POH Podcasts
Sabata-mpho Mokae, Pridefully Keeping His Language Alive
We converse with Sabata-mpho Mokae, an academic, novelist, and translator based at the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberly, South Africa. We talk not only about Mokae’s writings, but that of his hero Sol Plaatjie, South African and world history, and he and Plaatje’s effort to develop and maintain their language, Setswana.
Health/COVID-19
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Festivals
Washington, DC
Africa on the Avenues
Bruce Monroe Community Park
btw Columbia Road and Irving Street
Sat, May 20, 11a-5p
Washington, DC
Anacostia River Festival
Sat, May 20, 1p-4p
rain date: Sun, May 21
Art
Oxon Hill, MD
Black History and Culture Stitched into Quilts
Arts’Tination
National Harbor
162 Water Front Street
Sat, May 20, 1p-4p; ages 8-12
Sun, May 21, 1p-4p; teens and adults
Gary
Unapologetic NWI" and "Unapologetic Avant Garde”
Gary Public Library and Cultural Center
220 W. 5th Avenue,
now until-Wed, May 31
Boston
MFA Boston
Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina
now to Sun, Jul 9
Chicago
Diaspora Stories: Selections from the CCH Pounder Collection
DuSable Museum
740 E. 56th Place
Sun, Jul 16, $
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
de Young
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco
now until-Oct 15, $
Books
Washington, DC
George & Esohe Galbreath
Authors of The Galbreath Collection: A Decade of Collecting Atlanta
Zawadi
1524 U Streets, NW
Sun, May 21, 2p-4p
Gary
Super StoryHour at the Park
Marquette Park Playground Committee
Marquette Park Playground
Weds, May 31–Thu, Aug 30, 10a-noon
free bag lunches, city transportation
Business
Conscious Capitalism
How a Guaranteed Income Pilot Program is Helping Some in Gary, Indiana
PBS NewsHour
The 5 Reasons Why The "United States Of AFRICA" May Fail
Dance
Philadelphia
Latin Nights Happy Pride Month Edition
Society Hill Dance Academy
1919 E Passyunk Ave
Philadelphia, PA
Fri, Jun 2 Beginner Latin Night Club Class, 7:45p
Salsa, Bachata Cha Cha & more 8:30p-12a, BYOB, $15
Economics
United Black Community Reparations Discussion with the National Coalition for Blacks for Reparations (N’COBRA) Sat, May 20, 7p
Election 2022
How Close Were House Races? A Few Thousand Votes Could Have Swung Control
Events
West Africa Automotive Show
Landmark Centre
Tue, May 16-Thu, May 18
Lagos
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)
Shabazz Center
3940 Broadway
New York
Fri, May 19
Africa Day 2023
Thu, May 25
Africa Day Open Forum
Ralph J. Bunche International Center
Howard University
2218 6th Street, NW
Thu, May 25, 8:30a-1p
175th anniversary of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention Commemoration
Women's Rights National Historical Park
Seneca Falls, NY
Fri, Jul 21-Sun, Jul 23, 2023
Exhibits
Philadelphia
Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia
101 South Third Street
Philadelphia
now until Sun, Nov. 26, 2023
Philadelphia
Pool: A Social History of Segregation?
The Fairmount Water Works
640 Water Works Drive
Philadelphia, PA
now untill-Sep 30, free
Washington, DC
We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC
Martin Luther King Library
9 & G Street, NW
now until-Sep 15, 2024
Macon, GA
Tyler Perry Exhibition
Tubman Museum
310 Cherry Street
Now until Feb 2025
Festivals
Washington, DC
Africa on the Avenues
Bruce Monroe Community Park
btw Columbia Road and Irving Street
Sat, May 20, 11a-5p
Washington, DC
Anacostia River Festival
Sat, May 20, 1p-4p
rain date: Sun, May 21
Nairobi
Colour Festival Kenya!
