Celebrate the 199th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth with the National Park Service and its community partners Anacostia Arts Center 1231 Good Hope Road SE Washington DC 20020 Historic Photography Demonstrations Noon – 4:00 pm […]
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18Feb 199th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth
Celebrate the 199th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth with the National Park Service and its community partners on Saturday, February 18 Anacostia Playhouse 2020 Shannon Place SE Washington DC 20020 Opening Ceremony […]
18Feb, 11:00am Lecture and Candy Tasting: Sweet as Sin
Susan Benjamin, candy historian, and author will give a talk about the historic origins of candy based on her most recent book, “Sweet as Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure.” […]
17Feb, 7:00pm Frederick Douglass Birthday Celebration Kick Off
Get down in celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birth with a live band! Nucleus will perform. Douglass loved music – he sang, danced, and played violin with his guests at Cedar Hill. Anacostia Arts Center, […]
17Feb, 4:00pm CR Gibbs Lecture
Hidden Heroes: Africans American, NASA, & the Quest for the Final Frontier Long Branch Library 8800 Garland Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20901 Celebrate Black History Month […]
16Feb, 7:-8:30pm Lecture
Crossing The Rubicon: The Battle for Black Public Education in DC Tenley-Friendship Library 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20016
16Feb 6:00pm Women of Plums
Historic Lincoln Theatre 1215 U Street, NW Washington DC 20009 Doors open at 6:00 PM | Free admission 6:30 PM The District’s African Diaspora: […]
16Feb 6:00pm Lecture
The Contraband Hospital and the African Americans Who Served There A lecture and PowerPoint presentation on African Americans in the Army medical service during the American Civil War. Jill Newmark is a historian who works for the […]
15Feb 7:00 pm Book Talk
“The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era” By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the […]
14Feb 7:00 pm Lecture
Festivals of Freedom: A History of African-American Holidays, CR Gibbs Greenbelt Library 11 Crescent Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20770
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