African American Civil War Museum and Memorial 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Join us for the 3rd Annual Reading of the names of the First Freed under the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in […]
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Feb20-23, Black Diamond $
Score a home run with a spirit-rousing musical play about the “other” major league! This updated hit from nationally recognized arts leader Michael Bobbitt and tunesmith John Cornelius chronicles the struggles and triumphs of pioneering […]
Feb17 Community Conversation and Film Review of “The Road to Brown”
You are cordially invited to join the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, Inc. Board of Directors in partnership with Members of the Federal City Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for a Community Conversation and Film […]
February 2018 Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital
A provocative book by noted scholars Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove. Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital has been called “an ambitious, kaleidoscopic history…essential American history, deeply researched and […]
City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched The Poor People’s Campaign — a national, multiethnic, multicultural movement to demand equal access to economic opportunities and security for all people. […]
4Feb, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Book Talk: The Voting Rights War
Join Author Gloria Brown Marshall at the African American Civil War Museum as she illuminates the struggle for equal voting rights in the United States. African American Civil War Museum 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington, […]
DC Black History happens EveryDay... 