Daina Ramey Berry will be presenting her book, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave in the Building of a Nation. How do you ascribe […]
Day: February 26, 2017
28Feb, 7:-8:30pm Lecture
Crossing The Rubicon: The Battle for Black Public Education in DC Greenbelt Library 11 Crescent Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20770
28Feb, 4pm & 6 pm, 28th Annual Black Film Festival @ MLKing Library
Join us on Tuesdays in February as we celebrate Black History Month with our annual film festival. The 28th Annual Black Film Festival offers a Double Feature every week, with entertaining and thought-provoking shorts and […]
28Feb, 12-1:30pm Frederick Douglass 2018 One Million Abolitionists
Library of Congress – James Madison Memorial Building 101 Independence Ave SE Mumford Room Washington, DC 20540
27Feb, 7:00pm Film at Embassy
Little Senegal 2001 – Algeria/France/Germany – 100 min by Rachid Bouchareb Aging Senegalese man Alloune curates a slavery museum in his home country. Spurred by the reaction of curious patrons, Alloune is inspired to find […]
26Feb, 2-5pm Portrait Story Days
Portrait Story Days – Black History Month: Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center Listen to a story and create art inspired by someone in our collection. In partnership with Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, […]
The Uncivil Civil War: Films Beyond the Battlefields in February
921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, DC 20003 The films of the Civil War are rich in the conflicts between the slave South and the abolitionist North. February 26, 4:00 pm: Slavery by Another Name Samuel D. Pollard’s Slavery […]
26Feb, 12-4pm Walking Tour & Spoken Word Poetry
Retrace Reverend Josiah Henson’s footsteps from his enslavement to escape on the Underground Railroad to freedom. Learn about his extraordinary life, which inspired the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Screenings of the Time Team America documentary: […]
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