Events

Join us for Saturday Storytime! Enjoy inspiring children's stories and interactive games on our third-floor mezzanine. Saturday Storytime occurs at 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, and 2:30 PM and is included with the price of admission.

Join us for Saturday Storytime! Enjoy inspiring children's stories and interactive games on our third-floor mezzanine. Saturday Storytime occurs at 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, and 2:30 PM and is included with the price of admission.

Join us at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage Month! Family fun activities include making masks inspired by Creek Muscogee myths, Story Time featuring We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell, and a book giveaway. Sponsored by Georgia Natural Gas. 

Calling all Atlanta youth! We invite you to embrace your rights and celebrate your power at our #YouthBelongATL event. Join us for an afternoon filled with fun, delicious food, and dancing, while connecting with friends and community. Come celebrate, connect, and find your place in the community. You belong here.  Thank you to our sponsors: All1Family, Georgia Safe Schools Coalition, Neighborhood Church, Lost-n-Found Youth, and Sojourn. 

Join us for Saturday Storytime! Enjoy inspiring children's stories and interactive games on our third-floor mezzanine. Saturday Storytime occurs at 12:30 PM, 1:30 PM, and 2:30 PM and is included with the price of admission.

Celebrate MLK Day all weekend long with the Children's Museum of Atlanta from Saturday, January 18 – Monday, January 20! Learn about Martin Luther King Jr., his message of hope and acceptance, and more with fun activities with the National Center for Civil & Human Rights, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and Markell Williams.

We invite you to join us at Bellwood Quarry on Friday, February 7th at noon. Come learn about the history of forced labor in Atlanta, receive an overview of Truth + Transformation's work on the Westside, gain insight into our community engagement process, and share your thoughts. We will meet atthe Rebirth of Atlanta Pavilion in Westside Reservoir Park. Toward the end, we will offer an optional walk to the Reservoir Overlook (about 10 minutes) to see Bellwood Quarry. There is a hill, so wear comfortable shoes if you plan to join us for the walk. Bring your thoughts and your friends. Registration is required. Send any questions to [email protected]. Directions for entering Westside Park: The easiest way to get to the Rebirth of Atlanta Pavilion is via Johnson Rd. NW. Enter where the Whalebone Sculpture is (looks like a giant ribcage) and park in the Birth of Atlanta Lot.

Join WABE, in partnership with The Atlanta History Center and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, for a special screening of American Coup: Wilmington 1898 before it airs on PBS. Guests will get to see an exclusive preview of the film and hear a panel discussion moderated by WABE's Rose Scott with filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein, Dr. Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Emory University, and DJ Sims, Director of the Truth + Transformation Initiative at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. American Coup: Wilmington 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898. Stoking fears of “Negro Rule,” self-described white supremacists used intimidation and violence to destroy Black political and economic power and overthrow Wilmington’s democratically-elected, multi-racial government. This massacre inspired much of the 1906 Atlanta race massacre.

YOU(th) Belong and the Netherlands Consulate present The Front Porch: Black History Love Letters. On Friday, February 14, 2025, 6 PM—8 PM, join community members of all ages and backgrounds as we celebrate Black history through poetic tributes to people, past and present, who've positively impacted our lives. This event is FREE and will include storytelling, poetry, prose, music, food, and beverages.    Key Event Details: Parking for the event is paid, so plan accordingly. Want to join the Open Mic? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/a1rwf9f8NHdv8Qk97. Spots are first come, first served. Event registration closes on 2/11. Featured Artist:  L. Lamar Wilson, Affrilachian Poet and the 2024-2025 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford University

YOU(th) Belong is partnering with the Georgia Safe Schools Coalition for the 2025 Annual Summit for Georgia's LGBTQIA+ Youth on Saturday, February 15, from 8 AM – 5 PM at Agnes Scott College. This free, one-day event brings together LGBTQIA+ youth, supportive educators, and parents from across Georgia for a day of education, entertainment, and community building. Don't miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate with others committed to creating safe and inclusive schools. 

Join us for a preview of Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP, a new documentary film from PBS's American Experience, premiering Tues., Feb 25, at 9/8c on PBS stations nationwide.  The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring the filmmakers and interviewees from the film.  American Experience is proud to partner with The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, APEX Museum, and The National Center for Civil and Human Rights to present this event.    About the film:  While many consider the birth year of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. While some NAACP leaders, such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, are widely renowned figures, Walter White, head of the Association from 1929 to 1955, has been all but forgotten. With his blond hair and blue eyes, Walter White looked white; he described himself as “an enigma, a Black man occupying a white body.” Like virtually all light-skinned African Americans of his day, White was descended from enslaved Black women and powerful white men. But he was Black — by law, identity, and conviction, and spent his entire life fighting for Black civil rights. Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP traces the life of this neglected civil rights hero and seeks to explain his disappearance from our history.    Panelists:  Michelle Smawley (director) is an award-winning director, series developer, and educator. She has worked with ABC, CBS, CNN, HBO, and many others, most recently running a year-long series for a statewide initiative for WNET. She was also the founding executive producer for TRAX, the first podcast network for preteens, which earned a Peabody Award nomination in 2021. Smawley is an adjunct professor at NYU. She has also served on the faculty of the Missouri School of Journalism and the Graduate Program in Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts.  Rob Rapley (writer, producer) is the founder of Apograph Productions and has written, directed, and produced many award-winning films for American Experience, including most recently The Lie Detector and Voice of Freedom. Rob has received three Emmy nominations, a Writer’s Guild Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, and many other honors. A classically trained musician, Rob was also nominated for an Emmy as a sound mixer and has engineered Grammy-winning recordings with some of the great classical artists of our time.  The conversation will be moderated by Cameo George, executive producer of American Experience. George is an Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, and journalist with more than 25 years of experience in documentary, broadcast television, and digital content production. She has produced, developed, and commissioned innovative programming at CNN, NBC News, and ABC News. She was also the senior producer of CNN’s groundbreaking series Black in America and Latino in America and was executive producer of the eight-hour PBS documentary series 16 for '16: The Contenders, which was also broadcast on the BBC. George joined American Experience from ABC News, where she was head of development for long-form projects and was responsible for creating a pipeline of docuseries and feature documentary films across Walt Disney Television platforms, including ABC News, Hulu, National Geographic, and Disney+. She was recently named to The Root’s list of 2024’s 100 Most Influential Black Americans.  ---  Major funding for American Experience provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance, Carlisle Companies, and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Funding for Forgotten Hero: Walter White and the NAACP provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Additional funding for American Experience provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, The American Experience Trust, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.