Rufus S. Berry II, Liberia’s Bicentennial and Moving Back Home to Corruption
Thu, Feb 10, 3p (8p Liberia Time adjusted for live broadcast in Liberia)
Rufus S. Berry II is a Liberian activist and former President of the Liberian Association of Northern California (LANC). He is now living in Liberia and is the managing partner and CEO of Berry and Gaye Financial Consulting. We will talk about the country’s bicentennial, his return to Liberia, immigration issues, and corruption.
Dr. Lopez Mathews, Jr, Storage Devices: Stone to The Cloud
Dr. Lopez Mathews, Jr, Digital Production Librarian at Howard University Libraries /Moorland Spingarn Research Center, and I talk about the rapid changes in storage devices from stone, paper, punch cards, floppy drive, CD-ROM, CD-RW, ZIP, and cloud and how those rapid changes affects saving every day and archival documents.
Health/COVID-19
Why you should upgrade your mask as the Omicron variant spreads
NIOSH-approved N95 Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirators (The US certifies N95s, while China approves KN95s)
COVID-19 Self Test
free
Recorded and Upcoming End-of-Life Planning Webinars
Referral Service: The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation
For in-home elderly medical care (versus a more risky emergency room visit)
1-844-438-6744
Sickle Cell Disease Association Community Health Worker Training
Mar 14-May 16 on Mon and Wed, 11a-4p
The application deadline is Mar 7.
$1,060 with limited scholarships
Theater
Dear Mapel
Mosaic Theater
(in-person only)
1333 H Street NE
Wed, Feb 2-Sun, Feb 13, $ (new dates)
Art
Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey
International Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society
Salmagundi Club
New York
Mon, Apr 11–Sat, Apr 30
Watercolor Demonstration Artist Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey watercolor Lesson - video
James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem
National Gallery Of Art
6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington D.C.
now through May 30
Cedric Baker
Four Seasons
Eno Wine Bar
2810 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington DC
now through Mar 31, 4p-11p
Comedy
Dry bar comedy,Gas Stations Are Getting Ridiculous, comedian J. Bliss
Dry bar comedy, Parenting Your Parents Is Harder Than It Looks.comedian,
Leighann Lord
Conference
African Kings And Queens Journey To Panama
Panama City, Panama
Thu, May 19-Wed, May
25
Cooking
Cooking
Homemade Licorice: A Simple and Delicious Recipe
Economics
House Foreign Affairs Committee: Leveraging the Global Black Diaspora to Strengthen US Foreign Investment Assistance
Wed, Feb 16, 1:30p
State of Black Businesses: Resilience in the Face of a Pandemic
The Brookings Institution
Wed, Feb 16, 2p-3p
Current Events
How a Guaranteed Income Pilot Program is Helping Some in Gary, Indiana
PBS NewsHour
Education
What is African Centered Education and why is it more important today than ever before?
APPEAL and The Council of Independent Black Institutions
Sat, Feb 12, 2022 11a, non-members $10
Fashion
Robin Givhan Interviews the Late André Leon Talley
Festivals
Liberia: The Land of Return - Commemorating 200 Years of Freedom and Pan-African Leadership
Fri, Jan 7-Sat, Dec 10
Official opening ceremony Mon, Feb 14
Sutukoba Kangkiling Festival
Sutukoba Village
Upper River Region, The Gambia
Fri, Feb 11–Sat, Feb 12
Games
Test Your Knowledge: U.S. State Shapes
(This quiz will not work in Internet Explorer)
Health
Sickle Cell Disease Association Community Health Worker Training
Mar 14-May 16 on Mon and Wed, 11a-4p
The application deadline is Mar 7. Costs $1,060 with limited scholarships
Walk4Health-The Gambia
Every Sat, 7:30a
Independence Stadium
Bakau, Kanifing Municipality, The Gambia
Fact or Fiction: Sex Trafficking at the Super Bowl
Woodhull’s Human Rights Commissions
Thu, Feb 10, 9p
History
The Amistad
The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
Mon, Feb 21, The History of the 1839 Rebellion
Mon, Feb 28, Sharing and Interpreting Connecticut’s Connection to the Amistad
First Annual Dr. Charles R. Drew Knowledge Bowl
(Frostburg State, Howard University, Morgan State University, and Hampton University)
Sat, Feb 12, 11a-1p
Douglass Week
Tue, Feb 8-Mon, Feb 14
Muslims in South America and the Caribbean
Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick
America’s Islamic Heritage Museum & Cultural Center
Feb 15, 7p-8p
The History of HBCUs
Dr. Cheryl Mango
Virginia State University
Jack Hadley Black History Museum
214 Alexander Street
Thomasville, GA
Sat, Feb 12, 6p
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 933 849 1871
Rohulamin Quander
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Register
Sat, Feb 12,10a—2p
Black History Month Keynote Program: A Conversation with the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie Bunch
Northwest African American Museum
Thu, Feb 17, 8p
Virtual Black Abolitionist Tour of London
(90min virtual walking tour of London, highlighting 5 sites where African American activists made an important impact on the UK landscape)
Wed, Mar 2, 1p–2:30p
Repairing Histories 1: Claudia Jones And Marcus Garvey
(Highlighting Claudia Jones and Marcus Garvey in the context of British and Global African history; and to improve or expand our knowledge)
Sat, Jun 11, 2022 9a-1p
