The National Center for Civil and Human Rights offers ongoing programming for everyone — young professionals, families with children, students, and adults. With both virtual and in-person programs, there is something for everyone. Learn more about what we have to offer below.
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Join National Black Arts & Freedom Park Conservancy for a virtual conversation and visual experience to commemorate the public art installation by Masud Olufani. This year, NBAF’s 2021 programming theme “Rising Above” opens with ELDER Project, in collaboration with Freedom Park Conservancy. Sowing the Imagination is an event that explores the past to plant...
In light of Covid-19 and its disparate effects on communities of color, conversations about anti-racism are more necessary than ever. Join Equitable Dinners: Lift Every Voice on Sunday, Feb. 21, with a focus on Racial Equity and Poverty. The evening will start with a play written by Chi Ife Okwumabua, followed by a guest speaker...
As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, join us Monday, Feb. 22 at 1:30pm EST for another edition of Children's Storytime. This time we will feature titles from Lee & Low Books. The program will include the reading of two stories (Rent Party Jazz & Joshua's Masai Mask) back-to-back. The overall run time should...
Join The Center for a pre-recorded conversation with George C. Wolfe, Director of the Netflix film, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and curator of The Center’s Rolls Down Like Water exhibit. This discussion will feature clips from the film to explore the use of art and music as resistance as well as the roles art and music play in the documentation of Black History. Participants will also gain a...
As we celebrate Women's History Month, join us for another edition of Children's Storytime! The program will include the reading of two stories back-to-back: "One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale" by Demi & "Seeds of Change" by Jen Cullerton Johnson. The overall run time should be about 30-40 minutes. At the conclusion of each...
ADL’s Examining Identity workshop will provide a broad framework to assist participants in defining who they are as individuals and how they are viewed by others. Often described as the filter through which people see and interact with the world, personal and cultural identity is constructed of the multiple identities that define a person’s membership...
ADL’s Examining Identity workshop will provide a broad framework to assist participants in defining who they are as individuals and how they are viewed by others. Often described as the filter through which people see and interact with the world, personal and cultural identity is constructed of the multiple identities that define a person’s membership...
What are Respectability Politics and how have they influenced the way women are perceived in their personal and professional lives? Join The Center for a conversation during Women’s History Month about the Politics of Respectability and what that has looked like for women over the years, from The Civil Rights Movement to modern day. Guests...
The four-part docuseries tells the little-known true story of Beulah Mae Donald, a Black mother in Alabama, who took down the Ku Klux Klan after the brutal murder and lynching of her son, Michael Donald. He was just nineteen years old when he was found dead, hanging from a tree in Mobile, on March 21, 1981. The local Black...
Join us for a very unique program featuring Keith Knight. Keith is an American cartoonist known for his comic strips The K Chronicles, (Th)ink, and The Knight Life. While his work is humorous and universal in appeal, he also often deals with political, social, and racial issues. Woke, a television series based on his work,...
The recent hate crimes against the AAPI community have brought attention to an injustice that has gone on far too long. However, ending hatred and violence towards the AAPI community goes beyond the recent hate crimes. To quote the late Martin Luther King Jr., "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Join The Center...
Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington forged one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans to create schools throughout the nation for black children who had no access to publicly funded education. From 1912 to 1937, the Rosenwald schools program built 4,978 schools for African American children across fifteen southern and border states....