DC Emancipation Day @AACWM
07 Friday Apr 2017
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Author Archives: DC Black History
4April, 7:00pm African American History & Culture Lecture Series
02 Sunday Apr 2017
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Greenbelt Library
Tuesday April 4
24 Friday Mar 2017
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Dr. Martin Luther’s King Jr.’s Tribute 7:00 PM
The tribute will commemorate the life of Dr. King as a spiritual leader, civil rights leader and a social justice fighter. The program will involve musical selections and excerpts from some of his sermons and speeches.
The observance will be held at the historic New York Avenue Presbyterian Church which is the last place Dr. King spoke in DC. The church has been a refuge for those coming to demonstrate for social justice in DC.
…earlier this day @nyapc.org
MLK 50 awake (9am – 5pm) For religious, spiritual, or ethical seekers who are concerned about America or renewing the struggle to end the malignant impact of racism, militarism, and materialism and to move toward what Dr. King called the Beloved Community…
Chuck Hicks at the Embassy of France in the U.S. 27Feb
07 Tuesday Mar 2017
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Black History Month at the French Embassy
2 March – 26 May, Exhibition: Shifting: African American Women Artists and the Power of Their Gaze
02 Thursday Mar 2017
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Shifting explores how African American female artists turn their gaze on themselves and on other women. Not attempting to provide one answer, this exhibition serves as a platform for creating a dialogue around the questions: Whose gaze is it? Is the male gaze also the female gaze? Are women looking at themselves through the male gaze?
David C. Driskell Center 
1214 Cole Student Activities Bldg.
University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 314-2615 driskellcenter@umd.edu
Monday – Friday 11 AM – 4 PM with extended hours on Wednesday until 6 PM
The Driskell Center Gallery will additionally be open on Saturday, Mar. 11th, Apr. 29th, & May 13th
from 11 AM – 4 PM
1Mar 6:30-8 pm, Film: “Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make HerStory: The Dorie Ladner Story”
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Conversations, Films & Documentaries
This installment of Around the Fire features esteemed elder Dorie Ladner, a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) veteran, social worker and lifelong activist. She first got involved with the freedom movement after the murder of Emmett Till — a gruesome event that would spark a lifelong passion for her.
Ms. Ladner will share experiences from this time in her life and 
answer questions from those who share her passion for freedom. She will also screen her documentary, “Well-Behaved Women Don’t Make HerStory: The Dorie Ladner Story.”
Sankofa Video Books & Cafe
2714 Georgia Ave NW Washington DC
1March, 5pm: 10th Wreath Laying Ceremony
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Celebrations & Commemorations, Conversations
The 10th Wreath Laying Ceremony will honor African-American and Ethiopian Veterans who fought for freedom in commemoration of the 121st Anniversary of the decisive victory of Adwa on March 1, 1896 ( የዐድዋ ድል በዓል ).
Honorable Cultural Ambassador Hari Jones, the former curator of the African American Civil War Museum will place the wreath.
African American Civil War Museum & Memorial
1925 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001
For More Info: 202-255-1400 or littleethiopia@gmail.com
27Feb 6:30-8pm Book Talk
26 Sunday Feb 2017
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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 a value to a human life? In the antebellum South, how were values for enslaved people determined?
Sponsored by the Departments of English and History, Howard University.
Sankofa Video Books & Cafe
2714 Georgia Ave NW Washington DC 20001
28Feb, 7:-8:30pm Lecture
26 Sunday Feb 2017
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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
26 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in Films & Documentaries
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 full-length films.
4 pm Citizen King 1h
A documentary that draws on input from a broad cross-section of people to examine to last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life.
6 pm Moonlight (2016)R | 1h 51minA timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
