“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 […]
Category: Book Talks
14Feb 9:30-11am Book Talk
“The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life” By Kwame Alexander, Thai Neave (Photographer) The Playbook isn’t quite a basketball how-to manual for young athletes but an advice book […]
13Feb 7:00pm Black Georgetown Remembered
William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Neighborhood Library 115 Atlantic St. SW Washington, D.C. 20032
11Feb, 2-3pm Book Talk
Presented by Janet Willen, author of “Five Thousand Years of Slavery”, the author will use personal accounts of American slaves to tell the story of their bondage and battles for freedom. The presentation will also […]
7Feb, PM The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Chevy Chase Book Club, Chevy Chase Library 8005 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951, but her cells live on in scientific research to this day. The Immortal Life […]
Feb Saturdays 1-4 PM Story Days
The National Portrait Gallery Portrait Story Days; Education Center 8th & F streets NW Washington DC 4Feb: Tuskegee Airmen 11Feb: Rosa Parks 25Feb: Martin Luther King Jr. Listen to a story and create […]
4Feb, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Book Talk: The Voting Rights War
Join Author Gloria Brown Marshall at the African American Civil War Museum as she illuminates the struggle for equal voting rights in the United States. African American Civil War Museum 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington, […]
3Feb, 11:00 AM – NOON African American Civil War Museum Story Hour
Story hour engages our youngest visitors in historic objects and museum settings by using traditional and contemporary stories about the Civil War and Civil Rights movement. Children will hear a story and enjoy a hands-on […]
Black History Month Book Talks Politics and Prose
Thursday 2Feb, 7:00 PM “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” By Kaitlyn Greenidge “The Good Negress” By A. J. Verdelle Friday 3Feb, 10:00 AM “Shackles from the Deep: Tracing the Path of a Sunken Slave […]
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