Black Feminism have inspired transnationally.
