African American Civil War Museum and Memorial 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Join us for the 3rd Annual Reading of the names of the First Freed under the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in […]
Month: April 2018
African History and Culture Lecture Series in April
Wednesday, Apr 11, 7:00pm “Crusade for Liberty: Frederick Douglass, the Civil War, and DC Emancipation” by CR Gibbs Woodridge Library, 1801 Hamlin Street NE Washington DC 202-541-6226 Tuesday, Apr 17, 7:00pm “An Army of Educators” […]
April 6 & 7
The James A. Porter Colloquium is the leading forum for scholars, artists, curators, and individuals in the field of African American Art and Visual Culture. Established at Howard University in 1990, the Colloquium is named […]
Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadows
An Opera based on the lives & love of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Ruth Alice Moore Composer & Librettist: Steven M. Allen Artistic Director: Marquita Lister Music Director: Lester Green Stage Director: Phillip Burgess Lyrics […]
Apr 3 reBirth::Washington DC 50 Years after 1968
Opening Reception Tuesday, April 3, 6–8 PM District Architecture Center 421 7th Street NW. Washington DC 20004 202.347.9403 The 1960s was a decade of upheaval. Post-World War II suburbanization had left American cities economically fragile and […]
DC Black History happens EveryDay... 