asalh tv | 6:30 – 8:30 PM Black Inventors Crafting Over 200 Years of SuccessKeith Holmes Ukweli – Searching for Healing Truth – South Carolina Writers and Poets Explore American RacismMargaret Seidler Unheard MelodiesDenys Davis […]
Category: Book Talks
Happy Nappy Storytelling Featuring Phyllisa and Jalanah Deroze
Sankofa Video, Books, & Café, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC Feb 19, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Dr. Phyllisa Smith Deroze and Jalanah Deroze are a dynamic mother-and-daughter team broadening diabetes awareness. Dr. Deroze […]
24feb@6pm ~ Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865
In Generations of Freedom Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from […]
24feb@6:30pm ~ 8 Pearls of Wisdom
Author Kimberly A. Morrow is on a mission to empower parents to become better advocates for their children. Parents often are confronted with issues of not knowing essential study skills for children, technology, preparing their […]
22feb@12PM ~ Washington at the Plow
George Washington’s passionate interest in farming was central to his identity and his commitment to the “New Agriculture” of the eighteenth century shaped the lives of the hundreds of people held in bondage at Mount […]
Join me and Michael Tubbs as we discuss his new memoir, The Deeper the Roots, A Memoir of Hope and Home. This astonishing memoir traces Michael’s upbringing in Stockton, CA at a time when it was one of the most violent […]
18feb@6pm ~ THE FUTURE OF BLACK: A Poetry Panel
Join THE FUTURE OF BLACK editors, Len Lawson and Gary Jackson, as they moderate a reading and discussion with contributors on P&P Live!
REMEMBERING BLACK BROADWAY AT THE “JEWEL OF U STREET”
Please note: RSVP’ing does not guarantee admission. Seating is first come, first serve. All patrons must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend.
10feb@6pm ~ Book Talk: Resisting Jim Crow
John McFall was born 15 years after Emancipation. He was the first of eleven children born to a freed couple in Charleston, South Carolina. He entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy before completing high school. […]
10feb@2pm ~ Book Talk: Ida B Wells, Voice of Truth
Michelle Duster and illustrator Laura Freeman discuss their new picture book Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth is an inspiring biography of the civil rights activist as told by her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster. Ida B. Wells was […]
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