Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today. Enjoy these vibrant programs and activities for all ages. Read more…

Essence Learning will be hosting a free virtual learning experience called “Diversity in the Workplace: Gen Z and Millennials perspective on racial and ethnic diversity.” This is a platform for three Millennial and Generation Z Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professionals to share their perspectives on how race and ethnicity impact… Read more…

Our dolls are All Dolled Up, and unlike the rest of the world, have places to go! The William Grant Still Arts Center (WGSAC) is pleased to announce our 2020 Black Doll Show: All Dolled Up: A 40 Year Celebration of the WGSAC Annual Black Doll Show. Read more…

Award winning author Nadia Owusu discusses her book about race, family, and identity with Nana Adjei-Brenyah on P&P Live! Heralding a dazzling new writer, Aftershocks joins the likes of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and William Styron’s Darkness Visible, and does for race identity what Maggie Nelson does… Read more…

In The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women, curator and author Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive personal collection of historical and contemporary photographs. Read more…