Sagret Gardens
Kiambu Road
Nairobi
May 27, 10a-10p, $
Afrowise Festival
Burg Frankenburg, Aachen, Germany
Sat, Jul 8-Sun, Jul 9
Film Washington, DC
Barry Farm (film screening)
Junkyard Band
MLK Library
901 G Street, NW
Sun, May 28, 1:30p-4p, free
Gary, IN
Gary Air Show
Marquette Park @ Lake Michigan
Sat, Aug 5 and Sun, Aug 6
Waterbury CT
Afro Latin Film Festival
1 Plank Road
Fri, Jun 16-Sun, Jun 18, $15-$40
A United Kingdom (released Nov 26)
History vs. Hollywood Findings
Health
Managing Prostate Cancer Survivorship Meeting
Wed, Jun 14, 6p
Bakau, Kanifing Municipality, The Gambia
Walk4Health-The Gambia
Every Sat, 7:30a
Independence Stadium
Human Diversity
A Monk Who Wears Heels - NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Best African Dads In The World: Meet The Aka Pygmy Fathers
4 African Cultural Traditions Travelers Can Participate In- Wodaabe Warriors
Interracial marriages to get added protection under new law
The Meaning of Mahu
(In Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are third gender people with traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture, similar to Tongan fakaleiti and Samoan fa'afafine)
A Black Woman with White Skin Struggles To Fit In With Society
Woman Challenging Zakir Naik on Polygamy
Pastress Aggie About Her Ministry as A Transgender Pastor In Uganda
Farmer Ellis Bell
Bell, POH publisher Wayne Young’s paternal uncle, discusses his journey as a farmer in Eastern Arkansas, insurance agent in St. Louis, and founder of a non-profit that introduces young Americans to agricultural careers. Our formerly enslaved, Civil War veteran ancestor purchased the original farm acres after Emancipation.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Schooling Joe Rogan on Africa's Greatness
The “Deviant” African Genders That Colonialism Condemned
History
SNCC Digital Gateway
(A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists in SNCC united with local people in the Deep South.)
Marriage
RaceToday! Seasoned Black Marriage
with CR Gibbs
In Memoriam
Vida Blue
Taylor Thomas
Useni Eugene Perkins
Music
Westminster Presbyterian Church
400 I St., SW
Washington, DC
Every Friday night, from 6p-9p
Monday Night Blues
Admission $10 -- Children under 16 are
FREE Food and Beverages available 5:30p-8:45p
Poetry
Greenbelt, MD
Social Justice: Themes in Song and Verse from Africa and the Diaspora
from The National Museum of Language
Greenbelt Branch Public Library
11 Crescent Road
Sat, May 20, 2p-4p, free
Religion
Atheists Late Night
Atheists In Kenya Society
Fridays, 4p-5p
Shopping/Restaurants
Washington, DC
The Black Saturdays CO-OP and Farmers Market
APPEAL
2015 Bunker Hill Road, N.E.
Sat, May 20, 1p-5p
Theater
DC
Two Sets of Reading by Alan Sharpe
for DC Black Pride.
Undercroft Theater
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church
900 Mount Vernon Place
Sunday, May 28, 2023, 4p and 7p
Technology
ChatGPT Tutorial - A Crash Course on Chat GPT for Beginners
Television/Online
Richard III
PBS
Great Performances
See
Watch Full Episode
My Journey To 50
Gabrielle Union's travels to Africa
BET+
Premiering on Thu, Jun 15
After Sherman
PBS
premiere on TV, Mon Jun 26, 10p
stream free until Wed, Jul 26, at pbs.org,
and the PBS App
In After Sherman, filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff visits his ancestral hometown Georgetown, South Carolina, a community deeply rooted in Gullah Geechee customs to investigate the cultural and spiritual rituals that bind people together in that region.
Pluto TV
Theater
DC
Two Sets of Reading by Alan Sharpe
for DC Black Pride.
Undercroft Theater
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church
900 Mount Vernon Place
Sunday, May 28, 2023, 4p and 7p
Chicago
The Real Housewives of Motown
Black Ensemble Theater
4450 North Clark Street
Mon, May 28-Sun, Jul 9
Washington, DC
One In Two
Mosaic Theater
1333 H Street, NE
Thu, Jun 1-Sun, Jun 25
Washington, DC
Incendiary
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW
Mon, May 29-Sun, Jun 25
Washington
Dissonance
The Essential Theatre
Anacostia Arts Center -
1231 Good Hope Road, SE
Tue, May 30-Sun, Jun 11
Young Adults
Akili Kids! TV - Kenya's #1 Children's Channel
Tayvon Jackson's
Goal Setting for Kids
Tayvon Jackson's
How I Taught a Child About Stocks
The Crayon Box that Talked
Read Africa Aloud
Features author readings of outstanding books on Africa together with classroom applications and fun activities for children.
‘Sky Girls Kenya’: Born to Fly - Citizen TV and YouTube 'The show chronicles the day-to-day life of the teenage characters living in Nairobi and coping with the everyday challenges of social pressure, sexual harassment, bullying, HIV, and self-identity crisis
