AKWAABA returns this February to Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC) and NationHouse will host a brunch and the children’s show. Founded by socially conscious visual and performance artists who attended Howard University in the late […]
Category: DC Black History Happens Now
24Feb Spelling Bee! 9am
All Nations Baptist Church 2001 North Capitol St NE Washington DC 20002 All youth – all grades are invited to participate! Call the All Nations Baptist Church for details! Taste of All Nations immediately following the […]
23Feb Donvonte McCoy & CP Time 6pm
Millennium Stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F St NW Washington DC 20566 Donvonte McCoy & CP Time is a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to sharing the music of […]
23Feb Going for Freedom: True Accounts of Flight in Verse 2:30pm
Southeast Library 403 7th St SE Washington DC 20003 202 698-3377 Celebrate Black History Month at the Southeast Neighborhood Library! In costume and using monologue and original poetry, Marcia E. Cole will recount dramatic and imaginative escapes […]
23Feb Author Talk with Sonja D. Williams 2pm
Award-winning radio producer and author Sonja D. Williams draws on archives and hard-to-access family records, as well as interviews with family and colleagues like Studs Terkel and Toni Morrison, to illuminate Richard Durham’s astounding career. […]
23Feb Evans-Tibbs Archive of African American Art Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 10:30am – 4pm
Join us at the National Gallery of Art Library and help to improve and create Wikipedia articles about African American art and artists. National Gallery of Art – East Building 4th Street & Pennsylvania Ave […]
21Feb Migrations: The African Presence Around The World, Past & Present – CR Gibbs 7pm
An eye opening chronicle of the many travels of people of African descent to distant lands from ancient times to today. Join author, C.R. Gibbs for his Winter Lecture series at the Deanwood Neighborhood Library in […]
18Feb The Legacy of Harriet Tubman 1pm
A One-Woman Performance by Cortenia Smith Please join us for “The Legacy of Harriet Tubman” featuring the brilliant actress Cortenia Kay Smith. This one-woman performance reveals the true spirit of Harriet Tubman, a legendary former […]
17Feb U.S. Army Band 6pm
Millennium Stage at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F St NW Washington DC 20566 The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” presents a performance featuring African American composers. They celebrate the […]
17Feb Voices From the Past: Sissieretta Jones 4 – 5:30pm
Montpelier Arts Center 9652 Muirkirk Road Laurel, MD 20708 Sissieretta Jones was the first African American to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1892. This Black History program is dedicated to the […]
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