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 […]
Category: Lectures, Talks & Panels
23Feb, 7:00pm Lecture
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
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 […]
23Feb, 7-8:30pm “Race Not Place” by Sheryll Cashin
Silver Spring Library 900 Wayne Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, […]
22Feb, 6:30-8pm African-American Military History: A Few of Washington, DC’s Hometown Heroes
Presentation by Captain Ed Gantt, US Navy (Ret.) United States Navy Memorial Naval Heritage Center 701 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington D.C. 20004 www.navymemorial.org […]
22Feb, 3:30-5pm ROTC Scholarship and Service Academy Symposium
High school students will focus on the educational opportunities available at colleges, universities and military academies around the country. Our five service academies are among the most selective colleges in the country and offer free […]
19Feb, 3:00pm Let Us Have Peace ~ Saints in the Making
St. Matthew’s Cathedral: main sanctuary 1725 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 This special event features Msgr. Ray East, who will speak to us on the lives of four African-American men and women who […]
18Feb, 11:00am Lecture and Candy Tasting: Sweet as Sin
Susan Benjamin, candy historian, and author will give a talk about the historic origins of candy based on her most recent book, “Sweet as Sin: The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America’s Favorite Pleasure.” […]
17Feb, 4:00pm CR Gibbs Lecture
Hidden Heroes: Africans American, NASA, & the Quest for the Final Frontier Long Branch Library 8800 Garland Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20901 Celebrate Black History Month […]
16Feb, 7:-8:30pm Lecture
Crossing The Rubicon: The Battle for Black Public Education in DC Tenley-Friendship Library 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20016
DC Black History happens EveryDay... 