In honor of Women’s History Month and the UN’s International Decade for People of African Descent, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is inviting you to participate in Her Dream Deferred, a ...

From March 23 to March 30, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) will host the 11th annual Her Dream Deferred forum, a pivotal event dedicated to addressing the pressing issues that affect Black ...

Born into a family of nine and raised in poverty, life in Omanhinso village was a hard-fought journey from the start.

Rev. Jesse Jackson is a towering figure in the civil rights movement, but his political legacy is less often remembered. The issues he championed in the 1980s still echo in today’s politics, and his ...

This June 19, we commemorate the 156th year of Juneteenth, a celebration of our nation’s most infamous deferred dream, the long prayed-for abolishment of slavery. Although slavery had officially ended ...

The festival will also feature a staged reading of Sons of Liberty by Cris Eli Blak in June 2023. Producing Artistic Director, Lauren Turner Hines, says this about the new plays selected, "These new ...

We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes’ poetic ...