Wednesday, March 10, 2021 – 12:30pm Led by Carolyn Crouch and Victoria Reinsel A record number of women serve in the current 117th Congress. Yet, although 50 percent of the total U.S. population is female, women represent […]
Author: DC Black History
“Celebrations, Found Truths, Sheroes, Heroes, Events and Programs” which recognize and celebrate the contributions in art, literature, politics and education of the African American community throughout the year in the DC Metropolitan area.
Programs that are free and open to the public will be continually listed and distributed throughout the year, please continue to submit to DCBlackHistory.com, DCBlackHistory on Facebook and dcblkhistory@gmail.com.
A Visual Perspective of DC Through the Lens of Black Women Photographers
March 4, 7:00pm Hear their stories and view their works by joining us for a live discussion with photographers Jeanine Cummins, published master photographer, Sandy Adams, creative outdoor photographer, and Lisa Fanning, owner, Lisa Fanning […]
ASALH and PBS Books Present: A Conversation with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Sundiata Cha-Jua, and Nubia Kai
Little Ethiopia DC Wreath Laying Ceremony
February 28, 4:00 – 5:00pm February 28,2021. This day will serve us to commemorate 3 important events at the same time. We will have a wreath Laying Ceremony at the African American Civil War Memorial […]
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
February 28: 12 – 2PM
Black Power in DC
February 26, 3 – 4PM free Pre-registration for all ages George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History at UMBC, has launched a website exploring the history of Black Power organizing in the nation’s capital. Black Power […]
Village Talk Series
No matter the time, from Africa, slavery on the plantation, to Reconstruction, Jim Crow and Civil Rights, we took care and loved one another, we had a “Village” that helped and sustained us. Do we […]
February 25, 7:00 PM
Enslaved at the Georgetown Hotel tells the story of three generations of one family enslaved by the owner of the hotel, Eleanor Lang, and explains the process of their emancipation in 1862 under the D.C. […]
Diving with a Purpose: Recovering and Reexamining Our Roots
February 24, 6:30 – 8pm A panel discussion featuring divers who seek to preserve the heritage of Black people through discovering and investigating wreckages of slave ships and salvaging artifacts.
