• Society Board meetings via video conference, monthly
• Drop-in genealogy help on most Wednesdays, 1-3, bring your device, at the Society
• Society Book Club via Zoom: What You Don't know Will Make a Whole New World, Dorothy Lazard July 23, 6 pm via ZOOM, African American Legacy Book Club, African American Center, SFPL/SOCIETY. Register to get ZOOM link.
• Art Talk: Dr. Jacqueline Francis, Dean, Humanities & Sciences Division, Academic Affairs, California College of the Arts, discusses Sargent Claude Johnson as modernist and his importance to the African American community, POSTPONED. Email info@sfaahcs.org if you plan to attend.
• Reception: “Sargent Claude Johnson, A Mid-Twentieth Century California African American Artist,” exhibit, Thursday, July 18th 6 pm in the Society's Gallery with guest, Dr. Jacqueline Francis. Come to the reception in lieu of the zoom talk.
• View Dr. Francis in conversation with the Society’s Virginia Smyly, on Sargent Claude Johnson, recorded on February 29

• Sargent Claude Johnson, A Mid-Twentieth Century California African American Artist,” exhibit, featuring the Society’s collection, June 19 – August 31, 2024, Wednesday - Saturday, 1 - 5 pm or by appointment, Society Gallery, AAACC, 2nd floor, 762 Fulton St. This will be our last exhibit before temporarily moving out of the building. Don’t miss it! Email to ensure access.
  Volunteers needed!

• 80th Anniversary Event at Port Chicago, Saturday, July 20, 10:30 am, Port Chicago Naval Magazine. The National Park Service observes the 80th anniversary of the Port Chicago incident. REGISTRATION REQUIRED Read all instructions before going.

Return here later to see updated events or watch for Society emails!

• Black Excellence, Black Innovators prepared by Dr. Carolyn Ransom Scott. Is now online
• A Bi-Racial Woman's Genealogy Story with Addie Renee Lewis
• Melvin Holmes Collection, African American art collection
• "Father's Day", Kirk Franklin Documentary Kirk Franklin funds and reunites with biological father

“Harlem of the West, Then and Now”

Produced by Citizen Film and the Society, a look back at the jazz era, the players and their lives in San Francisco, and the lasting impacts of those days on the Fillmore and San Francisco. More importantly, it depicts the historic context in which African Americans and other marginalized residents, their businesses, and related activities were removed from the Fillmore district due to “redevelopment.” VIEW

African Americans and the Vote

African Americans and the Vote, a documentary film featuring Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr., Judge John Dearman, and De’Anthony Jones, was “on time” for the November 2019 election; and it remains of import. The life stories of those featured in the video speak to the importance of voting. That election demonstrated that the African American vote can make a difference! The film documents their childhoods, family backgrounds, and opportunities that shaped their lives as African Americans involved in the political and public arena.

This is the second Black History Month documentary produced by the Society in conjunction with Citizen Film. The film was honored at the Bernal Heights Outdoor Film Festival in 2019. We are now proudly able to present the film in its entirety here.

Or visit the Citizen Film site to see the film and many others of local interest. For more information, contact the Society at sfaahcs.org, or 415-292-6172

Read Black Migrations film discussion points