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“Black History Month is a time to celebrate the fullness of African American history and culture, but that cannot be contained in one month alone.” These words of Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the National Museum of African American History & Culture. Check out their website for a list of events and excellent resources.
Manumission Tour Company | All Year
Alexandria, VA
Founded in the spring of 2016, by John Taylor Chapman, a fourth generation Alexandrian and member of Alexandria City Council, Manumission Tour Company, LLC seeks to bring attention to the historical legacy of Africans and African Americans in Alexandria through curating guided cultural heritage tours.
Book your tour here | Adults $15 | Children (12 and under) $12
Frederick Douglass: Autobiographer | February 23, 6:45 – 8:15 p.m.
This online program is presented on Zoom, Meeting Password: 1K0346
During the 19th century, the great civil rights leader Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a celebrated orator, editor, and writer. Join Douglass scholar Robert S. Levine as he focuses on Douglass the autobiographer and considers the significant changes and additions he made to his later autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Teaching with Museum Objects: Black Women’s History Pop-Up! | February 23, 4 – 5 p.m.
This online program is presented on Youtube
African American History and Culture Museum, American History Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Portrait Gallery, Postal Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
Free Admission
Sweet Home Café Black History Month Chef’s Table | February 24
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Sweet Home Café
Chef Siatta discovered her love of food at the age of five when she accompanied her grandmother to the food market in Tanda, Abidjan (Ivory Coast). Raised by her grandmother, Chef Siatta spent hours in the kitchen learning the basics of preparing African cuisine.
Free Admission
Black History Month Wine Pairing Dinner | February 24 & 26, 7 p.m.
In honor of Black History Month, Market Salamander is proud to present the second annual Black History Month Wine Pairing Dinner. Chef Pete Smith has collaborated with Kindra Dionne of The Fifty Leven Collection to curate a locally-source menu paired harmoniously with Fifty Leven wines. The delicious Southern-inspired menu features dishes like shrimp & grits, blackened lamb chop with collard greens, Southern fried chicken and more.
DC Concert Celebrating the Garifuna Language with James Lovell | February 25, 2 – 3 p.m.
Visit the National Museum of the American Indian and enjoy a concert by James Lovell, a passionate Garifuna artist whose mission is to preserve the Garifuna culture, language and arts through music. He composes and translates songs that uplift and encourage younger generations to stay connected to the endangered Garifuna language, an Arawakan language spoken mainly in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Free Admission
Black History Month Black Business Expo | February 25, 12 – 1 p.m.
Sebrof Forbes Cultural Arts Center (Kensington, MD)
Come and Patronize some of the DMV’s Finest rising entrepreneurs and small black owned businesses! There will be 30 businesses vending a variety of different items, so come on out!
Free Admission
The Ivory & Cream Affair Literary Jazz Brunch | February 25, 1 p.m.
Break out your best ivory or cream outfit and join us for a powerful day of food, authors, music, prizes, and fun during the premier event of the 7th Annual Black History Month Literary Weekend! The purpose of the Black History Month Literary Weekend is to celebrate literacy while introducing young adults to a part of Black History beyond what they learn in school.
The Struggle for Justice | Permanent
This exhibit showcases major cultural and political figures who struggled to achieve civil rights for disenfranchised or marginalized groups through photographs, paintings, posters, buttons, and sculptures.
Free Admission
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