Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney
The Sept. 25-29 ASALH conference will feature a rich program of scholarly sessions, professional workshops, historical tours, a film festival, book signings, and many other events that illuminate the importance of the current struggle to own and control our own narrative.
“While we are in Pittsburgh we will work with and promote the local arts community, patronize local African American businesses, and offer teachers and other educators the opportunity for in-service learning on teaching the African American experience...this marks ASALH’s third time meeting in the city in the 21st century,” said ASALH President Dr. W. Marvin Dulaney.
The conference will feature African American education leaders from Carlow University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Community College of Allegheny County, and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.
Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis, an Africana Studies Scholar and the maternal niece of award-winning playwright August Wilson, is set to present a keynote address Sept. 27 on Wilson’s life and plays. Dr. Sheila Y. Flemming, a former president of ASALH, is scheduled to moderate a panel Sept. 28. Registration for in-person attendance is open at the ASALH website: https://asalh.org/conference.
“Just as we ‘ran to the fight’ last year in Jacksonville to challenge the Florida legislature’s draconian laws against the teaching of Black History, we are going to Pittsburgh to continue the fight and to highlight the current theme of ‘African American and the Arts’ and other relevant issues including, but not limited to academic freedom, the Black Liberation movement, the importance of the vote and political action,” said Dulaney.
