2018 was a contentious year featuring a high stakes mid-term election with several marquee races making news globally. Filmmaker Robert Greenwald examines that year’s voter suppression efforts through the eyes of the Georgia voters affected […]
Category: Public Library
20feb – Film: Beloved, 5:30pm
Adapted from Nobel-prize winning author Toni Morrison’s acclaimed novel, Beloved is set in 1873 Ohio, as Sethe, a mother of three, is haunted by her horrific past of enslavement, and her desperate efforts to achieve […]
20feb – Rayceen Pendarvis Is Living Black History, 6:30pm
Please join us for an evening of performances, interviews, artwork and more, starring emcee, columnist, community advocate, and lifelong Washingtonian Rayceen Pendarvis. Together with LGBTQ+ individuals and allies, Rayceen will guide the audience through a program […]
18feb – Film: Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, 7pm
Suppressed: The Fight to Vote Film Screenings Multiple Dates Francis A. Gregory Library 3660 Alabama Ave SE Anacostia Library 1800 Good Hope Rd SE 2018 was a contentious year featuring a high stakes mid-term election […]
12feb – Book Hill Talks – Janea West: Producer & Director, 7pm
Janea West created GROWN in 2016, a series for black women to see themselves on screen. The concept of the comedy-drama was to create relatable characters experiencing the challenges and difficulties of young adulthood: career […]
12feb – Hand Dancing & Its Amazing History by Tyrone Woods & Co., 7pm
African History and Culture Lecture Series Woodridge Neighborhood Library 1801 Hamlin St NE 202-541-6226
12feb – What’s Really Going On Podcast, 7pm
Southeast Neighborhood Library 403 7th St SE 202-698-3377 The What’s Really Going On Podcast is about the intersection of politics and culture. Friends Henry and Noah breakdown the issues impacting those who are far too […]
12feb – Films: Fannie Lou Hamer: Voting Rights Activist & Voting Matters: Fighting for Voting Rights, 6pm
West End Library 2301 L St NW 202-724-8707 1. Voting rights activist and Civil Rights Leader Fannie Lou Hamer, born in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest […]
12feb – Black Power in Washington, D.C. by G. Derek Musgrove, 2pm
G. Derek Musgrove, co-author of Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, will join us to discuss his new project, the Washington D.C. Black Power Map. Cleveland Park Library 3310 […]
11feb – We Are Rising! The Story of Black Women & The Vote by CR Gibbs, 7pm
Join historian CR Gibbs as he presents “We Are Rising: African American Women & The Vote.” A lecture celebrating the centennial of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to […]
