Author, educator and community activist Kristina Gilcrest will discuss approaches to prevent violence against women. This lecture will focus on her research and recent publications that provide guidance for preventing physical, sexual and emotional abuse specifically as it relates to women.
This lecture will take place on Saturday, March 31, at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, in the Auditorium-A-5, at 1 p.m. For more information, please contact 202-727-1261.
Ashley Robertson, of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National Archives for Black Women’s History will discuss Mary McLeod Bethune’s vision and formation of the National Council of Negro Women and it’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Psyche A. Williams-Forson, professor of African-American and Women Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park will discuss her book, Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power. Chicken -- both the bird and the food -- has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture and helped women define and exert themselves in society. Psyche A.
On March 5, Dr., Jo Paoletti, associate professor of American Studies at University of Maryland, College Park, will discuss her latest book Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. This lecture is in recognition of Women's History month. Pink and Blue details the history of gender differences in children's clothing. Paoletti's research examines the shift in attitudes toward color as a mark of gender in children's clothing.
Join renowned author Blair A. Ruble and veteran jazz broadcaster Rusty Hassan for a discussion on Ruble's most recent book, Washington's U Street: A Biography. A prominent urbanist, jazz aficionado and longtime Washington, D.C. resident, Blair Ruble is director of the Kennan Institute and of the Comparative Urban Studies Programs at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Rusty Hassan has been described by author and jazz journalist, Willard Jenkins as "...one of the warmest, most knowledgeable interviewers in jazz radio...
In Celebration of Black History Month 2012, the DC Public Library is pleased to announce a concert by The University of the District of Columbia Small Jazz Ensemble on Thursday, February 9, at 12:30 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.
This past Tuesday morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 84th Academy Awards. Four of the ten nominees for Best Picture are based on award winning and best-selling books.
Liberated Muse Arts, in association with Soul Pixie Productions and the DC Public Library, presents "In Her Words," a performance celebrating the lives of African-American women. Join us for a theatrical musical presentation, "An Artist Speaks," examining the lives of artists Lena Horne, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Lucille Clifton--creative women who used their artistic prowess to ignite and support social and political movements. Enjoy music and spoken monologue from the legendary women, culled from transcripts of speeches, autobiographical excerpts and interviews.
In recognition of Black History Month 2012, the DC Public Library presents its 23rd Annual Black Film Festival Tuesdays at 3 p.m., at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, in Auditorium A-5. This year, the films highlight the theme for Black History Month, "Black Women in American Culture and History," established by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
Please join us in the Black Studies Division at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library on February 21, at 6:30 p.m. for a stimulating discussion of the late Manning Marable's final work, Malcolm X, A Life of Reinvention. This discussion of Marable's controversial biography of Malcolm X will be led by Dr. Doug E. Taylor, Assistant Professor of English at Howard University.
