Crossing The Rubicon:
The Battle for Black Public Education in DC
28Feb, 7:-8:30pm Lecture
26 Sunday Feb 2017
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28Feb, 12-1:30pm Frederick Douglass 2018 One Million Abolitionists
26 Sunday Feb 2017
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Library of Congress – James Madison Memorial Building
101 Independence Ave SE
Mumford Room
Washington, DC 20540
25Feb, 3:30pm Book Talk
25 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in Book Talks, Conversations, Lectures, Talks & Panels
A White House chef knows the Chief Executive in ways few others do, and many have served not only as cooks but as confidants and informal policy advisors. In his second book, Miller, the executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches, winner of a James Beard Award for Soul Food, and former special assistant to President Clinton, profiles the largely African American kitchen staffs who have worked for presidents from the nation’s beginning. Many of these individuals changed history in ways overlooked until now: one cook averted a plot to poison the first president, another compelled President Johnson to do all he could to support the Civil Rights Act. Miller tells these and other stories, drawing on a wide range of oral histories, interviews, photographs, cookbooks, and more.
Politics and Prose – 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW
25Feb 10am – 12pm ASALH Authors Event
24 Friday Feb 2017
91st Annual ASALH Black History Month Luncheon
& Featured Authors Event
The Authors event is free and open to the public!
Washington Renaissance Hotel
999 Ninth Street, NW. | Washington, DC 20001
202-824-9200
24Feb 7-9pm Lecture
24 Friday Feb 2017
Emancipation to Integration — 150 Years of Advancement in Educational Equality What did emancipation actually mean for the newly freed slaves? Morgan State University Professor David Taft Terry, Ph.D., will explain the changes, challenges, and opportunities emancipation brought to daily life in Maryland. February 2017 marks the 150th anniversary of a petition by 20 Rockville men pledging to fund a school and teacher to educate black children in 1867. Learn about these brave men and early efforts in black education with this lecture, exhibit, and reception.
A collaboration between the Rockville Memorial Library and Peerless Rockville. Call 301-762-0096 for more information. Free! No registration necessary.
Rockville Memorial Library
21 Maryland Avenue Rockville, MD 20850
24Feb 6:30-8:30pm Panel Discussion
24 Friday Feb 2017
Afro-Latinos in the District of Columbia
Join this panel discussion with DC community advocates, international development practitioners, and entrepreneurs while celebrating and acknowledging Afro-Latinos’ experience in, and contribution to, the District of Columbia. This event will provide an opportunity to hear about the most important elements of the action plan for the Decade of the “African Descendants (2015-2024) proclaimed by the United Nations.
Musical entertainment courtesy of James Lovell Garifuna Music Workshop, and the Nsaa West African Drum and Dance Ensemble Group. Reception with light refreshments follows the program.
Anacostia Community Museum
Smithsonian Institution
1901 Fort Place SE
Washington, DC 20020
23Feb, 7:00pm Lecture
22 Wednesday Feb 2017
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The Assault on Jim Crow Education:
Black Teens in the Civil Rights Movement, CR Gibbs
Cleveland Park Interim Library
4340 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, D.C. 20008
23Feb, 7:00pm Lecture
22 Wednesday Feb 2017
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Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh’s life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as a soloist at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan.
James Madison Memorial Building
Independence Avenue, between 1st and 2nd Streets
Montpelier Room
23Feb, 7-8:30pm “Race Not Place” by Sheryll Cashin
22 Wednesday Feb 2017
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Silver Spring Library 900 Wayne Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910
In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, offering a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Her proposals include making standardized tests optional, replacing merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid, and recruiting high-achieving students from overlooked places, among other steps that encourage cross-racial alliances and social mobility.
Sheryll Cashin, professor of law at Georgetown University, has published widely and is a frequent commentator on law and race relations, having appeared on NPR, CNN, ABC News, and numerous other outlets. Born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists, Cashin was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and served in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy.
22Feb, 6:30-8pm African-American Military History: A Few of Washington, DC’s Hometown Heroes
20 Monday Feb 2017
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