Black History Month Events
Black History Month 2025 Schedule of Events
Georgetown Events
Interpreting Desire: Prayer in Thomas Aquinas and the Slave Spirituals with Professor Andrew Prevot
Hosted by: Georgetown Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Feb 4, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Healy Hall, Room 208 (Philodemic Room)
The 2025 Bernardin Lecture by President Reynold Verret
Hosted by: Georgetown University Office of the President
Feb. 4, 5-6 p.m.
Riggs Library, Healy Hall Third Floor
Georgetown University Diaspora Employee Resource Group General Body Meeting
Hosted by: Georgetown University Diaspora Employee Resource Group
Feb. 6, 3-4 p.m.
Virtual (Zoom Meeting Link)
“Inside the Health Equity Think Tank” A Conversation with African-American Leaders on Paving the Way to Health Equity Innovation in Washington D.C.
Hosted by: Georgetown University Black Student Alliance, Black Leadership Forum, NAACP and Black House
Feb 6, 5-6:30 p.m.
W. Proctor Harvey Amphitheater, Med-Dent Building
Alzheimer Association Education Program Discussion
Hosted by: Georgetown University Diaspora Employee Resource Group
Feb. 10, 12-1 p.m.
Virtual
Screening of Higher Power and Q&A with the Filmmakers
Hosted by: Chocolate Cities (BLST 1600)
Feb. 11, 3:30 p.m.
The Call, 310 McCourt Building, 125 E. Street NW
Breakfast Tailgate and Women’s Basketball Game
Hosted by: Georgetown Women’s Alliance, Black Diaspora Employee Resource Group, Women’s Center, and Military and Veterans’ Resource Center
Feb. 12, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Office of Student Equity & Inclusion (on the lower level of the Healy Student Family Center)
Douglass Day 2025: Transcribe-a-thon Featuring the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress
Hosted by: The Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Feb. 14, 12-2 p.m.
Philodemic Room, Healy Hall (Room 208)
Black Movements Dance Theatre Spring Showcase: “Eternal Roots”
Hosted by: Black Movements Dance Theatre
Feb. 14 and Feb. 15, 8 p.m.
Gonda Theater
Project Eat GUD
Hosted by: Georgetown University Diaspora Employee Resource Group
Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
McShain Lounge (Small)
Washington, D.C. Events
Historically Black Phrases Live!
Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 1, 3-4:30 p.m.
MLK Jr. Memorial Library – Central Library
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience
Hosted by: Busboys and Poets
Feb. 2, 5 p.m
2021 14th St NW
Black History Month at First Friday ArtWalk Dupont Circle
Hosted by: Youth for Human Rights International
Feb. 7, 6-8 p.m
1701 20th St. NW in Dupont Circle
Black History Revealed
Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 8, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m
MLK Jr. Memorial Library – Central Library
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad with Andrew K. Diemer
Hosted by: National Museum of African American History and Culture
Feb 8, 2025, 12-1:30 pm
Oprah Winfrey Theater
Woodridge Neighborhood Library Black History Month Film of ORIGIN (2023)
Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 15, 3-5:30 p.m.
Woodridge Neighborhood Library, Meeting Room 1
Colors of Freedom: Painting on Canvas
Hosted by: Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
Feb. 22, 12-2 p.m.
Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
Tenley Movie Night showing of Hidden Figures (2016)
Hosted by: DC Public Library
Feb. 27, 5:30-7:40 p.m.
Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library