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

Is there a Black History Month-related event that you would like to share with the community? Please email internalcommunications@georgetown.edu.

Please note: The inclusion of an event does not indicate University endorsement of the content of the event or the views of its speakers. Descriptions of events listed are written by their sponsor(s).