In celebration of the museum’s 50th anniversary, we are pulling out all the stops. For the first time ever, the museum will hold its annual Mardi Gras event in our own 2,500 square foot main gallery! […]
Category: Plays & Performances
Feb10 B l a c k Composers Concert®
The James Weldon Johnson Community School of the Arts Presents Classical ¯ Jazz ¯ Gospel ¯ Sacred 3:00 pm Dunbar High School 101 N St NW, Washington, DC 20001 FREE ADMISSION, Donations Welcomed Featured Artists Tenor Anthony Ballard ♫ Soprano […]
PATRIOTIC TREASON: the Story of John Brown Film Screening / Stage Reading by We Act Radio
Mon, December 4, 9:00 – 10:30 PM $10 Busboys and Poets, Langston Hughes Room 2021 14th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20009 Had John Brown been killed at Harper’s Ferry we may have never known his […]
Tuesday April 4
Dr. Martin Luther’s King Jr.’s Tribute 7:00 PM The tribute will commemorate the life of Dr. King as a spiritual leader, civil rights leader and a social justice fighter. The program will involve musical selections […]
24Feb 6:30-8:30pm Panel Discussion
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 […]
24Feb 6:00pm Live Music
Led by music duo Steve McKie (drummer/producer) and Corey Bernhard (keys/producer), the Philadelphia band Killiam Shakespeare is comprised of a unique collective of musicians fused by their multiple genres of influence, including jazz, funk, […]
23Feb, 4:00pm DC Legendary Musicians
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington DC 20004 This is a live performance featuring a band along with R&B, […]
21Feb, 2:30pm Civil War Reenactments featuring the Ladies of FREED
Celebrate Black History Month by joining the ladies of FREED (Female RE-Enactors of Distinction) as they perform stirring reenactments depicting the lives and contributions of black women of the Civil War era. Deanwood Library 1350 49th St. […]
20Feb, 6:00pm
Playwright and author Tom Minter stages his original play BLUES FOR A ROYAL FLUSH – In 1967 Duke Ellington finds himself buffeted by the activism of the times, and reaching for a new direction of creativity… Through […]
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