In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life’s challenges and a happy surprise—a baby—with a little help and lots of love from […]
Category: Book Talks
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. […]
8feb5:30PM ~ Art AfterWords
The National Portrait Gallery and the DC Public Library would like to invite you to a virtual conversation about love, second chances, and the power of a great torch song. Join us as we analyze […]
8feb@6PM ~ Book Talk: The Last Slave Ship by Ben Raines
The Last Slave Ship is the incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them […]
6feb@7PM ~ Book Talk: BREATH BETTER SPENT
In Breath Better Spent, DaMaris B. Hill hoists her childhood self onto her shoulders, together taking in the landscape of Black girlhood in America. At a time when Black girls across the country are increasingly vulnerable to unjust […]
5feb@5PM ~ Book Talk: Reconsidering Reparations by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò $
Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project: either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends […]
5feb@11am ~ Discovering Yoga For All Ages
A MEDITATION AND MOVEMENT EVENT WITH EBONI PEARSON Discovering Yoga is an excellent start for those new to the practice. Suited for all ages, its easy to read language makes yogic concepts simple in a […]
3feb7pm ~ Book Talk: An Abolitionist’s Handbook
As someone who’s been on the frontlines in the fight against racial injustice for over 20 years, Patrisse Cullors knows what it takes to organize. From joining the Bus Riders Union as a teen to […]
FREEDOM! THE STORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 1feb: 7PM
IN THIS METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED, ACCESSIBLE, AND ENGAGING HISTORY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, YOUNG READERS GET A GLIMPSE OF THE MANY FACETS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT’S IMPACT ON HISTORY. FREEDOM! THE STORY OF THE BLACK […]
DC history conference call for submissions
The 48th annual DC History Conference takes place March 31 – April 2, 2022. The DC History Conference is an interdisciplinary, community conference considering the past, present, and future of the District, co-presented by the DC History […]
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