Author Archives: Anita Russell

Reimagine We: A Platform for Personal Transformation, Community Engagement, and Collective Liberation

“Reimagine We Begins with Reimagine Me” We live in a world built on extraction, not relationship. It’s a world designed to consume people, land, labor, and spirit in the name of profit, power, and dominance. It taught us competition instead of cooperation, hoarding instead of sharing, and alienation instead of belonging. It has told usContinue reading “Reimagine We: A Platform for Personal Transformation, Community Engagement, and Collective Liberation”

Women’s History Month Featuring Rev. B. De Niece Welch, PhD and Dr. Margaret Bristow

March is Women’s History Month, and on March 8, 2025, from 11:30 AM EST to 1:30 PM EST, the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH will present an exciting program featuring two phenomenal and significant speakers. Rev. B. De Niece Welch, PhD, the First Vice President of the Dr. Edna B McKenzie branch will present “Black WomenContinue reading “Women’s History Month Featuring Rev. B. De Niece Welch, PhD and Dr. Margaret Bristow”

Members and Family Involved in Labor

The Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH  Presents a Panel Discussion Every member of the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie branch has a very compelling story about a family member, relative or an associate’s affiliation with labor. We would like to share those stories…Join us on Saturday, February 8, 2025 12:00 NOON ET – 2:00Continue reading “Members and Family Involved in Labor”

Help Preserve Black History: Join Our Branch Speakers Bureau

From the Desk of the Branch President, Ronald B. Saunders Dear Edna B. McKenzie Branch and National Members,  We have launched a branch speakers bureau in 2024!We are inviting all Branch and National ASALH dues paying members to consider participating.  As you may know, the national organization has a speakers bureau. Like this bureau, we aim to assist organizations, institutions, andContinue reading “Help Preserve Black History: Join Our Branch Speakers Bureau”

Branch Table Presentation

Opening of Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive at the Carnegie Museum of Art To mark the occasion the Carnegie Museum of the Arts hosted a free concert and celebration featuring Roger Humphries and the R.H. Factor in the Carnegie Music Hall. In addition local organizations were invited to share their work at a table set upContinue reading “Branch Table Presentation”

My Ancestor, Through My Writings: Walking the Trails of Nat Turner

Special Guest: Bruce L. Turner, 3rd-Great Grandson of Nat Turner, enslaved Black carpenter and preacher who led a four-day rebellion of both enslaved and free Black people in Southampton County, Virginia in August 1831.  Hosted in partnership with the Hampton Roads, Dr. Edna B. McKenzie, and Atlanta Branches of the Association for the Study ofContinue reading “My Ancestor, Through My Writings: Walking the Trails of Nat Turner”

Hope for Haiti: Providing Help in the Midst of Crisis

Panel Discussion: The Role Functional Literacy Ministry (FLM) Plays in Haiti On Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 1:00 PM EST to 2:30 PM EST, the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH will sponsor a panel discussion on the role Functional Literacy Ministry (FLM) plays in Haiti.  We are honored to present this well designedContinue reading “Hope for Haiti: Providing Help in the Midst of Crisis”

The Black Ekphrastic at the Crossroads of Poetry & Art

Hosted by the Dr. Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH Saturday March 29, 2024 | 7-9 PM ET An ekphrastic poem is a vivid poetic description of a scene, a work of art, or any other artistic genre, such as film, music, or dance. Today, each poet has chosen a piece of artistic work byContinue reading “The Black Ekphrastic at the Crossroads of Poetry & Art”

Black Female Legacies in the Arts

Saturday, February 10, 2024, from 11:30 AM ET to 1:00 PM ET A panel of Black female artists speak about their experiences as Black female artists. Discussion includes how they made history in 2022 exhibiting their art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh PA.  Panelist Biographies Lynne b. is a Pittsburgh-based mixed media painter who alsoContinue reading “Black Female Legacies in the Arts”