The Violent Realities Faced by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.  Veterans Administration Indianapolis Office, January 2024. 

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Juneteenth and the Emancipation of the Enslaved in Maryland.  Montgomery County Public Library, June 2023.

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The Importance of Juneteenth and Its Lasting Legacy.  Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) | Office of Civil Rights, Diversity and Inclusion (OCRDI), June 2023.

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Black Women and the Fight for Civil Rights.  TransAmerica, January 2022.

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18th Century Records and Genealogy at Howard University Libraries. Riverdale Historic Mansion, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission; November 2021.

 

Uncomfortable Conversations: Race in America. Transamerica; September 2021.

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Illuminating the Black Family in History: A Retrospective on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  (moderator), Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference; September 2021. 

 

From Roots to Ancestry: Doing Black Family History (moderator), Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference; September 2021. 

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ASALH Roundtable: Afrofuturism and the Black Family: Paradigms for Representation of the Black Family, Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference; September 2021.

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The Digital Program at Howard University, Association of Documentary Editors Communications Committee, September 2021

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Archival Preservation at HBCU Archives, UC Berkley Rare Book School, August 2021 

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What is an American? Race in America. United States Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 2021.

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Juneteenth in the Howard University Archive. Houston Public Library, June 2021

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Mary McLeod Bethune at Howard University. Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National Park Service, June 2021

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The Legacy of Juneteenth. Johns Hopkins Medicine, June 2021

Building the Black Archives. Mid-Atlantic Regional Archivists Convention, April 2021

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African Americans in the Military. Bowie State University, April 2021

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National Newspaper Publisher's Association Video Presentation; March 2021

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Digitizing Black Collections. Mary Ann Shadd Cary International Symposium, March 2021

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From the Tuskegee Experiment to COVID-19: Black Mistrust of the Medical Field and How to Address it. Johns Hopkins Medicine; February 2021.

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Peaceful Protest VS. Violent Realities: Violence and the Civil Rights Movement. New York-Presbyterian Hospital; February 2021. 

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The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Black Vote. The Power of the Black Vote: Annual Symposium, Banneker-Douglass Museum; October 2020.

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Using Digital Humanities to Tell Stories. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference; September 2020.

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The Violent Realities Faced by Martin Luther King in the Civil Rights Movement. Alexandria Public Library, July 2020

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Meeting Faculty and Students Where They Are: A Layered Approach to Integrating Black Oral Histories across the Student Experience. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference Charleston, SC; September 2019.

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Documenting the Black Migration in the Public Sphere. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Charleston, SC; September 2019.

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Negotiating Competing Spaces - Representing African Americans During Times of War in Publications, Historic Places, and Public Art. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Indianapolis; September 2018.

 

Forward Together: The Case for Archival Partnerships. Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; April 2018.

 

Howard University in the Service of Democracy. Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.; February 2018.

 

Howard University in the Service of Democracy. Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, Charlottesville, VA; November 2017.

 

Preserving your History: A Workshop. National Park Service, Washington, DC; February 2017.

 

Preserving Black History through Digital Howard. Dr. Habtu Braha Information Technology in Teaching and Learning Conference, Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD; May 2016.

 

Digital Howard: A New Vehicle for Sharing Faculty Research with the World. Washington Research Library Consortium Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA; April 2016.

 

Preserving your History: A Workshop. National Park Service, Washington, DC; February 2016.

 

The Impact of African American Women in the 20th Century. Prince Hall Masons of DC Annual Black History Month Program, Washington, DC; February 2016.

 

Digitizing the Black Experience: the Building of “Digital Howard” and the “Portal to the Black Experience” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Atlanta, GA; September 2015.

 

Celebrating 100 Years of the Study of African American Life and History. National Park Service, Washington, DC; September 2015.

 

Black Women in 20th Century American History and Culture. Wiley H. Bates Memorial Center, Annapolis, MD; April 2015.

 

Preserving your Family History. Mary McLeod Bethune Council House, National Historic Site, Washington, DC; June 2014.

 

African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. Duncan Branch, Alexandria Public Library, Alexandria, VA; April, 2014.

 

Preserving your Family History. Washington D.C. Public Library, Washington, DC; February 2014.

 

African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. Naval Central Intelligence Service. Quantico, VA; February 2014.

 

Slavery by Another Name. Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; January 2014.

 

The Continuing Need for Youth Activism: The Southern Negro Youth Congress and its Relevance for Today. The Bethel Dukes Branch of ASALH, Washington, DC, September 2013

 

African Americans and the Civil war: Records in the National Archives. Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference, Charlotte, NC; September 2012.

 

Black Women in History and Culture. Walter Reed National Medical Center, Bethesda, MD; February 2012.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia; January 2012.

 

African Americans and the Civil War. Transportation Security Administration, Arlington, VA; February 2011.

 

The African American Experience in the Digital Age: The Digitization of African American Civil War Records. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; February 2011.

 

Black History and Culture in the 1930s and 40s. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; January 2011.

 

Financing a Movement: The Southern Negro Youth Congress and the Finance of Protest. Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina; September 2010.

 

William Sidney Pittman and the History of Fairmount Heights, MD. Fairmount Heights Public Library, Fairmount Heights, MD; May 2010.

 

Black Migration.  Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; March 2010.

 

The Backbone of the Movement: African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement. Afro-American History Society, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD; March 2010.

 

The SNYC and the NAACP: Youth Cooperating for Change. Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio; October 2009.

 

The Continued Relevance of Black History in the Age of Obama. Howard University; February 2009.

 

The Public and Politic Civil War Battlefields in the 21st Century; Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia; September 2006.

 

African American Organizations and the Communist Party; Association for the Study of African American Life and History National Conference, Buffalo, New York; September 2005

 

The Communist Party and Its Attempt to Attract African Americans, 1920 – 1960; Phi Alpha Theta, Inc. Regional Conference, Delaware State University; April 2004.

 

African American Soldiers from Maryland in the Civil War: Before, During and After; Ronald E. McNair Conference, University of Maryland, College Park; March 2004.

 

African American Soldiers from Maryland in the Civil War: Before, During and After; Ronald E. McNair Conference, Delavan, Wisconsin; November, 2003.

 

Communism and African Americans, Ronald E. McNair Conference, Coppin State University; May 2003.