Black History Month 2026 Schedule of Events

Georgetown Events

Slave Traders in the Family: A Black Historian Reckons with a Troubling Past

Hosted by: Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Feb. 2, 4-5:30 p.m.
Booth Family Center for Special Collections, 5th Floor, Lauinger Library

A Conversation with Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli

Hosted by: Georgetown Global Health; Black Studies Department
Feb. 3, 6-7:30 p.m.
Maguire Hall, Room 304; Virtual Option

The Ella Jo Baker Distinguished Lecture — ”All That You Touch You Change: Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturist Vision for Survival”

Hosted by: Black Studies Department
Feb. 4, 5-6:15 p.m.
Copley Formal Lounge; Virtual Option

Translating Blackness

Hosted by: Georgetown Humanities Initiative; Literatures, Cultures, and Language Studies Departments
Feb. 4, 5-7 p.m.
Old North, Room 205

“Wellness in the Ward”: A Conversation with Wards 7 & 8  Black Champions for Community Health & Well-Being

Hosted by: Georgetown University Black Student Alliance
Feb. 6, 10-11:30 a.m.
Busboys and Poets, Anacostia

Book Talk with Prof. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham | Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor World

Hosted by: Georgetown’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program; Gender⁺ Justice Initiative; Department of Black Studies
Feb. 10, 5-6:30 p.m.
Arrupe Hall Multipurpose Room

A Black History Month Discussion with SEIU President International April Verrett: Labor and the 100th Anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Hosted by: The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
Feb. 10, 6 p.m.
Intercultural Center Auditorium

Douglass Day 2026: Transcribe-a-thon featuring the Colored Conventions Project

Hosted by: Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Feb. 13, 12-2 p.m.
Healy Hall, Room 208 (Philodemic Room)

Friday Music Series Presents: Nicole Mitchell

Hosted by: Department of Performing Arts
Feb. 20, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
McNeir Hall, New North Building

Book Talk with Prof. Jennifer Boum Make| Decolonial Care Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean

Hosted by: Gender⁺ Justice Initiative; Women and Gender Studies; Black Studies; French and Francophone Department; Disability Studies; Global Health Institute; Medical Humanities Initiative
Feb. 24, 5-6:30 p.m.
Arrupe Hall Multipurpose Room

Black Movements Dance Theatre Annual Black History Month Concert: Awakening

Hosted by: Black Movements Dance Theatre
Feb. 20-21, 7:30 p.m.
Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts Center

Forgotten Children Initiative Virtual Launch: Unearthing the Lives Behind the Lost Burial Sites of Incarcerated Youth

Hosted by: Center for Youth Justice
Feb. 25, 2 p.m.
Virtual

Washington, D.C. Events

Imagine a World Without…

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 1, 1-5 p.m.
Benning (Dorothy I. Height) Neighborhood Library

Author Talk: Bibb Country with Lonnae O’Neal

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 1, 3-4:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library — Central Library Auditorium

From Page to Screen: Black History Month Film Series

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Tuesdays, 3-5 p.m.
Benning (Dorothy I. Height) Neighborhood Library

The 1619 Project – Documentary Series

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library – Central Library Auditorium

Historically Speaking: Joy Goddess

Hosted by: African American History and Culture Museum
Feb. 5, 7-8 p.m.
Oprah Winfrey Theater, African American History and Culture Museum

Meditation Mondays

Hosted by: African American History and Culture Museum
Feb. 9, 6-6:45 p.m.
Virtual

Humanities on the Hill: Danielle Phillips-Cunningham

Hosted by: Georgetown University Women’s and Gender Studies; Johns Hopkins University
Feb. 9, 6-8:30 p.m.
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center

Black History Month Series – Lamond Riggs Library Friends (Hans Charles, Cinematographer and Producer)

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 10, 5-6 p.m.
Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library — Meeting Room 1

Black History Month Series – Friends of Lamond Riggs (DC Office of Planning Commemoration of Sterling A. Brown)

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 17, 3-4 p.m.
Lamond-Riggs Neighborhood Library — Meeting Room 1

Black History Month Trivia

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 17, 6-7:30 p.m.
Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library — First Floor Meeting Room

Descendants of Black Georgetown: A Panel Discussion

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 18, 7-8:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library — Central Library Auditorium

The Power of Knowing: John Lewis, Poetry & Hip-HopEd

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 19, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Francis A. Gregory Neighborhood Library — Conference Room 2

Call & Response with L. Michelle

Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 19, 7-9 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library — Central Library Auditorium

Historic Change: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Althea Gibson

Hosted by: African American History and Culture Museum; Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum; U.S. Mint
Feb. 21, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Heritage Hall, L3, African American History and Culture Museum

Through the African American Lens: Our Blues Make Us Gold

Hosted by: African American History and Culture Museum
Feb. 21, 2-4:30 p.m.
Oprah Winfrey Theater, African American History and Culture Museum

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