Wednesday, March 24, 2021 – 12:30pm: Led by Kim Roberts Celebrate the life and remarkable achievements of an important African American foremother, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. Born in the first generation after the end of American slavery, […]
Category: DC Black History Happens Now
BLAZING A TRAIL TO CAPITOL HILL: HISTORIC FIRSTS FOR WOMEN IN CONGRESS
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 – 12:30pm Led by Carolyn Crouch and Victoria Reinsel A record number of women serve in the current 117th Congress. Yet, although 50 percent of the total U.S. population is female, women represent […]
A Visual Perspective of DC Through the Lens of Black Women Photographers
March 4, 7:00pm Hear their stories and view their works by joining us for a live discussion with photographers Jeanine Cummins, published master photographer, Sandy Adams, creative outdoor photographer, and Lisa Fanning, owner, Lisa Fanning […]
ASALH and PBS Books Present: A Conversation with Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Sundiata Cha-Jua, and Nubia Kai
Little Ethiopia DC Wreath Laying Ceremony
February 28, 4:00 – 5:00pm February 28,2021. This day will serve us to commemorate 3 important events at the same time. We will have a wreath Laying Ceremony at the African American Civil War Memorial […]
The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
February 28: 12 – 2PM
Black Power in DC
February 26, 3 – 4PM free Pre-registration for all ages George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History at UMBC, has launched a website exploring the history of Black Power organizing in the nation’s capital. Black Power […]
Village Talk Series
No matter the time, from Africa, slavery on the plantation, to Reconstruction, Jim Crow and Civil Rights, we took care and loved one another, we had a “Village” that helped and sustained us. Do we […]
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