Charleston Area Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History
Founders of Black History Month
Location: Riley Center for Sustainable Communities | 176 Lockwood Avenue | Charleston, SC 29403 Online: Zoom Code 861 9531 5995 Topic: Celebration of Black Resistance - Jazz and Poetry RSVP
What do a blind superhero, a demon-possessed twelve-year-old, and a seven-foot-something angel-vampire have to do with each other? Come and find out!
Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival is the first and only annual celebration of African American literature in the Charleston area. Black Ink serves as a platform to … Continue reading 2023 Charleston’s Black Ink Festival
A virtual symposium at Williams College, October 19-21, 2022 The Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown: Celebrating Poetry, Prose, and Music, will be happening next week, October 20-21, 2022. Keynote … Continue reading The Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown: Celebrating Poetry, Prose, and Music
CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH TIYA MILES'S AWARD-WINNING BOOK AND RELIVE HER SESSION AT CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL 2021 In 1850s Charleston, Rose, an enslaved woman, was facing an impossible situation. … Continue reading Celebrate Black History Month with the CHARLESTON LITERARY FESTIVAL
Ukweli is the Swahili word for truth. This book meets this moment in America as a healing truth to overcome the trauma of slavery and the decades of violence that followed … Continue reading Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth
Black Ink: A Charleston African American Book Festival is being awarded $5,000 from the Literary Arts Emergency Fund for its next festival, which is taking place Jan. 14-16, 2021. The … Continue reading January 2021: Black Ink Festival