African American Historical Association of Fairfield County

02/21/2012

February is Black History Month and on 2/26, Pitney Bowes will participate in the Carter G. Woodson Awards conducted by the African American Historical Association of Fairfield County. PB neighbors John & Cecelia DaRosa are being honored for their support neighborhood revitalization, leadership of the Jackie Robinson Park of Fame, and for helping youth and those in need. The awards will be held at Bridgeport’s Discovery Museum & Planetarium during African American Heritage weekend. Join us! Museum admission is free.

02/14/2012

The African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County, Connecticut is celebrating Black History Month with it's Fifth Annual Carter G. Woodson Awards. However, this event will NOW be hosted at the Discovery Museum and Planetarium, 4450 Park Avenue in Bridgeport (as opposed to the Bridgeport City Hall Annex, as stated in this commercial). Learn more about this event at www.aahact.org

Learn More about attending by visiting our official website at www.aahact.org

02/08/2012

We here at the African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County, Connecticut felt privileged to have Joe Meyers, Film and Theater Critic of the Connecticut Post serve as our special host and moderator at the second day of the AAHA's First Annual "Black Fist and Foremost Afrocentric Film Festival" this past super bowl weekend. Mr. Meyers has also posted this great entry on the still-continuing Afrocentric Film Festival onto his blog at the Hearst Newspaper Website. Learn more about both this event and our continuing series of films this month on our website at www.aahafilmworks.org

With Joe Meyers, entertainment writer

02/04/2012

This image appears courtesy of the Office of the Honorable Mayor Bill Finch of Bridgeport, Connecticut as members of the African-American Historical Association are front and center at the City of Bridgeport's City Hall Annex in Downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 as the City of Bridgeport officially begins its celebration of events for Black History Month. The members in this photo are (L-R: Henry Timberlake, Editor-In-Chief of the AAHA official Newsletter [which is, incidentally, available to peruse on our digital archives at www.aahact.org}, Lora Vernice Brooks, AAHA President and Founder Gilbert L. Davis, Vice-President Joy Purdie and Administrative Assistant to the President Sharaya Smith). www.aahafilmworks.org

01/26/2012

The African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County, Connecticut is hosting the first official Afrocentric Film Festival in Connecticut History, beginning on February 4th, 2012 at the Burroughs-Saden Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library, 925 Broad Street , in Downtown Bridgeport. We'll be showing one film every Saturday and Sunday (Feb. 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th and 19th, specifically) between 2-4:30 p.m. Take a look at the descriptions of the films on this flyer and feel free to join us for these FREE SHOWINGS.
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12/31/2011

Before the year ends, we here at the AAHA wish to simply extend a Happy Kwanzaa to all of our followers here on Facebook, as well as allow you to see the very latest edition of our AAHA Newsletter, as we take both it and our entire archive into both a digital and "hard-copy" format. In our newsletter this month, we cover everything from beauty tips for people of color, a system of enslavement used against African-Americans in the Louisiana area by the French, the year 2011 from a black perspective and much more. Take a look at our Newsletter, then feel free to leave your much-valued feedback

In this edition of the African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County, Connecticut's official newsletter, we cover 2011 in review, along with the influx of people of color around the w... by aahact in Magazines/Newspapers, africanamerican history, and africanamerican news

12/11/2011

Here is an intriguing piece of investigative journalism produced by ABC News, wherein a hidden camera is posited within an upscale clothing store in the ultra-extravagant SoHo Section of Manhattan. This report then stages a raucous scene wherein an actress pretending to be an anonymous, black female customer is harassed to an obsessive degree by other actors portraying ultra-racist, white store employees who tell the actress that she isn't "fit" to shop there. The purpose is to gauge reactions from the unsuspecting, real customers. Please watch this to it's conclusion (trust us: it's worth it), then leave us your thoughts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kg4DTssWTQ&sns=fb

11/19/2011

This is a new short film produced by the AAHA of Fairfield County, Connecticut reviewing a new art anthology by Black Sports Historian and Painter Duane Corey on the Negro Baseball Leagues entitled "Shadow Ball in Jasper's Town". Learn more about the African-American Historical Association via the following websites: www.aahamuseum.org, www.aahafilmworks.org and www.aahact.org.
http://youtu.be/nw7LlCCIQnY

In this video, The African-American Historical Association of Farifield County, Connecticut provides an in-depth review of an art and illustration anthology ...

11/18/2011

This is a new 8 minute short film photographed, edited and directed by the African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County's very own Director of Special Programs and Marketing, L. Llewellyn James, on behalf of the State of Connecticut Caribbean World Chamber of Commerce. It's from an expo on small business held on September 24th, 2011 in the City of Bridgeport, CT. The CWCOC's guests included The Chinese-American member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives and current candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2012, William Tong and Consul Agent for the Consulature of the West Indian Island of St. Lucia, Victoria Bousqute. Feel free to learn more about the CWCOC by logging onto www.cwcoc.org. Also, stay tuned to the African-American Historical Association of Fairfield County's official websites for more revelant news of socially upward movements for people of color the world over: www.aahafilmworks.org, www.aahact.org and www.aahamuseum.org
http://youtu.be/rID5lex91r0

My name is L. Llewellyn James and this is a short promotional film which I had directed, photographed and edited on behalf of the State of Connecticut Caribb...