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 […]
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“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.
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21Feb, 5-8pm 12th Annual Afro-American & Ethiopian Heritage/Unity Celebration
African Heritage Dancers/Drummers and Little Ethiopia DC celebrate the 12th Annual Afro-American & Ethiopian Heritage/Unity Celebration “The ‘People To People- A Shared African Heritage’ celebration will present speakers who will highlight the over 200 years […]
February @ Montpelier Cultural Arts Center
Main, Library, and Resident Artist Galleries “Shout For Joy”: African American Sacred Music Traditions The 2017 Black History Month exhibition examines the development of sacred music within the African-American community. Through the stories behind the […]
20Feb, 6:00pm
Playwright and author Tom Minter stages his original play BLUES FOR A ROYAL FLUSH – In 1967 Duke Ellington finds himself buffeted by the activism of the times, and reaching for a new direction of creativity… Through […]
19Feb, 2:00pm Film at Swedish Embassy
House of Sweden 2900 K Street Northwest Washington, DC 20007 Martha came to […]
19Feb, 3:00pm Let Us Have Peace ~ Saints in the Making
St. Matthew’s Cathedral: main sanctuary 1725 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 This special event features Msgr. Ray East, who will speak to us on the lives of four African-American men and women who […]
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 19, 4:00pm: Freedom RoadJan Kadar’s Freedom Road (1979) captures the rare moment […]
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