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Promotional flyer for the 110th ASALH Annual Meeting and Conference. The top half includes the ASALH logo and event details: “Association for the Study of African American Life and History – 110th Annual Meeting and Conference,” taking place September 24–28, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The lower half highlights a featured roundtable session titled “Something Old, Something New: The Criminal Enslavement of 500,000 Black Colonials and Afrofuturism in the 21st Century,” presented by Larry Kenneth Alexander, Founder & President of the Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice. Additional participants are listed, with Dr. Timothy McKeown confirmed. The design uses formal fonts and historical imagery in shades of gold and brown, evoking heritage and reflection.

Larry Kenneth Alexander to Speak at ASALH 2025 Conference

June 19, 2025

Larry Kenneth Alexander, Founder and President of the Ida B. Wells Center on American Exceptionalism and Restorative Justice, will be speaking at the 110th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).

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Dr. James Brewer Stewart

In Memoriam: Dr. James Brewer Stewart

June 17, 2025

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Dr. James Brewer Stewart, a cherished member of the Advisory Board of the Ida B. Wells Center.

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For American racism, slavery was only the beginning

February 15, 2022

Ending our fixation on slavery and focusing on what happened next could help us move…

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Radical history

February 15, 2022

“The thesis that U.S. slavery was not legal creates cultural and cognitive dissonance—it necessitates a rewriting of America’s historiography,” Alexander says. “This has radical implications for academia.”

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